So here we are, the last week of 2024, and as promised, I have the very last book recommendation for you. This time around, I’m going to talk about my top five reads of 2024. I have to say, it wasn’t an easy task trying to distill the 50+ books I read this year into just five. Some of these books are classics, while others are more contemporary, but most of them were new reads for me.

During the pandemic of 2021, after spending so many months worried about what was going on in the world and all the sad news about the many lives that were lost, being stuck at home, and trying to comfort family and friends, I felt that I needed something to help keep my sanity. I needed something to ground me a little and give me a sense of hope. Reading was definitely one of the things that helped.

Hi everyone, this is Og Maciel from Bellwether, here with your weekly book recommendation, which comes out every Tuesday. I hope you enjoyed last week’s episode. This week, I’m super excited to recommend a new book: "Skippy Dies" by Paul Murray1. The book was published in 2010, but it wasn’t until this summer that I actually got my hands on a copy and started reading it. If you’re a fan of movies like Fast Times at Ridgemont High or Superbad, or any movie about schools where a bunch of kids get together and get into mischief, I think you’re going to really like this book.