Ah, 2024 – a year of unexpected twists, lessons learned, and – I hate to admit it- far fewer books read than I would have liked. If you told me back in January of this somewhat tumultuous year that I would only read a meagre 25 books, I would have snorted in disbelief and eyed my overflowing TBR shelves with a smirk, sure I was going to conquer those towers. Don’t get me wrong, 25 books is still a respectable amount, but I’m used to devouring books like bags of crisps – one after the other, barely pausing to breathe. (Exactly how it should be!) In 2024, though, something shifted.…