This is the last year-end summary thing, I promise!

Is there really anything to be gained from piling one challenge on another? Maybe not, but here we are anyway. 99 Novels is still underway, and who knows? maybe I'll even pick up the pace a little. It's been a good bunch of books so far. Also on my to-do list for 2017 ( Read more... )

It's time to keep the spirit of procrastination rolling into the New Year with more book memes! Questions snagged from egelantier and littlerhymes. Head under the cut if you want to hear me say "I don't know" a lot.

( so long and thanks for all the books )

Books I finished in 2016 by month, not counting compulsively re-read bag-of-chips type books or anything I skimmed so that I could get it off my bookshelves before moving to a new apartment. Non-compulsive re-reads are marked with an asterisk. Titles in bold are from 99 Novels - a challenge I am obviously not going to finish anytime soon.

( Books to the left of me, more books to the right )

osprey_archer put this up, and now I'm going to copy it, because every day is a good day to answer questions about books. Give me a number, or give me a bunch of numbers, and I'll make a post answering the corresponding question(s). I may not have answers for every question (and some of them you probably already know the answer to), but I will do my best ( Read more... )

Even I, who laugh at these seductions that play on the mind, very often catch myself thinking how nice it would be to be famous, how pleasant to be doted on, how colorful to be triumphant! But I'm unable to envision myself in these lofty roles without a hearty snicker from the other I that's always nearby, like a downtown street. . . I'll die as I ( Read more... )

From bearshorty, fifty-five questions about books for me to answer instead of getting my work week in order.

( Questions about books! )

Thanks to the Wednesday Reading Meme, 2015 is the first full year of my life for which I could make an almost-accurate list of books read! So I did. Unsurprisingly, it turns out to be a lot of detectives. I should probably scale back, but will I? That is the true mystery.

( A list of books )

A little late in the month, but why not? Let's do one of these things. Ask me a question in the comments and I'll answer it in a post sometime during the month of December.

Or not! I won't be sad; we've all got things to do.

What I've Just Finished Reading

The Girl in Blue by P. G. Wodehouse. It's kind of an odd Wodehouse, a very late book, if the publisher's date is correct -- 1970! I didn't think to check until there was a stray reference to the moon landing; other than that and one or two other details, you'd never guess it hadn't been written in the Thirties. ( Read more... )

It's that time of year again. I've been waffling hard on offers and requests, but I think I'm going to try to keep it simple this year. A quick glance over previous Yuletide material reveals that I never keep my Yuletide resolutions, so it's probably best that I don't make any for the 2015-2016 season, except maybe "do a little better than last ( Read more... )