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Reading in 2021
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I read 96 books in 2021, which is rather fearsome by my standards. Times continue to be good ones for curling up inside with a book. Highlights included:
I've slowed down both my author read-throughs this year—partly because I'm getting through both bibliographies and I don't want it to end!, but partly also because my fannish attention as regards both authors was taken up by fandom read-alongs—the Raffles one in the first half of the year and the FotH read-along more recently. These have also definitely been highlights!
It has, on the whole, been a pretty good reading year. I'm pleased with the several new Victorian novels I've read—those are always good fun—and with the variety of non-fiction. Also the new books I've read for book club—none of those were favourites, which is probably not surprising when I'm not picking them, but it's been good to read a few things I wouldn't have picked up for myself and discuss them in a new context.
And the 2022 reading year has already made a very good start indeed, of which more shortly. :)
I read 96 books in 2021, which is rather fearsome by my standards. Times continue to be good ones for curling up inside with a book. Highlights included:
- Jill by E. A. Dillwyn
- The Bull Calves by Naomi Mitchison
- A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
- Return to Night by Mary Renault (perhaps I ought to list The Friendly Young Ladies as well, it being certainly very memorable...!)
- John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Anderby Wold by Winifred Holtby
- Re-reads of A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym and Flemington by Violet Jacob
- Three books by D. K. Broster, of which my favourite was Ships in the Bay!
- And four books by E. W. Hornung, of which my favourites were Fathers of Men and Witching Hill
I've slowed down both my author read-throughs this year—partly because I'm getting through both bibliographies and I don't want it to end!, but partly also because my fannish attention as regards both authors was taken up by fandom read-alongs—the Raffles one in the first half of the year and the FotH read-along more recently. These have also definitely been highlights!
It has, on the whole, been a pretty good reading year. I'm pleased with the several new Victorian novels I've read—those are always good fun—and with the variety of non-fiction. Also the new books I've read for book club—none of those were favourites, which is probably not surprising when I'm not picking them, but it's been good to read a few things I wouldn't have picked up for myself and discuss them in a new context.
And the 2022 reading year has already made a very good start indeed, of which more shortly. :)