It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? 1-2-23

Bookshelf with text across the top reading "Speaking of Books..."

I could use this space to record my failed resolutions last year — to blog more frequently; to track my reading on a spreadsheet; to keep a running draft of favorite books and audiobooks so I could easily throw together my lists of favorites at the end of 2022; to choose my first book of 2023 before it was already January 2nd, etc.

But let’s leave the past where it belongs and plow forward into the new year. A fresh start for the reading tracker spreadsheet; high hopes for blogging more often than just once a week; an extension from Sheila at Book Journey on submissions for the First Book of the Year collage; and still a chance, however remote, that I can put together my 2022 favorites lists before we get too far into 2023!

Currently Reading

The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

The Last Samurai (Miramax Hyperion, 2000) by Helen DeWitt

I received The Last Samurai as a Christmas gift from one of my daughters, who read it and thought I would like it, so I chose it as my first book of 2023.

This was my first year in a while of not choosing a book and sending my photo in for the First Book of the Year collage, so I was glad to find out that Sheila has extended the deadline and will post a second First Book collage next week! Check out the first First Book collage at Book Journey!

Whenafter by Terri Bruce

Whenafter (Patreon serial format) by Terri Bruce

Santa Shortbread by P.D. Workman

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