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Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope that whatever you do during this season that all is well with you and that the remaining days of 2017 are just how you want them. Perhaps I can help you find a book . . .<\/p>\n

It's always fun to reflect on the past reading year! It started with\u00a0a lot<\/em> of reading. For the first several months I was a judge on the Best Translated Book Award, and books were piled all over the house. I whittled them down, unable to stop reading long enough to write proper reviews here. Looking back on my blogging year, I reviewed\u00a0only one<\/em> book in January: C\u00e9sar Aira's\u00a0Ema, the Captive<\/em>, which will not be listed below. That surprised me, but I see it was the same in February! It pretty much continued in this vein until BTBA judging was over.<\/p>\n

Once it was over, though it was a wonderful experience, I found myself languishing with the debilitating gift of choice! I had a hard time finding my reading groove again. In fact, before sitting down to compile this list, I wasn't sure I'd reviewed ten books that I'd want on this list and was thinking of putting books on here that I have not reviewed. That's not an unreasonable approach; it would allow me to list these, for example:<\/p>\n