I must admit: I had a reading dip in the 2nd half of the year, although I'm surprised I ended up with 6 books after all.  I did so many in 2022 in August alone but this year we've not had a long beach/pool lazy vacation at all so that makes a big difference.  I also had a couple of books that didn't catch me very much, so I dragged them to the end at a slow pace. So what did I