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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Jan 03 2019
Looking Back on 2018
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Lists
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January 3, 2019
My compatriots here at The Frumious Consortium have guilted me into doing a recap post, gj, all. Between here and my work for Criminal Element, I read (with a big thanks to Goodreads for crunching the stats for me; hey, feel free to be my friend there, if you’re reading this) 185 books in 2018, …
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Jan 02 2019
Taking Stock of 2018
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Lists
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January 2, 2019
My amount of reading took a jump in 2017 with what I read to vote for the Hugo awards, and it stayed jumped this year. I finished the Discworld novels in early September, a couple of months sooner than I had expected. I had somehow missed reading them in the 1980s and 1990s, and only …
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Dec 24 2018
2018 Reading Roundup
- By L.M. Davenport in Fabulous Ones, Lily, Lists, Literature, Reading
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December 24, 2018
I’ve now read 100 books in 2018. I won’t stop between now and the end of the year, but this seemed like a good point to pause and take stock. Here’s a list of my top 10 SFF, fabulist, or otherwise wackadoodle books from the last year, presented in the order that I read them …
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Jan 04 2018
Taking Stock of 2017
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Lists
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January 4, 2018
This was a good year for reading. No household relocations, no major changes on the job front, no international incidents. That adds up to a longer list of books (somewhat eclectically defined) read than any year since I began keeping these lists. Voting for the Hugo award drove a lot of my reading in the …
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May 01 2017
Tales of the Squee
- By Doug Merrill in Coming Attractions, Doug, Lists, Short Takes
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May 1, 2017
The height of my to-be-read pile could be measured in years, if the books could somehow fit into a unified pile. And that doesn’t count a particular moving box in the basement, in which some really good books, or at least some really interesting-looking books are awaiting their turn to come upstairs. (Some of them …
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Jan 02 2017
Taking Stock of 2016
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Lists
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January 2, 2017
In reading, as in so many things, 2016 did not end quite the way I had reckoned it would. About halfway through the year I noticed I was near the end of several series, with more on the to-be-read shelf that I could knock out and clear space. That bookcase nearly full, double shelved, so …
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Jan 05 2016
Taking Stock of 2015
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Lists
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January 5, 2016
In 2015, I decided to read in three major science fiction and fantasy series that I had somehow missed over the previous twenty years or more. While I had been happily reading other things, they had grown into monuments of the field, and I only knew second-hand what they were all about. So I decided …
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