January Book Report

January 2022

I finished 11 books last month.

A quote from this month's reading (3 actually):

“it’s grandma food, ‘bad for the arteries but good for the heart.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

“You can’t get over things you do to other people as easily as you get over things they do to you.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

“Things begin, things end. Just when we seem to arrive at a quiet place, we are swept up, suddenly, between the body's smoothe, functioning predictability, and the need for disruption. We do irrational things, outrageous things. Or else something will come along and intervene, an unimaginable foe.”
― Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

Here is my progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 4 were non-fiction (toward my goal of 25 non-fiction books this year) and 1 counted toward the NonFiction Reader Challenge 
• 3 were books I own but hadn't read before (inspired by The Unread Shelf project)
• none was poetry (toward my goal of reading 4 poetry books this year)
• 4 counted toward the Canadian Book Challenge 
• none were from my Classics Club List or counted toward Back to the Classics

• 2 counted toward the Cruisin' Through the Cozies challenge 
• none counted toward the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 
• none counted toward the Turtle Recall Challenge
• none were for the TBR Pile Challenge -- I have one almost done for that though, so there should be progress next month
• 1 was a book for my Century of Books project

 Here are the books I finished in January 2022:

1. The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (5-stars)
2. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (5-stars)
3. Corpse in a Gilded Cage by Robert Barnard (4-stars)
4. The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny (4-stars)
5. Italy: A Short History by Harry Hearder (3-stars)
6. Blowing the Bloody Doors Off by Michael Caine (3-stars)
7. Canada by Mike Myers (audiobook, 4-stars)
8. Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse (published 1906, 3-stars)
9. On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle (3-stars)
10. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (3-stars)
11. A Voice from the Attic by Robertson Davies (2-stars)

My reading year has gotten off to an excellent start. Two 5-star books in a row is super unusual for me (I'm a tough grader).