This is K.M. Wyland.

And you are listening to the 600 ninth episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast. I hope you enjoyed this week's episode 15 of my favorite books in 2022. This year end roundup of my top books is always one of my favorite posts to write.

Every year I look forward to the retrospective of my year, not just because I get to remember everything I read,

but also because my memories of my actual life are so intertwined with what I read.

When I'm trying to remember when something happened in my life, are so intertwined with what I read.

When I'm trying to remember when something happened in my life,

I will often ask, what was I reading at that time?

Then I can look up the book in my reading log

and find the date. Since I am still in between permanent living

circumstances most of my books are in boxes. This has been a mixed

blessing for the first time in a very long time I haven't felt a subtle sense of overwhelm whenever I look at my literally five foot tall to be red pile.

Rather, I opened just one box of books and slowly worked through its contents, supplemented by whatever

randomly came my way through paperback swap, and of course, whatever most tickled my fancy on Kindle.

Like so many other areas of my life during these past few years,

my reading life has felt rather under siege.

I went from consistently reading 100 plus books every year in my 20s to sometimes

scraping into the end of the year with under 40 books.

For a while there, I just didn't feel like reading, which disturbed me almost as much as the fact

I also didn't feel like writing during that time.

Thankfully many things have started to shift for me this year and the desire to read, particularly

fiction, has returned to me. So this has been my most prolific reading year since 2016.

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