…and my thing this year is currentness. At the turn of the year the idea occurred to read only new books for a year. As a sort of experiment – and to just take a sample of what the current state of (literature/publishing) seems like to me.

So far in 2020, only The Heap–released on the 8th of January and authored by Sean Adams–has piqued my interest (review coming). I’ve finished titles I started in 2019 — Samantha Power’s Education of an Idealist (review coming) and (making progress on) Matthew Walker’s Why We Sleep— but it turns out I don’t really get excited about a lot titles being dropped each Tuesday. Which makes today a big day.

THREE books were released today that I’m interested in; the two above and American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. My parameters for this year’s reading are essentially: (a) did the book get released in the last 14 days? -and- (b) do I think it might be worth reading? As of today I feel a lack of reading material is no longer imminent, and look forward to future publications in 2020.