What I read in 2020

A few years back I set myself the goal of averaging a book a week read throughout the year, or 52 books over the year. I exceeded this for the last several years, but unfortunately fell well short this year. I blame Covid-times. One of the issues is that two of my usual reading times are on flights, especially trans-oceanic flights and evenings in hotel rooms -- both situations that have been drastically cut back this year. And, yes, I should have had more time to sit at home and read, but I found myself less inclined towards reading than normal -- it felt difficult. I think if more of my to-read pile had been light/easy reads, then I might have been more able to get through things, but even that isn't entirely clear -- and much of my buy-to-read has been towards somewhat more challenging reading, if nothing else, because I've been aiming for authors writing from a different socio-economic perspective than me.

This years numbers:

Total books read: 35 (2019: 69)
(S?WM): 4.5 (one co-author; also assumes that Chuck Tingle is not straight) (2019: 6)

Some favourites of the year: Gideon the Ninth, War Girls, Son of a Trickster, The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, Mirage, Queen of the Conquered, Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse

( Full reading list with light commentary )