Back in 2024, after a run of stagnant book-free years, I decided it was time to commit to a reading goal. With my Goodreads challenge set, I forced myself to remember why I bloody love books, and whenever I found myself in a bit of slump I returned to an old favourite to jumpstart some momentum (a book hack that I promise will hurl you out of a reading rut).
As a result, I've read - or re-read - some of my favourite books of all time in the last couple of years. I discovered the magic and poetic wonder of Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends, and dove into the world of short stories, which led me to Bora Chung's Cursed Bunny - a collection that I think about almost daily. It also drew me back to beloved classics, like Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Ian McEwan's First Love, Last Rites.
