Top 10 favourite books of 2019
I managed to read 40 books this year, well above 2018’s total of 27. Hoping for getting through even more in 2020. Here are a list of my top 10, appearing in the order in which I read them:
Tiny drumroll, please…
As promised, here are my reading lists for August through to October. I don’t know if the September/October list is actually exhaustive, but it’s all I can recall and is better than nothing.
Hey look, that ball I dropped…
I realized a couple of months back that I had forgotten to post the books I had read for the month. I’d done the tracking and writing up of the list (the “hard part”, such as it is), I’d just forgotten to post it. And then I thought I probably should. But then didn’t. And…
The acid test of book format preferences
As posted earlier, I definitely find myself more likely to seek out print books than ebooks. The proof was in the pudding yesterday. I found myself in a bookstore, which is never a bad thing. The item I was looking for wasn’t available, though, so there I was left in a bookstore (unsupervised, dangerously) with…
Read this book
I’m subscribed to a newsletter that provides daily (legit) links to free and cheap ebooks for the Kobo. The problem, I found quickly, is that way more often than not, the books that I’d get from those links turned out to be… let’s be kind by saying “not so good”. So while it’s not unusual…
Losing weight
I’ve had a lifelong issue with being heavier than I’d like. Probably heavier than is healthy, though I read some time ago that people who have about 10% more weight than their BMI suggests they should be tend to be healthier and live longer. Oh, and did I read that it turns out the BMI…
Teaching an old dog new tricks
I sometimes shake my head at how badly I fumble even the basics of writing. There’s old writing advice that goes, essentially, that you should let the story be what it is. Meaning that whatever the story wants to be, let it be that. Don’t try to force it to be something other than what…
Squirrels like cookies
We found out a new thing recently. I kind of spoiled it in the header (and also that photo), but just act like you don’t know anyway for the big reveal: Squirrels like cookies. Or at least, oatmeal raisin cookies. I picked some up this weekend and added it to the coffee table Jackie had…
Tough gig
I am perhaps dating myself when I admit that we have a land line phone in our house. It was initially a safety net, because Jackie and I were with a lacklustre cell phone service–I won’t say the company name for not wanting to ruffle any legal feathers, but let’s just say it rhymes with…
Screen-X can go away
My wife and I saw Spider-Man: Far From Home yesterday. It was good (although for this movie-goer’s money, not as good as Spider-Man: Homecoming), but the problem I had with it wasn’t so much the movie as the theatre itself. Jackie can’t watch 3D movies. They play with her head too much. So I’ve long…