Read A Year in Marginalia by Sam Anderson (The Millions)

The writing I enjoy doing most, every year, is marginalia: spontaneous bursts of pure, private response to whatever book happens to be in front of me. It’s the most intimate, complete, and honest form of criticism possible — not the big wide-angle aerial shot you get from an official review essay, but a moment-by-moment record of what a book actually feels like to the actively reading brain. ❧

This is a phenomenal way to do a look back at a year in reading. I’ll have to consider how to pull it off for myself this year.