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Dec 04, 2023 01:57PM
Hoping for 20 books/month with summer and Christmas breaks
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Robert Iger
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YEAR STATSFavourites:
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FICTIONParanormal - Action/Romance
Hannah Haze, Helen Harper, Anya Cosgrove, Shannon Mayer, Teresa Gabelman, Holly Roberds. KM Shea, Ilona Andrews, Lexi Foss, TA White
Action:
Michael Caine, Ian Fleming
Literary:
Aldia Bremer, Gabriella Zevin
NON FICTIONHistory
James Henage, Anthony Beevor
Memoir:
Lea Ypi, Leah Remini
Cookery:
Sabrina Ghayour
True Crime:
Thomas Grant, John Douglas
Nature:
John Lewis Stempel
Politics:
Tim MarshallReligion:
Andrew Ollerton
Philosophy:
Dale Carnegie, Derren Brown
Tie-in:
JANUARYGreat start to the year with the Sweep series. Hopefully keeps up!
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Ilona Andrews
Great series. Love it.
KM Shea
Great series - still my favourite.
Sabrina Ghayour
Mouth-watering
Holly Roberds
Loving this take on mythology
John Douglas
Creepy and chilling, but well worth reading
Lea Ypi
A memoir of the end of Communism - eye-opening and worrying.
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Leah Remini
The perils of cults and their toll on families - sobering reading!
Teresa Gabelman
Not as good as the first books in the series - somewhat spinning it's wheels.
Michael Caine
Competent - owes a lot to Moonraker
Shannon Mayer
Shame it's a bit smutty, could be an intriguing shifter series with a Golden retriever, but instead is a not as good as should be.
Anya Cosgrove
Some promise, but went a bit weird
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John Lewis Stempel
Not as good as Where Poppies Blow. Pity.
Anthony Beevor
Confused narrative jumping around, not as good as the Stalingrad one.
Helen Harper
Weird, might get better as a series, but probably won't continue
James Henage
informative, but weird perception - how can the Ottoman taxes be lower than the Byzantine when it included selling your children into slavery?
Wish it had had some more original content or been "in world"
Tim Marshall
Sky News' diplomatic editor doesn't seem to be keen on using the word diplomacy at all.... Legal this, legal that....
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Aldia Bremer
Picked up with the Amazon first reads programme - not a great book, but glad I am expanding my reading this year
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Gabriella Zevin
Wanted to like it, but found it pretentious, got bored skipped to end
MARCHHad a proper go at the to read list after a month off due to work stresses. Got some worthy reading out the way and will now relax into summer.
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Lauren Palphreyman
The right kind of cliff hanger!
Marc Morris
Comprehensive and sweeping
Holly Black
Epic fantasy fiction series that doesn't outlast its story.
Fredrick Forsyth
Genuinely tense.
Ewen Montague
Admirably concise and very clever.
Interesting how he has changed since he wrote this
Dorothy L Sayers
Really enjoyed it
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Barbara Winton
Fascinating subject matter
Jana Deleon
Fun characters and good story
Walter Mischel
Interesting not life-changing
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Jodi Taylor
Not as good as other entries in the series
Simon Winchester
So... There are not 300 pages to be written about it...
James Holland
Needed some pruning
Graham Hancock
Unconvincing compared to the ice age cataclysm
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Sue Black
Dull
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WB Yeats
Random collection - not as interesting as Grimm or other folk collections
APRILGood holiday reading month
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Andrew Ollerton
Clear and helpful
Hannah Haze
Interesting take on a lostling
TA White
New favourite series - love it.
Thomas Grant
A different type of legal memoir, liked the approach.
Dale Carnegie
Insight into how to manipulate your way to friendships
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TA White
Not as good as Firebird
Derren Brown
Stoicism explained, shame about the blinkered atheism.
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Lexi Foss
Smutty for no reason
That's such a cool goal, Anna! I hope you succeed in 2024, and discover some gems along the way. Is there anything you're most looking forward to reading in the new year?
Here's to a year of literary triumphs! May the joy of reading fill your days, and may each book you tackle in 2024 be a source of inspiration. Wishing you the best of luck!
I'm looking forward to reading with you in the coming reading season. May your stacks of unread books become "books I have read"!
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