New Year, so here's 2013's reading poll. Tick any that you've ever read. As ever, LOLs, criticisms, squees, and recommendations in the comments.

Poll 2013 Books

It's January 1st, so it must be time for the past year's reading poll. Tick any that you've ever read. LOLs, criticisms, squees, and recommendations in the comments.

A decent amount of non-fiction read this year (and an amount of decent non-fiction), plus the whole (to date) of A Song of Ice and Fire.

Poll 2012 Books

The now customary round of year-end polls are being cross-posted to librarything, so here's mine. Fewer graphic novels (especially superheroes) this year - almost certainly down to Croydon libraries being a lot poorer in that respect than Lambeth.
( Ticky boxes ahoy! )

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Last year I said "I think 2010 may be slightly less weighted towards graphic novels". Whoops.

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Yesterday, I tweeted "According to my LibraryThing records I've read 141 books this year: 26 novels, 7 non-fiction, 102 graphic novels and 6 'other ( Read more... )

Doctor Who on Christmas Day, that was a bit of splendid nonsense, wasn't it? And not long now until we find out how it all ends.

I've been passing the time between parts one and two by dipping into the festering mire of DW fandom to see what crackpot speculation people have come up.

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Raj's new book. Out soon.

Today was the 10th anniversary of my first date with Lettice. Back in 1999 we went to see The Matrix in Streatham. Today we had an adventure to celebrate.


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