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lightreads) wrote2019-01-01 06:22 pm
lightreads) wrote2019-01-01 06:22 pm
2018 reading
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
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