Finally, here's the reading list for 2023:
June - December 2023 - Didn't get back to the Chalet School in the end. Started on a re-read of Jodi Taylor's The Chronicles of St Mary's time travel series in June, and what with one thing or another, was still on book 11 by Christmas! Read the first seven or so way back when, and there are now actually fourteen (plus the short stories), so still got a few to go. Really enjoying them when I get time to actually read!
April-May 2023 - Another diversion, with the Green Man series of books by Juliet E. McKenna. Five in the series to date - focus on British folklore, with the main character the mortal son of a dryad, who the 'Green Man' enlists to sort out a variety of dangerous supernatural situations. Three books down - The Green Man’s Heir (2018) The Green Man’s Foe (2019) The Green Man’s Silence (2020) - and now on to fourth, The Green Man’s Challenge (2021), which is actually set during the pandemic, and reflects on some of its challenges too. Really enjoying these, so expect I'll be finished soon!
March-April 2023 - Inspired by a colleague at Epic to see what I made of a Russian 'classic' Crime and Punishment a bit different from the ongoing Chalet School series re-read :) Actually found it surprisingly readable - a lot of angst, and a bit grim in places, but gives you a real flavour of what mid-C19 Russia was like, and in a few places it is even rather funny. Glad I read it!
February 2023 - Now on to a full re-read of the Chalet School series - a blast from the past and real comfort reading! Also mixing it up, with the continuing self improvement mission and Russell Foster's Life Time all about how the body clock works.
January 2023 - In the spirit of 'New Year New Me' finally finished Four Thousand Weeks as started in July 2022 (there's time management for you). Followed this with The Clever Guts Diet - some interesting stuff here, but had heard a good bit of it before on Michael Mosley's various tv offerings.
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