Tag: Lists

Jan 15 2021

Looking Back On 2020

By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Lists
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
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
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
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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Jun 23 2019

Off to the Wabe

By Doug Merrill in Autobiography, Doug, Fabulous Ones, Fantasy, Science Fiction
June 23, 2019

Perhaps to gyre and gimble. Back in mid-July. In the meantime, I have become a supporting member of Dublin 2019, an Irish Worldcon. I’m gutted that I won’t be able to attend in person, but what can ya do? I had an amazing time at Worldcon 75 in Helsinki, and enjoyed being a Hugo voter …

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Jan 03 2019

Looking Back on 2018

By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Lists
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
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
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
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
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 …