Finished reading: Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder 📚

Finished reading: Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday 📚

Finished reading: Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn 📚

Finished reading: The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima 📚

Finished reading: The More of Less by Joshua Becker 📚

Finished reading: Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions by Ed Zwick 📚

Finished reading: The Match by Harlan Coben 📚

Finished reading: Simplify by Joshua Becker 📚

Finished reading: Being Elvis by Ray Connolly 📚

Finished reading: Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life by Joshua Fields Millburn 📚

Finished reading: Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino 📚

Finished reading: Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley 📚

Finished reading: The Year of Less by Cait Flanders 📚

Finished reading: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt 📚

Finished reading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 📚

Finished reading: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 📚

Finished reading: The Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett 📚

Finished reading: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 📚

In 2022 I decided to set a goal of reading 50 books a year for 3 consecutive years. I’m likely to complete my goal - I read 50 in 2022, 50 in 2023 and this year I’ve read 21 books so far. However I’ve read a lot of non-fiction and I’m beginning to feel like a receptacle for other peoples ideas, theories and advice.

Next year I’m changing my approach. Instead of number of books I’m going to focus on quality. War and Peace, The Brothers Karamazov and East of Eden are front of the queue. I intend to create a list of specific books I want to read during the year and the only non-fiction on the list will be biographies of people who interest me.

Quite shocked to discover I had 155 third party apps installed on my iPhone. I’ve now reduced it to 140 and I intend to reduce it further. I’m curious how that compares with others…

White Rock Beach

Turtle watching in Kefalonia while we were on holiday last week

Finished reading: The Road by Cormac McCarthy 📚

Watching the football last night in a lovely cafe bar in Lixouri

Finished reading: Bram, A Spy Story by Nicholas Bate 📚