{"id":83,"date":"2002-01-03T20:49:59","date_gmt":"2002-01-04T01:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=83"},"modified":"2002-01-03T20:49:59","modified_gmt":"2002-01-04T01:49:59","slug":"2001_roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/01\/2001_roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"[2001] Yearly roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>As it was an odd damn holiday, it was an odd damn year<\/strong>, too. However, I shall refrain from summing up anything other than this book log, since you can find dozens of such stories elsewhere. On the numbers front, a quick count shows seventy-six different things read listed in the index since the beginning of August; some of these are short stories or skimmed books, but other are multi-novel omnibuses, so take that as you will. (I take it as, “Geez, that is<\/em> a lot.”) It turns out there are only ten books on both Chad’s book log<\/a> and mine (eleven things, counting the Fellowship<\/cite> movie); I thought it would be more, probably because many of them are ones the other has<\/em> read, just not within the relevant time frame. (However, my living quarters are much less cluttered than Chad’s, since I get a lot of things out of the library.)<\/p>\n

A lot of my favorite authors haven’t been mentioned yet; I think the book log has been motivating me to re-read less, so people like Bujold and Brust, who put out books just before I started this, haven’t turned up yet. (It’s traditional for me to re-read Bujold during finals, when I’m particularly stressed, though, so just wait.) Overall, keeping this has been a good idea; it’s forced me out of my previous bad habit of finishing some books without really forming any impression of them, or thinking much about them. The time I spend on it varies, depending on how much I have to say about the book in question, but it’s not more burdensome than Usenet (well, perhaps a little more so, because I do tend to pay slightly more attention to my writing here). If any of my five readers have been contemplating keeping a book log of their own, I recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As it was an odd damn holiday, it was an odd damn year, too. However, I shall refrain from summing up anything other than this book log, since you can find dozens of such stories elsewhere. On the numbers front, a quick count shows seventy-six different things read listed in the index since the beginning … <\/p>\n

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