Well, we made it to 2022! That's...something, I suppose. And the vast majority of the books that had been on this list last year have also made it onto this year's list, along with the twenty or so that I've already added to my physical and digital TBR piles. I have been reconsidering the entire premise of this book blog in recent days, since it's not as if I don't have more books waiting to be added to this list, either by buying them or taking them out from the library. This is not really a decluttering task or anything like that, because there will always be more books than I have space, or time, for.
But! My current justification for continuing a quest that I have never come particularly close to completing is that all of these are books that at one time or another, I either bought for myself or was given, and every year I've read at least one of them that's made me go huh. So that's the reason I've held onto this. And some of them can immediately be given away at that point, but there's still something nice about that process.
The other reason I have decided to continue with this whole thing this year is that I would like to add activities that are more mindful to my days. A lot of these books will also be escapes in various ways, but I would like to be more conscious of what I'm deciding to spend my hours and days on, rather than the constant itch scratching of twitter and other endless scrolling distractions. That doesn't always need to be filled by reading, but overall I think I'll have a better grasp on my days this way. Will it work? Maybe! I'd like to give it a shot, at least.
As always there is a list of other books I would like to reread if I can manage it as well; I expect that the first two months of the year will involve a lot of time indoors in my apartment, and if I manage things right I'm hoping to get out the gate running. So let's aspire to some reading.
And here are the books!
- The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting
- Miranda in Milan
- Sisters of the Vast Black
- Down Among the Sticks and Bones
- Beneath the Sugar Sky
- In An Absent Dream
- Come Tumbling Down
- Proper English
- In Other Lands
- Subtle Blood
- The Eye in the Door
- The Ghost Road
- Thanks for Waiting
- How to Be Alone
- Daybreak
- Nightbitch
- A Marvellous Light
- Sword Stone Table
- The Geek Who Saved Christmas
- Out of Office
- Several People Are Typing
- And Then There Were None
- Death on the Nile
- Hercule Poirot's Christmas
- Wild
- Magpie Murders
- Moonflower Murders
- Midnight Riot
- Moon Over Soho
- Death in a White Tie
- Unlocked
- An Unnatural Life
- A Spindle Splintered
- Where the Lovelight Gleams
- Merry Cherry Christmas
- Santa Daddy
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