Yes, I’m a month late doing the year-end wrap-up things, but I was way too busy in early January so didn’t have time to do them then. And I like doing the annual summaries, so even though they’re late, I’m going to post them anyway. I didn’t do a lot of reading last year (well,…
(Only slightly belatedly) January: February: March: April: May: June: July: August: September: Don’t be silly, I wasn’t taking photos, I had deadlines! October: November: December: So the year started and ended with family. And despite feeling like I was too busy to do anything this year, I actually packed in quite a lot. Onwards to…
2015 is hard to summarise. I learnt a lot, I took on some huge new challenges, but mostly it’s just been incredibly busy, and has raced past in a blur. So rather than try and write anything meaningful about it, I’ll use my usual trick of recycling bits of blog entries 🙂 So, 2015 in…
Total = 112 books January (13) You Know You’re From ChCh When… compiled by Bruce Raines Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters by Alan S Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa (library audio book) Gould’s Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan (e-book) Drybread by Owen Marshall The Chocolate Bear Burglary by JoAnna Carl (e-book) Angel Sister by…
Nothing much to write about, so it must be about time for a catch report (is it seriously 6 months since the last one???): Nine Uses For An Ex-Boyfriend by Sarra Manning – released in the College of Arts waiting area (I’ve had some good catches from there, actually – I really must get round…
In my 2013 in review post, I wrote “…instead of hoping that next year is a better one, I’m going to say that I’m going to make sure that next year I continue to make my life what I want it to be, and that I’ll keep surrounding myself with what gives me joy.” And…
For the first time since I started keeping these reading lists, I dipped below 100 books read this year – my total was only 93. I suspect the main reason for that is that I got out of habit of reading for pleasure in the first half of the year, when I was reading so…
Total: 129 books January (17) Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (e-book) The Sandman: The Wake by Neil Gaiman (graphic novel) Live Alone and Like It by Marjorie Hillis Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire by Derek Landy (borrowed from Nephew) The Favoured Child by Philippa Gregory (library audio book) Save Yourself, Mammal! by Zach…
ickens had it right: it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It seems like every year lately I’ve summed up the year as being full of horrible stuff interspersed with some pretty good stuff, and expressed the hope that next year can only get better. And yep, once again there’s…
Total = 128 books January (17) Machine of Death edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo and David Malki! Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (e-book) Broadmoor Revealed by Mark Stevens (e-book) Beachcombers by Nancy Thayer (library audio book) A Year on Planet Alzheimer by Carolyn Steele (e-book) Wool by Hugh Howey (e-book) Wool 2: Proper Gauge by…