{"id":17424,"date":"2024-12-31T23:55:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T22:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?p=17424"},"modified":"2025-03-29T22:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T21:17:21","slug":"books-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/books-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Books of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year I read 160 books, a total of 39’479 pages, or about 250 pages per book, 114 books and 46 graphic stories. That’s more than last year and way too much. My creative fever, which involves a lot of different crafts (knitting, crocheting, painting, basket weaving, etc.) was still alive and getting worse, as I added linocut to the list. It means I can’t seem to sit still. So my goal of reading less than last year failed. I will put it back on this year’s list of resolutions. Another goal was to finish all the books in my house that I hadn’t read, and which I did with brio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which books did I love this year? Firstly, a special mention for James Joyce’s Ulysses<\/a>, which was unreadable, and which I managed to get through with the help of three companion books, The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses<\/a> by Patrick Hastings, Ulysses Annotated<\/a> by Don Gifford and Robert J. Seidman, and The New Bloomsday Book<\/a> by Harry Blamires. Reading Ulysses led to reading The Odyssey<\/a> by Homer, Hamlet <\/a>by Shakespeare and Hamnet <\/a>by Maggie O’Farrell, which I had forgotten I liked so much. I also got back into crime novels and discovered several books by Julia Chapman and Louise Penny. A few others that stand out: Crying in H-Mart<\/a> by Michelle Zauner and The Naked Tree<\/a> by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, which took me back to Korea and increased my knowledge of the country, a very moving book by Baptiste Beaulieu, O\u00f9 vont les larmes quand elles s\u00e8chent<\/a>, the dystopic and disturbing books by Antoine Jacquier and Agustina Bazterrica, a wonderful biography of Monet <\/a>and a very interesting essay by Mona Chollet, R\u00e9inventer l’amour<\/a>. This is really only a selection, as I have read other amazing books this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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