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2021 Book Consumption
Dec. 31st, 2021 02:32 pmI used to keep track of my books very methodically, but I've fallen out of the habit in recent years. This year I started again, though I did have a few months where I had to go back and try to reconstruct, so I'm not actually sure this is entirely comprehensive. Typing it out for posterity anyway!
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Final total: 69* (Maybe 70? I can't remember if I finished priest's Mo Du/Silent Reading this year or last. Apparently I didn't write it down and time has no meaning anymore.) Anyway, that's not bad for a year in which I was still reading lots of fic! I pre-fic times, I would easily break 100 books in a year, but that's fine.
I definitely didn't read as much short fiction as I had been for the last 9 years this year, because I quit working (volunteering) for Lightspeed back in February, which means April was the last issue copy edited by me.
Highlights of the year, looking back at this list:
-Finally reading all the Murderbot books! (save the most recent) They were as good as everyone said.
-Winter's Orbit
-A Desolation Called Peace (and I was glad to have reread Memory just before to refresh my memory as well)
-Black Water Sister
-The Lychford books, for proving that procedurals without police (or men, really) are a thing
-AJ Demas's Sword Dance series, for middle-aged, previously broken people falling in love (and solving crime)
-Liz Williams's Detective Inspector Chen books, for being such a weird meld of SFF genres with a Chinese mythology base
-Nghi Vo's Singing Hills novellas, I want more!
-Finally catching up on the Rivers of London books, which I'd apparently stalled on after that out-of-London lull of a book, but I'm pleased to report they picked back up again
Of course, there's nothing on this list that I didn't actually like, because I've been dropping books that don't hold my attention with great abandon, so if I finished it, I enjoyed it!
*Came back to add in two audiobooks that had gotten lost in the months where I was reconstructing the list by looking through my ereader/physical books.
( Full list )
Final total: 69* (Maybe 70? I can't remember if I finished priest's Mo Du/Silent Reading this year or last. Apparently I didn't write it down and time has no meaning anymore.) Anyway, that's not bad for a year in which I was still reading lots of fic! I pre-fic times, I would easily break 100 books in a year, but that's fine.
I definitely didn't read as much short fiction as I had been for the last 9 years this year, because I quit working (volunteering) for Lightspeed back in February, which means April was the last issue copy edited by me.
Highlights of the year, looking back at this list:
-Finally reading all the Murderbot books! (save the most recent) They were as good as everyone said.
-Winter's Orbit
-A Desolation Called Peace (and I was glad to have reread Memory just before to refresh my memory as well)
-Black Water Sister
-The Lychford books, for proving that procedurals without police (or men, really) are a thing
-AJ Demas's Sword Dance series, for middle-aged, previously broken people falling in love (and solving crime)
-Liz Williams's Detective Inspector Chen books, for being such a weird meld of SFF genres with a Chinese mythology base
-Nghi Vo's Singing Hills novellas, I want more!
-Finally catching up on the Rivers of London books, which I'd apparently stalled on after that out-of-London lull of a book, but I'm pleased to report they picked back up again
Of course, there's nothing on this list that I didn't actually like, because I've been dropping books that don't hold my attention with great abandon, so if I finished it, I enjoyed it!
*Came back to add in two audiobooks that had gotten lost in the months where I was reconstructing the list by looking through my ereader/physical books.
