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My Favorite Books, Films, Series and Anime in 2025 /  by Todd Henson

My favorite books, movies, series and anime in 2025.

Photography is the focus of my website and blog, but it’s not the only activity that brings me joy. I also love reading and watching great movies and series, and I enjoy sharing some of that with you in hopes you may find something you’d enjoy, or perhaps discover we both enjoyed the same thing. Take a look below to see which of the books, movies and series ended up my favorites in 2025.

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Favorite Photography & Art Books

National Gallery of Art - Master Paintings From the Collection

This was an easy pick in that it was the only book of this category I read in the entire year. But thankfully, I did absolutely love the book. It’s a great read for anyone interested in the paintings of the great masters, especially those on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. It can be thought of as a perfect alternative for those unable to physically visit the museum, or as a fantastic supplement for those who have. It includes some information about each piece shown, and has short essays with even more information on many works.

Favorite Non-fiction Books

First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country by Thomas E. Ricks

I’ve read other works of history about the founding of the United States, but this one differs from the others by looking at the education of the founders, what works and authors they were reading at the time, and how that likely affected their efforts to form a new government. I really enjoyed this perspective and learned quite a lot.

How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

This was a fun read, as well as educational. The author is a professor and he shares how he goes about reading, analyzing, and understanding works of literature. I think I would have enjoyed classes with this professor as he appears to want students to learn to come to their own conclusions as much as, or more, than accepting any conclusions he’s come to.

Favorite Fiction Books

A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny

An absolutely perfect book, and my introduction to Zelazny’s novels, though I think I’d read some of his short stories when younger. Told from the perspective of a watch dog as it goes about helping his human with his preparations in the Game. There are many players in the Game, each with an animal companion, and we only slowly learn what the Game is over the course of the novel, told one day at a time with each chapter a single day in October. I loved this book and look forward to trying more by this fantastic author.

The Riftwar Saga (Magician: Apprentice, Magician: Master, Silverthorn, A Darkness at Sethanon) by Raymond Feist

As with Zelazny, I’ve been aware of Feist for quite some time, but only this year did I finally try any of his novels. I dove straight into the larger Riftwar Cycle with these novels, The Riftwar Saga, where it all began. And I loved them. Classic Epic Fantasy, and yet it felt a bit different from much of the rest I’ve read. I listened to these as audiobooks and I’ve been slowly collecting the rest of the books he’s written so I can continue exploring his worlds and characters in the many interconnected series.

Contact by Carl Sagan

So this isn’t the first book I’ve read by Carl Sagan, though it is the first fiction I’ve read by him. Previously, I’d read and watched the two different versions of Cosmos where he teaches about the earth, the universe and everything. And I’ve watched the movie version of Contact, which I also loved. But it was great to finally read the book, one that explores first contact with a species not of this world. Fantastic read, and an interesting look back at a specific point in history.

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

I read and loved many Stephen King novels when younger but at some point I sort of stopped reading his works. I tried to get back into his newer stuff every so often and it just didn’t work. But this time is different, this time I found a fantastic book that reminds me why I used to love King’s stories as much as I did. This one is more mystery and thriller and horror, though it certainly includes aspects of that, as well. But most of all it has a great cast of characters, some that are not very good people but still expertly portrayed. I hope to continue reading more of King’s newer works.

The Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber

I’ve been enjoying reading Fritz Leiber’s adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser for quite some time. They are absolutely classic fantasy characters, most often portrayed in short story anthologies, but this time in a full length novel. This is probably one of the oldest fantasy novels I read this year, first published in 1968. And thankfully, I still have some of their stories left to read. I both look forward to, and dread, the day I finally read the last story of this incredible duo.

Favorite Graphic Novels & Comics

No Longer Human by Junji Ito

A dark, depressing, sometimes depraved, story about a man with so many problems throughout his life, many if not most self-inflicted. There are recurring themes of addiction of various forms, as well as suicide. This graphic novel by Junji Ito was based on the novel of the same name written by Osamu Dazai and thought by some to be a suicide note from the author who soon afterwards committed suicide with his lover. The graphic novel feels almost circular in some ways, self-referential, with Osamu Dazai being one of the characters, and him writing No Longer Human within the story. I assume this was also the case with his original novel, though I’ve not read it. The artwork by Junji Ito is fantastic and very well suited to the story. I would be curious to try reading Osamu Dazai’s novel to compare it to this adaptation.

Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror by Junji Ito

What a crazy and wild ride. I’d watched the live action movie, but so long ago I’d forgotten most of it so this felt very fresh and new. In some cases it felt like an anthology of interconnected stories, though the further in the more cohesive the story felt. A fantastic read for any fan of Junji Ito’s work.

The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn by Tri Vuong

I won a copy of this book through a goodreads giveaway. This was a real winner. It apparently started as a web comic and now it’s been published in a hardback graphic novel. I love these stories of Oscar Zahn, a floating skull in a trench coat and a paranormal investigator solving supernatural problems. He has a heart of gold as he struggles to help others, and each time he does we get a deeper look at problems he carries within himself. I’d love to read more of these tales and learn more about Oscar and all the fascinating characters and realms he’s a part of.

Favorite Movies and Series

The Expanse - Season One

I put off this series both because of its length and because I couldn’t decide whether to try the videos or the books first. Eventually I went for the videos and watched season one. What an incredible, epic, science fiction story, showing future conflicts and politics between Earth, Mars, and the Belters who live in the asteroid belt. I felt there was an incredible cast of characters, great special effects, and magnificent writing. I can’t wait to continue watching the series, and perhaps to one day reading the book series, as well.

Greyhound

A WWII story based on a novel inspired by true events, starring Tom Hanks commanding a destroyer escorting an international convoy of 37 ships across the Atlantic, who end up facing a wolf pack of Nazi U-boats, at least 6, and do all they can to fight them off and protect the convoy. Fantastic film. Well acted. Very emotional. Shows the difficulties of naval warfare at that time, the decisions one might have to make, the sacrifices, the honor, the fear.

The Faculty

This might have been my favorite movie the year it came out, when I was around the age of the characters, so it was easy putting myself in their shoes. And though I remembered the gist of it, enough years had passed since I first watched it that there were still some surprises during this rewatch. What do a group of students do when, one by one, the faculty of their school begin behaving very strangely?

The Sandlot

Another favorite movie when I first watched it back when it came out, and one that easily holds up today. It’s a coming of age film about a group of kids who love baseball but run afoul of the Beast, a dog behind a wooden fence at the edge of the sandlot where they play ball.

Favorite Anime & Animated Movies

Paranoia Agent

It’s definitely Satoshi Kon, that’s for sure. A series of fascinating characters linked together through getting attacked by Little Slugger, a kid with a bent bat and inline skates. And yet each person seems to feel like they’ve been set free after being attacked, almost as if Little Slugger has somehow saved them. Gets stranger and stranger the further in we get and by the end you may wonder what you just watched.

The Hobbit (Rankin Bass)

I loved this animated film when I was a kid. I’d already read the book and it was exciting to see it adapted. I remember watching it a couple times when younger. And I have to say I really enjoyed this rewatch, full of nostalgia of my youth.

Last exile

I almost didn’t include this one in the list because I haven’t finished watching it yet. But I’m thoroughly enjoying it so I figured I might as well call it out. It’s an anime series I first started watching, though never finished, when it first came out. But I enjoyed it enough that I purchased the DVDs. It’s a steampunk sort of story with warring nations, groups of pilots and mechanics who fly interesting aircraft delivering messages of various difficulty levels, and a great storyline portrayed with some incredible animations that mixes traditional and digital styles. It also has a great soundtrack. I look forward to finishing this series next year. Who knows, maybe it’ll also end up on next years favorites list.

So what did you read or watch in 2025 and what were your favorites? Have you ever read or watched anything from my list? Let me know in the comments below.

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Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs & Reports from the Field by Anne Whiston Spirn /  by Todd Henson

Book cover of Daring to Look

While browsing the very small photography section of my local library I stumbled across a book that caught my eye, Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs & Reports from the Field by Anne Whiston Spirn, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008. I’m always open to reading more about Dorothea Lange so I checked it out.

I love this sort of book. It does feature many of Dorothea Lange’s photographs, some of which may have appeared for the first time in these pages. But it’s far more than a portfolio of her work. The author, Anne Whiston Spirn, chose to focus in on a very specific time period in Dorothea Lange’s life, 1939, when Lange visited various locations on assignments, both creating photographs and writing detailed notes about what she found. And this book brings together those photographs as well as the notes, giving amazing insight into Lange’s life during that year as well as into that part of the United States and how it was changing.

Preface

The book begins with a preface that provides an overview of what the book is about, how it focuses on 1939 when Lange largely worked for the Works Progress Administration, an organization that some of the people she photographed said had “ruined the working man,” with others seemingly dependent on their assistance.

Prologue: A Discoverer, a Real Social Observer

The prologue is composed from Lange’s own words and is full of fascinating and enlightening quotes. I quite enjoyed this section of the book, it really provided some wonderful insights into how Lange thought and felt.

When describing how she transitioned from creating studio portraits of people to her more well known documentary work she said, “The only comment I ever got was, ‘What are you going to do with this kind of thing? What do you want to do this for?’ … That was a question I couldn’t answer. I didn’t know… But I knew my picture was on my wall, and I knew that it was worth doing.”

“We have, in my lifetime, changed from rural to urban. In my lifetime, that little space, this tremendous thing has happened. These people on that rainy afternoon in April were the symbol, they were the symbol of this tremendous upheaval like an earthquake.”
— Dorothea Lange
“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind…. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable, but when the great photographs are produced, it will be down that road…. I have only touched it, just touched it.”
— Dorothea Lange
“There are moments when time suddenly stands still and gives place to eternity.... moments where all seems to fall in its place, for anyone to understand—if it’s a really good photograph.”
— Dorothea Lange
“Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats in on the shore. They’re almost pursued; there’s something constantly acting upon them from the outside world that shapes their existence.”
— Dorothea Lange
“The good photograph is not the object. The consequences of the photograph are the object, and I’m not talking about social work. It can be… something that is extraordinarily beautiful for its own sake…. The consequence of its beauty is the transmission of it; so that no one would say, “How did you do it? Where did you find it?” But they would say, “That such things could be.”
— Dorothea Lange

Part One: Dorothea Lange and the Art of Discovery

Part One of the book is an essay by Anne Whiston Spirn where she describes the Lange she discovered during her research for this book. A most telling quote is: “Dorothea Lange is to photography what John Steinbeck is to literature.” In fact, her photographs inspired Steinbeck when writing The Grapes of Wrath and he used some of her photographs as illustrations in his nonfiction booklet, Their Blood is Strong.

Spirn goes on to describe how she came to write this book, how and where she researched, where she found so many photographs and field notes from Lange, some of them not previously published, seemingly lost and cast aside. This is when we start to learn that Lange didn’t just create photographs but also wrote many notes accompanying the photographs, feeling that just photography couldn’t tell the stories she was sharing, words were also needed. Some of these words were directly written by Lange and others by her assistants, such as Rondal Partridge, and by her one-time boss and later husband, Paul Taylor.

Lange learned over time how to interact with people to get to the real stories: “You go into a room and you know where you are welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome…. Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important…. The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.”

Eventually, Lange went to work at the federal level for the Works Progress Administration and later the Resettlement Administration, which was succeeded by the Farm Security Administration (FSA). It’s with the FSA that she and her assistants travelled all over the country on assignment. Her photos were among the most widely used and recognized of all the FSA photographers, and yet she had a very mixed relationship with her boss at the FSA, Roy Stryker, and was fired three times. Unfortunately, when she was fired for the final time she lost access to much of her work and found it very difficult, sometimes impossible, to obtain copies of her negatives for books or shows. Despite Stryker’s reticence in allowing her the use of her own photos, he had no problem using them for his own book on the FSA and included more of her photos than any other FSA photographer, and he mentioned of her famous Migrant Mother photo, “After all these years, I still get that picture out and look at it.”

Pages 8-9, including the photo Migrant Mother

Thankfully, after getting fired from the FSA Lange applied for a Guggenheim fellowship to help fund her work and became the third photographer ever to receive one, after Edward Weston and Walker Evans, all three being iconic American photographers. Later John Szarkowski approached Lange about hosting a retrospective exhibit of her work at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), where her show was only the sixth to have been dedicated to a single photographer. Those preceding her were Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Edward Steichen. She was in good company. At the entrance to her exhibit were the words of Szarkowski: “What distinguished Lange’s work was a challenging intelligence and an artist’s vision. Her intelligence allowed her to bypass the exceptional—the merely newsworthy—and discover the typical. Her art gave to her observation an irreducible simplicity, the eloquence of inevitability.”

Pages 26-27 of Daring to Look

Pages 26-27, showing handwritten and typed notes

On the essence of a photograph, Lange observes, “What is it in the end? It is a mounted piece of paper with a photographic silver image on it. But in it there is an element which you can’t call other than an act of love. That is the tremendous motivation behind it. And you give it. Not to a person, you give it to the world, to your world… an act of love—that’s the deepest thing behind it…. The audience, the recipient of it, gives that back.”

Part Two: Photographs and Reports from the Field, 1939

Part two is the heart of the book, full of Lange’s photographs and reports from the field, all from 1939, a year in which she created more than 3000 photographs, 149 of which are presented in the book.

Spirn says: “Most of these photographs were never printed in Lange’s lifetime (except as proofs) and appear here for the first time…”

I absolutely loved this section, looking over all the photographs, and especially reading Lange’s thoughts on her interactions with people and places, the events she witnessed and documented. Maps are included that trace the roads Lange followed and the areas she visited.

Pages 64-65 showing a map for the section, The Highway

Pages 82-83

Pages 90-91 showing a map for the section, The Farmers, Black and White

Pages 112-113

Pages 142-143 showing a map for the section, The Migrant Life

Pages 194-195

Pages 214-215

Pages 262-263 and the beginning of Part Three: Then and Now

Part Three: Then and Now

Part three was an unexpected and fascinating part of the book. Here we get more insight into the author, Anne Whiston Spirn. After having spent months of research she wondered what had become of the places and people Dorothea Lange had portrayed. So she took to the road to find some of the locations and attempt to find some of the people, or at least people who knew of them. She wasn’t looking to duplicate Lange’s path or photographs, but to see what Lange might have seen and to get a feel for the landscape. She was curious if she could learn anything from the differences between what Lange saw and what she, Spirn, saw.

Of course, all these years later it was a challenge to find the same locations and even more so to find people. But Spirn did just that, and documents what she found. And she learned something that may seem obvious in hindsight, something in common between then and now: that things keep changing.

“Lange’s words and photographs speak eloquently to the present, for the forces she saw and recorded in 1939 are still in play, forces of that particular moment, but not only of that moment.”
— Anne Whiston Spirn

Pages of 286-287

Appendixes and Final Sections

The book includes five appendixes with additional information:

  • A: Chronology of Dorothea Lange’s Life

  • B: Description of New Deal Organizations and Programs

  • C: Documents Submitted by Lange with General Captions

  • D: Key to Negatives and General Captions

  • E: Additional General Captions from 1919

Ending out the book are sections of notes, an essay on sources, a list of illustrations, and an index.

Final Thoughts

This review ended up much longer, and took me longer to write, than I’d originally intended, perhaps a reflection of how much I enjoyed the book. I think it’s a wonderful piece of history of a slice of time and of geographic regions in the United States, as well as of Dorothea Lange. Anyone interested in the Dust Bowl years, documentary photography, or Dorothea Lange will find something of interest in these pages.

Very sadly, I later went back to the library to check the book out again and found it no longer appears anywhere in the county library system. I’ve no clue what happened, whether it was removed during a periodic pruning of less popular works, whether it was lost or misplaced. I’m considering searching for my own copy, not that I need any more physical books. But this is one I’ve had a desire to spend more time with. Highly recommended.

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My Favorite Books, Films and Anime in 2024 /  by Todd Henson

My favorite books, movies and anime in 2024.

Photography is the focus of my website and blog, but it’s not the only activity that brings me joy. I also love reading and watching great movies and series, and I enjoy sharing some of that with you in hopes you may find something you’d enjoy, or perhaps discover we both enjoyed the same thing. Take a look below to see which of the books, movies and series ended up my favorites in 2024.

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Favorite Photography Books

As with last year, I only read two photography books in 2024 so it made it easy to pick my two favorites. 😊 On a positive note, I did really enjoy them both, each about older buildings.

Backroads Buildings - In Search of the Vernacular by Steve Gross & Susan Daley

This was a great portfolio-type book on the theme of old buildings along the backroads of the eastern US. It’s a book for those who love traveling those backroads and finding all those old everyday buildings of yesteryear, often now in disrepair and frequently abandoned. I thoroughly enjoyed looking through the photographs in this book, one I checked out from the library.

Abandoned Virginia: The Forgotten Commonwealth by Joel Handwerk

Similar to the previous, this book also focuses on old abandoned buildings, this time focusing on those found in Virginia. It’s a short book but especially fascinating if you happen to be familiar with any of the featured locations. For me it was the remains of the Virginia Renaissance Faire, which I was fortunate to visit a couple times before it closed down.

Favorite Non-fiction Books

The Happiest Man on Earth - The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku

What an extraordinarily powerful book. In it Eddie Jaku introduces himself and tells of his life, how he was a captive of the Nazis and of the events he witnessed. What makes this book really stand out to me is how he came out of those experiences with such a positive outlook. He was determined to survive, and if he did he vowed to become the happiest man alive. And when he did survive he followed through on that vow, telling his story, sharing the power of family and friendship, and how choosing to be happy can help us get though so many hardships. Well worth the read.

Night by Elie Wiesel

This was another very powerful read, one that was difficult to get through, telling of Elie Wiesel’s experiences as a captive in multiple Nazi concentration camps, and what happened to his family. A heart wrenching story, but one worth reading. We can’t forget these events. We can’t let ourselves be lulled into allowing them to repeat. We need to keep learning our lessons, over and over again, for however long it takes.

A Middle-earth Traveler: Sketches From Bag End to Mordor by John Howe

And finally, a non-fiction book with a much lighter topic: the artwork of Middle-earth by John Howe. If you’re a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien and his works you may be familiar with John Howe’s work, even if you don’t recognize the name. He has created some of the very iconic artwork now associated with Tolkien’s Middle-earth, and I loved looking through all of it within this book.

Favorite Fiction Books

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

This classic may be one of the greatest books I’ve ever read. I wish it hadn’t taken me so long to get around to trying it, though perhaps it’s for the best. Perhaps it resonated more now than it might have when I was younger. Though a work of fiction, it incorporates so much history and shares so many valuable life lessons. I would like to reread this book one day.

The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell

For a long while I’d seen the many books by this author, and this year I decided to give one a read, and what a read it was. I loved this first in a series taking place in the time when England was a series of warring kingdoms, and when the Danes invaded and began taking over. Such a great story and so well told. I very much look forward to continuing the series and trying others by the author.

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa

A beautiful story taking place in Japan about a girl who seems to have lost her way in life, so she goes to stay with her uncle who runs the Morisaki Bookshop, a used bookstore. He’s able to slowly bring her back to life as she begins helping around the store, meeting new people, building a new life for herself. And all that time she unknowingly also helps him with his life, dealing with his ties to the past. A wonderful book. I hope to read the next in this series.

Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao

I won an advance reader copy of this book through a goodreads giveaway, and I couldn’t be happier that I did. I loved this story, full of magic, whimsical landscapes and experiences, characters drawn together and pulled apart, a quickly growing love story weaved into the other plot lines as the two mains characters run from creatures that could mean their end if ever caught. A story about the choices we make, and about destiny and what kind of control over our lives we give that idea. Perhaps this fits into the cozy fantasy category so popular today. A beautiful story.

Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien

This children’s book was a reread for me. I first read it in grade school and I’ve always remembered it fondly, so when I found the audiobook on sale I grabbed it, and I’m glad I did. The story held the same adventure, wonder, loss, hope, happiness and mystery that it did when I was much younger, telling the story of Mrs. Frisby trying to survive in the farmers field, but also telling the story of the incredible rats of NIMH. A wonderful read for a child or an adult.

Favorite Graphic Novels & Comics

Saga Volume 3 by Brian Vaughan & Fiona Staples

I don’t have a lot of commentary on this one, other than to say I continue to love this comic series. This one is squarely aimed at adults, tackling topics like trying to raise a young child in a violent and out of control world (or universe), hatred between different groups of people, friendship and loyalty, romance in many forms, and just the general topics of life. In this case, though, that life is lived in a fantastic universe with interesting races so often at conflict with one another. Great series and I look forward to the next volume.

Hokusai: A Graphic Biography by Guiseppe Latanza & Francesco Matteuzzi

This was a fascinating biography of the great Japanese artist, Hokusai, who created that famous woodblock print of The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Look it up, you may recognize it. This biography is told graphically, so it may appeal to a wider audience. And I loved the explanations at the end of how the graphic novel came to be and the challenges of sorting through all the stories about Hokusai, some which may be true and some false, though we’ve no way to know which are which these days.

Favorite Movies

The Lord of the Rings

What can I say? Anytime I rewatch the Lord of the Rings movies they will be favorites that year, just as anytime I reread the books. At this point most folks probably have at least heard of them, even if they haven’t seen or read them. But if you haven’t yet tried them, maybe consider it. The story is so very good, and for me it keeps giving me something new each time I watch or read them. There’s such richness to it, such history and backstory.

Dune Part Two

I watched part two of Dune, finishing up the retelling of the first book, and what a retelling it was. As with The Lord of the Rings, this ranks as one of the best movie adaptations of a science fiction / fantasy book or series. It included all the political and religious undertones and took full advantage of todays state of the art special effects to bring the world of Dune to life. A fantastic set of movies.

The Creator

I thoroughly enjoyed this science fiction movie, far more than I expected to. It tackles the topic of advanced robotic artificial intelligence and such issues as sentience, what rights an artificial intelligence should have, biases and prejudices, and conflicts that could surface between various groups. I thought the movie handled these topics really well and told an engaging story full of emotion and excitement.

Stranger Things Season 1+2

I am very much a latecomer to this series. I’ve heard about it for years but never had access to it so I largely ignored it. Then I discovered my library had the first two seasons on DVD so I checked them out. And now I’m hooked. Just as with the book, Ready Player One, I seem to be perfectly within the target market for this series having grown up in the ‘80s playing Dungeons & Dragons, hanging out with friends, and imagining all sorts of crazy things. But of course, in my life it was all just imagination, whereas in this series it’s real. I loved it.

Favorite Anime & Animated Movies

Suzume

I think it was almost a foregone conclusion that Suzume would end up my favorite anime watched in the year. I tend to love anything Makoto Shinkai creates, with each new movie a masterpiece. This one is about doors that open to another location, and the people who can see through them, and a young girl who gets caught up in all of this.

Planetes

Planetes was a great series about a serious topic, that of orbital debris and the great risks it poses to any who venture into orbit around our planet. The series takes place a little ways in the future when debris has become a much bigger problem with permanent manned stations, and so some of those people have the job of cleaning up that debris to prevent any catastrophic and deadly mishaps.

So what did you read or watch in 2024? Did any of your favorites match my own? And if not, what were your favorites? Let me know in the comments below.

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