For some, 2024 was rife with adventurous peril, romantic endeavors, carefully curtailed narratives, and lighthearted engagement; but not in the tangible way you’d think.
The encounters poured off the pages for certain bookworms in the High Desert. Real-world heroes of the year like Simone Biles and Patrick Mahomes were instead replaced by literary juggernauts, modern Huck Finns and more contemporary Jane Eyres.
For these individuals, like the High Desert Mom’s Book Club and The Bookish Bunch of the Victor Valley, 2024 delivered 12 solid months of hard-to-put-down reading…