{"id":6964,"date":"2025-07-10T10:29:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T00:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=6964"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:20:18","slug":"book-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=6964","title":{"rendered":"BOOK LIST"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, I thought I’d manage at least a post a week, but no. I’ve been reading, reading, reading – as usual – but not writing about it. Especially lately. We’re 27 weeks into the year, but I’ve only posted 12 times. “Must do better!” I tell myself…but I have valid excuses. The magical trip to Japan. Then, then a bad bout of Covid, followed by a death in the family and an unexpected 2 weeks in a hotel in Adelaide.
\nI will<\/em> get my groove back, but let’s be realistic; I have no hope of catching up in any way, shape or form. So here is a helpfully categorised list of my reading from the beginning of June. The Old Familiars are perhaps over-represented, but they’re on my Kindle. And what the hell, is it wrong to seek comfort in trying times?<\/p>\n

Comforting Old Familiars\"\"<\/a><\/strong>
\nSense and Sensibility<\/em>
\nPersuasion<\/em>
\nEmma<\/em>
\nby Jane Austen<\/p>\n

Jane and Prudence
\n<\/em>Some Tame Gazelle<\/em>
\nA Glass of Blessings
\nNo Fond Return of Love
\nExcellent Women
\n<\/em>by Barbara Pym<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Intriguing (or do I mean just strange?) Japanese Fiction<\/strong>
\nThe Kagawa Food Detectives<\/em> by Hishashi Kashiwai
\nBefore the Coffee Gets Cold<\/em> by Toshikazu Kawaguchi<\/p>\n

Distressing Non-Fiction\"\"<\/a><\/strong>
\nStasiland<\/em> by Anna Funder
\nThe Age of Diagnosis<\/em> by Suzanne O’Sullivan
\nYou Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the History of War<\/em> by Elizabeth Becker<\/p>\n

and finally, a wonderful and deserving and…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Utterly Beautiful Booker Prize Winner<\/strong>
\nOrbital<\/em> by Samantha Harvey<\/p>\n

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This year, I thought I’d manage at least a post a week, but no. I’ve been reading, reading, reading – as usual – but not writing about it. Especially lately. We’re 27 weeks into the year, but I’ve only posted … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6964"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6981,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions\/6981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}