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Beth Squire's avatar

Hello! This is my first time on the substack! I'm reading All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. It's so beautiful and I'm really enjoying it. I find it's been a while since I've read a book with such a heavy subject matter. Sometimes I dodge them because reading needs to be relaxing for me, but this one is so beautiful it softens the difficult topic (that's not to say it romanticises or glosses over the horrors of war, just intersperses those horrors with beauty).

I'm also obsessively collating ideas for other books I'd like to read this year and already have a long tbr. I'm signed off work with a hand injury for the next month so plenty of reading time!

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Philip Smith's avatar

My wife suggested this book, as she read it in 2015. ‘Howard’s End is on the Landing’ written by Susan Hill is a memoir in which in her search around her house for a certain book, she realized there were many books she had never read in her personal library. She decided to take a year and only read books that were in her house. She lists the final 40 as an appendix. I love this idea since I have over 1,500 books at home that I haven’t read. But I can’t go cold turkey on new books, for I work part-time in retirement at an Indie book shop and need to read ARCs to recommend to customers, I have made a resolution that for every ‘new title’ brought into the house over 2025 (which I will read), I will read 3 books that already were in our home on January 1st.

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