2022 was a year of great books, but a peculiar year of reading thanks to the arrival of our daughter in late 2021. I’ve never struggled to find time to read — but now with Ada, I’ve had to make time (or aspire to, at least) rather than take it for granted I’ll find a … Continue reading My Year in Reading — 2022
Tag: Year In Review
My Year in Reading — 2021
What a year, huh? Never mind Covid — a real buzz kill — but in 2021 we moved house twice, and a couple weeks ago we celebrated the birth of our daughter. Despite all that turbulence, I managed to read 151 books this year (including graphic novels; a real saviour recently, when reading prose has … Continue reading My Year in Reading — 2021
The Best Books of 2019
When I started making this list, I had more than 40 books scrawled on a piece of paper. Getting it down to 20 books was difficult. Whittling it down to 10 was excruciating. I could actually feel it in my gut each time I crossed one out. Fact is, this list would probably be slightly different … Continue reading The Best Books of 2019
The Best Books of 2018
Enjoy my definitive — wholly subjective — list of the 10 books published in 2018 that I enjoyed most. 10. Bad Blood by John Carreyrou John Carreyrou’s riveting account of the Theranos scandal reads like a thriller. Only if this was fiction, you might question the plausibility of such duplicity and malevolence. You'd think: Nah; … Continue reading The Best Books of 2018
My Year in Reading – 2017
Well, here we are, the last day of the year, which means it's time to tinker with my super-cool and in no way nerdy Excel spreadsheet and reveal my Year In Reading. This year I managed to read 141 books, which is one fewer than last year, but I don't think it's a bad effort, … Continue reading My Year in Reading – 2017
Simon McDonald 