Books read 2023

                     This is a year with a rather small list of books read, although I did read that book I mentioned last year, by the daughter of an old teacher. I also read a book written by a friend! I think the biggest thing about me and books this year was the number I bought. I still have a couple of unread books hanging around.

 

1) Terry Pratchett A life with Footnotes* The Official biography - Rob Williams (8/1 -  )

 

Embarassingly I haven't actually finished this one.

2) Relativity - Antonia Hayes (20/1 - 11/2)

3) Skunk and Badger - Amy Timberlake (26/3 - 1/4)

4) Spin - Michael Fidler (17/7 - 13/8)

5) The Orphan with a hundred mothers - Noela Fox Phd pbcm (2-11/11)

 

This is written as a story, rather than the history I had expected after hearing about it on the radio, but it still brings in so much historic bits, it is quite interesting. The funny thing is, when I heard about it on the radio, I went "oh wow, how fascinating, I had never heard about it before", but a couple of days ago, when looking through a book done to celebrate the 100th anniversary of my school (back in 2011) this snippet of history actually gets a brief mention.

6) What the cat dragged in - Miranda James (26-28/12)

 

Triggered a grammar debate over the use of further vs farther. It's actually a latest (#14 - no wonder everyone expected the lead to have found the body rather than his cat) of a series I've not read before. 

I lent three different styles of books to a friend for something to occupy her on a fairly long international flight, so will be interesting to see what she thinks of them, when she's back next year.