How many among us add “Read more books” to our New Year’s Resolutions? Every year, I set a personal goal in my Goodreads app, not so much to ensure I read a certain number of books, though that is certainly the surface goal, but to keep focused on my goal of reading and exploring new authors and new ideas. Some years I hit my goal, some years I don’t. Some books are really heavy and long and others are quicker reads. Regardless, every year certain books stick with me for different reasons. Sometimes I am enraptured by beautiful, lyrical language, other times a new perspective or new window into history or a subject changes forever the way I think.

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