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I’m going to try to go back to using this as a booklog; I have better internet access now (and hopefully will have it on my own computer instead of competing with others soon; it’s still better than the library, though). Hopefully I can go back to trying to at least comment on things as I read them and so actually post here more often. I read an appalling amount of books last month and finished most of them: 17 fantasy (2 new, the rest reread, 1 new and 1 reread unfinished), 1 science fiction (reread), 8 mystery (2 reread), 8 manga (1 new, the rest reread, all fantasy), 1 romance (reread), 1 parody? (new), 1 political thriller (new) . My classifications might be a bit off, but the numbers are correct.
I realized I hadn’t updated librarything since August. oops. I keep staring at Tsubasa 19, but have not yet bought it; I would have stopped long ago if I hadn’t been interested in the parts that relate to xxxHOLiC. I still have a distinct feeling I bought The Yiddish Policeman’s Union used in hardback from somewhere (the library, probably), but can’t find it; the used book store has it in hardback and paperback, but I don’t want to buy it if I already have a copy.
One one hand, I need to start keeping better track of things; on the other hand, I no longer have regular internet access and so might be abandoning this for a while (not that I’m really updating).
It’s not much of one because I failed to keep up with anything and spent way too much time playing Disgaea instead of reading or watching much of anything. I was restless at the beginning of the month and read a chapter or two of several books, and ended up rereading most of Emma Bull’s War for the Oaks, which I will hopefully finish, but I’m not enjoying it as much on a reread as I did when I first read it. I have Elizabeth Bear’s Blood and Iron out from the library, and ended up renewing it because I got stuck in War for the Oaks and haven’t even opened it yet. I think the only things I bought were v7 of Angel Diary (still unread) and Dir en grey’s Uroboros (mostly because it was there). I still have eighteen drafts, dating back a year. Despite not updating, my hits continue to improve; November was my best month so far, and I had a best week ever and three hits less than my best day ever. If I would update regularly, I might actually get a reasonable number of hits. I ought to figure out why I’m suddenly not getting many hits for a particular search term, though I have no idea where they were coming from in the first place.
Probably not complete; I think the reading is accurate, but know I must have watched more than I listed, but have no idea what it might have been. I’m still failing to post here as often as I want to, and still have seventeen drafts here plus one as a draft email, for some reason (if I could get there, I could get here) that may or may not make it into full posts. On the other hand, I had a best days ever (+ two more that would have been if that one hadn’t) and a best month ever in October, which is nice.
Fail, again; I was doing well, but then lost track of things halfway through the month, so it’s probably not complete. Despite abandoning this in September, it was my best month ever, hit-wise, though I think a lot of that was from image searches for xxxHOLiC; I had a best day ever that lasted a few weeks (a new best day ever was in October; half the hits were on the various xxxHOLiC pages, more than half on the images themselves). I think I’m going to take my drafts and make a couple of big posts out of them (thoughts only instead of descriptions and details and such) to get them out of the way (20 drafts at this point) and try again to start with just thoughts and not attempts at serious reviews (hopefully smaller posts, more often).
This is a better attempt than last month’s log; I think it covers everything, though I did get distracted late in the month. I still fail at cleaning out drafts; I’m up to nineteen (not counting this), and the next thing I post won’t be one of those (xxxHOLiC DVD 4, partially because the xxxHOLiC posts are the ones that get the most hits, probably due to the cover art). August was my second-best month, hitwise, and the last week was the second best week (three behind the best, and three ahead of the third-best). I want to poke at the stats and see how many of those were images and how many were actual page views; I wish wordpress counted them separately.
Summary: read 7 (2 fantasy, 3 science fiction (2 borderline romance), 1 alternate history, 1 manga (fantasy)); 2 started but chose not to finish (one regency romance, one fantasy/romance); 3 reread (+ 1 started but unfinished). I need to start paying more attention to librarything, too; every time I go to add books, I notice there are all sorts of nifty new features, but never actually try to take advantage of them. I was also failing to add things there while I was failing here, so at some point, I’m going to have to take all of the loose books lying around and double-check them there.
I realized halfway through the month that I’d failed to keep any sort of track of anything, and so have absolutely no idea what I might have read or watched this month. Despite the lack of updates, July was my best month for hits ever; sadly that’s probably at least in part due to people hotlinking images, though the related posts are also getting a significant number of hits. On the one hand, hotlinking images is stealing bandwidth; on the other hand, it’s not my bandwidth and wordpress doesn’t seem to mind; on the other other hand, it’s skewing my stats a bit, since they don’t distinguish between image hits and actual page hits. If I can actually sleep properly, maybe I can get my drafts cleared out and start posting more often. I have fifteen drafts; a couple are notes-to-self, one is waiting for more information (either I find the relevant discs or wait for the official release), but the others are all things I wanted to post at one point. The earliest is from last November and was abandoned until I got the next book of the series (last Christmas), and at this point may wait until the next is released. I don’t know why I don’t think that brief thoughts are OK as posts, but I’m going to try to convince myself of that; I’d like to post more here (oddly, I’ve been posting on lj a lot lately, mostly musician-related ramblings, though).
I am failing again to even spend the five seconds it would take to add to the list here and failing to read much as well. I think I’m going to go back to trying to write a little something about everything and stop trying to do proper reviews, though; I end up with half-written drafts that are long enough to not want to delete but impossible to finish because I don’t have the source any more. I don’t know why DVDs are easier to write about than books, either (though DVDs adapted from books have a ready-made topic of discussion).
I failed to read much of anything this month, but watched a little more than usual due to unreliable internet in my area. I also failed to properly keep up with this, so it might not be complete.
Reading summary: started 15, finished 14. 11 2/3 reread. 7 mystery, 6 young-adult fantasy, 1 a bit of everything, 1 unsure (nominated for both mystery and sf). I planned to write an entry on the Donna Andrews books but think I waited too long (enjoyed, but don’t remember them well a few weeks later). I still have 15 drafts (though a few are wordpress-related notes).
