Earlier in January, I wrote about how the reading year turned for me, which books I’d finished as part of 2023 and how I was thinking about…well, mostly about what I’d not read, rather than what I had read. And how I was content to readopt the 2023 plans
In last year’s Reflections post (thinking back on 2021’s reading, from January 2022), I realised that I hadn’t read at all according to plan the previous year. And…I had what will likely prove to be the reading year of my lifetime in 2021. Which is how you create a
The idea of planning for this year makes me giggle because I’ve never mis-predicted a year’s activities to the extent that Me-looking-ahead-to-2021 did. Me-looking-back-at-2021 isn’t sure what to do with that development! But I had a fantastic reading year last year, even if it didn’t take the kind
Our public libraries remain open for curb-side pick-ups, which I'm grateful for, because many of these projects rely on borrowed materials. After they've been returned, however, the library keeps materials in quarantine for 6-8 days, so they are not removed from a borrower's record for that length of time,
My planning for a year’s reading always involves looking back at the previous reading year. In 2019, I’d planned to focus on series reading. In the previous year, 25% of my reading had revolved around various series, moving ahead or finishing. In 2019, only 18 of the books I
