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My 10 best reads in the year 2016 They say better late than never. Besides, it's still Chinese New Year's eve somewhere in the world. So. Anyway, yes, this blog is still around. Mostly for sentimental reasons. And if there's one thing I have never missed in the 8 years that this blog has been live, it's posting my ten best reads of the past year. Obviously a bit late this time around, since I usually post this a few hours (or minutes!) before midnight of January first. But there was a family vacation, and then recovering from the family vacation, and then catching up with work, etc. etc....you know how that goes. Also, unlike last year, I didn't have the energy to do an in-depth analysis, with charts, of the books I read. Instead, I have some quick and dirty figures. For instance: I read 68 books last year - A far cry from my Goodreads goal of 100. My original goal was 60, which I changed to 100 because I figured I should count the children's books I...

I started a new job last month, and it's more or less something I've been looking for for a long while. For as long as I can remember, I'd always dreamed of reading books for a living. I may have made career choices that led to that. Well now, the new job is sort of like that in what may be the best place possible: Penguin Random House . Yup, I now work as part of the international sales team of Penguin Random House US.  If you're a person who reads book blogs, I don't have to tell you that this is an awesome job. And though I also tell friends that I worked for it, I think a large part of it, too, was luck. Perhaps being in the right place at the right time, and maybe even doing the right things. Whatever it is, it's hard to look a gift-horse in the mouth, you know? The lobby uptown In any case, this great opportunity is still a job: a job I seem to be willing to spend hours and hours in. There's still a lot of stuff to learn (and unlearn) a...