Books and Reading
- Read 134 books.
- Read 40,0005 pages.
- Escaped from a school-imposed reading drought. In 2023 I:
- Want to read at least 52 books.
- Want to read at least 20,000 pages.
- Want to do a better job tackling some of the books I keep meaning to read and not getting to.
- Finish all the books I’ve started and left somewhere around the house. As I discussed in my post on what I read in 2022, last year was a great reading year for me. Given the amount I read last year, I know that 52 books and 20,000 pages might seem conservative. I get that. It’s important to me, though, that reading not feel like something I’m forcing myself to do. If I make my reading goal, great! If not, that’s just fine, too. The most important thing is to enjoy the books and the time I spend with them. It’s probably also important to finish some of the books I have scattered around the house? That, too! Anyway, I’m looking forward to this year’s reading. I finished Naomi Novik’s The Golden Enclaves yesterday (more on that soon) and started Ann Leckie’s The Raven Tower this morning. Next up? I’m not sure! I’ll figure it out.
What I Read in March 2023
March is a struggle anywhere, but Duluth, Minnesota does its best to make the month feel eternal. The advent of April has given us what will, I hope, be our final snow for the year, but March was still horrid. The inches of ice just past my front steps attest to that.
Reading-wise, I’ve picked things up again after February. I read the books below in a jumble, some of them on top of others, and in odd ways I thought they had a lot to say to each other. R.F. Kuang’s Babel, which depicts a colonialist Britain powered by the magic of translation, is an interesting read alongside the biting sarcasm and privilege of Mary Rodgers’s Shy and the shifting meanings of Anne Washburn’s post-apocalyptic fantasy Mr. Burns. An odd combo, maybe, but they clicked for me.
What I Read In February 2023
February certainly was a month! I didn’t do as much reading as I did in January — things are just a little bit busier here at A Turn of the Page HQ — but I’m still happy with the books I finished. Some of them were very serious. Maybe most of them were very serious. I look for that in the middle of winter sometimes. Do you? I’m not sure why I think weighty tomes belong to the season that’s also most likely to leave me feeling VERY SAD, but I do.
Anyway, you can still say hi anytime. You can still follow me on The StoryGraph. I’d be happy to hear from you!
What I Read In January 2023
We did it, we’re here, it’s February in this, the Year of Our Lord 2023? As I write this, it is also 20 degrees below zero. That’s not great! Let’s think about books and not the weather, shall we? You can still say hi anytime. You can still follow me on The StoryGraph. And we’ll all still be here in March.
The Golden Enclaves, by Naomi Novik
My Reading Goals for 2023
In 2022 I:
If you’d like to follow along with my reading this year, I’m on The Storygraph. You can also say hi anytime. I’d love to hear from you!