Happy New Year

[ironed_orchid]

As I've been scrolling through my reading page, I've seen a lot of year in review posts, and thought it might be nice to do something like that here for the reading each of us did in 2015.

If you're not sure where to begin, here are some starter questions/prompts (you can pick and choose, or just respond without referring to any of them)

How did you make time to read in 2015?

Did you read more or less than in previous years?

What were your reading highlights of 2015?

Did you reach any reading goals in 2015?

What made up the bulk of your reading in 2015? (e.g. novels, stories, fic, non-fiction, articles, social media, work related texts)

Where did you do most of your reading in 2015?

Do you have any reading related resolutions or goals for 2016?

Wishing you a Happy New Year and hoping that 2016 brings many delightful things to read!

Comments

[ironed_orchid]

How did you make time to read in 2015?

I mostly read when I found the time, rather than carving out time for reading. I did continue my habit of not starting any new-to-me books until I had a day off, so that I could devour them in a single sitting if I felt like it.

Did you read more or less than in previous years? Less novels, probably more short stories and fic, and feels like a normal to me amount of social media and articles on the internet.

What were your reading highlights of 2015?

I really enjoyed The Girl with All the Gifts and the completion of the Magicians trilogy by Lev Grossman, and the Parasitology trilogy by Mira Grant, in both cases I took the opportunity to re-read the earlier volumes.

I read more essays by Rebecca Solnit, who continued to say smart and true things.

What made up the bulk of your reading in 2015?

Mostly novels, and those were mostly from book series. A lot of re-reading of favourite authors.

Where did you do most of your reading in 2015?

At my computer desk and in bed. I tended to read social media on my commute.

Do you have any reading related resolutions or goals for 2016?

I'd like to read more new-to-me books by new-to-me authors. Also more non-fiction.

[fred_mouse]

Good to hear that you enjoyed the Parasitology trilogy - I loved the first one, and am in the process of acquiring the other two (which will have to be for Feb reading)

[ironed_orchid]

I really enjoyed them. They didn't grip me in the same way Newsflesh did, but I loved Sal and the concept was fantastic.

[fred_mouse]

Which suggests to me that I should also try and acquire Newsflesh. The first of the parasitology books was the first book I had read in a single sitting in so long that I couldn't tell you want the previous one was. It is the science fiction I didn't know I had been hanging out for.

[ironed_orchid]

I highly recommend it, I would offer to lend my copies, but Feed is currently on loan to someone. I know some people are put off by the zombies, but it's not really about zombies, it's about politics and the news cycle and is set in a world where there are zombies.