Happy New Year to you all! I’m wishing you all health and happiness for 2025 and lots of good books to read.

For my first post this year I’m looking back at some of the books I read in 2024 in My Life in Books 2024. The idea is simple: Using only books you have read this year, answer these prompts. Try not to repeat a book title. 

Links in the titles below will take you to my reviews where they exist.

In high school I was: Getting Better by Michael Rosen

People might be surprised by: The Hog’s Back Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts

I will never be: The Fledgeling by Frances Faviell

My fantasy Job is: The Christmas Book Hunt by Jenny Colgan

At the end of a long day I need: Regeneration by Pat Barker

I hate being: Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz

I wish I had: The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas

My family reunions are (at): Blackwater Lake by Maggie Jones

At a party you’d find me (with) Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench, Brendan O’Hea

I’ve never been to Hemlock Bay by Martin Edwards

A happy day includes: The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe

Motto I live by: To Love and be Wise by Josephine Tey

On my bucket list is (to find): The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell

In my next life, I want to have: Black Roses by Jane Thynne