Things I've Read Recently
Books - any format
My target this month has been to finish off books I've had on the go and to get my Currently Reading list down to a "normal" number! On 30th November it was standing at 23 titles on the go, and I almost completely failed to clear ANY of them!...
- Recipes from My Russian Grandmother's Kitchen
- I re-read this on getting down to my parents in prep for my annual Christmas baking binge.
- One / Zero / Kathleen Ann Goonan
- This was a really cool scenario and build up, which lost out for me by stopping just that bit too soon! I wasn't ready to let the story go when it ended, so I'm hoping that this is set in a wider world that the author has written about.
- A Natural History of Dragons (Lady Trent #1) / Marie Brennan
- Bookgroup book. Another re-read for me, so decided to listen to this one on audio while travelling, failed, and ended up re-reading it with the audio on 2x speed the day of the meeting. Still a good book!
- The Jester / Michael J. Sullivan
- I needed one more book to make my goal for 2022, so I grabbed this one off my to read list as a quick win. It was short but complete scenario from the author's wider Riyria series. I wasn't feeling to brilliant on NYE, so this was perfect to make me a) less down by un-failing to meet my target for books read, and b) a nice dip into a known world with a simple mostly-happy ending.
- While not things that I record here, I've also read a number of shorts and prompted works this month, mostly via Facebook community posts.
If I have time, I hope to complete a list of my planned books to read in 2023, just for the interest in seeing how many of them I read, and how many of what I read isn't even on my radar right now! I know that up to 12 books won't be on there regardless because book-group choices, but the rest should be, right?! ;)
