2016readingyear
2016 Reading Year
A year in books (and notable films)
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Jill Tamaki’s graphic-novel-that-started-as-an-adorable-web-series, and a truly delightful read. So much hilarious teen angst! So many magical moments!
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This was the perfect curl-up-and-read-all-day sick day book. A thoroughly compelling glimpse into an ordinary family - and an impossibly glamorous world - and tenuous middle age.
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With A on a relaxed Sunday afternoon. A funny, dark, moving film. Highly recommended.
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This was a fun Friday night film with J, J and B. Note: not an 1860s period drama.
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A tightly plotted, deeply silly film. With J, P and P in Newtown on a pleasant Saturday.
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The first full season of a TV show I’ve watched this year; the perfect way to spend a self-indulgent Saturday alone.
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What a tale. The plot can be summarised as a continuous cycle of lawsuits leading to murderous blood feuds leading to lawsuits, etc, sometimes interrupted by winter, when everyone went home and stayed there. I guess winters in Iceland during the medieval cold period were pretty bitter. Also, at some point everyone converted to Christianity, which meant there was the occasional pilgrimage to Rome.
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I read this very slowly, mainly with text-to-voice, because it was the only way I could force myself through this ghastly tale. Dark and violent, filled with unlikeable, melodramatic characters - yet not unhopeful that suffering and cruelty may be transcended.
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The follow up to Fun Home, one of the best books I read last year. This instalment of Bechdel's graphic memoirs is denser and more inward-looking than the last, interspersing her mother's story with psychoanalytic theory and her own therapy sessions. It packs fewer punches but made me think more...
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With E at Newtown on a hot Saturday evening. It was dreamy and intriguing.
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One of the first books I have read entirely electronically. Thanks, public domain! An utterly fascinating and compelling classic; perhaps my new favourite book.
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An excellent entry in the art-biography-as-graphic-novel genre. Read in the heat on a Sunday.
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At Newtown with J. It was… sweet and thought-provoking but not a ground breaking flight of imagination.
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Fascinating. Also short. All the best qualities in a political history!
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Devoured on a hot and muggy Sunday afternoon at home.
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A pure delight. Perfect weekend reading. Prompted much Solomons-nostalgia and laughter and some sadness. Recommended!
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