Another year, another Best Albums list. Whoop de doo!

Three quick observations about this year’s haul:

1. There’s an awful lot of “lockdown” albums on it, as you would expect - it was probably harder to find an album that wasn’t either recorded in a lockdown environment or inspired by COVID-19’s impact on … well, everything.

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In which we learn that the secret to accelerating your reading pace is to read more short books and/or books by authors that write smooth and accessible prose. Result!


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Spent half the month in quarantine, and still only finished two books. Make of that what you will.


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You’d think I’d get a lot of reading done on a 12-day road trip and 25-hour flights each way. Oh well.


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Is it the end of the month already? Where does the time go, I ask you.


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Workin’ through the pile, yo.


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Busy month, you know. Also, the one book I finished this month? I actually started reading it May 1. So I could blame it on that.


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The readings will continue until morale improves, etc.


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Momentum!


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