Jacinda Barrett Instagram – Farewell 2018. So many extraordinary books kept me company this year. I love, love, love reading and my time with a good book in one hand and an espresso in the other are some of my favorite or as Hemingway wrote, ‘there is no friend as loyal as a book’ or Jhumpa Lahiri , ‘that’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet,’ or as Stendhal said in The Red and the Black, one of the books I read this year, ‘A book is an event in my life’. Yes to all of the above and more. There will never be enough minutes in this life for all the books I want to read. What did you read this year and why did it matter? #georgesaunders #nataliaginzburg #stendhal #frankconroy #germainegreer #marymccartney #hiltonals #timwinton #andredubus #joefassler #virginiawoolf #rachelcusk #andrewweil #lesliejamison #roxanegay #charlesdambrosio #viviangornick #lewishowes #thitnhathanh #bellhooks #svenbirkerts #harrietlerner #joansilber #aldoushuxley #gabrielgarciamarquez #alaindebotton #philiplopate #markdoty #alismith