2022 50 BOOKS - OR AS MANY AS YOU CAN MANAGE

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Book 136 was Last Voyage of the Valentina, by Santa Montefiore, I do enjoy her books.

#48 Anthony Trollope ‘The Way We Live Now’ published 1875, a scathing takedown of dishonesty among UK and US speculators and in UK ‘society’, originally serialised so unfolding scene by scene. Very long… extreme contrast to the sweet joys of my #47 ‘Wind in the Willows’! Very readable but remarkably tame and old hat given The Way Some Live Now.

Now on book 137, Too Damned Famous, by Joan Collins. A bit chick-littish, but not bad.

I quite enjoyed Too Damn Famous, never read a Joan Collins book before. Now reading book 138, Mr Starlight, by Laurie Graham, it`s OK, but not great.

Mr Starlight was an OK story, but I wasn`t very fond of most of the characters. Now reading book 139, Nothing Lasts Forever, by Sidney Sheldon. No opinion yet, too near the begining.

#57. Dead Simple by Peter James.

#49 Jon McGregor ‘Reservoir 13’ turns from the shock horror of a 13 yo girl’s disappearance into a very different kind of genre. Wish I’d paid more attention to names/who’s who. Meditative effects of the changing seasons, turning lives. All human life in an English village…memorable.

Book 140, The Ripper Secret, by Jack Steel. It`s built around the Jack the Ripper case in 1888, just the author`s idea of what went on, but seeing as the case was never solved, anything`s possible. I`m enjoying it anyway.

58#. Murder In Paradise by Ann Cleeves.

Hello, DiggingDoris.

43 Taste by Stanley Tucci. A memoir of his life in food. It’s a lovely book, although his brush with ill-health was daunting.

44 The Book Store Sisters by Alice Hoffman. It’s a short story but I didn’t know that when I bought it on Kindle so I’m counting it as a book.

Cs783, Reservoir 13 is one of my favourite books. I re-read it, making notes on the different threads as I went. It made it even more rewarding.

I haven’t ever joined in this thread, as my reading rate is quite slow (too much time spent following links to articles on Twitter is partly to blame). But I keep an eye out for inspiration. I’ve just read Kamila Shamsie ‘Home Fires’ which was a powerful reimagining of the Antigone story, with a Muslim family brought to tragedy through involvement with an extremist.

Maybe I will aim for 50 books in 2023 🙂. Thank you to all who have posted in 2022.

Litterpicker

*Cs783*, Reservoir 13 is one of my favourite books. I re-read it, making notes on the different threads as I went. It made it even more rewarding.

I haven’t ever joined in this thread, as my reading rate is quite slow (too much time spent following links to articles on Twitter is partly to blame). But I keep an eye out for inspiration. I’ve just read Kamila Shamsie ‘Home Fires’ which was a powerful reimagining of the Antigone story, with a Muslim family brought to tragedy through involvement with an extremist.

Maybe I will aim for 50 books in 2023 🙂. Thank you to all who have posted in 2022.

Please join the 2023 thread Litterpicker, I always stress at the beginning and will again for any new people that the "50" books is something I lifted from MN, just a benchmark not everyone reaches that figure, don't let that preclude you from joining in this is really a thread for those who love reading and talking about what they've read more than anything else.

I loved The Ripper Secret. Now reading book 141, The Club, by Mandasue Heller. OK so far.

#73 Heroes Stephen Fry.
This was an audio book read by the author. It is the second of the Mythos trilogy and is about the adventures of ancient legendary Greek heroes: Herakles, Perseus, Theseus and others. It took me a long time to finish, not because I didn't enjoy it (I loved it) but because the complicated family relationships and names required me to take it slowly.

Thank you Terribull 🙂

45 Lily by Rose Tremain. A novel about a girl in Victorian times who says she’s a murderer. Rose Tremain is such a lovely writer, she uses words so beautifully.

Litterpicker I’m not sure I’ve ever read 50 books in one year! I just join in with the thread and I hope you do, too.

Litterpicker nice to ‘meet’ you and I look forward to seeing where your reading takes you in 2023. This thread is not competitive at all and I’ve found it interesting, and valuable in that I’ve made myself record a few notes. ‘Reservoir 13’ was actually a re-read for me and all I’d remembered was that I’d loved it!! Now I’ve written a short note I’m sure it really will be memorable for me.

Thank you for this thread TerriBull it’s been an inspiration

#50 Katherine Arundel ‘Super Infinite: the Transformations of John Donne’ I realise I hadn’t noted this wonderful biography. Published this year and a prize winner, it is written with verve and is very readable for a book about a poet, and close contemporary to Shakespeare (they had very likely crossed each other’s paths in London). Unlike Shakespeare, quite a lot is known of Donne’s life, and what a vivid one it was. But oh dear his poor wife, who it seems really did give up everything for love.

Not Arundel spellchecker but Rundell..

Cs783

Litterpicker nice to ‘meet’ you and I look forward to seeing where your reading takes you in 2023. This thread is not competitive at all and I’ve found it interesting, and valuable in that I’ve made myself record a few notes. ‘Reservoir 13’ was actually a re-read for me and all I’d remembered was that I’d loved it!! Now I’ve written a short note I’m sure it really will be memorable for me.

Thank you for this thread TerriBull it’s been an inspiration

Thank you Cs783 that's really nice to know.

Yes I like to think of it as more of a book appreciation thread than anything else and a good way of keeping a record of our reading highlights and sometimes not so good books throughout the year. Plus it's always good to get other people's recommendations too. I'd have never discovered a few of the best books I've ever read if I hadn't taken notice of similar threads to this on MN.

#59. Holy Island by LJ Ross.

Have just finished ‘Murder In Paradise’ by Ann Cleeves.

Sooo boring, cannot believe the same writer of ‘Shetland’ and ‘Vera’.

I enjoyed The Club. Now on book 142, I Kill, by Giorgio Faletti, very good up to now.

Loved that, but it might be too gruesome for some. Now reading, and enjoying, book 143, Dead Run, by P.J.Tracy. I`ve read a couple of her books before, and loved them.

46 Undoctored by Adam Kay. I didn’t enjoy it as much as his other books.