{"id":6480,"date":"2022-12-31T01:33:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T14:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=6480"},"modified":"2022-12-31T01:33:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T14:33:24","slug":"my-favourite-books-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/my-favourite-books-of-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favourite Books of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a year. At least it ended slightly better than it began<\/a>, at least for me. However, 2022 was not a year when I read a lot of new novels. Looking at my book journal, I either didn\u2019t read many new (to me) novels or I forgot to note them down. Probably my favourite novel was Gideon the Ninth<\/em><\/a> \u2014 although having just finished its sequel, Harrow the Ninth<\/em><\/a>, which was very much<\/em> not my cup of tea, I\u2019m afraid I am now done with this author and this series. <\/p>\n

My favourite non-fiction books were Unfollow<\/em><\/a> by Megan Phelps-Roper and Feminism for Women<\/em><\/a> by Julie Bindel<\/a>. I also liked The Edible Balcony<\/em><\/a> by Indira Naidoo, which helped me re-establish my balcony garden. It was a good year for spinach, silverbeet, lettuce, sorrel, parsley and lavender, but some of my other plants struggled. Here is my entire annual crop of radishes, with a twenty cent coin for scale:<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll be taking up professional radish farming any time soon.<\/p>\n

My favourite books for teenagers and children included Sugar Town Queens<\/em><\/a> by Malla Nunn, Are You There, Buddha?<\/em><\/a> by Pip Harry, and Fly on the Wall<\/em><\/a> by Remy Lai<\/a>. All by Australian authors!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m hoping to be able to read more in 2023 and possibly even get some writing done. Here\u2019s my pile of holiday reading:<\/p>\n

\"Holiday<\/p>\n

I hope you all have a happy, relaxing holiday season and that 2023 brings you lots of good reading. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a year. At least it ended slightly better than it began, at least for me. However, 2022 was not a year when I read a lot of new novels. Looking at my book journal, I either didn\u2019t read many new (to me) novels or I forgot to note them down. Probably my favourite novel … Continue reading My Favourite Books of 2022<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,293,21,18],"tags":[317,327,314,316,324,328,326],"class_list":["post-6480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-childrens-books","category-lgb","category-my-favourite-books","tag-indira-naidoo","tag-julie-bindel","tag-malla-nunn","tag-megan-phelps-roper","tag-pip-harry","tag-remy-lai","tag-tamsyn-muir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6480"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6487,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions\/6487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}