I have a lot of fun making these lists and reading other people’s.
Some random observations:
▶️ A few of these stories included very similar scenes of people living on a spaceship on a multi-generational journey to populate some distant planet: Cloud Cuckoo Land, How High We Go In The Dark, Station Eleven (which made it on to the very end of last year’s roundup).
▶️ Swan Song and After Yang had such similar themes around memory, loss, and what bits of life make us who we are.
▶️ Some really good eats this year, mostly thanks to being able to travel a bit more than the previous two.
▶️ I read so few books this year, for obvious reasons. I typically read in the neighborhood of 40 and books need their own post. Next year’s looking like a much better year to get back into it.
▶️ It felt like I watched more shows this year than I actually did, but White Lotus and Severance strike me as the most memorable, and the ones I look forward to seeing more of.
