{"id":3285,"date":"2024-01-31T05:50:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T05:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindscapeinwords.com\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2024-01-31T05:50:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T05:50:44","slug":"january-2024-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindscapeinwords.com\/?p=3285","title":{"rendered":"January 2024 Wrap-Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hi Readers! After 84 years, January has finally ended! But, what a month to start the year! I feel like I did a lot of fun stuff, read quite less, spent time with my people, worked more than I did all of last quarter, worked out more too, tried new things and explored! If the first month sets the precedent for rest of the year, then bring it on! I read FOUR BOOKS across 1357 PAGES in January<\/strong><\/mark>. Check out what I read, what I watched, statistics for them & what I have been up to!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~~THESE DAYS by LUCY CALDWELL~~<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I read this book because it won the Walter Scott Prize in 2023 and the blurb really intrigued me. In this book, we see how Belfast is bombed on four nights, divided into sections titled The Dockside Raid, The Easter Raid & The Fire Raids. Imagine the impact of a bombing every night. Would you be alive? Would your family make it? Or would your entire street vanish along with the houses and the people living in them? Unimaginable, isn\u2019t it? And, despite the author picking such a devastating era, the impact the writing had was unfortunately not powerful enough. Like many wartime historical novels I have read, I felt that this one had a lot of potential, but it went unrealized. I have rated These Days by Lucy Caldwell at 3.5\/5 stars!<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read the full review below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These Days by Lucy Caldwell: A Wartime Historical Fiction Novel Based in Belfast<\/a><\/blockquote>