Kyrie
I am hereby dubbing my 2015 “The Year of the Fandom”. Good lord. You take someone saying “Homestuck is so long, it takes a month to get through it all!” as a personal challenge, and next thing you know, you're falling into fandom holes left and right.
Homestuck, Night Vale, Twin Peaks, Gravity Falls, Sherlock, Rick and Morty, Steven Universe...my year was spent either reading small things to catch up on the holes left in my book schedule by my sudden resurgence in interest in television, or reading books BASED on those things.
Lord forbid I ever give in to my eldest younger brother's demands that I start watching Dr. Who...I won't have any free time left!I don't regret it, though. I wasn't able to read all the books I had planned to get through (I swear I'll eventually make it through the entire Discworld series!), but Gravity Falls helped restore my faith in children's cartoons, and Night Vale proved that I could, if properly motivated, sit through a podcast. It gives me hopes that, maybe someday, I'll have the patience to try audiobooks.There were a lot of books I was looking forward to reading this year, and I'm pretty sure I got to most of them - The Ruby Circle (Bloodlines #6), Carry On, Six of Crows, Winter, Welcome to Night Vale...I'm sure that's not even close to everything, but I'm dashing through this on my lunch break at work.
I also decided to finally give in and list the manga I've read on my profile. Why allow myself to count short stories but not manga? It just made no sense. So, I ended up reading more manga than I have in the past few years.I managed to (barely) hit 400 books this year on my reading challenge. I had hoped I could get it up that high after I had managed over 300 in 2014, but between my daughter and my job, I wasn't sure if I could make it. I'm very glad I did, and now that I know I can hit 400 books, I'm starting myself there for 2016, but aiming for 500 in the long run.
I am hereby dubbing my 2015 “The Year of the Fandom”. Good lord. You take someone saying “Homestuck is so long, it takes a month to get through it all!” as a personal challenge, and next thing you know, you're falling into fandom holes left and right.
Homestuck, Night Vale, Twin Peaks, Gravity Falls, Sherlock, Rick and Morty, Steven Universe...my year was spent either reading small things to catch up on the holes left in my book schedule by my sudden resurgence in interest in television, or reading books BASED on those things.
Lord forbid I ever give in to my eldest younger brother's demands that I start watching Dr. Who...I won't have any free time left!I don't regret it, though. I wasn't able to read all the books I had planned to get through (I swear I'll eventually make it through the entire Discworld series!), but Gravity Falls helped restore my faith in children's cartoons, and Night Vale proved that I could, if properly motivated, sit through a podcast. It gives me hopes that, maybe someday, I'll have the patience to try audiobooks.There were a lot of books I was looking forward to reading this year, and I'm pretty sure I got to most of them - The Ruby Circle (Bloodlines #6), Carry On, Six of Crows, Winter, Welcome to Night Vale...I'm sure that's not even close to everything, but I'm dashing through this on my lunch break at work.
I also decided to finally give in and list the manga I've read on my profile. Why allow myself to count short stories but not manga? It just made no sense. So, I ended up reading more manga than I have in the past few years.I managed to (barely) hit 400 books this year on my reading challenge. I had hoped I could get it up that high after I had managed over 300 in 2014, but between my daughter and my job, I wasn't sure if I could make it. I'm very glad I did, and now that I know I can hit 400 books, I'm starting myself there for 2016, but aiming for 500 in the long run.