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2019 in books
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As always, a mix of re-reading books I like and new authors & series and some disappointements as well, nothing is perfect…
I did not achieve the 2019 Goodreads contest this time, partly because this has been a bad year work-wise (no I won’t give any details, please don’t ask) and I went another way to compensate for this, I started being more serious about playing World of Tanks1 so it took most of my time. Still read a decent number of books but I felt I didn’t have enough energy to give to books, WoT is easier on my mind in these times. I did not write any blog posts either as you can see apart from these ones.
Our friends at Goodreads have done some nicely presented stats here and this article will go in more details than just stats :)
To the books!
…2018 in books (LONG)
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Once again, I was too shy and blew away my challenge of 42 with reading… 100 1! This was an exceptional year for reading. Not that I mind though but I shall try next year to be more precise… :)
Our friends at Goodreads have done some nicely presented stats here and this article will go in more details than just stats :)
As always, a mix of re-reading books I like and new authors & series and some disappointements as well, nothing is perfect… This article is fairly long of course, due to the much higher number of books :)
To the books!
…2017 in books
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Hopefully I have broken the bad luck series I have been in the past two years; not only I managed to read all the books I planned to, I even manage to more or less explode my challenge with 65 books out of 35 \o/. What happened? Better work conditions with my new position and a new house might just have been what I needed so I could find more time for reading…
Our friends at Goodreads have done some nicely presented stats here and this article will go in more details than just stats :)
As always, a mix of re-reading books I like and new authors & series and some disappointements as well, nothing is perfect…
To the books!
…2016 in books
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Well, if I thought (cf. the previous article) that 2015 was bad for reading, well, 2016 clearly beat 2015 by a long shot :(
I planned reading a bit more than 2015 (goal was 48) and I managed… 30. A freaking disaster. I was mostly unable to read during the first half of 2016, too many issues at work and in my personal life.
See for yourself: the 2016 challenge
…2015 in books
Yet another (tiny) proof 2015 was one of the worst in recent years, I did not manage to read all the 42 books I put on my 2015 Reading Challenge on Goodreads. I listed at least 42 books like last year and am at 38. 4 books short, mainly because I could not read for the last month more or less. Feeling depressed after the November attacks in Paris and death of friends didn’t help.
2015 is, like 2014, a mix between re-reading books I love (Roger Zelazny again!) and new books and authors.
…2014 in books (UPDATED)
2014 has been a very good year for my reading. In fact, I have not read that many books in a year for a long time and am pretty happy about it. Reading is very important to me and has been for a long time now, I remember thoroughly scrubbing the SciFi section of my town’s library in the ’80 (« Fleuve Noir », « Présence du futur »…) clean of everything I haven’t read :)
What made 2014 so efficient? Foremost the desire and will to read more of course but the most important thing that happened is me buying that iPad Mini Retina back in Oct, 2013. I’ve switched from physical books to ebooks a long time ago, when all my books were still in cardboard following our move from one flat to another1. Maybe I will devote an article to the subject of ebooks…
UPDATE: Finally got 42 books (yeah for #geek in me!) in for 2014, thanks Corwin of Amber :)
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