December Book Report

December 2022

I finished 9 books last month.

A quote from this month's reading:

“It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?” --Elizabeth Peters, The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog

Here is my progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 4 were non-fiction (toward my goal of 25 non-fiction books this year) and 2 counted toward the NonFiction Reader Challenge 
• 1 was a book I own but hadn't read before (inspired by The Unread Shelf project)
• none were poetry (toward my goal of reading 4 poetry books this year)
• none counted toward the the 16th Canadian Reading Challenge  
• 1 was from my Classics Club List and counted toward Back to the Classics

• none counted toward the Cruisin' Through the Cozies challenge 
• 1 counted toward the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 
• none counted toward the Turtle Recall Challenge
• none counted toward the TBR Pile Challenge 
• none were for my Century of Books project
• 2 were from my Literary Christmas list 

 Here are the books I finished in December 2022: (link title to post if is one)

1. The 99% Invisible City by Roman Mars (audiobook, 4-stars)
2. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (4-stars)
3. Python Programming by Cal Baron (3-stars)
4. The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog by Elizabeth Peters (4-stars)
5. Kissing Christmas Goodbye by M. C. Beaton (3-stars)
6. The Secret, Book and Scone Society by Ellery Adams (audiobook, 3-stars)
7. Read and Gone by Allison Brook (3-stars)
8. The Real Story: A Guide to Nonfiction Reading Interests by Sarah Statz Cords (4-stars)
9. No Mallets Intended by Victoria Hamilton (4-stars) 

I didn't get as many books finished this month as usual, but I have several in progress so January may have a more typical number. I mostly completed all my 2022 challenges except the goal of reading 4 books of poetry (I read 1).