2022 - New year, new try ❤

Happy 2022 everyone!
Finishing the two ongoing reads from last year first before starting a new one. 😎

Aiming for 35 books this year.

Finished my ongoing reads from 2021: The Professor's Wife on January 2nd and finally Nine perfect strangers yesterday.

On to the reading year 2022! ✌💅
1. unknown male by Nicolas Obregon was started yesterday;
2. Richard III by William Shakespeare today.

Richard III was just finished. First one down...😎

Finished unknown male today (February 21st); started
3. Manual of the warrior of light (in German; 'Handbuch des Kriegers des Lichts') by Paulo Coelho;
and
4. Beautiful bad by Annie Ward.

3. Manual of the warrior of light was finished yesterday.

Beautiful Bad was finished yesterday. Soo good!!!

5. Started Dead Ringer by V.P. Morris yesterday evening.

Quickly threw in a comic book I bought for my my boo's birthday. Gotta check it out first, right? 😁

So read 6. Erzaehlmirnix by Nadja Hermann yesterday.

7. Kathe Koja: Dark Factory

Finished proofreading a poetry collection (still untitled) by a Litsy friend today (8.)

Finished Dark Factory on May 14, started
9. Mine by Rachael Tamayo today.

Finished Mine today and have started
10. The Unreliables by Katherine Nichols.

Finished The Unreliables today and jumped right into

11. Every vow you break by Peter Swanson.

Ongoing read: Every vow you break.

Threw in a quick non-fiction book about funny anecdotes of teachers and students/pupils and the funniest student answers in class:
12. Lena Greiner & Carola Padtberg:
Nenne drei Streichinstrumente: Geige, Bratsche, Limoncello.
Finished this one today. 😆

Finished Every vow you break.

Started 13. The secret of Cold Hill by Peter James today.

Finished The secret of Cold Hill and started

14. The arrangement by Robyn Harding yesterday evening.

The arrangement is ongoing... The topic hits a bit close to home atm, therefore I just started another read for distraction:
15. The house by Simon Lelic.

The house is finished. Not sure whether I'll continue or DNF The arrangement. The topic is a bit much to handle right now...
Started
16. Kat Menschiks & des Diplombiologen Doctor Rerum Medicinalium Mark Beneckes Illustrirtes Thierleben by Mark Benecke; illustrated by Kat Menschik on July 24
and
17. Strange tales from Japan by Keisuke Nishimoto on August 1st.

On holidays on a small island in the North Sea. Left 16. and 17. at home, will continue them on my return. Still not sure what to do with 14.

As always here on this island, I switched into a reading mode.
Read
18. Sayaka Murata's Earthlings in a kind of haze. What a creepy, slightly revolting gem of a book!
Also already finished:
19. Last to die by Tess Gerritsen.

Just started
20. Even in the grave edited by James Chambers - my LTER win of July.

20. is finished.
Just started
21. Play it as it lays by Joan Didion.

Play it as it lays - flew through it. Such a fantastic book. What a gem. 5*

22. Once upon a time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino - just started.

Finished 22. and started
23. Where the crawdads sing by Delia Owens today.

Finished 17. Strange Tales from Japan today. Highly entertaining and enjoyable!

14. The arrangement is a DNF for now. That's not to say I won't maybe pick it up sometime again, when the topic isn't so immediate in my mind...

Ongoing reads:
16. Kat Menschiks und des Diplom-Biologen Doctor Rerum Medicinalium Mark Beneckes Illustrirtes Thierleben and
23. Where the Crawdads Sing.

Finished Where the crawdads sing today. All the stars.

24. The Jew's Beech by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.
edited for touchstones

24. was finished yesterday and

25. Nanny needed by Georgina Cross started.

Nanny needed was finished yesterday evening and

26. Doghead by Morten Ramsland started.

It's October 1st - Ongoing read: 26.

As October has stated 🍂 - my fave time of the year - and it's officially time for mystery, spooky, ghostly, creepy reads and tons of reading challenges on Litsy 🎃 -
I'm throwing in a few short books -
27. Das Sternbilderbuch by Monika Beisner;
28. The book of mythical beasts and magical creatures by Stephen Krensky;
29. Gedichte zum Gruseln (= Poems to give you shivers; a poetry collection); edited by Harry Fröhlich

14. Kat Menschiks des Diplombiologen Doctor Rerum Medicinalium Mark Beneckes illustrirtes Thierleben and
29. Gedichte zum Gruseln were finished today.

Ongoing read: 26. Doghead
Despite my best intentions I didn't start 27. and 28. yet; hope to start the two of them tomorrow.

Started and finished
27. Das Sternbilderbuch all in one go today and also started
28. The book of mythical beasts and magical creatures just now.

Finished The book of mythical beasts and magical creatures and started

30. Von Vorspuk, Wiedergängern und Meerweibern by Theo Schuster (ed.) today.
26. Doghead is ongoing.

Having arrived at the mark of 30 books (which is the double amount of books I read last year...🙄) makes me feel hopeful I might actually reach my goal of finishing 35 books in 2022. ...
We shall see...
Maybe I'll be back in for 50 books next year.

26. and 30. are ongoing reads.

Started another one,
31. The dangers of smoking in bed by Mariana Enriquez yesterday (11th October)

Flew through
31. The dangers of smoking in bed - finished it on October 16.
30. Von Vorspuk, Wiedergängern und Meerweibern was finished yesterday;

26. Doghead is a still ongoing read. - Family sagas (no matter how well-written and surreal) always take me some time to get through...

Started
32. The last séance by the great Agatha Christie today.

Also started on October 22:
33. Das Haus am Deich by Katherine Allfrey.
A reread of a favourite (I guess you'd call it middle-grade) mystery from my childhood.

33. Das Haus am Deich is finished.
26. and 31. are ongoing.

Started
34. The Atlas of Monsters by Sandra Lawrence a few days ago and planning to start
35. Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Rampo tonight for a readathon.

26. Doghead by Morten Ramsland finally finished today. Such a bittersweet funny tragic tale.

32. The last seance and 34. The Atlas of Monsters - finished today.

35. Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination is an ongoing read and
36. For the wolf by Hannah Whitten just started. I don't usually read fantasy, but a girl to be sacrificed to a man-wolf - jep, I'm sold. :)

Started 37. The Undead by Johan Egerkrans yesterday.
A gorgeous illustrated compendium of undead creatures. I have had that one for some time and have often leafed through it, but never read it cover to cover yet, which I do now.

Finished 35. Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination about two weeks ago & forgot to update on here.
37. The Undead was finished today and
38. How grim was my valley by John Llewellyn Probert, one of my latest LTER wins started.

36. For the wolf is ongoing.

38. How grim was my valley was finished on December 10.
For the wolf is ongoing.

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Started a few quick fun ones/anthologies today:
39. Advent by Daniel Pyle, my second October LTER win - want to get it read in the matching season :)
40. Geistergeschichten aus aller Welt (=Ghost Stories from all over the world), edited by Erich Ackermann
41. Vaesen by Johan Egerkrans - Another favourite gifted to me a while ago which I've often leafed through, but this being the first time I read it from cover to cover.

36. For the Wolf was finished on December 27.
39. Advent was finished today.

Finished 39 in 2022. Quite content with that.