2018 reading

[lightreads]

My only reading goal for 2018 was to read more than I did in 2017, and oh boy did I do that, as 80 is a lot more than 45 (I'm counting novellas, not counting anything DNF). So that was a success. And, as I suspected, reading more made me want to read more. I got that compulsive pleasure button for reading back, thank God. There is hope, for those of you who also thought your brains were too tired for this.

I don't have any particular goals for 2019 except, maybe, for a nebulous goal to enjoy things more. Or, to flip it around, to stop finishing things I'm not enjoying. There is a bomb that is going off in my life later in 2019, in a good way? Hopefully? So all I really want to do is treat my time as valuable before I have even less of it than I do now.

Here are some standouts from 2018, in no particular order.

YA fantasy: In Other Lands

Science fiction: Null States

Post apocalypse: The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

Het romance: The Suffragette Scandal

Queer romance: A Charm of Magpies

Military: The Guns Above

Nonfiction: The Gene: An Intimate History

Fantasy: The Traitor Baru Cormorant

Comments

[thefourthvine]

A bomb that is going to lead to even less time? Is ... is it possible to have negative time?

But yay! I am a big supporter of reading what is fun to read

[jesse_the_k]

Thank you for this important dispatch: as I've been concerned for the too-tired brain in the last couple decades.

[treewishes]

My sister has just forced me to read In Other Lands (I'm in chapter 2), and I haven't read any of the others. So .... adding them to the list!