A curmudgeon writes.
As it’s the first day of a new year, it’s also the time when (apparently traditionally, now) I select a list of potential reads. There’s 25 this year (because 2025 right?) and while I doubt I’ll read them all, they give me something to aim for, and at the very least provide 25 options for when I’m stuck wondering what I should read.
Here’s the list. And a little write-up.
Continue reading “Planning the pages: 2025 edition”New year, new list of things to help me avoid book decision paralysis.
(Good luck with that.)
It’s a new year, so it’s that time again… time to figure out what I’m going to spend the year reading. Here’s the list.
New year, new list of things to read. Here we go:
As I’ve done in previous years, I’ve begun 2022 by writing a list of things that I’d like to read.
You’ll notice that it’s a bit shorter – by a couple of hundred entries, maybe? – than last year’s frankly ridiculous version. (I know I said at the time that I wasn’t going to read everything on there, naturally, but still… it’s obvious that Pandemic Brain was fully in charge there.)
This year, I’ve decided to try a new listing method: it’s ’22, so I’ll aim to read 22 books. This doesn’t mean that these are the only books I’ll read, or even that I’ll manage to finish them all – it just provides a more manageable way to focus my efforts. As ever, I’ll probably read a bunch of random shit, but this is the stuff to keep me on the straight and narrow.
Continue reading “Planning the pages: 2022 edition”So there’s this.
As with previous years, I’ve started 2021 with a list of things I’d like to read.
I learned last year that it’s apparently impossible to get the pads I used to write these lists on, so I’ve had to trade up. A new page size called for a new approach, and so we have the, uh, copious preparation you see above.
Continue reading “Planning the pages: 2021 edition”
Yeah nah. 