The Reading Life Review - January 2022

Row 1

1. Zakiya Dalila Harris - USA - author The Other Black Girl - first appearance
2. Barbara Pym - UK.  - featured numerous times

Row 2

1. Erin Thursby - USA - author Florida Oranges: A Colorful History - First Appearance 
2. Dee Brown - USA - author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. First Appearance

Row 3

1. Caroline Elkins - USA - Pulitzer Prize Winner  - Author Imperial Reckoning : The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya.  First appearance.  I hope to read her forthcoming second book in April, Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
2. Isabel Wilkerson. USA - Pulitzer Prize Winner - author of Caste: The Sources of Our Discontents and The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.  All teachers of American history should be required to read these books.

Five of The January authors are Americans, one is from The UK.  Five are women.  Four appeared for The first time. Two are no longer living.

Two novels and four works of narrative non-fiction were featured 

Books read in January on which there is no post

1. Genius and Death in a City of Dearms: Odessa by Charles King
2. Wild Women and The Blues by Denny Bryce
3. Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Going Forward, I hope to continue Reading at about The same pace but I anticipate posting on fewer works.

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Home Counties of Visitors in January 

1. USA
2. India
3. The Philippines 
4. Canada
5. Turkey
6. Germany 
7. The UK
8. Japan 
9. France

The top most viewed posts were all on short stories 

I offer my eternal thanks to Yujelyn Norte Ulm