Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

82) Mark of the Horse Lord by Rosemary Sutcliff. This book got really good reviews on Goodreads, including from isiscolo, so I gave it more of a chance than I usually do.

In it a slave/gladiator won his freedom, and then got mixed up in... something. I hadn't been interested in the story from the beginning, and at that point I just gave up. I really didn't care about the politics that the story was dipping into.

It seemed like a fine story, but I just don't enjoy historical fiction. I even tried pretending it was some fantasy world instead, but the author typed out the Irish accent, so that didn't really work.

On top of my lack of interest, the author used semicolons incorrectly (and used as lot of them). It was just so distracting. Things like: He walked down the road; and bought some wine.

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2022

It's funny, this is the first year I gave up on my 50 books/year goal, and it's the first year in three or four years that I nearly made it. 48 books! I think it's fair to say that 82 DNFs might cover those two I fell short by, huh?

The big difference between this year and the last few is I finally stopped playing phone games during my reading time. I'd much much rather read, so hopefully I can keep not playing them. They're so addictive, play just once or twice, and my habit comes back. (I keep them on my phone for when I'm in a waiting room or something and have nothing to read... but now that I typed this paragraph out, I'm questioning that logic.)

I hope 2023 is a good year for reading (and everything else!) for everyone!