I no longer go in for long posts on what I did or didn’t do in the year – maybe next year I’ll keep better records? I did publish a book, so that was nice:
I also read 123 books – which is about average for me.
– 40 by women, 11 by people of colour
As usual the main nationalities of writers are UK & USA but this year I also managed to read authors from Canada, Egypt, Nigeria, Vietnam, Argentina, France, Germany, Japan, Portugal, Spain and South Korea
19 books were DNF
6 hardbacks
55 paperbacks
62 e-books – this is way up on previous years, probably why my TBR is out of control!
9 Graphic Novels
5 books of poetry
5 books of short stories
82 nonfiction
22 fiction
Lowest and highest page length (for physical books) = 90 & 492
I only highlighted three as “Brilliant”
Excellent analysis of historical Judge Dredd crossed with the history of policing, very thought-provoking
Fabulous gothic tale set at a hydropathic asylum during WW1.
Brilliant CYOA GN with an existential AI -really well planned out, great story and tricksy. Seems that it was the cover looks like…
In 2024 I hope to publish more books (I have plans) and also read more Brilliant books.
Hope if you’re reading this you have a wonderful end to 2023 and here’s to a fabulous 2024 for all of us!
petewsutton 