Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on IHeartRadio.

It's so nice to be back with you all. Happy New Year. The most asked question in my emails and DMs

over the last few weeks has been, how did you do with your fiction reading New Year's resolution

from last year?

Poorly. Friends, I did poorly. I completed only nine fiction books and many, many half books.

I just, I can't finish books that I don't like. I wish I could. I just can't do it. My favorite fiction book

that I read in the last year was City of Thieves. I think I mentioned it maybe shortly after I read

it like at the beginning of the year. And then the rest were just okay. Not really worth mentioning

and not that recommendable. But City of Thieves, very good. Check it out. I already

finished a book this year. It's pretty good. It's called The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.

I picked it up on a whim and tore through it on just two flights. To be fair, those flights did not have internet. Maybe that's what I need.

I need for flights to stop having internet on board, so I'll actually read the books that I carry with me.

Midnight Library is about a woman about to kill herself, who gets the option to go and live a lot of

different versions of her life to see which

she likes best. I liked it. It was good. I mean, again, I can't say it was like the greatest

book ever, but I enjoyed it for what it was. I also guessed the ending pretty early on, but my daughter says I'm annoying like that and I really

can't hold it against the book. Now I'm reading submission by, I'm going to butcher this French

name, but Michelle Welbeck. And it's very good. It's one of those books that had been recommended

to me many times over the years,

and I'm finally getting around to it. And to be honest, I didn't realize it was fiction, or I would have

read it much sooner. I read so much nonfiction already that I just didn't want to add another

nonfiction book to the pile. Why do I talk so much about reading and why that's

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