Hey there! Happy new year! I’ve been quite busy over the past month or so as I’ve started a new job and the new schedule has taken some time to get used to. It’s gotten a bit better over the last week so this should be the start of a more regular weekly round-up newsletter. That being said this will be a different newsletter update. Over the past year, I’ve read a decent chuck of books and started getting back into playing games as well. Below is a list of some of my favorites.
Books
This has been a good year for reading. According to Goodreads I’ve read 166 books in 2022 giving an average rating of 3.4. Below I’ve listed my top 3 books from the genres I typically read.
Top 3 Fantasy
- The Way of Shadows – Brent Weeks
- The Divine Cities Trilogy – Robert Jackson Bennett
- Under the Whispering Door – T.J. Klune
Top 3 Humour
- The Wee Free Men – Terry Pratchett
- The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant – Drew Hayes
- Kings of the Wyld – Nicholas Eames
Top 3 Sci-fi
- Evershore – Brandon Sandeson
- Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy – Timothy Zahn
- Star Wars: The Hand of Thrawn Duology – Timothy Zahn
Top 3 Thriller
- The Gray Man – Mark Greaney
- Ice Station – Matthew Reilly
- The Black Echo – Michael Connelly
Top 3 Mystery
- Still Life – Louise Penny
- A Midsummer’s Equation – Keigo Higashino (all his books should be on this list for that matter)
- The Appeal – Janice Hallett
Top 3 LitRPG
- He Who Fights With Monsters, Vol 1-5 – Shirtaloon
- Roots and Steel – Casey White
- Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint – Sing Shong
- Bonus: Solo Leveling webnovel – Chugong (for those who cant wait for the manhwa/graphic novel to catch up)
Top 3 Graphic Novels
- Thor – The Saga of Gorr the God Butcher – Jason Aaron
- Absolute All-Star Superman – Grant Morrison
- Heartstopper, Vol 1 – Alice Oseman
Top 3 manga/manhwa
- Spy x Family, Vol 1-8 – Tatsuya Endo
- Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol 1 – Kazuo Koike
- Solo Leveling – Chugong
Games
Here are the games I’ve played and enjoyed in 2022
- Pokemon Arceus
- Moonlighter
- Octopath Traveller
- Midnight Fight Express
- Into the Breach
- Marvel Snap
- Toem
Music
Finally here are my top 10 most played songs according to Apple’s yearly round-up
- STAR WALKIN’ – Lil Nas X
- Mon Soleil – Ashley Park
- Under the Influence – Chris Brown
- Heat Waves – Glass Animals
- Young Right Now – Robin Schulz and Dennis Lloyd
- Infinity – Jaymes Young
- First Light – Lindsey Stirling
- Bloody Mary – Lady Gaga
- Enemy – Imagine Dragons
- Don’t Blame Me – Taylor Swift
Next week’s newsletter will go back to the usual format but in the mean time if anything on the lists resonates with you, or if you just want to chat, please feel free to leave a comment. I’d love to hear back. Till the next then!
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