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?

Comments

[fred_mouse]

How did you make/find time to read in 2016?I try and carry a book with me everywhere; I put the books I had to read at the beginning of the year in ibooks on my tablet and carried that every where until they were all done; I started using Serial reader to prompt me to read a little every day; I always have a novel open in megareader in my phone.

Do you think you read more or less than in previous years?More professionally published fiction than I have in a few years, but I suspect I read about the same number of words - just more of them were fanfiction or facebook.

What were your reading highlights of 2016? I discovered the collections of 'The Wicked and the Divine' comics, Natasha Pulley's 'The Watchmaker of Filigree Street' (go read it. It's fabulous), Garth Nix's 'Newt's Emerald', Nnedi Okorafor's 'Binti'. Also some fabulous fic -- I'm particularly fond of Owlet's 'This You Protect' and the sequel, as well as rereading ellen_fremedon's 'Twenty Year Man'..

Did you reach any reading goals in 2016?Kind of. At the beginning of the year, I asked people to recommend books that they thought that I should have read. I received over 40 recommendations, and I've read ten -- these were the easiest ones to get hold of. I'm still working through that list.

What made up the bulk of your reading in 2016? (e.g. novels, stories, fic, non-fiction, articles, social media, work related texts)Too much facebook. At the beginning of the years, it was spec fic short story collections/anthologies, because I was reading for a specific task. And 'read outside my comfort zone' was definitely there, and something I did a lot of.

Where did you do most of your reading in 2016?In bed, anywhere I was sitting down for more than two minutes and not crafting.

If you exchange gifts at this time of year, did you give or receive any good books?Certainly exchanged books. Haven't read the one I got, but the rest of the family seem to be pretty happy with their haul.

Have you managed to get any reading done over the holiday period?Yes! Lots! I had a ten day break from work, and spent a reasonably bit of time reading -- a couple of Pratchett, two more from my recommended reading challenge, at least two other books.

Do you have any reading related resolutions or goals for 2017?Finish all the books that I've started. Record this in Goodreads. Do the extra reading that I identified during the course I did last semester. Try and actually hit the 52 books target this year. Read more of the books I buy in the 2-4 weeks after actually getting them (or give them to someone else to read).

[ironed_orchid]

Those sound like excellent achievements and great goals for the year ahead.

[fred_mouse]

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