50 years a reader |
An exploration of half a century of reading. |
Quite apart from all the books I'm reading as part of my work (as publisher) I determined to commemorate my half century of being a reader by reading (at least) 50 Scottish books. I thought I'd try to narrow it down to 50 Scottish fiction books.
If we take the starting date as my birthday - February 14th, here's what I've read since then. (I'll go into them all separately in more detail anon - this is just to remind myself as much anything!) Read for the first time: Granite Grit –Lee Cooper The Secret Knowledge – Andrew Crumey Bad Blood – Aline Templeton Mauricewood Devils - Dorothy Alexander Re-read: The Hill of the Red Fox – Allan Campbell Mclean Close but no cigar Maggie Craig and Catherine Byrne – I started but just couldn’t finish books by both of these writers. It's nothing against them as books, they are just not my cup of tea. And life is too short (now) for me to read books which I really can't engage with. I'm all for stepping out of my comfort zone, but sometimes all it does is reconfirm what it is I like (and dislike) about reading. I'm pretty eclectic, but there are things I just cannot get on with.
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