Top Ten New Authors I discovered in 2022

Posted on January 24, 2023 by WordsAndPeace

Top Ten
New Authors I discovered in 2022

TTT for January 24
#TopTenTuesday

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In 2022, I read books by a total of 115 different authors.
51% of these were new to me authors, that is, 59.
So that would seem really hard to pick 10 of them that I really enjoyed.
Fortunately, when I did my 2022 recaps, I already highlighted 16 of them,
so that was rather easy to go from 16 to 10.
And I skipped two from whom I have already read another book.

As you can see, most (except two) are classical authors.
I have the feeling some of you have not heard about a good bunch of them,
so maybe that will encourage you to revisit some exciting past authors.

Have YOU read
or are YOU planning to read any of these?
Please leave the link to your own post,
so I can visit.

20 Books of Summer 2022: it’s a wrap

Posted on September 2, 2022 by WordsAndPeace

#20booksofsummer22
#20booksofsummer

20 Books of Summer 2022:
it’s a wrap

Thanks to 746books.com I participated in this challenge from June 1 to August 31, for the third time.

Here were my original 20 books:

I am very happy, because I stuck pretty close to this list (rather unusual for me, lol), with 16 done and 2 more started.

AND I actually read almost as many books that were NOT on that original list:

I finished 7 in June, 12 in July, and 9 in August

Statistics wise, that’s:

28 books (7 on paper, 10 ebooks, and 11 audiobooks)
That’s a total of 4,929 pages (average of 53 pages/day)

And 95H46 of audio time (average of 1H02/day).

If I convert these audiobooks into pages, that’s 3,399 pages (average of 36 pages/day).
So the total in pages is 8,328 (average of 90 pages/day).

My original goal was 5,946 pages (average of 64 pages/day), so I’m very happy with this summer reading.

Genre wise – a nice mix
And 16 of these were classics
The oldest book was published in 1865, the most recent on July 16, 2022
Mystery: 10 – favorites: The Bride Wore Black / Confessions
Literary fiction: 6 – favorite: Ensemble, c’est tout
Scifi: 4 – favorite: Upgrade
Nonfiction: 3 – favorite: L’Enfer numérique
Historical fiction: 3 – favorite: So Big
Play: 1
Fantasy: 1

Source:
Library: 11
Web: 7
Owned: 4
Netgalley: 2
EStories (audio subscription): 2
Print review copy: 2

Languages:
English: 13
French: 10
Translated into English: 5
(2 from the Japanese, 2 from the French, 1 from the Russian)

My disappointments
I was disappointed with only #2, 11, and 19.
My conclusion: you REALLY need to read all the others!

Click here or one of the above charts to access my full chart

How many books did you read this Summer?
Which ones were your favorites or your disappointments?

2022: July wrap-up

Posted on August 1, 2022 by WordsAndPeace

JULY 2022 WRAP-UP

I’m slowly going into reading more of my TBRs, and it pays with fabulous books. So I’m devouring more and faster.
I’m currently 11 books ahead of schedule (67% done) to read 120 books this year.
Also, looks like I’m almost done with my 3rd list of classics for The Classics Club, with 131/137 books – in less than two years, instead of the five years projected.

And I managed to publish as well as visit a good number of posts for Paris in July.

📚 Here is what I read in July:

12 books:
6 in print
= with 1,544 pages, a daily average of 49 pages/day
6 in audio
= 43H25, a daily average of 1H24/ day

5 in mystery:

Clouds of Witness, by Dorothy Sayers – audiobook, counts for The Classics Club
A is For Alibi, by Sue Grafton – counts for my 2022 TBR Pile Reading Challenge
L’Écluse n.1 (Maigret #18) – read with a French student,
counts for The Classics Club
Confessions, by Kanae Minato – audiobook
Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe #1), by Rex Stout – audiobook, counts for The Classics Club

2 in science-fiction:

Upgrade, by Blake Crouch – received for review
The First Men in the Moon, by H. G. Wells – counts for The Classics Club

2 in literary fiction:

The Martins, by David Foenkinos – received for review
Le Grand Meaulnes, by Alain-Fournier – read in French with a bunch of friends on Discord

1 in historical fiction: