Newsletter: December 2024 Edition
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Welcome to the December 2024 edition of my newsletter and the beginning of the December holiday season! My family celebrates secular Christmas, a version that focuses on our family. For many including Linus on A Charlie Brown Christmas TV special, this holiday is also about the birth of Christ. But in America, we all know that Christmas is really about Santa Claus and a decorated tree and presents and candy and watching classic Christmas movies and drinking spiked eggnog and… y’all know the holiday drill. So whether you believe in Christ or believe in Santa (or BOTH!), this is the perfect time of year to argue about that, but also to enjoy treats and movies and stuff. Anyway, onward to the newsletter content / wordy part / my thoughts and ramblings!
One thing I promised myself NOT to write about after the 2024 U.S. election was politics. Even though for some fucked-up reason, America elected a sexual predator / felon / narcissist / moron who can barely string a cogent sentence together as our next president, I promised myself to move on and discuss other more important topics, preferably books or publishing or creative writing, all of which are much more interesting than an orange fascist man-baby regurgitating word-salad. So, as promised, this is NOT a political post. What are the books I liked best in 2024? Well, let me tell you.
Best classic book reread: Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck. Funny and empathetic, what a great read about the comradery of downtrodden friends. If you thought Steinbeck only wrote downers, then you’d be wrong. Steinbeck wrote several comedies. I know! Hard to believe, but it’s true. Start with this novel.
