This was my sort of comment-to-be-added-sticky-post for 2023.
Now it's just a list of the books I read this year.
You can find my current reading-list on top of my LJ and DW:)
What I read in 2023
How this list works: Book(s) I am in the middle of | Books I have read + date |
link to review (or credit;) | DNF = Did not finish (gave up)
MY 2023 BOOKLIST
Left over books from 2022 (and before)
Lori Hand et.al.- Be More Japan (2019 Birthday gift from brother J.)Simone de Beauvoir - Le Deuxième Sexe (Dutch translation, August 2021)Louis Couperus - Van Oude Mensen, De Dingen Die Voorbij Gaan (October 2021) 25 MAR.Edward v.d. Vendel & Ionica Smeets, illustrations: Floor de Goede - Rekenen voor je leven (for Children's Bookweek, October 2021) 6 JUN.Katinka Polderman & Sophie Reinders - Zwerfgoed (October 2021)Dave Eggers - The Every 28 FEB. (Sinterklaas 2021)Arthur Japin - Kolja (2021 Birthdaygift Brotherdearest & Mom) 28 JAN.Paul Gambino - Skulls, Portraits of the Dead (2021 Birthdaygift from Mom)Major Detours - Zachary Serbi (August 2022) 22 JAN.How To Be Alone (If You Want To, And Even If You Don't) - Lane Moore 16 JAN.The Unpossessed - Tess Slesinger DNF OCT2023Added in December 2022
Terra Ultima - Raoul DeleoChristmas Books - Charles Dickens (2022 Birthdaygift from T.)The Future is Female, volume 2 - the 1970s (2022 Birthdaygift from brother H.)Madly, Deeply - The Alan Rickman Diaries (Birthdaygift from Mom) 9 JUL.Fokke & Sukke; Het Afzien van 2022 - John Reid, Bastiaan Geleijnse & Jean-Marc van Tol 21 JAN.Added in January
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler (Birthdaygift from J.) 24 FEB.Added in February
Jheronimus Bosch, Visioenen van een Genie - Matthijs Ilsink & Jos KoldeweijVincent van Gogh, de Vroege Jaren - Teun Berserik 1 AUG.The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (Kickstarter Black edition)Added in March
Librorum Ridiculorum - Brian LakeFaces in the Water - Janet FrameThe Collected Stories - Grace Paley 17 OCT.The Dud Avocado - Elaine Dundy 6 APR.Deep Water - Patricia Highsmith 6 AUG.Een Meedogenloos Gehoor - Mauk Westerman Holstijn (bought for Bookweek2023) 17 APR.De Eerlijke Vinder - Lize Spit (the free book for Bookweek2023) 23 MAYBoto Banja - Raoul de Jong (the essay for Bookweek2023) 29 APR.Pocket Auckland & The Bay of Islands, Top Sights - Lonely Planet 5 APR.
Added in April
Old Babes in the Woods - Margaret Atwood 16 MAYAdded in May
Zwolle 40-45 - Herman Aarts & Paul HarmensAdded in June
Can I Have My Ball Back? - Richard Herring 1 AUG.De Schone Slaper e.a. verhalen - Jan Vander LaenenAdded in September
Kindred - Octavia E. ButlerReisgids Merian live Elzas en Vogezen 24 SEP.Rutger Hauer Autobiografie 30 SEP.Reread in October
Een Hoofd Vol Macaroni - Guus Kuijer 2 OCT.Het Raadsel van de Regenboog - Jacques Vriens 2 OCT.Added in October
The Periodic Table Of Feminism - Marisa BateThe Little Book of Shakespeare's Insults - Stella CaldwellThe Return of the Soldier - Rebecca WestA View of the Harbour - Elizabeth Taylor (née Coles)The Weather in the Streets - Rosamond LehmannAdded in November
This Book Will Send You To Sleep - K. McCoy & Hardwick [UK edition]This Book *Will* Put You To Sleep - K. McCoy & Hardwick [USA edition]Loitering with Intent - Muriel SparkAdded in December
Fortuna's Kinderen - Annejet van der Zijl (Sinterklaas 2023)Het Lied van Ooievaar en Dromedaris - Anjet Daanje (Sinterklaas 2023)Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These (2023 Birthdaygift from T.)Tom Grimm - Het Onofficiële Kookboek voor Harry Potter Fans (2023 Birthdaygift from Mom)Anjet Daanje - jl. (2023 Birthdaygift from Mom)Anjet Daanje - De Herinnerde Soldaat (2023 Birthdaygift from J.)Charlie MacKesy - The Boy, the Mole, The Fox and the Horse; the Animated Story - NLD translation by Arthur Japin (2023 Birthdaygift from M.) Happy Reading! ~ J.
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