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Call for Books You Most Enjoyed in 2024, Call for MillersTime Readers' Favorite Books This Year, Call for Your Favoirite Reads in 2024
A Best Friend Is Someone Who Gives Me a Book I’ve Never Read, A. Lincoln
As I have done for the past 15 years, I am asking for a list of books you’ve most enjoyed reading in 2024.
There is no definition of the kind of book which you might add to this list. I’m most interested in what you truly enjoyed this past year (old or new book or rereads) with the thought that others might get some ideas for their reading in 2025.
Even if you think others may recommend a particular book that you liked, please include it on your list. Some of you like to know that more than one or two MillersTime readers have enjoyed a given title.
You may send in one title or up to five.
And you may include book(s) you cited in the 2024 Mid-Year Review (link provided as many – most? – of us perhaps have forgotten what we cited six months ago).
Please take the time to include a few sentences about the book(s) you cite, particularly what made this book so enjoyable for you. From what readers have said over the years, It is the comments that are what’s most important about MillersTime Favorite Reads each year.
You have until December 20th to get your favorites to me in time for my posting of the results on Dec. 31/Jan.1. (Early submissions are greatly appreciated as it takes a good bit of time to put this annual post together.)
Send me your list (Samesty84@gmail.com) with the title, author, and whether the book is fiction (F) or non-fiction (NF).
Thanks in advance.
Richard
Bill Plitt said:
my offering:
I have just completed reading a rather scholarly work by Jamil Zaki “Hope For Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness”. I found his work over several years to be so relevant in these days we are facing. I have written a book recently that is built upon capturing people I visited who were working for justice and equality in Israel, Palestine and our own country over a 15 year period. Because of that experience I fundamentally believe that people desire to be good. And there is the link for me. Zaki says “When we expect the worst in people, we often bring it out of them…. We need to adopt a “hopeful skepticism”. In doing so,.. “we are thinking critically about people and problems while honoring and encouraging our strengths and rebalance our view of human nature and help build the world we truly want.” May it also be so. Bill