According to Goodreads, I read 299 books in 2022, 6 short of my record the year before. The pandemic definitely helped me find more time to read than in years prior, tho 2022 was more difficult because I actually got sick, from COVID-19 itself in May, then with whatever obnoxious unnumbered viruses the kids brought …
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Jan 01 2023
Taking Stock of 2022
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Lists
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January 1, 2023
I owe my favorite book of 2022 to the Hugo nominators who got Light from Uncommon Stars onto the finalist list, and the publishers who generously provided an electronic copy to all voters. Without those two groups of people, I would have missed out on a wonderful book and never been the wiser. The book …
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Apr 17 2022
Hugo Finalists 2022
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Essay, Lists
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April 17, 2022
What an exciting bunch of finalists! I’ve read precisely none of the finalists in the first four fiction categories (I had put The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison on my nominating ballot and am sorry to see it was not among the top six), also none of the finalists for Best Related Work, …
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Jan 13 2022
Looking Back on 2021
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Lists
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January 13, 2022
I read and reviewed over 300 books last year. I honestly do not know how I did that, and I’m hoping I won’t have to continue that patently absurd rate of reading this year, especially since I’ve started designing tabletop games and would like to spend more time and effort doing that instead. Ofc, I’ve …
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Jan 07 2022
Taking Stock of 2021
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Lists
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January 7, 2022
For a year that started out with a struggle to read much of anything at all, 2021 brought numerous books that made me very happy to read, to have read, to browse repeatedly, and to go back and read bits of them again and again. Both Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins and Fletcher and Zenobia …
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Oct 11 2021
Tales of the Squee, Pt. 2
- By Doug Merrill in Coming Attractions, Doug, Lists, Short Takes
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October 11, 2021
That I am spoiled for choice among just the books that I own, to say nothing of any libraries that Berlin might have, can be inferred from the fact that in the four and a half years since I last wrote a coming attractions post, I have read north of 200 books, but only three …
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Jan 15 2021
Looking Back On 2020
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Lists
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January 15, 2021
Y’all, I read a patently absurd number of books last year. With a final tally of 256 books logged on Goodreads, this was an increase of just under 70 books and over 8000 pages from the year before. On the one hand, I did a much better job of cataloging the graphic novels and children’s …
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Jan 02 2021
Taking Stock of 2020
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Lists
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January 2, 2021
Whew, what a year. I’m glad to be here to see the end of it. In late April, at the height of the first wave of the pandemic, I found myself in the hospital for an emergency appendectomy that required a second surgery and several nights in the ICU. It happened like this: one Friday, …
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Jan 04 2020
Looking Back on 2019
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Lists
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January 4, 2020
Another busy year in reading, with my book total clocking in at 189 books, up four from last year, with an almost 3000 page increase (with a big ole thanks to Goodreads once again for crunching my numbers. Full list can be found here! Feel free to friend me while you’re there.) This uptick was …
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Jan 01 2020
Taking Stock of 2019
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Lists
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January 1, 2020
My reading jumped another 10 books or so in 2019. I know when, but I don’t really know why. In January, I had been pretty seriously ill (for me, at least). In February, when I was recovered, I read 17 books. That’s not much for, say, Jo Walton or Nicholas Whyte, but it’s the most …
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