2022 Reading
My reading habits for 2022 suggest that this was the year life began to creep back toward normal. For that, I am profoundly grateful.
I read a total of 110 books (I’m not likely to finish 111 before midnight December 31). The vast majority were fiction, and of the novels, most were YA, because that’s my sweet spot. Most were published in 2020 or 2021, with some earlier, and a few current. That’s because most of my reading comes from libraries.
Several years ago, I started tagging books I loved as possible Top Ten books. This year, I refined that further, with Top Twenty and Top Five. Today, I compiled the lists, only to discover I had 12 books in the “Top Ten” list. Try as I might, I could not move them elsewhere. All but one “Top Ten” are YA novels; that one is a picture book. The other lists are much, much shorter.
As I compiled the lists, I noticed was how often the top listings came in groups. One particular library haul in August yielded three Top Tens and one Top Twenty.
And here <drum roll> they are, in reading order, with links to Bookshop.org:
Top Twenty:
1. Ryan, Tom and Robin Stevenson. When You Get the Chance. Running Kids Press, 2021. Audiobook. (8/16/2022)
2. Kulper, Kendall. Murder for the Modern Girl. Holiday House, 2022. (8/27/2022)
3. Emezi, Akwaeke. Bitter. Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. (10/18/2022)
4. William, Sean. Impossible Music. Blackstone, 2019. Audiobook. (11/23/2022)
Top Ten:
1. Williams-Garcia, Rita. A Sitting in St. James. Quill Tree—HarperCollins, 2021. (3/3/2022)
2. Dugan, Jennifer. Verona Comics. Listening Library, 2020. (6/29/2022)
3. Lo, Malinda. Last Night at the Telegraph Club. Dutton—Penguin Random, 2021. (7/25/2022)
4. Nedd, Alexis. Don’t Hate the Player. Bloomsbury, 2021. (8/14/2022)
5. Sharpe, Tess. The Girls I’ve Been. GP Putnam, 2022. Print. (8/25/2022)
6. Zentner, Jeff. In the Wild Light. Crown Books for Young Readers—Penguin Random House, 2021. (8/30/2022)
7. Wilson, Kip. The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin. Versify—HarperCollins, 2022. (8/31/2022)
8. McBride, Amber. Me (Moth). Feiwel and Sons, 2021. (10/10/2022)
9. Stoeve, Ray. Arden Grey. Recorded Books, 2022. Audiobook. (10/26/2022)
10. Gilliland, Raquel Vasquez. How Moon Fuentes Fell in Love with the Universe. Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2021. (11/?/2022)
11. Price, Tirzah. Pride and Premeditation. 2021; HarperTeen, 2022. (11/26/2022)
12. Sonderguin, Alfredo. The Capybaras. Greystone Kids, 2021. (Picture book) (11/30/2022)
Top Five:
1. Albertalli, Becky. Kate in Waiting. Balzer + Bray—HarperCollins, 2021. (12/1/2022)
2. Reck, Jared. Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love. Alfred A. Knopf—Random House Children’s, 2021. (12/7/2022)
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Has it been confirmed whether or not Ian and the crew can create new characters for the classic split? All the comic exclusive modern characters are great, and I'd love to see what they'd do with the classic setting
I mean the McElroys and Mauro Fonseca just gave us Kip the Capybara and also included [spoilers]. And hell, Mania added the Hard Boiled Heavies. So there doesn't seem to be any rule saying new Classic-style media can't add new characters, no. I figure they just wanted to focus on the game cast with the limited page space because focusing on them was the whole point
If we get more Classic stories, though, I wouldn't be surprised if we got a few more new Classic characters here and there eventually, or like Classic Tangle or whatever. But they probably wouldn't add too many so as to not shift the balance away from the nostalgic Classic cast
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I’m finally back, and it’s time for me to talk about Issue 41! The 30th Anniversary Special also came out yesterday, but I won’t be really going into detail regarding what happens in that one on here for a couple reasons. I will however talk about it a little bit at the end, so if you’ve already read it and you’re interested in what I have to say about it, you can check that out.
First up, let’s talk about Issue 41...
So the Deadly Six are now back, and they have a plan to outsmart Sonic and the Restoration!
Meanwhile, Jewel calls the Chaotix over to help find and stop them...
One thing I and a lot of other people find interesting about these pages is that it kinda seems like something’s up with Lanolin (aka recurring background Sheep girl). It could be that we’re all reading a bit too much into this, but I’ve been hearing a couple different theories going around such as her possibly being secretly evil or that maybe this isn’t actually Lanolin and is instead Mimic disguised as her. Like I said though, this could just be us reading way too deeply into it, but I’d be interested in seeing if this goes anywhere.
So Sonic is gonna be helping the Chaotix in their search for the Deadly Six, unknowing of the fact that this is all part of their plan!
That’s it for Issue 41, but there is also the 30th Anniversary Special. Like I said earlier though, I’m purposely not going to go too into detail about that one. However, I will say that I very much enjoyed it, and there are a couple specific parts of it that I really liked, with the highlight being...
(SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS)
To those of you who don’t know, I love Team Hooligan about as much as I love Rough and Tumble, so seeing them show up in this was a real treat for me :3
I also really liked how there are a bunch of other references and cameos throughout the Special of other obscure characters and games (most if not all of which I recognized instantly because I don’t have a life :3), and although I don’t think the Special is really tied into the main IDW series, it is cool that they brought in Nite for a little bit and even made Kip the Capybara (who originally was just a background character for a cover) an actual character. Overall though, I really liked the 30th Anniversary Special, and I had a lot of fun reading it!
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