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January Book Spin 📚
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What a great little book!!! Great insight and inspiration for the coming year. Bottom line: Live your life to the fullest every minute of every day. Don‘t “waste time”!

Volume 1 is a reread for me. I started this with a group here in 2020, but found pandemic stress did not allow for the concentration required to complete all the volumes. May 2026 be easier on us all. #proust2026

These are the first set of books I'll read in 2026:

Argonautika is one of the two books this month for #StorySpins
Brave New World, first sci-fi book of the year that I've always been meaning to read #ClassicLSFBC
Hannibal Rising, first book of my Long Reads Workout part of the #3BookChallenge2026
The Chocolate Box, (loved the title) first short story for #26Shorts2026
War Music, along with these is one of the books I am reading for #2026Reads

#2025reads

If I read this this year this would be #AllergicToChunksters, I‘ve had this for a few years but this looked like a difficult read (I knew nothing of Ancient and Imperial China but now know a little more). The story is of civil wars that went on for almost a century at the beginning of the first millennium. ⬇️

Day 6 of #12BooksOf2026, my favorite book of June was The Color Purple. It‘s a classic for a good reason!

Where I work my way through The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter https://www.suzs-space.com/the-setting-sun-by-osamu-dazai-translated-by-juliet-w...

On a visit to Bath and then to friends at the titular house, Catherine Morland learns to tell the difference between fiction and reality.

Deservedly a classic. Too many people cannot tell the difference between the world as shown in the media they consume and the real world. Austen shows it is not a new problem but it is one that is becoming more urgent.