Reading remained my foundation through a year full of personal change and challenge. Here were a few highlights of 2024. - ThreadSky

timrding.bsky.social • 66 days ago

Reading remained my foundation through a year full of personal change and challenge.

Here were a few highlights of 2024.

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timrding.bsky.social•66 days ago

Anita Brookner remains my backbone. Her study of quiet English eccentricity and desperation speaks to me very deeply.

It occurs to me that P. D. James explores the same rich vein (…but with a lot more murder…)

malcombowie.bsky.social•57 days ago

That prompted me to start A taste for death. Thanks!

timrding.bsky.social•57 days ago

They’re terrific books! I hope you really enjoy it.

timrding.bsky.social•66 days ago

The big hitters were still the big hitters. The sheer glee of reading these writers.

jacquiwine.bsky.social•66 days ago

FALLING is so chilling yet beautifully written, all the more unsettling for being inspired by true events.

timrding.bsky.social•66 days ago

She was such a good writer. To have the depth of insight(/empathy?) to tell that story… incredible!

timrding.bsky.social•66 days ago

In a year of plenty of decent new fiction, no book has stayed with me quite as much as Birding by @regretteruane.bsky.social.

It’s very rare that you read a book where just the language, the joy of the writing itself, springs out on every page.

regretteruane.bsky.social•66 days ago

Oh this is so wonderful, thank you. Really means a huge amount & I’m very grateful & glad in the most heartfelt way❤️

timrding.bsky.social•66 days ago

And for someone who believes that going for a long walk is the solution to all life’s problems, so much of A Flat Place by @noreenmasud.bsky.social drilled deep into me. I could feel my perspective shift with every page.

(I’ve lent my copy out at the moment, so please excuse the sketch…)

noreenmasud.bsky.social•66 days ago

Honoured to be sketched!!!

timrding.bsky.social•66 days ago

I remain very grateful to @backlisted.bsky.social for continuing to expand my horizons with every episode. The show can be a solace at times. So many joys came from reading books recommended by new or old episodes, but this one stayed with me the longest.

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