Rating: ⭐️⭐️☆☆☆
Title: What Would Cleopatra Do?: Life Lessons from 50 of History’s Most Extraordinary Women
Author: Elizabeth Foley
Genre: History, Nonfiction, Biography
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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆
Title: Woeful Second World War
Author: Terry Deary
Genre: History, Nonfiction, Children
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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆
Title: Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
Author: Janina Ramírez
Genre: History, Nonfiction, Feminism
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆
Title: In Cold Blood
Author: Truman Capote
Genre: Nonfiction, Classics, True Crime
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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆
Title: The Silence of the Girls
Author: Pat Barker
Genre: Historical Fiction, Mythology, Retelling
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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️☆☆
Title: Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Genre: Nonfiction, Psychology, Sociology
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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️☆☆
Title: A Previous Life
Author: Edmund White
Genre: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆
Title: The Reading List
Author: Sara Nisha Adams
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary
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2022 has been the most dreaded year, by far.
This year, I’ve been going to places I have never been before, taking part in things I didn’t expect to take part in, getting covid for the third and fourth time, and gaining so much weight due to stress that I am now the fattest I’ve been in all the years I’ve been on earth. I’m also diagnosed with ADD, and I am now thinking of finding a new shrink to deal with this diagnosis.
If you asked me what the lessons learned from 2022 are, then you’re asking the wrong person. I’m not keen on trying to see the meaning of the things I’ve been through. Sometimes things just happen and you either ride the waves of events or let yourself drown in them.
The bottom line is, another year has gone by and I don’t think much has changed with me as a person, except that I’m seriously thinking to fix my superbly unhealthy lifestyle. Let’s see if I can even pass the first month of 2023 without giving up, as per usual.
Am I excited about 2023? Debatable. Whilst I might be moving to another country, I’m not sure I’m all hyped up about not getting my personal time abroad. I’ll see if I can delve deeper into this topic without hurting other people around me in the process.
For right now, I would like to end the year with gracias y adiós, 2022. It has been one hell of a ride. You took me by surprise, but I’m still the stronger contestant because here I am on 31 December 2022, still standing.
ps. I still owe about 7 book reviews from my 2022 reads, let’s hope I can finish that before the end of January 2023.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆
Title: The Passion of Dolssa
Author: Julie Barry
Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction, Young adult
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