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1Cynfelyn
A new year, and a fresh start, especially as last year's thread, https://www.librarything.com/topic/301774, ran into the sand after I had a heart-attack in June. Nothing too too serious, thankfully, but I am on a party bag of drugs for the rest of my life. Needless to say, book buying continued apace, but unconfessed. Reading continues as a slower pace, and I finished 2019 with a pretty paltry 27 books, listed on my profile page.
My excuse is that we live in "interesting times", in the Chinese curse meaning of the expression, and in the evenings I spend far too much time on the Guardian website, besides LibraryThing, Kiva and YouTube. In the case of the latter, I probably got up to date with the best bits of Game of Thrones, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Person of Interest, Lucifer and The Expanse, simply on the basis of the clips posted, although I've probably got the overall story arcs wrong. Also, keeping up with Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah, Hasan Minhaj and John Oliver on YouTube takes up even more time.
So much for last year. Here's to clear-eyed 20/20 vision this year.
My last book last year was Terry Pratchett's Raising steam (2013), which means that I only have one Discworld book left, The shepherd's crown (2015), before his all-too early death. To put off the moment I'm currently reading a Christmas present, Adam Rutherford's A brief history of everyone who ever lived : the stories in our genes (2016). I like to at least keep in touch with the popular interpretation of human evolution, although it is a fast moving field. Rutherford's book is a little older than David Reich's Who we are and how we got here (2018) that I read at the time, so risks being a bit out of date, but I enjoy Rutherford as the presenter of BBC Radio 4's "Inside Science" magazine programme and as co-presenter of "The curious cases of Rutherford and Fry". So we'll see how it goes.
My excuse is that we live in "interesting times", in the Chinese curse meaning of the expression, and in the evenings I spend far too much time on the Guardian website, besides LibraryThing, Kiva and YouTube. In the case of the latter, I probably got up to date with the best bits of Game of Thrones, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Person of Interest, Lucifer and The Expanse, simply on the basis of the clips posted, although I've probably got the overall story arcs wrong. Also, keeping up with Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah, Hasan Minhaj and John Oliver on YouTube takes up even more time.
So much for last year. Here's to clear-eyed 20/20 vision this year.
My last book last year was Terry Pratchett's Raising steam (2013), which means that I only have one Discworld book left, The shepherd's crown (2015), before his all-too early death. To put off the moment I'm currently reading a Christmas present, Adam Rutherford's A brief history of everyone who ever lived : the stories in our genes (2016). I like to at least keep in touch with the popular interpretation of human evolution, although it is a fast moving field. Rutherford's book is a little older than David Reich's Who we are and how we got here (2018) that I read at the time, so risks being a bit out of date, but I enjoy Rutherford as the presenter of BBC Radio 4's "Inside Science" magazine programme and as co-presenter of "The curious cases of Rutherford and Fry". So we'll see how it goes.
