Reading/Listening Plans for 2020
Jan. 1st, 2020 07:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flamebyrdA lot of my free time last year was eaten up by study, or more accurately my anxiety preventing me from spending time not studying, and then I re-discovered video games again and that took up the rest of it.
In the hopes of giving myself some accountability and, honestly, giving myself a list to consult when I feel like trying something new, I've compiled some lists of things I intend to start this year.
These lists are not comprehensive and recommendations are welcome! (I like SF/Fantasy and mysteries, cannot handle grimdark, horror, extreme violence or gore, and prefer queer content.)
Books
There's nothing like compiling an annual wrap-up to realise how few books you've read in a year.
Some interesting-seeming books I own but haven't read yet:
Too Like the Lightning - Ada Palmer
Witchmark - C. L. Polk ✅
The Black Tides of Heaven - JY Yang
Sunshine - Robin McKinley ✅
All the Birds in the Sky - Charlie Jane Anders
The Murder at Sissingham Hall - Clara Benson
The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi
A Darker Shade of Magic - V. E. Schwab
Deathless - Catherynne M. Valente
Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan MacGuire
The Tiger’s Daughter - K Arsenault Rivera
The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley
(You may recognise a number of these from the Tor monthly free books.)
New books coming out in 2020:
False Value - Ben Aaronovitch (February)
A Desolation Called Peace - Arkady Martine (March) 2021
Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel - Martha Wells (May) ✅
I also have it in my head that I could finally read some of these Chinese web novels which have translations available:
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation ✅
Scum Villain's Self-Saving System ✅
Female General and Eldest Princess
Podcasts
The friending meme introduced me to a number of new narrative podcasts I'd like to try out, including:
The Far Meridian ✅
The Penumbra Podcast ✅
The Two Princes
The Love and Luck Podcast (Added 2020-01-06)
I also need to finish The Strange Case of Starship Iris, preferably before its new season starts, and Tides should hopefully be getting a new seasonnext this year.
Television/Movies
Sadly, I think at this point it's too much to hope that I'll be able to sustain interest in these particular types of visual media (with apologies to all fans of the Untamed XD, but I might read the novel!).
In the hopes of giving myself some accountability and, honestly, giving myself a list to consult when I feel like trying something new, I've compiled some lists of things I intend to start this year.
These lists are not comprehensive and recommendations are welcome! (I like SF/Fantasy and mysteries, cannot handle grimdark, horror, extreme violence or gore, and prefer queer content.)
Books
There's nothing like compiling an annual wrap-up to realise how few books you've read in a year.
Some interesting-seeming books I own but haven't read yet:
Too Like the Lightning - Ada Palmer
Witchmark - C. L. Polk ✅
The Black Tides of Heaven - JY Yang
Sunshine - Robin McKinley ✅
All the Birds in the Sky - Charlie Jane Anders
The Murder at Sissingham Hall - Clara Benson
The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi
A Darker Shade of Magic - V. E. Schwab
Deathless - Catherynne M. Valente
Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan MacGuire
The Tiger’s Daughter - K Arsenault Rivera
The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley
(You may recognise a number of these from the Tor monthly free books.)
New books coming out in 2020:
False Value - Ben Aaronovitch (February)
Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel - Martha Wells (May) ✅
I also have it in my head that I could finally read some of these Chinese web novels which have translations available:
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation ✅
Scum Villain's Self-Saving System ✅
Female General and Eldest Princess
Podcasts
The friending meme introduced me to a number of new narrative podcasts I'd like to try out, including:
The Far Meridian ✅
The Penumbra Podcast ✅
The Two Princes
The Love and Luck Podcast (Added 2020-01-06)
I also need to finish The Strange Case of Starship Iris, preferably before its new season starts, and Tides should hopefully be getting a new season
Television/Movies
Sadly, I think at this point it's too much to hope that I'll be able to sustain interest in these particular types of visual media (with apologies to all fans of the Untamed XD, but I might read the novel!).