Children Blowing Soap Bubbles (c. 1827) Sophie Chéradame ~ source Wikimedia Commons
YEAR IN REVIEW
2022 READING STATS
Number of Books Read: 32
Number of Re-Reads: 9
Genre You Read The Most From: Classics / Mystery
2022 Year In Review
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Monthly Archives: December 2022
Deal Me In Challenge 2023
Deal Me in Challenge 2023 and again, I stubbornly continue to participate, even though I finish less and less of the selections each year. Last year, I think I finished one selection (shame!) but even so, I was encouraged by my amount of reading in 2022. In 2021, I managed to finish 12 books but in 2022 I finished 32. I think I can keep up that pace and even improve it, so with that in mind, if I concentrate some of my energy on this challenge I should be able to read ….. well, at least more than one!
I kept the same list as last year to save time; better to spend the time saved reading, I think.
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express: “It was five o’clock on a winter’s morning in Syria.”
Also Published as: Murder in the Calais Coach
Detective: Hercule Poirot
Published: January 1934
Length: 265 pages
Setting: Aleppo, Syria; Stamboul (Istanbul), Turkey; somewhere in Yugoslavia
In Murder on the Orient Express, after travelling from Aleppo to Istanbul, Hercule Poirot receives a telegram to return home and he books passage on The Orient Express, a well-known passenger train. Also onboard are:
Classics Club Spin #32
I don’t know why I’m doing this but here goes ….. from all four lists.
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The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
“A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace.”
In The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot takes the reader into a lazy, peaceful part of England, where life is lived in a slow reverie with the river ebbing and flowing and yet hard work and struggles can be at the forefront of existence. Yet within the scenery and the everyday monotony, there are people who live their lives with hopes and cares, frustrations and joys, dreams and tragedies.