'I read 239 books in 2024 - my top 10 floored me, you need to read them'
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Reading is the perfect way to immerse yourself in different worlds without leaving your sofa if you'd prefer not to. I'm the sort of person who'll whack out my book at any given opportunity, hence why I've managed to steam through so many books. Waiting at the nail salon? I'm not going to scroll pointlessly - my book will be in my hand. Waiting for a bus? Book. On the train platform? Book. You get the picture...
And because I've read so much, I have many recommendations to give you. Whether your New Year's Resolution is to read more, or you want to try new genres this year, make it your mission to read at least one of these in 2025... Anybody who knows me will know that Stephen King books almost always get an instant five-star rating from me, and this was no different - despite the fact that short stories often are not my favourite.
Of course, there were some that were better than others, in my opinion, but everyone will have different thoughts. I was thrilled to get a really enjoyable sequel to Cujo, a book I read a couple of years ago, and 'The Answer Man' is a short story that will literally stay with me forever. Someone even took to Reddit to say: "The Answer Man is low-key the best thing King has ever written...".
They wrote: "The Answer Man is an entry into what I am going to call the existential grief saga that exists in a lot of King's work, particularly Pet Sematary and Revival.". Here's the blurb: 'Two Talented Bastids' explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In 'Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream', a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny's most catastrophically. In 'Rattlesnakes', a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance - with major strings attached. In 'The Dreamers', a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. 'The Answer Man' asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful.
