Reading Meme 2022
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highlyeccentricI didn't do the 2021 round-up, and I barely posted any reading posts at all in 2022. I've been doing just great.
According to goodreads right now I read 33 books in 2022. Now, I know I didn't add most of the rare books I consulted in the UK, and with goodreads having made it very difficult to add indie books I suspect I won't be able to add everything... but I'll add some of them and see how I go.
To the Meme!
2020 edition
How many books read in 2022: Upwards of 50, once I'd found and added a few 18th c poetry collections and the Tamora Pierce re-reads.
Favourite Book Read, subdivided:
Non-fiction for personal interest: Probably Danny Lavery's "Something That May Shock and Discredit You", although Dennis Duncan's "Index, A History of The" caused me more delight and less angst.
Academic reading: Weirdly, the "Works of Thomas Brown, Serious and Comical" - I handled a bunch of 18th cenutry copes in Oxford. The collection is weird and the individuakl copies are cool.
Fiction for fun: A difficult choice here, but because I'm allowed to bundle them as one, the Andy Serkis audiobooks of LOTR (which, indeed, I'm still working through). It's been so long since I re-read, and Serkis' narration is just slightly inflected by his deep familiarity with the films, but not bound to them. It's like being wrapped in a warm blanket.
Least Favourite: I think Tad William's Tailchaser's Song, because it somehow managed to do a transphobia in a book about anthropomorphic cats.
Oldest book read: I physically handled some rather old (18th c) books this year!
Newest book read: Closest upon the heels of its release, that would be Oliver Darkshire's Once Upon A Tome (in audiobook, and then I gave the pre-order hard copy I had to Dad for Xmas)
Longest Book Title: "The Works of Mr. Thomas Brown: Serious and Comical, in Prose and Verse" (with various subtitles per volume)
Shortest Title: I think that would be "100 Boyfriends", by Brontez Purnell. Unless we discard subtitles, in which case it's Kathleen Gros' graphic novel "Jo: An Adaptation of Little Women (Sort Of)"
How many re-reads? Well that's how I realise I only looged 1 of the 8 Tamora Pierce books I re-read this year... So, 14. 8 Tamora Pierce. Two books for teaching; two Terry Pratchett; Two Tolkien. I also got 2/3 of the way through re-reading "Something That May Shock and Discredit You", as soon as I finished it the first time - bit by bit I'm reading it aloud to Shiny.
Most books read by one author in the year?: Tamora Pierce, apparently.
Any in translation? Uh... no, not even academic sources.
How many were from the library? Almost none of those logged, and everything I didn't.
This has been 2022 in books.
I suspect I ought to come up with a similar quiz/meme for podcast content, given how much I have consumed in the past two years...
According to goodreads right now I read 33 books in 2022. Now, I know I didn't add most of the rare books I consulted in the UK, and with goodreads having made it very difficult to add indie books I suspect I won't be able to add everything... but I'll add some of them and see how I go.
To the Meme!
2020 edition
How many books read in 2022: Upwards of 50, once I'd found and added a few 18th c poetry collections and the Tamora Pierce re-reads.
Favourite Book Read, subdivided:
Non-fiction for personal interest: Probably Danny Lavery's "Something That May Shock and Discredit You", although Dennis Duncan's "Index, A History of The" caused me more delight and less angst.
Academic reading: Weirdly, the "Works of Thomas Brown, Serious and Comical" - I handled a bunch of 18th cenutry copes in Oxford. The collection is weird and the individuakl copies are cool.
Fiction for fun: A difficult choice here, but because I'm allowed to bundle them as one, the Andy Serkis audiobooks of LOTR (which, indeed, I'm still working through). It's been so long since I re-read, and Serkis' narration is just slightly inflected by his deep familiarity with the films, but not bound to them. It's like being wrapped in a warm blanket.
Least Favourite: I think Tad William's Tailchaser's Song, because it somehow managed to do a transphobia in a book about anthropomorphic cats.
Oldest book read: I physically handled some rather old (18th c) books this year!
Newest book read: Closest upon the heels of its release, that would be Oliver Darkshire's Once Upon A Tome (in audiobook, and then I gave the pre-order hard copy I had to Dad for Xmas)
Longest Book Title: "The Works of Mr. Thomas Brown: Serious and Comical, in Prose and Verse" (with various subtitles per volume)
Shortest Title: I think that would be "100 Boyfriends", by Brontez Purnell. Unless we discard subtitles, in which case it's Kathleen Gros' graphic novel "Jo: An Adaptation of Little Women (Sort Of)"
How many re-reads? Well that's how I realise I only looged 1 of the 8 Tamora Pierce books I re-read this year... So, 14. 8 Tamora Pierce. Two books for teaching; two Terry Pratchett; Two Tolkien. I also got 2/3 of the way through re-reading "Something That May Shock and Discredit You", as soon as I finished it the first time - bit by bit I'm reading it aloud to Shiny.
Most books read by one author in the year?: Tamora Pierce, apparently.
Any in translation? Uh... no, not even academic sources.
How many were from the library? Almost none of those logged, and everything I didn't.
This has been 2022 in books.
I suspect I ought to come up with a similar quiz/meme for podcast content, given how much I have consumed in the past two years...