My Year in Books – 2022!
I first did this fun meme back in 2020 but in the last few days I spotted it again on Annabel’s blog and I thought it would be fun to do again!
Using only books you have read this year (2022), answer these prompts. Try not to repeat a book title…
(Links in the titles will take you to my reviews where they exist)
- In high school I was Beyond Black (Hilary Mantel)
- People might be surprised by The Comfort of Strangers (Ian McEwan)
- I will never be The Last White Man (Mohsin Hamid)
- My life post-lockdown was: Bedlam (Jennifer Higgie)
- My fantasy job is Breaking and Entering (Joy Williams)
- At the end of a long day I need The Silence (Don DeLillo)
- I hate being In A Strange Room (Damon Galgut)
- Wish I had Paradais (Fernanda Melchor)
- My family reunions are The Tie That Binds (Kent Haruf)
- At a party you’d find me with Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (Wells Tower)
- I’ve never been to Sea of Tranquility (Emily St John Mandel)
- A happy day includes Dance Move (Wendy Erskine)
- Motto I live by: Happy Are the Happy (Yasmina Reza)
- On my bucket list is How High We Go in the Dark (Sequoia Nagamatsu)
- In my next life, I want to have Gratitude (Delphine de Vigan)
So there we have it! Anyone else fancy joining in?
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I love these! Will be posting one on Friday. I’m not sure I’d be up to a party with you these days…
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Bit of wishful thinking going on there 😆
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Brilliant Cathy! I’m remember joining in a few years ago, so I’m definitely going to do it again!
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It’s good fun!
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I chortled over your description of life post Covid. From what I remember you did have a pretty turbulent time this year!
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Bedlam could be used to sum up my life at any point to be fair!
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Oh dear – well you wouldn’t know from all the blog posts you manage
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Always love this one! Breaking and entering is my favourite of these 🙂
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Couldn’t resist that one 😊
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I nearly snorted when I got to “At a party you’d find me with Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned“! Great choices, and now I really must see if the local bookshop has an Emily St John Mandel title on their shelves as she appears so regularly in the bookish blogosphere.
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I think you’d like Emily St John Mandel Chris, I have loved the three that I’ve read,
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I definitely want to read her work now!
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Excellent! I think Bedlam is probably my life most of the time nowadays…
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Yeah, to be fair, it’s my general state 🙂
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Some wonderful choices there Cathy – quite the party animal. it seems! 😀
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Not even sure I can remember the last time I went to a party Annabel 🙂
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Great fun! I’m thinking I should give this a whirl.
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Do!
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I prepared one before Christmas and then didn’t post it. I might. They are fun and I enjoyed yours. I might still post it!
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Oh do, it’s a fun post for this in-between time of year.
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Yup, love this one! (I did it last year, and the year before too, so interesting to see what I chose.)
Here’s mine: https://anzlitlovers.com/2022/12/29/my-year-in-books-2022/
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It’s a fun one for this time of year.
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Haha, great answers! Remind me not to go to a party with you, though… 😉
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Oh now, come on. Think of the fun we’d have ravaging and burning 🙂
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I completely forgot about this one. I’ve done these in the past – at least two years in a row. Gotta do another, so I’ll use this for a filler post in January (or February… we’ll see)!
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Excellent Davida, look forward to seeing your choices
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Hi Cathy,
Your post tempted me out of a state of writing lethargy (I haven’t posted in ages) but the thought of writing about books is a great stimulation so I’ve done My Year in Books which can be seen at (sorry, I couldn’t get the link to work in the comments section):
https://travels-with-my-camera.blog/2022/12/29/my-year-in-books-2022/
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It’s a nice one to ease yourself back in Maris, hope you had a lovely Christmas
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Brilliant, I’ll see if I can have a go 🙂
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Do, it’s a fun meme!
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This is such a clever meme! I really enjoyed your answers Cathy 😀
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Thank you!
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Here’s my contribution: https://tasmanianbibliophileatlarge.wordpress.com/2023/01/02/my-year-in-books-2022-2/
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Oh I love this! I may have to steal this one 🙂
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Oh do! It’s good fun 🙂
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I did this one too!
http://perfectretort.blogspot.com/2023/01/my-life-in-books-2022.html
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