January 2025 A slow start to the year

1. Strait is the Gate by Andre Gide
2. Eugenie Grandot By Honore de Balzac 
3. Mozarts Journey to Prague by Eduard Mörike
4. Night Flight by Antoine De Saint -Exupery
5. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov
6. The Doctor’s Wife by Sawako Ariyoshi 
7. The Frolics ofThe Beasts by Yukio Mishima

I managed just seven reviews for the first month of the year. I start with a few French classics and then a book following Mozart. Then, the daring early avatars’ lives told. Then a woman goes on a killing spree. A doctor’s wife tells her life with an overbearing mother. Then a final Japanese novella that I didn’t really get on with. No New countries and no new publishers.

Book of the month

I loved this book about those early pilots flying over the Andes as the earliest commercial flight started taking off the ground. I have a couple other of his books on my tbr I hope to get to this month.

Non-Book moments

January is slow for new albums, and I haven’t brought any as of yet this year. I streamed the Newq Anne B savage album, which is the second I have the debut album. This album is good I loved the song Donegal as it is a place I have many happy thoughts about. On TV, Skelton Crew finished a little bit of an anti-climax in the end. Then I love a bit of cheesy crime TV, so the new series of the good ship murder has been fun, a silly holiday destination crime series. Chanel Fives’ take on Death in Paradise has a few twists. Then at the end of the month, Disney Plus had a new series High Potenial a sort of Female Monk a woman with a high IQ and unique way of viewing the world gets a job as a detective after solving a case whilst working as a cleaner at the police station.

Next Month

I think I will be slow for a while. I am still just in the middle of sorting my reading room, office, and library. This involves storing a lot of books as I need a clear out. Then, I will buy new bookcases and a new hi-fi unit with some shelves. I am not the quickest at this. I hope to have it all done by the end of February. I am also mixing some new books in I had dreamed of reading Classics all year, but I now know after a Month the reason I don’t read a lot of classics is maybe I was too caught up in the latest thing, but that said I still have several new books building up over the month I will be reading a few new books each month just keep on top of my subscriptions and prize list I brought the five translated books on the republic of consciousness US longlist that came out earlier this month. I am still a million overdoing the Booker International. I have shadowed for so many years, and I can’t think of not doing it.  I may do a piece when my library is done I am looking forward to it. Done, I don’t cope well with the Chaotic Room, and this room is the place I blog  from these days. I will be happier when it is all finished. What are your plans for next month?