At the beginning of every year, I post an article listing everything I read the previous year. However, it occurs to me that I was so busy helping my dad prepare the bookstore back in January that I never posted one in early 2023 accounting for my 2022 reading. The theme was Russian history, especially as it relates to Eastern-European states that were under Russian dominion (such as Ukraine), and the reason for that should be fairly obvious. It was originally going to be "war and strategy" but in February, Russia gave me all the study in warfare that I care to have for a while, so I switched my study from "what is this barbaric thing we call 'war'" to "why do Russians love it so much?"
NOT PICTURED (since I read them on Kindle instead of hardcopy), OR REVIEWED (since I wasn't that impressed): A Court of Wings and Ruin, A Court of Mist and Fury, and A Court of Silver Flames. Let it suffice to say if you've read the first one then you've read the best of the series and there's not much reason to read on unless you want to watch two of the most notable characters of the past few decades in the Young Adult Fantasy genre get a complete and total character assassination while a complex heroine gets distilled down to a cynical gold-digger who sleeps her way from peasantry to the highest throne in seven lands, and a once-enigmatic anti-hero gets sanded down into a one-dimensional Gary-Stu who is wrapped around the fingers of the aforementioned. Midway through the third book I found myself asking, out loud, "oh, gee... a beloved major character died? I wonder how many pages it'll be before he's back due to the Ancient High-Fae Magic of Plot Devices? My money is on 'three'."
Moving on.
(not reviewed due to its brevity)
(Even though I didn't actually finish this one in 2022, I've included it here because I began it in 2022)
So That's It
Fourteen books. A far cry from 2017 and 2018, when I'd average between twenty-five and thirty a year. Then again, I did spend most of the year on the go.