Year-End Best Of
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Top 10 Books of 2025
2025 was a great year of reading. Here are my ten favorite, with #25wordbookreviews. Continue reading
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Top 10 Books of 2024
So many times during this year I felt like I was in a reading rut, like I just couldn’t get into a good book, but here at the end of the year, I can look back and say that I actually loved many of the books I read — it was actually hard to rank… Continue reading
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My top books of the 21st Century
I love reading Best of lists. I don’t expect to agree with them (I don’t think that’s the point) but I love the exercise of trying to rank and rate books or movies or wine or, well, anything. But books especially. It forces you to think about things you’ve enjoyed in the past, and maybe… Continue reading
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Top 10 Books of 2022
I >>>just<<< made my goal of reading 52 books this year, finishing the last page of the last book as the sun went down on December 31. It was a pretty good year of reading — so many good thick novels that exceeded my expectations. Here they are, my top ten for the year: Continue reading
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2022 Year in Review
I thought that this year’s list would be hard to put together. It felt like it had been another hard year. Perhaps having been laid out with RSV for the past few weeks put me in an undeserved funk because once I wrote the list, it’s obvious that 2022 was actually a great fucking year. Continue reading
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Top 100 Things About a Shit Year (2020)
I love Austin Kleon’s yearly top 100 lists and I was determined to do my own for 2020, almost as a kind of penance for the dismissal we’ve all had for this fucked up year. It was a hard year for me, just like it was for many, many people, but there was also an… Continue reading
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2017 Year in Review
Last year, when I felt like I needed to remember the good things in what was sure to be a shitty year to come, I wrote up a long list of the good things that had happened just to show myself how it dwarfed the short list of shit. A friend recently introduced me to… Continue reading
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2016 Year in Review
Good to great stuff that happened this year: Shit things that happened this year: This is how I will get through this. I remember to balance all of the good with the shit. And I will keep moving. Continue reading
About Me
I’m Victoria Griffith and I am enthusiastic about a LOT of things. Pine trees and mushrooms and the desert. Mountains and motorcycles, travel and photography. Friendship and writing and books and surviving the love of your life’s terminal diagnosis.
I read constantly, think about reading obsessively, and have strong opinions about what makes a great memoir. I write about books here, and I’m working on one of my own.
I was born in Paterson, NJ, call Seattle home, and spend winters in the desert of Southern California, where the light is different and the ocotillos are doing something extraordinary. I try to get out and see as much of the world as time and money will allow.
If you’d like to say hi, you can reach me at vgriff@vgriff.com.
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