There are some fun memes popping up among book bloggers as 2022 ends, All you have to do is answer (almost certainly untruthfully) a questionnaire, using only the titles of books you have read this last year. I’ve chosen two.
Here’s the first, introduced to me by Booker Talk
In high school I was: What was promised(Tobias Hill) ⭐⭐⭐
People might be surprised by: (the) Ashes of London (Andrew Taylor)⭐⭐⭐
I will never be: Dolores (Lauren Aimee Curtis)⭐⭐⭐, or Cecily (Annie Garthwaite)⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ or Joan (Katherine J Chen)⭐⭐⭐⭐
My life post-lockdown was: … I’m staying here (Marco Balzano)⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
My fantasy Job is: (on) The night boat to Tangier (Kevin Barry)⭐ ⭐⭐
At the end of a long day I need: A God in every stone (Kamila Shamsie)⭐⭐⭐
I hate being: Early one morning (Virginia Baily)⭐⭐⭐⭐
I wish I had: The wolf den (Elodie Harper)⭐ ⭐⭐⭐
My family reunions are: National Treasures (Caroline Shenton) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
At a party you’d find me: Night crawling (Leila Mottley)⭐⭐⭐⭐
I’ve never been to: Otherlands (Thomas Halliday)⭐ ⭐⭐⭐⭐
A happy day includes: Best of friends (Kamila Shamsie) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Motto I live by: Common decency (Susannah Dickey) ⭐⭐⭐
On my bucket list are: Owls of the Eastern Ice (Jonathan Slaght) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
In my next life, I want to have: Shrines of Gaiety (Kate Atkinson ) ⭐⭐⭐
The next generation discovers the joy of reading
Then Cathy introduced me to Shellyrae’s version. Well, why not?
2022 was the year of: The sweet indifference of the world (Peter Stamm)⭐⭐⭐⭐
In 2022 I wanted to be: That bonesetter’s woman (Frances Quinn) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
In 2022 I was: Taking stock (Roger Morgan-Grenville) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
In 2022 I gained: Small things like these (Claire Keegan) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
In 2022 I lost: Miss Benson’s Beetle (Rachel Joyce)⭐⭐⭐
In 2022 I loved: My phantoms (Gwendoline Riley) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
In 2022 I hated: Red milk (Sjón) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
In 2022 I learned: To cook a bear (Mikael Niemi) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
In 2022 I was surprised by: Things that fall from the sky (Selja Ahava)⭐⭐
In 2022 I went to: The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
In 2022 I missed out on: Midnight at Malabar House (Vaseem Khan)⭐⭐⭐⭐
In 2022 my family were: Between the assassinations (Aravind Adiga) ⭐⭐
In 2023 I hope (for): The romantic .. (William Boyd) … Silver shoals (Charles Rangeley-Wilson). Both ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Because all but four of these books were borrowed from North Yorkshire Libraries, which continues, even now, to buy a wide range of appetising new books, I dedicate this post to Bookish Beck’s Love your Library
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
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