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Books in 2024
Feb. 20th, 2025 08:57 pmY'all, I am managing to post this in February, not May, and that is already a massive improvement over last year ;-)
Books in 2023
May. 6th, 2024 03:29 pmHa ha, whoops, did I say I would post again soon? Well, that was January, and now it's May, and anyway here's a little bit about the books I read in 2023...
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Books in 2022
Feb. 27th, 2023 09:07 amOh, hey, it's almost March 2023... Here's my post about the books I read in 2022. (A post that I mostly wrote at the end of 2022...and then didn't manage to finish until now.)
( Books in 2022! )
Books in 2020!
Jan. 16th, 2021 12:51 amHow many books read in 2020?
97 books
...Yes, this is the first time since (*checks records*) 2015 that I read fewer than 100 books in a year. I don’t even know exactly why this year had a drop-off; yes, 2020 was hard, but for me 2019 was way, way, way harder. I think partly it may be that I’ve been working on being less obsessive about, well, everything, so that seems to have managed to spill over into not being quite as absurd about my MUST READ ALL THESE BOOKS impulses. That’s my plan for 2021, in fact – to try to hardly be obsessive about it at all. :-)
(BTW, it was ADORABLE looking back at my end-of-year books post from 2015 and seeing that I was impressed with myself for having read a whole 79 books that year, and that I thought reading 6–7 books a month was a lot. Ha ha ha, awww. *laughs indulgently at my naïve baby self who had not yet become obsessive about expanding and tracking my reading*)
( lots of thoughts and books and recs! )
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Books in 2017!
Dec. 30th, 2017 11:08 pmI read...114 BOOKS THIS YEAR. One hundred and fourteen of them. That is a thing I did. I'm proud and terrified. But let's be honest: mostly proud. ;-) Let me tell you about them!
( THE GREAT 2017 BOOKS MEME! )
Onward to great books in 2018!
( THE GREAT 2017 BOOKS MEME! )
Onward to great books in 2018!
Books in 2016!
Jan. 4th, 2017 10:37 pmAs mentioned....I read 107 books in the calendar year that just ended. Let's do a little nerding out about them!
( THE GREAT 2016 BOOKS MEME! )
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Also, my colleague at the library came across Book Riot's "read harder" challenge and pointed it out to me (because I need more reasons to read more, right?) This is actually meant to be next year's challenge (and you're meant to set out to deliberately read a book for each category, not just see afterwards if you happened to hit all of them by chance). But I was curious how the reading I'd already done in 2016 would measure up, so I started looking at the 24 categories...and ended up kinda accidentally writing out my extensive "answers" for each category. So here are my 2016 "read harder" results. Pretty fun, and a neat way to expand one's reading in lots of different ways.
( the "read harder" challenge! )
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( THE GREAT 2016 BOOKS MEME! )
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Also, my colleague at the library came across Book Riot's "read harder" challenge and pointed it out to me (because I need more reasons to read more, right?) This is actually meant to be next year's challenge (and you're meant to set out to deliberately read a book for each category, not just see afterwards if you happened to hit all of them by chance). But I was curious how the reading I'd already done in 2016 would measure up, so I started looking at the 24 categories...and ended up kinda accidentally writing out my extensive "answers" for each category. So here are my 2016 "read harder" results. Pretty fun, and a neat way to expand one's reading in lots of different ways.
( the "read harder" challenge! )
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Books in 2015!
Jan. 2nd, 2016 07:59 pmHere we go... Some reflections on a huge year of reading:
I did this meme for the first time last year; in 2014 I'd made a conscious effort to step up my reading of books again; I used to be a voracious book reader, but discovering fanfic sidetracked me for a bit. I still enjoy fanfic too, but I wanted to make a deliberate return to books.
I read 38 books in 2014, and was pretty pleased with myself – that's everything from fairly light reads to massive tomes, and it was on top of working and also traveling a lot (and still reading and writing a lot of fic), etc., so that actually felt like quite a few. (Averaging out to 3 or more novels a month.)
In 2015, though, I was really pushing myself to expand my reading – reading authors from many different backgrounds, reading some classics, working my way through some of the books that had been on my "recommended" list for ages – and I also had a lot more time to read, since I was between jobs for part of the year. So as the end of 2015 drew near, I decided to see if I could hit double my previous year's total, i.e., at least 76 books.
I'm pleased to report I read 79 books in 2015! (For an average of 6 to 7 books a month??) I also did quarterly round-ups of what I'd most enjoyed during each three-month chunk of the year (findable under the "books" tag), which was fun.
Here are some reflections on my year in books:
( BOOKS MEME 2015 )
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I did this meme for the first time last year; in 2014 I'd made a conscious effort to step up my reading of books again; I used to be a voracious book reader, but discovering fanfic sidetracked me for a bit. I still enjoy fanfic too, but I wanted to make a deliberate return to books.
I read 38 books in 2014, and was pretty pleased with myself – that's everything from fairly light reads to massive tomes, and it was on top of working and also traveling a lot (and still reading and writing a lot of fic), etc., so that actually felt like quite a few. (Averaging out to 3 or more novels a month.)
In 2015, though, I was really pushing myself to expand my reading – reading authors from many different backgrounds, reading some classics, working my way through some of the books that had been on my "recommended" list for ages – and I also had a lot more time to read, since I was between jobs for part of the year. So as the end of 2015 drew near, I decided to see if I could hit double my previous year's total, i.e., at least 76 books.
I'm pleased to report I read 79 books in 2015! (For an average of 6 to 7 books a month??) I also did quarterly round-ups of what I'd most enjoyed during each three-month chunk of the year (findable under the "books" tag), which was fun.
Here are some reflections on my year in books:
( BOOKS MEME 2015 )
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Books in 2014!
Jan. 13th, 2015 01:59 pmBooks! I read a bunch of them, this past year. And when I saw ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nerak_rose did this meme about books, it looked like fun. Here we go!
( BOOKS MEME )
nerak_rose did this meme about books, it looked like fun. Here we go!( BOOKS MEME )
