{"id":14033,"date":"2023-12-31T19:20:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T18:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?p=14033"},"modified":"2025-01-07T11:51:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T10:51:33","slug":"books-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2023\/12\/31\/books-of-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Books of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year I read 144 books. That&#8217;s a nice 12 x 12 square. A total of 29&#8217;030 pages, or about 200 pages per book. That&#8217;s less than in the previous two years, but it&#8217;s still enough. Maybe my creative fever, doing lots of different crafts (knitting, crocheting, painting, basket weaving, etc.) has taken time away from reading, and that&#8217;s a good thing. My aim this year is to read\u2026 less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which books stood out this year ? The ratings I give to books don&#8217;t always seem accurate with hindsight, but for some books, just looking at the titles brings back emotions. Two very special marks for <a href=\"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2023\/02\/01\/the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida-shehan-karunatilaka-2022\/\">The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida<\/a> by Shehan Karunatilaka and <a href=\"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2023\/08\/25\/la-fille-delle-meme-gabrielle-boulianne-trembley-2021\/\">La fille d&#8217;elle-m\u00eame<\/a> by Gabrielle Boulianne-Trembley. I&#8217;m feeling closer and closer to nature, so was very touched by <a href=\"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2023\/12\/18\/how-to-speak-whale-tom-mustill-2022\/\">How to Speak Whale<\/a> by Tom Mustill about communicating with animals and cetaceans in particular, <a href=\"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2023\/05\/17\/the-book-of-trespass-crossing-the-lines-that-divide-us-nick-hayes-2020\/\">The Book of Trespass<\/a> by Nick Hayes, walking or not being able to walk around Britain and <a href=\"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/je-parle-a-un-homme-qui-ne-tient-pas-en-place-jacques-gamblin-thomas-coville-2018\/\">Je parle \u00e0 un homme qui ne tient pas en place<\/a>, a conversation between Jacques Gamblin and Thomas Coville. Emotions always grab me by the guts, so I was touched by <a href=\"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2023\/10\/08\/fragments-anais-schenke-2023\/\">Fragments <\/a> by Ana\u00efs Schenk\u00e9, a story much to close to home and <a href=\"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2023\/09\/13\/seedfolks-paul-fleischman-1997\/\">Seedfolk <\/a>by Paul Fleischman, about nature and the bonds between human beings. But this is a tiny selection. So many others were outstanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"957\" height=\"741\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image.png?resize=957%2C741&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image.png?w=957&amp;ssl=1 957w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image.png?resize=300%2C232&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image.png?resize=768%2C595&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I read 144 books. That&#8217;s a nice 12 x 12 square. A total of 29&#8217;030 pages, or about 200 pages per book. That&#8217;s less than in the previous two years, but it&#8217;s still enough. Maybe my creative fever, doing lots of different crafts (knitting, crocheting, painting, basket weaving, etc.) has taken time away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[214],"tags":[37,205,241],"class_list":["post-14033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-2023","tag-bliss","tag-challenge","tag-knowledge"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image.png?fit=957%2C741&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14033"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17621,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033\/revisions\/17621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}