Sorry for the silence around here. I started a new job in November—I’m now a Field Sales Manger for Penguin Random House, selling Penguin books to the independents here in New England. I’ve been busy setting up a home office, getting to know my accounts, and reading Summer 2015 books.

While adding a few books to my Reading List, I noticed that I’m almost at 100 books for 2014. I’m not pressuring myself to hit 100, but sere’s hoping I do it. I’m about to get on a 6 hours flight to San Francisco, so I’m sure I can get at least 1-2 read. It was interesting going my reading list. There were definitely a lot of books that I forgot that I had read and clearly didn’t stick with me. But then there were the ones that did. Here, in no particular order, are my favorite books of 2014.

• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
• The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
• Another Great Day by Geoff Dyer
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
• Nobody is Every Missing by Catherine Lacey
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
• Neverhome by Laird Hunt
• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
• All 3 of the Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante

One of my resolutions for 2015 is to write more here. I’m hoping to review some books, post about cooking projects, and perhaps write some observations about the life of a sales rep. I’m pretty sure I make the same resolution every year, but now that I’m working from home, with no boss looking over my shoulder, I can post as I please! And it’s work-related, so there.

Happy holidays folks. See you in the new year.