When I was in Year 7, we were required to read thirty books as part of a “general reading” assessment in English. Each week we would go to the library, log the books we had read, and either our teacher or the librarian would quiz us on the books to confirm we had read them.Continue reading “2025 in books”
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My year in books
For those who have been following me here for a while, you’ll know that we’ve come to the time at the end of the year where I share the highlights from my reading for the year. It’s been a diverse year again, with some excellent new books as well as some classics I’ve only justContinue reading “My year in books”
A year in books: 2023
I recently saw a meme containing the caption, “My life is a series of things keeping me from reading my book.” Sometimes, I must admit, I feel like this. Though when I look over the 120+ books I have read this year, I’ve clearly managed to read somehow. My identification with that meme says muchContinue reading “A year in books: 2023”
A year in books
A couple of years ago I stopped using GoodReads and became the digital equivalent of my grandfather, recording everything I read in a list on my phone. It’s turned out to be a very satisfying habit to have. Somehow, amidst all the parenting, housework and paid work, I’ve read a lot. And so it’s becomingContinue reading “A year in books”
A year of magical reading
2021 has been many things, most of them not what we expected or hoped for twelve months ago. But one positive thing that happened to me this year was that, in an effort to cut back the control of Amazon’s algorithm on my life, I got rid of Goodreads and started to keep my ownContinue reading “A year of magical reading”
You can’t read in traffic
Stuck in horrendous traffic on the way to work yesterday, I began to reflect on the irony that, as someone who spends most of my life talking about reading and writing, I have remarkably little time to read or write. This is what those thoughts generated.
The Consolations of Writing 