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Best and Worst Reads of 2024

  In 2024 I read 94 books, apparently – so obviously I’m not going to talk about them all here! But here’s some of the biggest hits and misses.   My continuing mostly-5-star obsession : ‘One Piece’ </b>:(Omnibus 17 through the most recent collected volume 110) This long-running manga series is about so much more than goofy pirate antics: The nature of freedom and family, government corruption and the erasing of history to maintain power, overcoming trauma, healthy and unhealthy visions of masculinity, and much, much more. Admittedly, omnibus 21 did only get 3 stars due to the problematic depiction of trans or drag-queen characters (it isn’t 100% clear) in the Kamabakka Queendom section…but the way our main hero interacted with essentially the same group of people in Impel Down suggested that was an unfortunate error, and the honestly pretty stellar trans/gender-nonconforming rep we get in the later Wano arc pretty much confirmed that impression. ...