Here is what I finished in 2020. As will be explained in my next post, my normal reading time was turned on its head this year. One other thing that has happened, is I have started reading more print books. Food books are better in print.
- The Kitchen House, Kathleen Grissom
- Walden, Henry David Thoreau
- The Truth, Michael Palin
- Never Turn Your Back on and Angus Cow, Dr Jan Pol
- The Great Book of Ireland, Bill O'Neill
- Cross Creek, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- The Untethered Soul, Michael Singer
- The House on the Irish Hillside, Felicity, Hayes-McCoy
- In Foreign Fields: How Not To Move To France, Susie Kelly
- First Time We Saw Paris, Neal Atherton
- A Year off, Alexandria and David Brown
- The Bluffers Guide to Philosophy, T.V. Morris
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo
- More Ketchup than Salsa, Joe Cawley
- The Reluctant Expat: Part Three, Alan Laycock
- Get the Picture, Dan Richards
- 100 Plants that almost changed the World, Chris Beardshaw
- Drinking French, David Lebovitz
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast, Laura Cotterman, D. Waitt, A. Weakley
- Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay, James Goodall
- Do Not Go Gentle - Go to Paris, Gail Shilling
- Undue Influence and Vulnerable Adults, Sandra Glazer et al (work related, very-very good.)
- Get Out of your Own Way, Dave Hollis
- How To Cook The Victorian Way with Mrs. Croncombe, Annie Gray and Andrew Hann
- Pieometry, Lauren Ko (more design than pie)
- Winter Warmers, by Narrowboat Chefs, Magi and Ryan Duncan
- Oh Cook! 60 Easy Recipes Any Idiot Can Make, James May
An eclectic reading list. I tried Cross Creek after it was recommended to me, but I couldn't get into at all and gave up.
ReplyDeleteI re-read Cross Creek this year, and was shocked at the outright racism, it has fallen off of my recommendation list.
DeleteHave you tried How to Get That Desk Cleaned in Fifteen Minutes?
ReplyDeleteBwhahahahahahahahahahaha! I see your glasses sitting there...
What and disrupt the filing system
DeleteIs that YOUR desk? Oh, David, that would drive me CRA-ZEE!!!
ReplyDeleteI cleaned my desk before I went on vacation the end of February, that desk is clear and clean, the one at home lacks space for a proper pile of files.
DeleteThank you, Albert! You sound like SG. "If I had more space, it wouldn't be a mess." Anyway, I've also read "a clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer." That would be me! My public tidiness is simply a cover for the disarray that lies beneath the surface.
DeleteAn impressive list, but at first glance I thought that was Carlos' desk and wondered when you got into our house!
ReplyDeleteIf a cluttered desk if a sign of a cluttered mind, what is an empty desk a sign of?
Deletemy desk at work was always naked, except for the "to do tomorrow" pile next to the computer.
ReplyDeleteI like the title of #60. I identify with "idiot" sometimes when in the kitchen.
A fun and funny book. My desk at home is tiny, and I have had to tame the paper piles, still I have a stack on top of my Printer.
DeleteDid you cook a lot to go with all those cook books?
ReplyDeleteI have tried a couple of things, most have nice narrative in them.
DeleteImpressive list! The only two I've read are "Walden" and "Catcher in the Rye."
ReplyDeleteI often read books no one has read.
DeleteGood for you! It is a good list in my opinion for the various types; that's a good sign of a curious mind and man.
ReplyDeleteFor me, what gets counted gets done, I will start the list again for 2021, I received a wonderful 600+ page book on food and the cultural history of Spain as a Christmas gift, started it last night. What did you read this year?
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