Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, 2022 - ★★★★
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this film and glad I left my judgments aside when invited to see it.
Finished reading in 2022: Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake 📚
Finishing up the Gormenghast trilogy. I was really surprised just how much I enjoyed it and how long the characters have stayed with me. Really want to re-watch the BBC TV adaptation.
Finished reading in 2022: The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz 📚
Finished reading in 2022: Roseanna (The Martin Beck series, Book 1) by Maj Sjöwall 📚
It’s difficult to tell whether the functional language of this was due to the author’s style or the translation to English. Either way, I found it’s starkness compelling and a good addition to the atmosphere of the story.
Finished reading in 2022: Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver 📚
I’ve read a couple of other books by Kingsolver which, while I enjoyed I found overly descriptive. This was both an easy and enjoyable read.
Making Yorkshire puddings tonight with a new recipe and a new tin. What could possibly go wrong 🤞
Finished reading: Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Level 6 by John le Carré 📚
This might have been my first le Carré but it won’t be my last.
Wondered why I was seeing a flurry of finished book posts. Thought it might be that reading is a microbloggers main activity during twixtmas, but now reassessing as I realise there’s books I need to log in order to add them to my 2022 reading list 😆
Finished reading: The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed 📚
Read this on my summer holiday. Thought it was excellent, more so because I knew nothing about it before reading so had a surprise towards the end.
2022: A year in the park
I took 12 photos from the same spot in a local park this year. One for every month of the year, just to see how things changed over time.
What surprised me is how little these pictures really differ, and those differences are mostly down to the weather and time of day the picture was taken.
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Currently reading: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern 📚
I’m always mildly disappointed when the covers available in Epilogue don’t match the edition that I’m reading 😢
📺 Just finished watching 1899. It started out as compelling viewing but just after halfway it started to get more and more ridiculous. Kinda frustrating really
Left the house for the first time since Sunday and the light was beautiful
I make a commitment for seven months of the year to dedicate my Saturdays to playing hockey. When we get a rare one off (like today) I don’t know what to do with myself.
A weekly ritual we started during lockdowns was a weekend morning video call to do the crossword with my parents. It continues two years on and I’ll be dialling in with my coffee at 10am tomorrow 🥰
Currently reading: Sybil & Cyril by Jenny Uglow 📚
Went to hear the author speak tonight so high time I actually started reading this. More to follow on key points from the talk soon
I forgot to post an update for the November challenge yesterday. So going for two in one today. I often wonder how and why I retain some frankly useless information and fail to remember the important stuff.
Today I will graze on Celebrations to get me through the mid-afternoon slump.
Just discovered the theme is broken on my personal blog. Who knows how long it's been that way. Could there be a clearer message that I'm not giving enough of my attention to it (or my own writing practice)?
Over the past few weeks I’ve been trying to teach my wife to ice skate. It’s been a challenge to break it down into the component parts. We’re making slow progress, but progress nonetheless ⛸