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Emilie Cayre

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Books I read in 2019

2019 was my third year of aiming to read a “book a week”. I’m really glad I’ve stuck with this goal – reading is now a regular part of my life and continues to bring me a lot of joy!

I’m always up for a chat about books, particularly giving and getting book recommendations. In this spirit, I’ve shared my reading list below and I would also love to hear what others have been reading this year!

I enjoyed most of these books – particular favourites are in bold, and re-reads are in italics (all re-reads here are also favourites).

1. The Little Drummer Girl - John Le Carre - 3/1

2. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - Roxane Gay - 5/1

3. Bad Feminist: Essays - Roxane Gay - 6/1

4. Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives - Jarret Walker - 8/1

5. Call for the Dead - John Le Carre - 8/1

6. Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, resilience and what happens after the worst day of your life - Leigh Sales - 10/1

7. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou - 11/1

8. American Gods - Neil Bauman - 16/1

9. The War is Dead, Long Live the War: Bosnia, the Reckoning - Ed Vulliamy - 29/1

10. Normal People - Sally Rooney - 31/1

11. The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire - Chloe Hooper - 5/2

12. The Wal-Mart Effect: How an Out-of-town Superstore Became a Superpower - Charles Fishman - 19/2

13. Educated - Tara Westover - 22/2

14. What I Like About Me - Jenna Guillaume - 28/2

15. One Hundred Years of Dirt - Rick Morton - 6/3

16. The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age - Tim Wu - 18/3

17. Boy Swallows Universe - Trent Dalton - 29/3

18. Dark Emu - Bruce Pascoe - 6/4

19. The Place on Dalhousie - Melina Marchetta - 7/4

20. Looking for Alibrandi - Melina Marchetta - 10/4

21. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future - Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt - 5/5

22. The Fifth Season - NK Jemisin - 20/5

23. The Obelisk Gate - NK Jemisin - 2/6

24. The Stone Sky - NK Jemisin - 11/6

25. The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster - 13/6

26. Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan - 24/6

27. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling - 28/6

28. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling - 3/7

29. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling - 8/7

30. Billion Dollar Whale - Tom Wright and Bradley Hope - 17/7

31. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling - 26/7

32. The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris - 3/8

33. The Trauma Cleaner: One woman's extraordinary life in death, decay and disaster - Sarah Krasnostein - 14/8

34. Steve Smith's Men - Geoff Lemon - 17/8

35. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott - 23/8

36. Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott - 29/8

37. Eleanor and Park - Rainbow Rowell - 14/9

38. Not Just Lucky - Jamila Rizvi - 25/9

39. The Yield - Tara June Winch - 3/10

40. Factfulness - Dr Hans Rosling - 8/10

41. Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing - Gretchen McCulloch - 15/10

42. Men at Work: Australia's parenthood trap - Annabel Crabb - 18/10

43. Fleishman is in Trouble - Taffy Brodesser-Akner - 19/10

44. Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell - 28/10

45. Agent Running in the Field - John Le Carre - 31/10

46. The Second Sleep - Robert Harris - 3/11

47. I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution - Emily Nussbaum - 7/11

48. The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis - 8/11

49. Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour - Michael Lewis - 13/11

50. The Book of Dust: Volume Two: The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman - 2/12

51. The Beekeeper of Aleppo - Christy Lefteri - 11/12

52. The Godmother - Hannelore Cayre - 17/12

53. Tough Customer: Chasing a better deal for battlers - Allan Fels - 23/12

54. Stop Being Reasonable - Eleanor Gordon-Smith - 30/12

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Sigue tu destino, riega tus plantas,

ama tus rosas.

El resto es la sombra

de árboles ajenos.

La realidad

es siempre más o menos

de lo que queremos.

Sólo nosotros somos siempre

iguales a nosotros mismos.

Suave es vivir solo.

Grande y noble es siempre

vivir simplemente.

Deja el olor en aras

como exvoto a los dioses.

Ve de lejos la vida.

No la interrogues nunca.

Que ella nada puede

decirte. La respuesta,

más allá de los dioses.

Mas serenamente

imita el Olimpo

en tu corazón.

Los dioses son dioses

porque no se piensan.

- Fernando Pessoa. (Firmado con el heterónimo de Ricardo Reis) De: Odas de Ricardo Reis – (Publicación póstuma) – 1935-1994 Traducción de Ángel Campos Pámpano Ed. Pre-Textos – 1995© – Colección de la Cruz del Sur 

- Emilie Cayre. Sin título. Albí, Francia, 2021.