That’s another year over and done with. And in many ways I’m thinking people are delighted to see the back of 2018 as it certainly wasn’t great for a lot of people. But there was good news as well, and it helps to remember that is isn’t all doom and gloom.
There have been two new additions to my household in 2018, both of them accidental. Every year we foster a dog over the summer for a local rescue and usually these dogs head off to Sweden and new homes in August or September, but this year our foster puppy was quite a bit older than usual and the rescue thought he might not cope all too well with that journey and were trying to find him a forever home in Ireland. But no luck, so when September came around we decided that Drake would stay with us. So I guess they did find him a home after all…
And then towards the end of October a little kitten ran out in front of the car and so we had to stop. And so Shuri joined the family. Three dogs, three cats. I think that’s more than enough to keep us occupied.
Bookwise I read my 100 books with the late addition of some short stories and novellas over the past couple of days. I did not review all one hundred on the blog, I sort of fell off the blogging circuit the past few months. Likewise I know I haven’t reviewed even half of the films I watched, but I think I logged most of them on letterboxed, so a total there of 168.
Of the books I reviewed two thirds were by women, over half were by UK authors or US authors, only five were by Irish authors. 14 had LGBTQ+ characters, that could do with some improvement, and 3 were by LGBTQ identifying authors.
Still a lot of work to be done reading outside the mainstream white narrative.
On to the favs of the year! WHich, in no particular order are…
Swordheart
Us against you
Exit strategy
22 July [based on the book One of Us]
The broken kingdoms
Sun, Moon, Dust
The language of power
Hereditary
The Breadwinner [based on the book]
Avengers : Infinity War
The cat who walked a thousand miles
Annihilation [based on the book]
Black Panther
The unwomanly face of war
Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Clockwork Boys
novella, whatever ↩
2018 was a terrible year but indeed it had some positives. (Also, if you haven’t you can sign up for Samantha Bee’s Little Victories File, and she will send good news to your inbox) Also, I should read some books this year. It has been a while. On the other hand, I am painting every day in January and need to make plans for Feb. :)
Cindy Dauer´s last blog post ..Acrylic Painting January 2019, Continued