"This is a story about books... About a character who broke out of the pages of a novel so that he could burn it." - The Shadow of the Wind.
In Reading...
This month I travelled to distant planets, started a scientific cooking show, fell in love with a Fate, fell in love with a pornstar, discovered a mysterious book, drank a bitter coffee, stumbled across a couple of corpses, and defied the gods in a game I was never meant to win.
The books of December, with links to my thoughts on them:
Classic Science Fiction Stories, edited by Adam Roberts
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber
A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Black Coffee by Agatha Christie
The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
My favourite read was... impossible to say. The Shadow of the Wind and Lessons in Chemistry both made my top ten of 2022, but that was before I finished Red Rising which I could easily have added in there, and The Ballad of Never After was also an honourable mention. I think The Shadow of the Wind was the most beautifully written, and Lessons in Chemistry the most charming, but I'm very hyped and excited to continue the Red Rising series and read the next in the sequel to The Ballad of Never After. Awesome reads this month.
In Writing...
Nada. Nothing. I thought I had my new story mapped out but turns out I still want to work on it. Sometimes reading great books inspires writing, and sometimes it just distracts from it. This month, I found myself devouring pages instead of writing them.
In Life...
Christmas. We went to my parents for Christmas and that was lovely. Oscar did so good with the travel - how little he expected that once we got home from there, we'd be off again to Guz's family in Spain. Great to see family, and amazing to see Oscar adapt to new routines and new people.
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