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bitesizedreading2017-01-04 07:15 pm
ironed_orchid) wrote in bitesizedreading2017-01-04 07:15 pm
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Holiday Reading
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?
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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Do you think you read more or less than in previous years? Slightly less in total, but slightly more new-to-me books and I re-read more stand alone novels rather series books.
What were your reading highlights of 2016? In fiction my favourites were The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, I am Providence by Nick Mamatas, and the Ancillary series by Ann Leckie. In non-fiction I continued to enjoy various articles by Rebecca Solnit (I still don't have her new book) and was also pleased to see Laurie Penny find her stride again when reporting on the US election and the rise of the Alt-Right.
Did you reach any reading goals in 2016? I don't think I set any. As usual I wanted to read more long form non-fiction, but mostly chose novels.
What made up the bulk of your reading in 2016? (e.g. novels, stories, fic, non-fiction, articles, social media, work related texts) Definitely novels and book series. I did read some great short fiction, and a couple of good anthologies. I followed some stories and hashtags on twitter for days, mostly to do with Australian politics but also lots about Brexit and the US election. My facebook page is 90% articles I linked to, so clearly I read a bunch of those ;-) Mostly they were mid-length pieces between 1 and 5 pages long on a variety of topics.
Where did you do most of your reading in 2016? In bed, at the computer, and on my phone during my commute.
If you exchange gifts at this time of year, did you give or receive any good books? I did not get a single book this year! I did give one photography book.
Have you managed to get any reading done over the holiday period?. Very little, mostly Yuletide fic. I did accidentally read a novel in a single sitting this week, but that was on a work night.
Do you have any reading related resolutions or goals for 2017? Less comfort re-reading, more new books and new authors.
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Less comfort re-reading, more new books and new authors.
Same. I turned a lot to comfort reading/watching too, and I definitely want to be a bit more adventurous this year.
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