2023 Favorites

Favorite fiction: Furious Heaven by Kate Elliott

Favorite non-fiction: A History of New Zealand in 100 Objects by Jock Phillips

Favorite historical fiction: Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings by Tina Makereti (honorable mention to Kāwai by Monty Soutar which was hugely ambitious but distracting-ly clunky in its writing)

Favorite fantasy: Crown of Stars audio version, one of the best narrations I've ever heard. It was such a pleasure to experience this series again via audio

Favorite Sci-fi: see favorite fiction :)

Favorite Romance: n/a, romance was all meh for me this year but I did re-read The Lion's Daughter by Loretta Chase which I still adore

Favorite Thriller/Mystery: Racing the Light by Robert Crais


Beyond the pages...


TV:
Favorite - Nothing really stands out to me this year so see surprise hits for shows I didn't expect to like but did.
Surprise hit(s) - Lucifer tied with Celebrity tied with The Glory
Surprise blunder - See You in My 19th Life

Video games:
Favorite - Paperback: The Game (still lol)
 

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2022 Favorites

Favorite fiction: Kuragnaituku by Whiti Hereaka

Favorite non-fiction: Struggle Without End by Ranginui Walker

Favorite historical fiction: Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

Favorite fantasy: The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

Favorite Sci-fi: The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge (must laugh at myself for this one as it was a re-read but I didn't realize until I'd almost finished it that i'd already read it. i'd even reviewed it on goodreads, apparently i liked it the first time, as well)

Favorite Romance: The A.I. Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole

Most re-read book first read in 2022: Servant Mage by Kate Elliott

Most re-read author in 2022: This was a year of heavy re-reading with lots of Kameron Hurley, Courtney Milan and Kate Elliott in the mix


Beyond the pages...

TV:
Favorite - Marriage, Not Dating
Surprise hit - Lupin
Surprise blunder - Love in Contract

Video games:
Favorite - Paperback: The Game

 

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Four Years of Dramas

To celebrate four years of drama watching, here is my top ten

Chicago Typewriter
Healer
Hotel del Luna
It's Okay to Not Be Okay
The Legend of the Blue Sea
My Country: The New Age
My Love From the Star
Nirvana in Fire*

Search: WWW
Sell Your Haunted House

 

228 dramas started (and counting), 108 completed

 

*the one and only cdrama I've watched :)

2021 Favorites

Favorite fiction: Tie!
The Story of a New Zealand River by Jane Mander
Circe by Madeline Miller

Favorite non-fiction: Merchant, Miner, Mandarin: The life and times of the remarkable Choie Sew Hoy by Jenny Sew Hoy Agnew

Favorite mystery/thriller: N/A

Favorite historical fiction: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Favorite fantasy: N/A, the fantasy I read this year just did not click with me

Favorite Sci-fi: Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany

Favorite Romance: The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang

Favorite Short Stories: N/A

Surprise hit: Gamechanger by L.X. Beckett

Favorite author discovered in 2021: N/A

Most re-read book first read in 2021: N/A

Most re-read author in 2021: Kate Elliott


And since I do occasionally do something other than read...

TV:
Favorite - Sell Your Haunted House
Surprise hit - Tie! Happiness and Nirvana in Fire
Surprise blunder - Thirty-Nine

Video games:
Favorite - ibb&obb

 

Past Editions:

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