December reading is very important to me.
Here in the gap between my full-throttle Nanowrimo experience and the rewrites
due on my next kids’ book falls the festivities – but also, I hope, lovely long
hours of reading.
In recent weeks I’ve been on a wonderful
non-fiction kick, discovering a couple of memoirs in particular that I might
never have come across.
But December is often my time for rereading
old favourites – and also for consolidating my list of favourite reads from the
whole year. In past years I’ve had top tens and top twenties, and fiction and non-fiction
lists and all kinds of things. This year I want to do something different, slightly…
my advent calendar of this year’s recommendations! It seems like a good idea to flag some of these things up –
after I’ve been so remiss with reviewing on this blog in 2014. I’m sure there
are books I’ve loved that I’ve never even mentioned to you?
Also, it might well be that I’m
recommending thirty-one books to you in December because I find it hard to pick
a smaller selection…
But here goes anyhow! (These are in no
particular order, mind… just as they come to me as I think over 2014…)
December the first: TOLSTOY AND THE PURPLE CHAIR by Nina
Sankovitch.
Right at the start of the year I really
loved this memoir of reading. It’s about a family wrapped up in books and the
year of reading that the author undergoes as she recuperates from the loss of
her sister. It’s about reading a book every single day and being alert to the
ripples and echoes between them and how they chime through our lives. It was a
brilliant opening to the year for me – bolstering my appetite for books and
making me feel bold with my own choices. I really do think we are drawn to
particular books for reasons we don’t always understand at first – and that
books come to us, sometimes, at just the right time.
FIND THIS and READ IT at ONCE! It’ll remind
you why you spend so many hours alone, trying to see things through other
people’s eyes.
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