Holiday Reading

[ironed_orchid]

It's that time of year where every day feels like a Sunday (or for those of us back at work, a Monday). So instead of the usual Wednesday Intended Reading post I thought I'd ask about your end of year/beginning of year reading and recycle some questions from last January.

Feel free to treat the following questions as prompts and answer as many or as few as you like.

How did you make/find time to read in 2016?

Do you think you read more or less than in previous years?

What were your reading highlights of 2016?

Did you reach any reading goals in 2016?

What made up the bulk of your reading in 2016? (e.g. novels, stories, fic, non-fiction, articles, social media, work related texts)

Where did you do most of your reading in 2016?

If you exchange gifts at this time of year, did you give or receive any good books?

Have you managed to get any reading done over the holiday period?

Do you have any reading related resolutions or goals for 2017?

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[bonnefois]

How did you make/find time to read in 2016? Find spaces where I have excess time like when I'm eating, doing laundry at the laundromat or *ahem* bathroom reading.

Do you think you read more or less than in previous years? I hit 123, so that's a good 23 more than my usual point I strive for.

What were your reading highlights of 2016? I don't have my reading list handy. Maybe Far From You by Tess Sharpe? Most of what I read was romance or so-so. Oh, that biography of Marcel Proust was nice because it was accessible and I've never found an author I related to more.

Did you reach any reading goals in 2016? Yeah. I have a usual goal of 100 books and I surpassed it quite a bit.

What made up the bulk of your reading in 2016? (e.g. novels, stories, fic, non-fiction, articles, social media, work related texts) Romance het novels I get for free from where I work, romance (LGBT) novels to send to a friend, parenting anecdotes and books to research for a fic.

Where did you do most of your reading in 2016? Bed or *ahem* other places where I had free time.

If you exchange gifts at this time of year, did you give or receive any good books? I gave tons of books, though I didn't receive much last Christmas. I did buy quite a few books after Christmas, though. Mostly how-to and research stuff, though a few novels I thought might help research.

Have you managed to get any reading done over the holiday period? I got a decent amount done, considering how crummy my December was. I think I clocked in at 7 in the end.

Do you have any reading related resolutions or goals for 2017? 100 default. If it hit it early, like I did last year, I'll go for stretch goals. Reading, it's going to be about the same. Finish up LGBT books to send to my friend, read a decent amount of nonfiction and focus largely on my own stuff to try and clean out my bookcase a bit. I moved in December and hauling all those books left me with quite a headache.

Especially as I added so many nonfiction. A lot of them probably won't be given away when I'm done, so I'll have to make a lot of room for them.

[ironed_orchid]

Good luck!

I have resigned myself to hauling books (although now I'm back in my own place it's less of an issue). Sometimes the best solution is just to buy a new bookshelf ;-)

When I do cull books I find it much easier to cull fiction than non-fiction because the non-fiction may be handy for research or reference one day. Fiction on the other hand if I've read it and don't feel like I will read it again (and I do re-read a lot of my books), then it goes.