New year, same me. Last part of 2023, was reluctantly clearing room of books to oxfam(am hoarder) which is sad but, result, room much less claustrophobia inducing. To-read pile acquires more as quickly as I remove things from it.

January:

Lewis: Kindred Spirits autobiog of publisher. abandoned as Lewis was setting my teeth on edge. mum loved ( Read more... )

Started year half - a third? - into 2 books mentioned end of prev entry, and really flaky about retaining sentences i just read. 2022 was rough at work with constant crisis mode on supply chain from june to xmas + ongoing. Anyway.

January:

Uglow: The Quentin Blake Book text of this a brief summary of his career - bought this cos have fangirled ( Read more... )

January:

Yonge: Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Roman History for the Little Ones v little arthurs hist of england esp with the character judgements on leaders - the more diff accounts i read the more it fixes sequence of classical era hist in my head - right now the sequence of events is confusion for me
Moyle: The King's Painter the life and times ( Read more... )

starting year on furlough #3 of 2020, thanks covid. Much of last yr have been reading badly, distractedly, irritably or uncomprehendingly, annoyed at books have chosen. Still in middle of 3 books which have stalled on - jessie phillips, thing about gothic from 18th century perspective + biog of dr hunter.dropped more books unfinished last yr than ( Read more... )

here we go again

January :

Nagy/Boquet: Medieval Sensibilities is much more theological than bargained for, am struggling to keep up. wanted a nice mentalities thingy, but as the contemporary medieval writings on emotion are all about Christian contemplative practices + they're building the book on contemp texts so there is So. Much. Theology ( Read more... )

OMG

okay. still trying to best the to-read pile, still buying more new titles than ought, and right now in middle of about 5 books and dragging feet on all of them, they ought to tick my personal boxes but am in reading slump and the word of god itself could not get me gingered up. wasting a lot of time on AO3 fanfic

january:

Lee: ( Read more... )

wrote entry about January, lj would not accept unless used new draft template which did not want, lj then expunged page of typing when I hit POST.

fuck you livejournal.

in other news, reading v slowly v stupidly but impacting on pile of unread books on floor of room - hurray

January:

Vaizey: Flaming June teen fic from 1927. usually find ( Read more... )

new year, new place of work fr 30/01

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better lj-cut this year

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must be much more ruthless about passing things onto oxfam, am drowning in piles of books in my room, fear am a hoarder.

January :

O'Regan: Isn't It Well For Ye the book of irish mammies better as a twitter feed like so many "humour" titles
Kaye: For You Alone frederick wentworth book 2 austen fanfic. better than average (a low bar)
Trewin: ( Read more... )