look, I had a lot of time during lockdown, okay?
Reading The Pisces and Fangirl feels like yeeears ago.
169 books?! Incredible work!
there’s a few graphic novels in there, where I was going through two or three a day in lockdown, but otherwise, yeah it’s just what I did instead of going to gigs or work - being furloughed for four months is a great way to get your stats up!
Kavalier & Clay buddy
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I really want an infographic of all the books I read
Umm, I don’t think I have that
liked it a lot. got yiddish policeman’s union lined up for this year
Nice, I read that one first (it was a very kind gift from tricklenipple, and then I did a Chabon swap with @manches that for K&C)
Actually, really recommend YPU for this time of year.
89 books
favourites were:
doris lessing- the golden notebook
the sea, the sea- iris murdoch
the dispossessed- ursula k le guin
modern nature- derek jarman
the idiot/crime and punishment- dostoyevsky
2666- roberto bolano
another country-james baldwin
chernobyl prayer- svetlana alexievich
i am the brother of xx- fleur jaeggy
Saw a few people posting about strorygraph as a non amazon affiliated version of Goodreads. Thibk it also important Goodreads data
@anon24576931 started a thread on this. It looks pretty decent and importing data from goodreads was really easy. Lots of extra stats on there too which I like!
I did a blogpost roundup of my 2020 reading
What did you think of The Glass Hotel? I absolutely inhaled it and got lost in it and yet didn’t think the story was that strong? It tried to do a lot, and I found myself wanting her to focus on other strands of the story rather than the Ponzi scheme man in prison
I really liked it, although I’m not totally sure if the way I read it (very piecemeal on a laptop while I should have been working) made it seem better than it was.
I was really underwhelmed by Station Eleven but I think the dream-like, floaty style she writes with really suited Glass Hotel including all the Ponzi dreams/ memories.