Mid-Year Stats 2022

As always, I am glad to have come this far. I have had a tough couple of years keeping my discipline up. I have been falling behind on my reviews, and even the reading. This is obvious from the number of books I have read thus far. Last year it was 145 whereas this year…

Transparent City by Ondjaki

Translated by Stephen Henighan I had this book for a long time on my virtual shelf and finally got around to reading it. The content was new, to say the least!I chose this book because it was a translated work from a country I had never read anything about or from before. I did not…

The Fell by Sarah Moss

I am one of those people who want the pandemic mentioned in books based in 2020 (and the years that followed). When I made my last year's list, when I had to mention the period in books, everything with nothing about the pandemic went into the 2019 pile. This skewed my stats for the year,…

The Quicksilver Court (Rooks and Ruin #2) by Melissa Caruso

I am still reviewing books that I have read a while back and yet to catch up with my current reads, which in some cases is good. This is because I am focusing a lot on craft works and this takes me away from actual reading (for now) Strangely enough, I preferred the first book…

Voting Day by Clare O’Dea

There was something very soothing about this novella despite the turbulent undercurrent. It was quite startling to me to see how late Switzerland was in giving its women the vote (given that the East had already had women heads of the country by then!). It is not exactly only about the vote, nor is it…

Hotel Magnifique by Emily J. Taylor

I usually do not pay attention to books when the descriptions liken them to something else. If I had, I might not have chosen to pick it up! Unlike a majority of the readers whose reviews and gushing I have had the privilege to read, I am not a fan of The Night Circus. Something…

Modern Macrame Style by Amaia Martin

I do request a lot more crafts books than I get a chance to try things out of. This time around, I sat down and actually implemented one of the designs.I have been crocheting and even knitting on and off for a couple of years, but macrame felt just out of reach. It seemed too…

Death in Paris (Màiri Maguire #1) by Kate Darroch

I am about one week away from a self-imposed deadline to make my first set of graphs for the year. I thought I was on track for it until I took a few days off from reading and blogging. It remains to be seen what this week will bring! Funnily enough, although the central plot…