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A pretty fast group this time! I was doing pretty well at getting my shelves down, and then I had a birthday and also a craving for some historical romances and now I'm back up nearly to where I was. Whoops!

No trends to comment on this time! Other than a tragic tendency to Not Like Other Girls Syndrome. )

And that's all for this time! Next time, my resumed battle to reduce my TBR shelves a bit!

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A bit of a slower one this time, though as always with me that's relative! And a mixed group this time, though there were three that I liked very much indeed and a few others that weren't bad. There was another DNF (I have such tragically mixed luck with fantasy romances that bill themselves as cozy. This particular one billed itself as cozy but Wasn't in ways that stressed me out, and others are so cozy as to be practically anaesthetic), and a few disappointments, but that's just the vagaries of this reading year!

A very romance-heavy group, looking back on it. )

Okay! Like I said, definitely some good ones in there, just a few rough or thin ones as well. Still, I could do much worse, and in fact have so far this year!

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How has this year already had three months in it? It's already time to talk about what I've been watching and what I've been making since the year began.

The obligatory cut! )

More media than usual this season, that was nice! We'll see how spring goes.

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A pretty mixed group this time, and also I DNFed three books in this time period, I'm already up to 5 or 6 DNFs for the year, I think, which is more than I get most years. I'm both glad that I'm being kind to myself on what I'm reading and annoyed that I keep running across books that don't live up to what I want them to be! Anyway, DNFed two romances (one second chance romance that AGAIN was doing the flashback thing and one enemies to lovers that wasn't doing it for me) and one ... man, what even was the third one. Oh! A self-pubbed sci fi whose tone just wasn't working for me.

A mixed bag of genres and enjoyment! )

I am finally feeling like I'm back to an appropriate number of books on my shelf, thank goodness! I'm still feeling a bit discontented with a lot of books I'm reading lately, not quite sure what to do about that besides just trying to keep on with ones I think I'll like.

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I had been doing a bit of savoring, and then I've finished 5 books since Sunday! Some weeks I just need to read all the stories I can, I suppose, and I've had some fun ones to read. I finally seem to be making proper inroads into my TBR shelves!

A pretty mixed group both in genre and enjoyment! )

And that's all for this time!

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A much less rough group than last time, thank goodness! Though I'm still struggling a little, I think because my shelves have been so full for so long and I've got a bad habit of trying to read things in order of least-excited to most-excited that I should really give up on at least temporarily, because the biggest hits this time were me going against that rule.

Apparently I had a lot to say today! )

Okay! Definitely not as bad as the first post, but some room for improvement. I'm in the midst of my first nonfic of the year, and have been for a couple weeks, hopefully that will go in the next one, as well as my continued chipping away at my shelves. And maybe A Master of Djinn will redeem itself? Let me know if you've read it and feel it does!

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The year has been off to quite a rough start reading-wise, as you will see. I should have DNFed more than I did, but I will quickly acknowledge one book I decided not to finish, Starless by Jacqueline Carey. I liked the Kushiel's Dart trilogy by Carey, but I made it about 100 pages into this one before I gave up. Not a bad book, just not what I wanted. Ah well! On to the ones I did actually finish.

Never nice to start the year with three misses you thought would be hits! )

And that's my first group! Those first few were very very rough, and I feel like I was struggling my way back to something better after that, but hopefully this next group will treat me better! I'm already halfway through a good one, thank goodness, and I'll be careful about my next few picks to make sure I stay on the right track.

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This year, to my very great relief, was much better than last year where writing was concerned! Some very unexpected diversions, and the massive commitment level of my autumn musical theater work, mean that I didn't get some of the original projects I wanted to do started, let alone finished, but I always have big expectations I know I can't live up to, so I'm doing a better job than I sometimes do of being forgiving of myself for all of that.

Popping in a cut since this is my third post of the day. )

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I have read 5 books since my last post! I'd thought I would do more, but I spent the last few days of the year blazing through a whole lot of writing to get one last fic posted on the AO3, and it's not as though I didn't already read a whole bunch this year, so I'll take it.

A few last books to see the year out! )

And now, as always, my top ten for the year, and some statistics about my reading overall.

My top ten, in no particular order:
  • Stars, Hide Your Fires by Jessica Mary Best
  • Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
  • Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher
  • Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall
  • Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo
  • The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard
  • Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
  • System Collapse by Martha Wells
  • Scholomance Series by Naomi Novik
  • Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

Overall, I read 165 books this year, thankfully 21 down from last year, which was a bit excessive. I didn't do a great job of savoring, as I had vague hopes of last year, but still, I read some good ones this year!

Of these books:
  • 24 were rereads, down even from the year before, which was pretty similar to this year
  • 9 were nonfiction, a vast change from the last two years of 3 apiece! Doing my book bingo really helped with that
  • 6 were graphic novels, doubled from last year
  • 2 were poetry, both by the same author
  • 87 were SFF, which is drastically down and feels wrong somehow! Maybe I miscounted?
  • 65 were romances, again down, but I think that's because there was a bit less fantasy/romance crossover
  • 15 were mysteries (including the Beka Cooper books and Fugitive Telemetry), a new category for me to track
  • 24 were written for YA or lower
That is my reading from the year, all summed up! I'm glad I met goals like getting a blackout on my book bingo card, which I intend to try again this year, and I did read at least a bit less than last year, but I just don't know if I really do much savoring, as a reader. Even when I take a long time to read something, it's reading in 100-page bursts several days apart. So I don't know if I should ask something of myself that simply isn't terribly feasible! In absence of that goal, I'll stick with book bingo, and trying to be better about putting things down when I'm not enjoying them, a perpetual goal I'm not great at.

What are your reading plans for the year?
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2023 is closed out, which means my usual end-of-year posts will be going up! Probably all tonight, maybe one tomorrow if I run out of energy, we'll see. But this is the easiest, since it's only a quarter of the year, so we're starting here!

A few new things, and a D&D time loop! )

And that's all for this year's various kinds of media! Not my most exciting year for that, but I like tracking it just so I know that for sure.

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If this is shorter than usual, it's because I'm writing this while charging my devices on day four of a power outage! Said power outage is also why I am writing again so soon, and I'm already 3-4 books into my next set of ten. Not having power doesn't leave me much to do but haul water and read, given most of the rest of my area is out too and there's still a pandemic so I don't want to go many places!


Indie fantasy romances of varying quality and the last of my book bingo. )

And that's all for now! This power outage is definitely helping me through my TBR shelf, at least.

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I was thinking the other day about how at the start of this year I said it was my goal to slow down and savor a little. While I've done that with some specific books, I really have not done it overall, as evidenced by me hitting 150 books before December. Whoops!

Overall a really good group! )

After this group, I only have two squares left on my book bingo for the year! And I know what books I'm doing for both, I just have to read them. Other than that, I still have a lot of books on my shelf, with a bunch I'm excited about, so hopefully you'll all see the fruits of that as time goes by!

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Here we are again! I am continuing to do battle with my TBR shelves, and making ... at least some amount of progress. I sometimes try to get my shelves empty sometime in December just for the sense of completion, but that's definitely not happening this year, phew.

Some good books, and my very complicated feelings on the new Crusie. )

And that's all for this time! Next time will have the new Freya Marske and and some Murderbot, and we'll see what else jumps off my shelves! My life should get much less busy after the 20th of this month, so I will have more time to dive into some of the books I haven't had the attention for, or at least I hope so!

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Let's get into this, got to try to write this post before leaving for work in 40 minutes!

Some Goddard, some squares for the book bingo, some other things! )

Okay! Phew! No further commentary! Tell me what's been good lately, though, despite being spoiled for choice on my TBR shelves lately I have been in a bit of a reading funk.

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It's that time again! Summer is over, and here's the somewhat scanty list of things that I have been watching and otherwise consuming.

The summer of murder mysteries, improving some DM skills, and no sewing at all. )

Someday my ability to consume more media will return to me, and I shall feast!

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Slowed back down again! September has been a VERY busy month, and October and November are looking much the same, so we'll see what my book totals start looking like. Plus I have several difficult categories remaining for my book bingo with 3/4 of the year gone, whoops! I really need to get going on that.

Lots of romance novels this time! )

And that's all for this time! My TBR shelves are absolutely groaning right now, so I'm hoping I can speed up a little bit again soon, but we'll see how it goes.

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Just stuffing a whole lot of reading in before the end of summer! To be fair, there were several novellas in here and one nonfic I skimmed more than properly read.

Pretty sure at least four of these are novellas, actually! )

And that's all for this time! Lots more romance novels coming up, and hopefully a variety of other things as well, including my continued forays into Goddard. Anyone read anything particularly amazing lately? My preorders are way thinner in the last few months of the year than they were at the beginning, so I'm on the lookout for other reads to get me through.

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Whoops! Several rereads and children's books made this one sail by. I need to keep my goal of doing better about savoring things from the beginning of the year in mind.

Three rereads, three middle grades, and an assortment of other things. )

I'm starting to slowly work my way through some backlog on my shelves! And I have way fewer preorders coming over the next few months, so that should continue, thank goodness. I'm also hoping I'll have more romances that I like, goodness! This was a rough spate of them.

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Rather a short span for my average this year, this time! This is partly because of some airport reading but largely because only one book was a bit of a slog, which was a very nice thing indeed.

A broad variety, including two nonfic, some poetry, some short stories, and some delightful sci fi romps. )

And there we are! Probably won't be quite as quick this next time, but who knows, I have a lot of books I'm excited about coming up.

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Halfway through the year! And on track for what seems to be my usual mid-100s books for the year. I'm still very much catching up on backlog from my shelves, though! I am due to start in on this year's birthday books from early May, to give some idea of where I'm at with that.

I feel like I enjoyed these more while reading them than my summaries imply, so assume I am one degree more enthusiastic on each one than they read. )

And that's all for this time! Next time will probably have a few more rereads, because I'm going to be traveling and usually bring a few rereads for airports and such, and also there will be the continuation of my TBR shelf, as always! So many books, so little time.

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