Tuesday, 31 December 2024

My Year In Books: 2024

Shadow Reader - Imtiaz Dharker
*Hotel World - Ali Smith
The Marble Collector - Cecelia Ahern
Postman Pat And The Pet Show - John Cunliffe    
Kindness Is Magic - Duba Kolanovic    
The Magic Crayon - Amy Sparkes & Ali Pye        
Cave Baby - Julia Donaldson & Emily Gravett
You Must Bring A Hat - Simon Phillip & Kate Hindley        
Mouse's Wood - Alice Melvin        
Too Much Stuff - Emily Gravett        
LOVE - Corinne Averiss & Kristi Beautyman        
A Day That's Ours - Blake Nuto & Vyara Boyadjieva                 
Sunny Side Up - Clare Helen Welsh & Ana Sanfelippo        
The Who's Whonicorn of Unicorns - Kes Gray & Garry Parsons
From Crimea With Love - Jason Salkey 
.  .  .  .  . 
 
On the Sharpe Series:  
If I was to recommend a reading order to others, I would say to start with either Eagle or perhaps Rifles, read in publication order up to the end of the India Trilogy in 1999, & then stop. One can make a case for the later-published books if one just wants to know more about the battles, but from the perspective of making sense of Sharpe, they should be put on the same level as Lois Lane’s ‘imaginary stories’ from 1960s Superman comics. Discount them from your reading order altogether.
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/prequel-problems-sharpe-s-reading-order