{"id":3569,"date":"2022-12-30T20:04:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T19:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2022-12-30T21:09:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T20:09:08","slug":"books-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2022\/12\/30\/books-of-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Books of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another year, another tweet thread of the books I read these past twelvemonth. Click on the images to access higher resolution versions which are just about legible, or better still, read the thread on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Books-of-2022.1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2022 I managed just 20 titles, five of them novels and seven by women. Of the novels I read \u2013 all by women, it turns out \u2013 the most captivating were Foster<\/em> and Small Things Like These<\/em> by Claire Keegan, though\u00a0Persuasion<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Hamnet<\/i> were both immensely enjoyable.<\/p>\n

My favourite non-fiction book of the year has to be Ignatieff’s biography of Isaiah Berlin, which provides not just an entertaining account of his life but a hugely insightful introduction into his liberal philosophy. I continued my explorations of liberalism with A Thousand Small Sanities<\/em>,\u00a0Adam Gopnik’s lively account \u2013 written for his daughter \u2013 of why liberalism is hated by the left and the right. (If you have an appetite for yet more on liberalism, I would still heartily recommend Ian Dunt’s\u00a0How to be a Liberal<\/em>, which I read last year<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"Books-of-2022.2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A very close second to my favourite non-fiction title has to be Fintan O’Toole’s personal and sharply observed history of Ireland since the 1950s:\u00a0We Don’t Know Ourselves.\u00a0<\/em>O’Toole is a just few years older than me, and while I grew up north of the border, I have enough connections through aunts, uncles and cousins in the South for there to be many resonances with my own history in Ireland. But many revelations too \u2013 I never realised Charlie Haughey was such a crook!<\/p>\n

\"Books-of-2022.3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Several of my non-fiction choices I read for instruction and of these by far the most helpful were Ian Leslie’s\u00a0Conflicted<\/em>, a thoroughly researched examination of how to resolve arguments, and John Amaechi’s book on leadership (The Promises of Giants)<\/em>, a work so packed with useful insights I was left wishing it could be taken in pill form.<\/p>\n

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Another year, another tweet thread of the books I read these past twelvemonth. Click on the images to access higher resolution versions which are just about legible, or better still, read the thread on Twitter. In 2022 I managed just … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}