Muriel's Reading Cafe - open for business in 2021!

[Muriel B]

Hi,

Come and join me in Muriel's Reading Cafe 2021, where I list the books I have read and plan to read. There is space for a wide range of books here, but my favourite genres are crime fiction (nordic noir is a particular favourite) and travel stories, and non-fiction works include books on geography, the environment, travel, so you are most likely to find these in the lists below.

Discussions regarding my books read are welcome, but if you refer to a specific point made in the book, please mention the chapter or page. On the other hand, if you just want to have a chat over a cup of coffee or tea, you're most welcome too.

[Muriel B]

READ IN JANUARY:
1. Arnaldur Indridason - The shadow district
2. Naomi Klein - This changes everything
3. Yrsa Sigurdardottir - The silence of the sea
4. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We should all be feminists
5. Simone de Beauvoir - Extracts from The Second Sex
6. Arnaldur Indridason - The shadow killer
7. Alan Rusbridger - Breaking news: the remaking in journalism and why it matters now.
8. Mary Robinson - Climate justice

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[Muriel B]

READ IN FEBRUARY:

9. Maggie O’Farrell - The vanishing act of Esme Lennox
10. Betty Friedan - The female mystique
11. Yrsa Sigurdardottir - Why did you lie?
12. John Charles Chasteen - Born in blood & fire. A concise history of Latin America
13. Ernesto Che Guevara - The motorcycle diaries

[Muriel B]

READ IN MARCH/APRIL
14. Daniel Levitin - A field guide to lies and statistics

[Muriel B]

In MAY I took a reading break...

[Muriel B]

In JUNE I have read so far:
15. Harriet Dyer - The little book of feminism
16. Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent
17. Imogen Clark - Postcards From a Stranger

Currently reading:
18. Tanya Harmer - Allende’s Chile & the Inter-American War
19. Yrsa Sigurdardottir - The Reckoning

[Muriel B]

In JULY I edged closer to my 24-book target:

21. Gloria Steinem - Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
22. Yrsa Sigurdardottir - The Absolution
23. JK Rowling - The Casual Vacancy

which I then reached in AUGUST:
24. Pamela Constable and Arturo Valenzuela - A Nation of Enemies: Chile under Pinochet

In SEPTEMBER AND FOR MOST OF OCTOBER, I took a well-earned reading break as I set a new target of 30...

But then as OCTOBER left the building, I picked up my books once again and finished no. 25 before diving into Nordic noir, although Stanley Tucci's book proved a welcome diversion on a lazy Sunday...
25. Helen Gordon - Notes from deep time
26. Yrsa Sigurdardottir - Gallows Rock
27. Stanley Tucci - Taste. My Life Through Food

But those are now of the past and I am currently reading, anticipating winter:
28. Nancy Campbell - Fifty words for snow
29. Sara Wheeler - Terra Incognita. Travels in Antarctica.