Friday, February 14, 2025

The Books I Read - January 2025

I had some health stuff to deal with in January, which kinda skewed how I read over the month. Sharing "The Dark is Rising" with my partner was great; we listened to a radio play version during the height of the pandemic, and we both really appreciated getting the whole text.

Victoria Goddard's writing continues to entertain and "The Return of Fitzroy Angursell was great to read and made me happy. I really enjoy the way Fitzroy fully abandons himself to the adventure and so adventure embraces him back.

I also reread the first three of the Wayfarers books by Becky Chambers. I was thinking about the emotional intelligence that you find in "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" and that it would probably be soothing post health stuff. These books have excellent examples ways to approach the differences between people and cultures, but they are a little bit clunky to read and end up with a real "and then" structure where things feel disjointed between scenes and characters.

I'm on the mend so blogging should slowly start again now.


Stats for January

Reading Stats

Books Read - 11Pages Read - 3533

Collage of the covers of the 11 books listed above.January 2025 Covers

Authors

Unique Authors: 5

Author - books read - pages read

Anna Lee Huber - 3 - 1140 Becky Chambers - 3 - 1156
Iona Whishaw - 1 - 409 Susan Cooper - 1 - 363
Victoria Goddard - 3 - 465

Word cloud of the authors I read in January. Anna Lee Huber is large and in the centre, with Becky Chambers slightly larger below. Above, Susan Cooper, Iona Whishaw and Victora Goddard are about 1/3 of the size.January 2025 Author Cloud

Publication Decade

1970s - 1 2010s - 6
2020s - 4

Source

Audible - 3 Kobo - 3
Libby - 4 Libro.fm - 1

Formats

Audiobook - 5 eBook - 6

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