My January book pile.
This year I have set myself a routine. Books will be chosen this way: 📖 monthly Old Baggages Book Club book; 📖 one off my 'unread but I've owned it more than a year non-fiction' pile;
📖 Penguin Reading Challenge (this year I've taken the 'Classics' option);
📖 and two from my other two reading challenges: Read Christie 2020, and Modern Mrs Darcy's list.
As it happens 'Persuasion' ticks a box on two of the challenges, so hopefully that will ease me in. 📖 As well as reading I've decided to give my brain a workout and included a puzzle book, though I'm not going to worry about trying to get through one a month.
So, let's see how this goes 😁🤘 📚
This is a surprisingly 'historical' collection for me. I veer towards crime and sci-fi. 'Styles' is an easy one, then, but I'm Christie-lover anyway, anything by her can be classed amongst my comfort-reads. 📚
The Austen is a different proposition. I've never been a fan this genre (in my head its classed as '19th Century middle-class soap opera') But I've enjoyed, if not loved the odd BBC production, and they are classics, so maybe its time to get my head down and give it a shot. Especially as this one book fulfils both Penguin's monthly challenge, and one of MMD's slots. 📚
West Winging It, by Pat Cunnane has been on my shelf for a while. I've been mildly obsessed with the goings-on of the White House since the turn of the century, and (yeah, you got it) The West Wing tv series. (Thanks, for that Mr Sorkin). I'm not high brow enough to read the really in depth political ones though, so I settle for the stuff that'll fill the void left by the end of the show. 📚
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Anybody with an interest in expeditions might want to look up an upcoming book called Expeditions Unpacked by Ed Stafford. Ed looks at the packing lists of some of the most famous expeditions from the last two centuries. Perhaps not surprisingly the lists have become less interesting and more efficiency-driven in more recent times, (my favourite inclusion was Amelia Earhart's Freckle Ointmen) but it's still interesting to see what people have survived on for months and years at a time.
As a summary of great expeditions, though, it's really good book. It lists several of the more obvious, and well known, adventures, but also a fair selection of lesser-known successes, like the Russian Orthodox priest who - in 2016 - set the world record for circumnavigating the globe in an air balloon, along with a portrait of St. Nicholas and a bottle of champagne.
The book also acknowledges a fair number of female adventurers, and at least one of the largely unrecognised, and accidental adventurers who are indispensable to the achievements of others, Apa Sherpa
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