My 22nd #BooksReadIn2023
A bit of quick light relief in parallel to longer, heavier books currently in progress.

This book was very much what you’d expect it to be.

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Read All The Things!: 2022 Reading Statistics https://ajsterkel.blogspot.com/2023/01/2022-reading-statistics.html

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See the list of #BestBooks2022 middle-grade #author Nicole read:

Top Ten Books of 2022!! – Feed Your Fiction Addiction https://feedyourfictionaddiction.com/2023/01/top-ten-books-of-2022.html

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My favorite books of 2022 are up at Lady Business. 🙂

2022: Reading in a Time of Crisis — https://ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2023/01/02/2022-reading-in-a-time-of-crisis.html #Books #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #BooksOf2022

Can’t stop thinking about this book either: A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson.

There are several stories running through the book: a missing teenager, a neighbour dies from natural causes, a newcomer moves in next door, and someone needs to feed the cat. The characters are wonderful and how the stories weave together is beautiful and heartbreaking. It’s a quiet, impactful book.

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2022 Reading Year: The Disappointments : BookerTalk https://bookertalk.com/2022-reading-year-the-disappointments/

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2022 wasn’t a great year for me and books. Where I used to knock out dozens per year, somehow I only read 7.

Regardless, here were my favorite #BooksOf2022:

- The Shadow Murders by Jussi Adler-Olsen
- How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t with Your Kids by Carla Naumburg
- Knife by Jo Nesbø

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Read 52 books this year — an average of a book a week. Tag yourself (jk that’s not a thing here…right?) #BooksOf2022

Not a ‘best of 2022’ book list; how to say what book is ‘best’? Loved reading these books. All were new to me this year, but most are old:

The Candy House - Jennifer Egan

All Our Yesterdays - Natalia Ginzburg

Girl, Woman, Other - Bernadine Evaristo

The Inseparables - Simone de Beauvoir

Joseph Anton, The Moor’s Last Sigh - both by Salman Rushdie

To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life - Hervé Guibert

Also a Poet - Ada Calhoun

Chernobyl - Serii Plokhy

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The comfort that I can always ask for…Books, Books & Books! Every time I turn a page, it’s the beginning of another adventure. I don’t know how to thank these fifty authors (as well as the other 68 books I’ve read this year), but here they are…#BooksOf2022 📚#BestBooksOf2022📚

Favorite books of 2022, a mix of fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and nonfiction:
-Babel, RF Kuang
-Book of Night, Holly Black
-Sins of our Fathers, James SA Corey
-Aquanaut, Rick Stanton
-Shutter, Ramona Emerson
-Hench, Natalie Zina Walschots
-Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel
-Dead Wake, Erik Larson
-Empire of Pain: the Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe
-The Consequences of Fear, Jacqueline Windspeare
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The comfort that I can always ask for…Books, Books & Books! Every time I turn a page, it’s the beginning of another adventure. I don’t know how to thank these fifty authors (as well as the other 68 books I’ve read this year), but here they are…#BooksOf2022 📚#BestBooksOf2022📚

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Last recap of the year with books that I didn’t read as part of a reading challenge. Favourites of 2022:

1- Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown about Japanese-American families during WWII.

2- The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher on the impact that social media ruled by algorithms has on society.

3- オレたちバブル入行組 by Jun Ikeido (池井戸潤), the first novel of the Naoki Hanzawa series, so good!

4- 希望の糸 by Keigo Higashino (東野圭吾), the latest book in the Kyoichiro Kaga series ❤️.

Some of my year in books. Full year here: https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2022/31302654 #Books #Reading @bookstodon #booksof2022

My year in books. Honestly think I read more than this but forgot to keep track of a few @bookstodon #booksof2022

2022: My Year in Books #BookReviews #booksof2022 #yearinbooks

https://thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2022/12/30/2022-my-year-in-books/

Confession: It was my 3rd or 4th attempt at Ulysses, but I didn't finish it. Again. (Yes, I have tried listening to the audiobook). I appreciate Joyce's intelligence and creative prowess, but he rubs me the wrong way, personally. I was pleased to read that Hemingway got about as far as I did with Ulysses. And Virginia Woolf hated it. If I have to read a difficult modernist doorstop, give me Proust any day of the week.

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Other reading habits (I've been asked): I read as early in the day as possible and aim for 50 pages a day. I diversify authors & genres. To be honest, after about 60 books, I started to flag and even easy texts required greater efforts of concentration.

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I read every single one of these 68 books while walking/jogging.

It might be an #ADHD thing. If I give my body something to do while I'm reading, I get distracted far less and can focus for longer. Before I worked this out, I could only get through a handful of books per year.

I only broke a toe once whilst reading/jogging.

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Year highlight: The complete prose of W.G. Sebald. If I have to pick just one: Austerlitz.

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