What makes Rudd officially sexy, at least to me, is his self-deprecating humour, joking about how he expects his life to change. "I'm hoping now that I'll finally be invited to some of those sexy dinners with Clooney and Pitt and B Jordan.”

But this is a book newsletter, so now that we’ve got Sexiest Man Alive out of the way, let’s move on to 2021’s sexiest most looked-up words in our final newsletter of 2021!

As I write this, I’m stoked that pretty soon, I'll be mentally checked out in Mexico. There is nothing I love more than travelling, aside from thinking about travelling, talking about travelling, and reading tabloid magazines…while travelling.

The only time I'll buy or read tabloids is when I’m on vacation. It's not that I have an insatiable appetite for celebrity gossip (which I do), but my entire goal for any vacation I take is that my brain cells will become so relaxed, I’ll forget how to work when I return.

It’s called the JOY of missing out

Let the haters hate

Let the haters hate

Why having your books stocked in an airport bookstore is the absolute best place for them to be.

It’s National Novel Writing Month. Are you participating in the NaNoWriMo challenge?

Here are some reading “events” or book “challenges” readers can take part in.

Why do people always have to ask?