My book stats, 2015. My book stats, 2014. I'm not planning on doing this again because three years and five hundred books is more than enough, lol. Rounding errors mean some stats probably add up to 101% or 99%, obv ( Read more... )

- All illustrations from Blast Off, 1973, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, written by Linda C Cain and Susan Rosenbaum, which I haven't read but seems to be a children's book about an African American girl who wants to travel in space so much that she builds a spaceship of her own design out of junk. See brainpickings for more info.

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- I have fallen out of love with Birmingham because racism, obv, so my planned post, about flanage and Tolkien, is post-poned.

- 99 million year old bird wings found preserved in amber (@BBC News online). WOW. FEATHERS WITH COLOUR, PATTERN, AND TEXTURE, IN WHOLE WINGS. WOW.

- "(Of an organism) reproducing by fission" = "fissiparous" = "inclined ( Read more... )

- Where in Britain would you be happiest? I took the BBC's interactive test. I would quibble about the personality traits it ascribed to me. Conclusion: I picked my new home very well, and would be less happy if I'd relied on this supposedly science/maths based test.

( The devil is in the details. )

My book stats, 2014. I did some of this year's stats while under the influence so if any of the maths looks especially dodgy... lol ( Read more... )

- A mile marker on the Greenwich peninsula, looking across the Thames towards the Isle of Dogs, London.


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I was asked some questions last year about general trends in the types of books I read so this year I recorded some stats. I don’t think this experiment skewed my normative reading habits significantly. The following categories are flexibly defined and I picked them because they’re relatively easy to track ( Read more... )

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