2024 Mid Year Review & A Favourite so far

This is the annual Midyear review. As usual I’d like to look back at the first half of the year and see how I’ve been doing with my goals, and share a favourite book from 2024 so far.

Here are all the titles and videos I mentioned:
2024 Planning & TBR
   • My 2024 reading plans // key authors ...  
1606 the Year of Lear
   • Books I read in May & early June 2024  
The Canterbury Tales
   • Books I read in April 2024 // Poor Th...  
The Duchess of Malfi
   • Introducing Shakespeare's Contemporar...  
Frankenstein
   • If you like Frankenstein, try Poor Th...  
Lesser Known Poets: Aemilia Lanyer
   • Aemilia Lanyer // Defending Eve // In...  
Lesser Known Poets: John Clare
   • John Clare the “peasant poet” // Intr...  
Lesser Known Poets: Sir Thomas Wyatt
   • Sir Thomas Wyatt // Introducing lesse...  
Love’s Labour’s Lost
   • Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare /...  
Mariana
   • Books I read in April 2024 // Poor Th...  
Mrs Dalloway
   • Mrs Dalloway & Virginia Woolf's lette...  
Phantaste
   • Books I read in February 2024 // Shak...  
Richard II
   • Richard II by Shakespeare ep.1 // The...  
   • Richard II by Shakespeare ep.2 // Wha...  
Shakespeare the Man Who Pays the Rent
   • Books I read in February 2024 // Shak...  
Twelfth Night
   • Twelfth Night by Shakespeare // Twins...  
The Wind in the Willows
   • Books I read in March 2024 // John We...