I thought Kanye West losing $1.5 billion was bad with his stupid communication and thinking, but then I read that Musk lost $200 Billion. We lost Pele, Barbara Walters, Madeleine Albright, Queen Elizabeth and Meatloaf, James Caan, Ray Liotta, Nichelle Nichols, Olivia Newton-John. Life is impermanent. Also Grant Wahl died, a soccer journalist, and Jean Franco, a great Latin American literary critic. My most hits post was: Character list of Inherent Vice the novel . That was my favorite novel that I read in 2022 (came out 2009). I also like my comparison of the novel versus the movie. My most popular blog post this year, by far, is my Buddhism blog: Wynn Alan Bruce . I read 24 books to completion and many more were started, skimmed, sampled.