What I read in 2020 – Part 1, the non-fiction episode
2020 has been, for me, a year of comfort reading. Lots of books were tossed aside by page 6 or 7, if they couldn’t hold my interest. And for a while there, during the deepest part of the COVID-19 lockdown, it seemed like very little could hold my interest. Miles Franklin prize-winners: tossed. New York Times best-sellers: tossed….
I’ll read anything – if it’s good enough. H is for Hawk is better than good.
A market researcher once asked me “What do you want to read about?” I can’t remember what I said but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t “I’d like to read about how an academic Englishwoman lived out her grief through raising and training a goshawk.” And that’s the thing, isn’t it? We read in order to…