I'm Alive & 2014 Reading Bingo
I got the chapter to my advisor by last Monday like I needed to do. The last few pages I wrote are absolute crap, but I got it done. Tuesday and Wednesday were spent doing everything else for the application for funding for next year. I should hear within 2 or 3 weeks. Here's hoping.
Thursday I suddenly remembered that classes had started and I needed to teach on Friday so maybe I should do something to prep for that. Minor technicality. Friday morning was teaching then Friday afternoon and the weekend I decided to do nothing. Friday afternoon was lovely. Saturday was the local monthly board game group meeting so I spent 12 hours playing games. Yay! Sunday was laundry, grocery shopping, and the like. Now things are back to normal, I think, and I'm moving on to the next dissertation chapter.
A few of you have been posting various memes the past few days that I might join in on in another day or two. Also, I'll go back and read the flist and comment generally. For now, eanor has posted a 2015 reading bingo challenge that I might steal, but it reminded me that failte-aoife posted one in 2014 that I'd sort of done but hadn't posted. So I went back and checked my 2014 read books and even though I only remembered to do about half of them intentionally as I went, I actually managed to blackout the entire board with books read in 2014. So here's that.
1 - More than 500 Pages: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1-3 (4 Novels and 56 Short Stories) by Arthur Conan Doyle
2 - Forgotten Classic: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
3 - Became a Movie: High-Rise by J. G. Ballard (Movie was filmed last year and should be released later this year)
4 - Published this Year: Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
5 - Number in the Title: The Fifth Beatle by Vivek Tiwary
6 - Written by Someone Under Thirty: Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler
7 - Non-Human Characters: A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
8 - Funny Book: How Right You Are, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
9 - Female Author: Votes for Women by Elizabeth Robins
10 - Mystery: The Red Thumb Mark by R. Austin Freeman
11 - One Word Title: Cain by José Saramago
12 - Short Stories: Machine of Death edited by Ryan North
13 - Free Space
14 - Set on Different Continent: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
15 - Non-Fiction: Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Womack
16 - First Book by Favorite Author: Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
17 - Heard About Online: Borrible Trilogy by Michael De Larrabeiti
18 - Best-Selling: Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan
19 - Based on a True Story: Road to En-dor by Elias Henry James
20 - Bottom of To Be Read Pile: The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
21 - Friend Loves: Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
22 - Scares You: Iron Heel by Jack London
23 - More than 10 Years Old: Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
24 - Second Book in a Series: Castle Waiting Vol. 2 by Linda Medley
25 - Blue Cover: Graphic Canon Vol. 1
Thursday I suddenly remembered that classes had started and I needed to teach on Friday so maybe I should do something to prep for that. Minor technicality. Friday morning was teaching then Friday afternoon and the weekend I decided to do nothing. Friday afternoon was lovely. Saturday was the local monthly board game group meeting so I spent 12 hours playing games. Yay! Sunday was laundry, grocery shopping, and the like. Now things are back to normal, I think, and I'm moving on to the next dissertation chapter.
A few of you have been posting various memes the past few days that I might join in on in another day or two. Also, I'll go back and read the flist and comment generally. For now, eanor has posted a 2015 reading bingo challenge that I might steal, but it reminded me that failte-aoife posted one in 2014 that I'd sort of done but hadn't posted. So I went back and checked my 2014 read books and even though I only remembered to do about half of them intentionally as I went, I actually managed to blackout the entire board with books read in 2014. So here's that.
1 - More than 500 Pages: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1-3 (4 Novels and 56 Short Stories) by Arthur Conan Doyle
2 - Forgotten Classic: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
3 - Became a Movie: High-Rise by J. G. Ballard (Movie was filmed last year and should be released later this year)
4 - Published this Year: Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
5 - Number in the Title: The Fifth Beatle by Vivek Tiwary
6 - Written by Someone Under Thirty: Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler
7 - Non-Human Characters: A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
8 - Funny Book: How Right You Are, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
9 - Female Author: Votes for Women by Elizabeth Robins
10 - Mystery: The Red Thumb Mark by R. Austin Freeman
11 - One Word Title: Cain by José Saramago
12 - Short Stories: Machine of Death edited by Ryan North
13 - Free Space
14 - Set on Different Continent: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
15 - Non-Fiction: Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Womack
16 - First Book by Favorite Author: Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
17 - Heard About Online: Borrible Trilogy by Michael De Larrabeiti
18 - Best-Selling: Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan
19 - Based on a True Story: Road to En-dor by Elias Henry James
20 - Bottom of To Be Read Pile: The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
21 - Friend Loves: Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
22 - Scares You: Iron Heel by Jack London
23 - More than 10 Years Old: Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
24 - Second Book in a Series: Castle Waiting Vol. 2 by Linda Medley
25 - Blue Cover: Graphic Canon Vol. 1