JANUARY 2023 WRAP-UP

I can’t believe January is already over. It’s been full to the brim. BUT one of my major projects was repainting the outdoor sign of our church, so that gave me an insane amount of audio time. With a daily average of over 2 hours!
I actually usually listen with 1.25 speed.

January gave me some terrific books (all written by male authors, lol, and all reviewed) in a variety of genres, even though I didn’t have time to read much for the Japanese Literature Challenge (but it goes on in February), and I haven’t yet started a book in Italian this year – focusing instead a lot on books read with my French students.

At the beginning of January, I published my usual three posts of stats and the like, on my 2022 reads.
I also highlighted ten authors I discovered in 2022.

📚 Here is what I read in January:

12 books
7 in print
= with 1,790 pages, a daily average of 57 pages/day.
5 in audio
= 65H48, a daily average of 2H07/day!

4 in mysteries:

The Red Thumb Mark (Dr. Thorndyke Mysteries #1), by R. Austin Freeman
L’Os de Lebowski, by Vincent Maillard – with French student S.
Les Nouvelles enquêtes de Maigret, by Georges Simenon
– with French student E.
Death of a Red Heroine (Inspector Chen Cao #1), by Qiu Xiaolong
– public library winter challenge

3 in children/YA:

L’Empire de la mort (N.E.O. #3), by Michel Bussi – French audio
Shuna’s Journey, by Hayao Miyazaki
What do you do with a chance?, by Kobi Yamada

2 in science-fiction:

Le Jour des fourmis (La Saga des fourmis #2), by Bernard Werber – French audio
La Révolution des fourmis (La Saga des fourmis #3), by Bernard Werber – French audio

1 in literary fiction