Literature: February 2022 Books

 Wow, how did we get to 2022 already? The past two years seem to have gone fast despite being in lockdown most of the time.

In 2021 I managed to read 158 books, but this year I am scaling down a bit and aim to read 120 -12 each month!  In January I read eight and this month I managed to read 11 – one book short of the monthly target!

So what are those 11 books?  

Fiction

• Pink Mist by Owen Shears
• If you Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
• Small Things like These by Claire Keegan
• Chocolate Cake for Breakfast by Rosie Green
• The Roadrunner Café by Jamie Zerndt
• Tinkers by Paul Harding

Christian

• Straight to the Heart of Isaiah by Phil Moore
• Isaiah for You by Tim Chester
• Nahum, Habakkuk and Zephaniah by S.D Synman

Crime

• Welcome to Copper by Tariq Ashkani

Non-Fiction

• Quite by Claudia Winkleman

Recommended Books

I really enjoyed Jacqueline Woodson’s book If You Come Softly which is about two young people (Miah and Ellie). Mia is black and Ellie is white, and they fall in love with each other and start to try and navigate their way in a world where racist comments are made and people do not approve of their relationship. It is a sweet book and an interesting read with some chapters written from Miah’s point of view and others from Ellie’s. 

Literature: January 2022 Books

Wow, how did we get to 2022 already? The past two years seem to have gone fast despite being in lockdown most of the time.

In 2021 I managed to read 158 books, but this year I am scaling down a bit and aim to read 120  -12 each month!  In January I read eight books so did not meet that challenge.

So what are those books?  

Fiction

• A Baby at the Beach Café by Lucy Diamond
• Ghosts by Dolly Alderton
• The Phone Box at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina
• Twas the Night Shift Before Christmas by Adam Kay
• Vermeer to Eternity by Anthony Horowitz

Christian

• The Prodigal Prophet by Timothy Keller

Non-Fiction

• All on the Board Inspiration Quotes by All on the Board
• The Border by Diarmad Ferriter

Recommended Books

If you go to the London Underground, you will see boards in each station that are used for announcements, etc. However, two of the TfL workers who are known on social media as All on Board, use those boards to write positive messages or messages of celebration on certain days like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, etc. They have also been known to write messages at North Greenwich station where the 02 arena is, in recognition of the artists who would be playing there – often using song titles to write the message.

This book contains many of these notices – it is a very interesting read. Overall, the messages can be funny and inspirational etc.

Literature: December 2021 Books

It is a new year, it's 2021, we are now out of lockdown, but I am still finding time to read.

At the beginning of 2021 I aimed to read 155 books. Now it is December and coming to the end of the year and I have met my challenged and have read 158 books this year– with 14 of them being read this month

So what 14. books have I read?

Fiction

• A Brambleberry Manor Christmas by Rosie Green
• A Kiss in the Snow by Rosie Green
• A Summer of Surprises by Rosie Green
• Snow Falls over Sunnybrook by Rosie Green
• The Christmas Surprise by Rosie Green
• The Wedding Cake Wish by Rosie Green
• The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss
• The Beach Café by Lucy Diamond
• Christmas at the Beach Café by Lucy Diamond
• Twelve Days of Christmas by Trisha Ashley
• Christmas Gifts at the Beach Café by Lucy Diamond

Christian

• Micah for You by Stephen Um
• Single Christian Female by Sarah Coleman

Notes

December was a month of reading easy to read fiction and all the Rosie Green ones were in the Little Duck Pond Café series, which brings me up to number 19 in the series.