Noel resolves to watch less TV and read more books in 2022!

Carrying on from 2021, I actually have made a New Year resolution to fit in more reading - we'll see how it goes!
As a retired librarian, you'd think I had all the time, books and resources to blitz this challenge - but I find that LIFE intervenes all the time, not always in a bad way of course (I'm thinking of a 14 month-old grand-daughter, family duties in general, road cycling, gardening), but also my obsession with the dangers we all face with climate change, bushfires, the pandemic, etc. - and the coming Federal elections we face in Australia this year..
In between I do manage to read a lot - but I have to accept that it's just impossible to read EVERYTHING you'd like to..
Perhaps in the afterlife ? (I wish).

CURRENTLY READING:

BOOKS READ IN 2022:

JANUARY

1. Girl with a pearl earring by Tracy Chevalier (fiction)
2. Devotion by Hannah Kent (fiction)

FEBRUARY
3. Khaki town by Judy Nunn (fiction, audiobook)
4. The long call by Ann Cleeves (fiction)
5. The baby snatcher by Ann Cleeves (fiction, audiobook)
6. Big: The role of the state in the modern economy by Richard Denniss (non-fiction)

MARCH
7. A bloody good rant by Thomas Keneally (non-fiction)
8. Mrs Kelly by Grantlee Kieza (non-fiction, audiobook)
9. History of wolves by Emily Fridlund (fiction)
10. Oroonoko by Aphra Behn (fiction)
11. The fair jilt: or ; The history of Prince Tarquin and Miranda by Aphra Behn (fiction)
12. The deceptions by Suzanne Leal (fiction, audiobook)

APRIL
13. Slouching towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (non-fiction)
14. A treacherous country by Katherine Kruimink (fiction, audiobook)

MAY
15. Stalin: The court of the red tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore (non-fiction)
16. Lockdown by Peter May (fiction, audiobook)

JUNE
17.The memory room by Christopher Koch (fiction)
18. A perfectly good family by Lionel Shriver (fiction)
19. Raven black by Ann Cleeves (fiction)

JULY
20. Secret messenger by Mandy Robotham (fiction, audiobook)
21. Foundation and empire byIsaac Asimov (fiction)
22. Carbon justice: The scandal of Australia's biggest contribution to climate change by Jeremy Moss (non-fiction)

AUGUST
23. Still life by Val McDermid (fiction)
24. Fled by Meg Keneally (fiction, audiobook)
25. Hidden depths by Ann Cleeves (fiction)
26. The sleeping and the dead by Ann Cleeves (fiction)

SEPTEMBER
27. The one that got away by Caroline Overington (fiction, audiobook)
28. The rising tide by Ann Cleeves (fiction)
29. Tour de Force by Mark Cavendish (non-fiction)
30. My name is Red by Orhan Pamuk (fiction)

OCTOBER
31. Hard times by Charles Dickens (fiction, audiobook)
32. Horse by Geraldine Brooks (fiction)
33. The dark hours by Michael Connelly (fiction, audiobook)

NOVEMBER
34. The sweetest dream by Doris Lessing (fiction)
35. The quality of silence by Rosamund Lupton (fiction, audiobook)
36. Humanity's moment by Joelle Gergis (non-fiction)

DECEMBER

37. The rain heron by Robbie Arnott (fiction)
38. The night fire by Michael Connelly (fiction, audiobook)
39. Lessons by Ian McEwan (fiction)

Welcome back! Khaki Town looks like an interesting one.

Happy reading in 2022, Noel!

Khaki Town is a page-turner!
Wartime in Townsville, a small town in Northern Queensland, Australia is the setting.
Love, war-time corruption, censorship, racism in the US army, etc. are all key ingredients.
The main events are historically accurate, including an armed mutiny by black American soldiers which is bloodily repressed and then covered up by the military and political masters of the time - both US and Australian.
A key non-fictional character is a young US congressman and navy officer called Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Missed your thread, Noel.

Welcome back to the group.