shadowkeeper

I'm eating the traditional new year's meal, looking back on my 2020 reading, and things really did not turn out in any way I could have expected. Covid messed up more things than the obvious. Like, I read far fewer books because I usually read them on commutes which weren't a thing anymore. I thought I was burned out at work last year, which, L.O.L. Being expected to be available 24/7, dealing with increasing incompetence via email, and my yearning to just walk into the ocean was basically constant. When I found myself screaming at my email, I calmed myself down reading fic, which means I read a lot of fucking fic this year.

In 2020, I got though

• 13 books
• 2,980 fic at around an estimated 23 million (ish) words

Compared to 2019, that's 17 fewer books :(, but 4.7 million more words in fic. (Though, google tells me the average book is around 80k words, so that still ends up being like 3.34 million more words than 2019). A huge chunk of that has got to be Old Guard. I went into a bit of a frenzy for a few months over the summer there and read over 1,300 fic.
There is also the fact that I secretly fell headfirst back into a fandom I have not been in for like 10 years (and no, not Supernatural, I'm public about my November-induced Supernatural insanity), and all the fic I read there are private on my pinboard because I'm slightly embarrassed about the 450 fics at 7.9 million words I read there...



The 2021 plan: read more books, work less hours.

The list of books I read are
 

•     All Systems Red by Martha Wells
•     Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
•     The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman
•     Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
•     Sex in the Sea by Marah J Hardt
•     The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht 🖤
•     The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
•     Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir  🖤   🖤   🖤  
•     Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
•     Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
•     Will by Cat Eat My Eyeballs by Caitlin Doughty
•     Beowulf, translation by Maria Dahvana Headley 😃
•     The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard