Jonathan Cosgrove

Tag: reading

  • A good year for Good Reads (Aren’t they all?)

    A good year for Good Reads (Aren’t they all?)

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    Happy New Years to all. It’s January 4th and the first working day for many in the good old République d’Irlande so, naturally, I’m thinking about “goals” and specifically for this post, reading goals… Normally, I use Goodreads to track my books however I find it invigorates a rat race of ‘HOW MANY BOOKS CAN…

  • forever too many books to read

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    This year–like every year–reading has been a fantastic source of respite from the neverending parade of bad news and tragedy unfolding around us. Recently I finished THE YIDDISH POLICEMAN’S UNION–a detective novel by Michael Chabon set in alternative history where Jewish people settled in Sitka, Alaska post WW2–and it was one of the best reads…