Dec. 31st, 2021

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I read approximately 186 books this year. I say approximately because when I checked my lists for books by women and books by men, the figures didn’t add up. My lists are hard to follow sometimes. Before you say, ‘How did you read so many?’, I should point out that a lot were children’s books in my re-reading programme and I can read one in about an hour.
Ignoring my useless sums, I can at least say that:
I read more dead tree books than books on the Kindle; I read more books by women than by men; I read more fiction than non-fiction.

Some books I enjoyed this year:
An Infamous Army ,Georgette Heyer
Jane Austen at Home ,Lucy Worsley
Emma ,Jane Austen. The book of every year, really.
Apricot Sky ,Ruby Ferguson
The Windsor Knot ,S J Bennett
The Diaries of Chips Channon ,ed. Simon Heffer
and here
The China Thrillers by Peter May. A discovery and I liked them much better than the Lewis books.
Munich, Robert Harris. Especially interesting about Chamberlain.
The Beatles in Time, Craig Brown. Just as good on a second reading.

I’ve been very lax about reviewing this year.

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