New year, new list of things to help me avoid book decision paralysis.
(Good luck with that.)
A curmudgeon writes.
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.
Continue reading “Planning the pages: 2023 edition”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”