Total: 10,032 pages

In order to keep my giant pile of unread things from getting any bigger, my resolution for 2016 was to not buy a new book until I'd read at least one I already own. How did that go?

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Total: 10,062 pages

Last year I struggled to hit 6,700 pages due to the unusually large number of books I read that I didn't like very much. This year I discovered Listopia, and in particular the list for Gay Romance Featuring Psychics/Mediums/Shamans/Spiritualists, and read an absolutely record number of things for me without even trying. ( Read more... )

Stolen from gottalovev.

50 Questions for fic readers. Put a number or two in the comments for me to answer.

[ETA: I found out the hard way that LJ won't let me post comments with hyperlinks in them today, so I am adding my answers to the body of the post instead. ::kicks LJ::]

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Total: 6,705 pages

Rather than setting a page count goal this year, I decided to focus my efforts on catching up on series I'm behind on (I read a lot of series books) and books I've owned for a long time but hadn't gotten around to reading yet (Why had I not started reading the Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling before now? OMG, it's awesome ( Read more... )

Total: 9,079/10,000 pagesI'm a little disappointed, but I discovered last year that I have a hard time motivating myself to read when I'm not really enjoying the book, and I hit a record number of books I just didn't like very much this year. Why didn't I just give up on them? Some were books in a series I have otherwise enjoyed, some were by ( Read more... )

Total: 10,062/10,000 pagesI did it! This was my third consecutive year of setting myself a reading goal to try and make a dent in my giant pile of unread books, but it's the first year I've actually accomplished the goal. *\0/* Of course, I had to cheat like whoa and read manga for the entire month of December to get there, but those manga were on ( Read more... )

The BBC is starting up the new season of Sherlock on New Year's Day. The last I heard, we're not getting it on PBS until May. That means that in order to avoid spoilers, I won't be able to read Sherlock fic for five months. Five months. Yes, there are tools like Read It Later or Delicious where I could stash fic to read later, but five months. ( Read more... )

It will come as no surprise to most of you that I read a lot of fic. Many, many years ago, I used to read a lot of Emergency! fic. Then TV Land started showing reruns and instead of fire/rescue and medical stories, my lists were inundated with 'Johnny goes on a date with his girlfriend, Mary Sue' fics, so I moved on ( Read more... )

So, you know that 50 books a year challenge that I rarely post about because it hasn't kept me away from the fic as much as I'd hoped? I've only been at it for 4 months. I do not want to quit after only 4 months. But I have an e-reader now thanks to eBay, and I have a tagging system that I seem to have finally worked the bugs out of, and I have a ( Read more... )

Have you ever read a fic and really, really loved it--'saved it on your hard drive, read it over and over' loved it--then gone back to read it again after a couple of years away and thought 'what the heck did I ever see in this fic?' Or is that just me?