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July in Review
Books Acquired: Nigellissima: Instant Italian Inspiration by Nigella Lawson The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Alice in Wonderland (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland #1) by Lewis Carroll Books Read: Saga, Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughan The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Alice in Wonderland (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland #1) by Lewis Carroll The Magicians (The Magicians, #1) by Lev Grossman I managed to only buy one physical book this month (the other three are audiobooks), and that was a cookbook. I’m not sure how to deal with cookbooks in my obsessive online tracking. I add them to Goodreads,…
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June in Review
Books Acquired: Slam by Nick Hornby Songbook by Nick Hornby Saga, Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples Saga, Volume 3 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples The Unwritten, Vol. 6: Tommy Taylor and the War of Words by Mike Carey, Peter Gross Books Read: The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett The Time Machine by H.G. Wells It’s been another slow reading month. I got a little distracted by video games, to be honest. Steam had one of their big sales, and while I didn’t really buy much, the talk around it put me in the gaming mood I suppose. I also wasn’t really feeling my current audio book,…
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April in Review
Books Acquired: The Serpent of Venice: A Novel by Christopher Moore X-Men: Days of Future Past by Chris Claremont Captain America: Winter Soldier Ultimate Collection by Ed Brubaker The Windup Girl (audiobook) by Paolo Bacigalupi Books Read: The Martian (audiobook) by Andy Weir Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin I thought I’d have a go at writing some monthly wrap-ups here. I enjoy them on other weblogs I read, and it gives me a chance to post some lists, and I do love lists, even if they are quite small. I feel like I’m just starting to come out of this half year reading drought, but that’s a pretty sad…
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Archive Pages
I’ve added two archive pages, one for books read and another for comics read. I grouped the books by author, and this has really highlighted how unfocused my reading is. Since starting this weblog just over two years ago, the most I’ve read from one author is three books (and that’s just Stephen Fry and Nick Hornby). I just get too excited at new prospects to spend too much time in one place, I think. Oh well, at least I’ll stretch my favourite authors out longer.
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2012
This was my first full year writing here, so I get to do a proper wrap-up this time around! The Blog I honestly thought I’d get sick of this by now, but here we are a year and a half in. I’ve read more since starting, and it’s forced me to sit and think about what I’ve read before moving on. I’ve also found myself reading books I otherwise might not have picked up, and my attitude towards the classics have shifted from feeling like I need to read them to genuinely wanting to read them, so it’s actually become a rewarding hobby. As far as new things to come,…
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I’m In Yer Aggregator, Updatin’ Yer Feeds
Like returning home from holiday and finding squatters in your apartment, I popped on here last month to find my old blog’s security had been compromised. I’d left the poor thing for dead, I’m afraid. Well, I’ve now chased away the tramps, brushed away the cobwebs, and blown away the dust, and I’m actually somewhat interested in starting up again. I haven’t been writing much of anything in the past year, fiction or otherwise, so it might be nice to slowly get back into the habit, though I’m not entirely sure what I’ll be posting. I’ll start with some reviews of what I’m currently reading and see what catches my…