Bradley's Reviews > 2021 on Goodreads

No honest assessment of 2021 can be achieved without a dour look at 2020, but that’s only because we’ve all begun to appreciate and accept the abuse that the year has heaped upon us. Or perhaps we haven’t accepted the abuse. I know I haven’t. But I have noticed that many others are finding tons of easier targets to redirect their ire, thereby making everyone else’s world just a little worse.

I say hogwash to all that shit.

We’re stronger than that. So, screw you, 2021! You will not defeat us!


Oh! Right! This is Goodreads! Maybe I should talk about books. :)

When 2020 ended, I was licking my wounds and decided to focus on a great re-read of many of my favorite books through the years, so there’s a relative lack of the new in my list. My 508 book list. But that doesn’t mean that there weren’t a few great stand-outs!

My favorites, in no particular order, are:

Leviathan Falls
Shards of Earth
Between Two Fires
Jack Four
Dune — As well as the full series.
Earth
Dead Witch Walking — Also the whole series.
Project Hail Mary
The Ministry for the Future
Perhaps the Stars
Rivers of London — And the whole series.
And
Hyperion — The whole series.

Out of all of these, Dune, Hyperion, and Earth are my favorites, but they had always been my favorites and these were pure pleasure re-reads. In fact, most of the books in this list ARE re-reads.

Comfort books.

Well, it is what it is.

I hope everyone is glad they got out of 2021 alive! And for those who didn’t, I sympathize.