Book #61 of the year was The Silver Chair and #62 was The Magician's Nephew, both from C.S. Lewis' Narnia series and both reliable comfort reads for me no matter how many times I pick them up.
Book #63 was The Toll, by Neal Shusterman, the third book in the Arc of a Scythe series. These were kind of wacky books, but I enjoyed them.
Book #64 was The Reservation, by Rebecca Kauffman, a mystery set in a restaurant. It was interesting to meet the variety of characters in the story.
Book #65 was The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri. Nayeri is the sister of Daniel Nayeri, who has told their story in Everything Sad is Untrue, which I read in 2022. (He also wrote the novel The Teacher of Nomad Land, which I read in April. Dina Nayeri is asking a lot of questions about refugees and the way the whole system works. It's a heartbreaking and timely look at what it was like for her, but also for people who fared much worse.
Book #66 was another Narnia read, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. This one might be my favorite -- at least right now!
Book #67 was The Martian, by Andy Weir. This was great fun to read, and now I want to see the movie!
I heard about book #68 on Amy Julia Becker's podcast, "Reimagining the Good Life."It's a novel written by a dad of a special needs child, and it's about a family whose son, Emmett, has Down Syndrome. (Amy Julia Becker is also the parent of a child with Down Syndrome.) In the book, That's Not How it Happened, Emmett's mom has written a memoir and a famous actress wants to make a movie of the memoir. This was an entertaining book about what it's like to live with disability and the assumptions we tend to make about other people.
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