Four months.  Dog dramas, kid conundrums, my own health hobblements (lingering costochondritis).  A depressing election result and ever-more...

MUSIC - JUNE Maybe it's more appropriate to call this three-month update an emissions diary, as my family of four flew to Europe and bac...

MUSIC So I heard 'Give Me Back My Man' for the first time in May 2023. The B-52's had always seemed a novelty act to me. 'Lo...

BIOGRAPHICAL INTERLUDE It's the first of May as I start this. I have COVID for the second time. Last year it went through my house at th...

MUSIC - JAN BOOKS Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton (novel, physical book,  NZ, 2023) Potentially the best book I'll read this year and it...

You can find a playlist at the bottom of this post if you want to listen while you read. You can also find previous editions of my yearly mu...

This list is all about the best books I read in 2022, not necessarily those that came out this year. I do this most years, see: 2021 ,  2020...