2023 books: a year in review

Books

  1. Ghost Story – Peter Straub 
  2. Falling Slowly – Anita Brookner
  3. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe 
  4. Thin Air – Michelle Paver
  5. Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto
  6. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut
  7. The Last Children of Tokyo – Yoko Tawada
  8. The Witches of Vardo – Anya Bergman
  9. The Bullet that Missed – Richard Osman
  10. Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
  11. Rule, Nostalgia – Hannah Rose Woods
  12. The Wild Goose – Mori Ogai
  13. Ravenous – Henry Dimbleby
  14. Invisible Women – Caroline Criado Perez 
  15. English Pastoral: An Inheritance – James Rebanks
  16. Life for Sale – Yukio Mishima
  17. All the Lovers in the
...

books galore: an update

Reading is going well-ish.

Here’s the links to the book list:

I’ve been trying to get through books that I already own, unfortunately I have bought a couple and also got books out from the library, so…yeah.

Books read so far in 2023:

  1. Ghost Story – Peter Straub (feb)
  2. Falling Slowly – Anita Brookner (feb)
  3. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe (mar)
  4. Thin Air – Michelle Paver (mar)
  5. Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto
  6. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut (apr)
  7. The Last Children of Tokyo – Yoko Tawada (apr)
  8. The Witches of Vardo – Anya Bergman (jun)
  9. The Bullet
...

books galore in written form

I have so many books. Mainly on Kindle but some in book form too, as you can see from the photo. I like reading on Kindle because I can’t tell easily if it’s a big book, which can put me off sometimes thinking it’s going to take me ages to slog through.

This year however is going to be the year of reading my physical copies of books and getting rid once done – I either pass them on to my mum if I think she’ll enjoy them, if not to BookOff or the charity shop, depending on my location ...

memories and a july wish list

Time really does go quickly, doesn’t it? This year it seems to have stood still but then when you look at the date, you realise it’s still moving, perhaps even more so than normal.

Like most people, I am assuming, we haven’t done much. My days have been spent trying to learn how to bake bread, studying Japanese, cooking new things, crafting and navigating the apartment now my husband is working from home (this is still an ongoing learning opportunity).

I’ve also been back and forth to the hospital with thyroid issues, specifically a toxic nodule goitre, causing me to ...