I haven’t done this challenge from Cathy at 746 Books in a couple of years so it’s time to start it again. I don’t think I’ve ever finished 20 Books but it’s fun to try. I was looking back at previous years and was embarrassed to see the some of the same books appearing year after year but thankfully I’ve finally completed most of them.
Well, here I go. I keep doing these spins and then reading other books. But the books are on my Classics Club list so it’s not all bad. I’ve made it through Ivanhoe and Bleak House so I’m feeling rather pleased.
Time for another spin:
In spite of my silence on my blog, I’m still reading! I managed to read 54 books for 2023 so I’m really happy with that considering previous years hovered around 35 or less. That said, I don’t have the reviews that really go in depth, so there’s a trade-off.
I’m not going to finish my Classics Club list, within the 5-year time period but nevertheless I continue on and these spins help out so much. And by including four lists I’m at least making my way through some of my reading goals. So I’ve been waiting for this spin!
Another spin and another attempt. Since incorporating not only my Classics Club list, but some of my other project lists, I’ve managed to read one book for each spin, so I’m going to continue! From my last spin, I’m finishing up The Amazing Adventures of Father Brown.
Oh, heavens! I haven’t accomplished much on the spins. I did manage to find my copy of Revelations of Divine Love, so that’s promising. Otherwise I :
Not the results I wanted but, oh well!
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“Do you know the feeling you have when you know something quite well and yet for the life of you can’t recollect it?”
Oh, wow! After my first Westmacott novel, Giant’s Bread, I was really dreading Unfinished Portrait, but what a masterpiece of human psychology, human frailty and the unexpected journey that life has in store for all of us!
The novel begins on an island where a successful portrait painter meets a young woman who is ready to take her own life. Through speaking with her, he learns of her childhood and marriage and both the humorous and tragic circumstances that slowly led her to where she is that day.
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
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: “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: