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books read in 2019

James S. A. Corey: Abaddon’s Gate ***

Hywel Francis: Stories of Solidarity ****

Adam Price: Wales: The First and Final Colony **

Leonora Brito: Dat’s Love and Other Stories ****

Mawil: Kinderland *****

Walter Moers: Wilde Reise durch die Nacht ***

Elena Puw Morgan: Nansi Lovel: Hunangofiant Hen Sipsi ***

James Goodwins: Charlie Chaplin’s Red Letter Days ****

Donald W. McCaffrey: Focus on Chaplin ****

M. G. Lewis: The Monk ****

Hilda Vaughan: Harvest Home *****

Joao Morais: Things that Make the Heart Beat Faster ***

Rose-Marie & Rainer Hagen: Bildbefragungen ***

Alys Conran: Dignity *****

Mike Parker: On the Red Hill ****

Herrmann Mostar: Weltgeschichte höchst privat ***

Linden Peach: Pacifism, Peace and Modern Welsh Writing ****

Bethan Gwanas: Edenia ***

Jerry Hunter: Ynys Fadog ***

James S.A. Corey: Nemesis Games ***

Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis 1 & 2 *****

Peter Stevenson: The Moon-Eyed People **

James S.A. Corey: Babylon’s Ashes ***

Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer ***

Astrid Lindgren: Immer dieser Michel *****

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol ***

breakdown

books read to me: 2

books i read to others: 1

authors by gender (one overlap due to collaboration)

books by female authors: 8

books by male authors: 18

genres:

fantastic literature: 2

graphic novels: 2

Wales-related books: 12

crime fiction: 0

historical novels: 2

science fiction: 3

post-colonial: 0

non-fiction: 9

short-story/fiction collections: 3

other: 2

languages:

English: 19

Welsh: 3

German: 5

ratings:

*: 0

**: 2

***: 12

****: 7

*****: 5

resolution for 2020: read more books in welsh again and up the post-colonial writing and just keep reading in general

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stirling, scotland.

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oban & dunstaffnage, scotland.

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clogwyni abercastell.

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rhwng talybont a phont scethin.

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962), dir. David Lean

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cwm bychan, beddgelert, a golygfa dros grib ddu i’r wyddfa.

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bwlch aberglaslyn, beddgelert.

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neuadd a pharc gregynog yn y gwanwyn.

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taith mari jones, rhan 2: minffordd i frithdir.

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mhplanet replied to your post “books read in 2018”

                       Number 18 looks like my sort of  book.                    

it’s a good one. unfortunately, she concentrated on the newtown/welshpool/berwyns area. nothing to find out about the situation here in mach. i can still recommend it highly, though, simply for the well-done research and easily accessible style of writing.

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books read in 2018

Gareth Thomas: Myfi, Iolo ****

August Peters: Erzgebirgische Geschichten ***

Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea ****

Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird *****

Ralph Giordano: Der Wombat ***

Bethan Gwanas: Efa ***

Toni Morrisson: Beloved *****

Sarah Perry: The Essex Serpent *****

Menna Gallie: Strike for a Kingdom *****

Jeanette Winterson: Oranges are not the Only Fruit *****

Various: Deutsche Romantiker ****

Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm: Die Elbjungfer und das Saaleweiblein (ed.) ***

Hilda Vaughan: Iron and Gold *****

Alys Conran: Pigeon ****

Margiad Evans: Creed ****

Madeline L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time **

Philip Pullman: Grimm’s Tales for Young and Old ***

Rachel Jones: Crime, Courts and Community in mid-Victorian Wales ****

Pamela Petro: Travels in an Old Tongue *

Richard Carr: Charlie Chaplin: A Political Biography from Victorian Britain to Modern America *****

Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook *****

W. G. Sebald: Austerlitz **

Manon Steffan Ros: Llyfr Glas Nebo *****

Alexander Cordell: Hosts of Rebecca ***

Noelle Stevenson: Nimona *****

Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples: Saga ****

Phil Kay: The Wholly Viable ***

Jerome K Jerome: Three Men on the Bummel ***

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse ***

Ransom Riggs: A Map of Days *

Bethan Gwanas: Y Diffeithwch Du ****

James S. A. Corey: Caliban’s War *****

breakdown

authors by gender (one overlap due to collaboration)

books by female authors: 19

books by male authors: 14

genres:

fantastic literature: 8

graphic novels: 2

Wales-related books: 10

crime fiction: 2

historical novels: 7

science fiction: 2

post-colonial: 1

non-fiction: 5

short-story/fiction collections: 3

other: 9

languages:

English: 21

Welsh: 4

German: 5

ratings:

*: 2

**: 2

***: 9

****: 8

*****: 11

resolution for 2019: read more books in welsh again and up the post-colonial writing

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rochsburg castle.

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hartenstein, erzgebirge -- burg stein and schloss hartenstein.

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carlsfeld, erzgebirge.

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fasadenkunst in dresden -- ein überblick.