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Category: Books & reading

Posts about books I’ve read and more generally about books, reading and writing.

What I read in 2022

January 3, 2023January 3, 2023 ~ Lucy Janes ~ 1 Comment

Short reviews of the 37 books I read in 2022.

The Booker Prize Book Club Challenge

October 6, 2022October 9, 2022 ~ Lucy Janes ~ 2 Comments

Our reviews for the Booker Prize 2022, part of the inaugural Booker Prize Book Club Challenge.

20 years of books and cakes: a book group’s data story

A pie chart showing the shares for different genres includieng fiction; historical fiction; memoir; crime; sci-fi; fantasy; comi; supernatural; satire; thriller; historic crime; erotica; self-help; true crime; gothic; fairy tales;
May 1, 2022May 25, 2022 ~ Lucy Janes ~ 3 Comments

What do the records of 20 years of my book group reveal? Books, cakes and the connections between them...

What I read in 2021

January 1, 2022May 1, 2022 ~ Lucy Janes ~ Leave a comment

Short reviews of the 60 books I read in 2021, plus one that I didn't finish.

What I read in 2020

Covers of 60 books in rows and columns
December 31, 2020July 10, 2021 ~ Lucy Janes ~ Leave a comment

For the past few years I've kept a list of each book that I've read for fun, rather than for study or work, and review it at the end of the year. This year was obviously somewhat different so how did that impact what I read?

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Arlington Baths Club History Group

The people and past of a Victorian swimming pool and Turkish baths in Glasgow.

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Gossips by Virginia Lee Burton, c1943. Displayed at the Artist Textiles – Picasso to Warhol exhibition at New Lanark, 2018

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