2024
37 books. 10,805pp.
I read more comics than usual this year. Lack of commuting continued to have an impact on the rate at which I read, combined with the fact that I've been putting more of my free time into playing games and watching films and TV. I didn't buy any new books this year (one or two exceptions) relying instead on what was on our shelves (Art is Magic, How Do You Live, Small Gods), what other family members were reading (The Trees, All Systems Red, Jekyll & Hyde), and the library (Assembly, The Future, Our Share Of Night and, unfinished at time of writing, Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning). I'm not going to stick to the no-new-books thing next year but it's hopefully slowed my natural reflex to immediately buy more books once I've finished one. I had planned to finally finish The Book of the Long Sun but it wasn't to be.