Well, at least I’m wrapping up two months of reading rather than four months like last time. So. You know. Progress. In September, I read six books, and in October, I read 12. So overall, not bad reading months, but we can certainly tell that my anxiety brain/current wave of depression are having an impact from my reading numbers earlier in the year.
Well, I intended to do a quick wrap up of my monthly reads in May and June. And then I thought, I’ll do a quarterly wrap up and include July. And then before I knew it, August was over. Because that’s 2020.
But I’m stubborn and so I’m still going to make this happen, despite September already almost over as well. So, in the most concise way possible considering I read 75 books during that period (but let’s be real still very long), here are some thoughts on my May through August reads.
Continue reading “March. March. March. March. March. March. September.”
Attending WorldCon for the first time has ended up being…MUCH different than I had anticipated when I registered, as is the case for literally everything that has happened in 2020. I was planning to attend with a friend who has gone to a couple of others, and cancelling highly anticipated travel plans is always a bummer. BUT I’m glad to have been able to distract myself from the general shittiness of the world by consuming all of the things for Hugo voting! (I’m also extremely grateful to the con organizers for making the decision to take the convention online super early on, so that it wasn’t a drawn out, excruciating process.) I’m going to get more into the actual experience of WorldCon as a convention following the actual thing next week, but first I wanted to talk about the Hugo Award voting.
Continue reading “CoNZealand 2020 – Reflections of a First-Time Hugo Voter”
Oh, I had such grand dreams for my blog in 2019, and then those plans got incredibly off track, but as it turns out…
In the month of April, year 45293 of the current global crisis, my insomnia kicked it into high gear to become Extra Strength Insomnia™. Wonder why that would be… Which means I spent a lot of time consuming all kinds of media. Sometimes this manifested in restarting Frasier and Cheers for the eleventh time, and others it manifested in reading as much as possible.
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