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juushikaI'm hardly the only one to say this, but the joy of Untitled Goose Game is that it's the "be naughty" equivalent of "do murder" in most games: I'm not supposed to do this IRL, it's probably best that I don't do this IRL :(, but it's very cathartic to do the thing in lovingly-rendered detail in game space. Anyway, I really enjoyed it.
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I'm sorry that 100% of my updates have been book reviews, and that there have been so many of them.
I ran into something of a wall in processing life. I had to dump some stimuli (RIP Shakespeare project, trips to see my family, talking to almost anyone ever) & meanwhile delved deep into other stimuli of the self-discovery/-actualization and repairing my relationship with my partner after seven million years of stress varieties. Arguably these activities are also intense work, but they're less taxing and more indulgent (because sometimes they mean Acquiring Physical Goods) and just ... easier to process, especially while interfacing with the rest of the world is too hard.
So all my time has been Devon Time or Me Time or Quiet Time—
—and then I realized that I'd read [as of drafting this, numbers have since shifted] ~260 books this year with ~95 days left in the year, which means that at just over a book a day I could hit my arbitrary and ridiculous goal of 365 books in 2019. I was on track for that a few months ago, but then stopped reading Animorphs and started reading novel-length SF/F as well as playing video games and stuff.
So I went back to shamelessly inflating my numbers via children's books and manga, and now 365 is again become an achievable goal. I like it because it's (for me) not tenable, so I will never compare another year to this year & maybe learn the more general lesson that statistics are silly. Given the upcoming Macmillan and Blackstone embargoes, I imagine that 2020 will be a whole new shitshow for library users and I can only guess how it'll impact my reading—maybe it will be a year of decades-old doorstoppers to spite both publishers and statistics while avoiding holds.
I am meanwhile mostly caught up on writing reviews! ...I am still very behind on posting reviews! Between that and this rock I'm hiding under, that's all I've had the energy to post.
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I'm sorry that 100% of my updates have been book reviews, and that there have been so many of them.
I ran into something of a wall in processing life. I had to dump some stimuli (RIP Shakespeare project, trips to see my family, talking to almost anyone ever) & meanwhile delved deep into other stimuli of the self-discovery/-actualization and repairing my relationship with my partner after seven million years of stress varieties. Arguably these activities are also intense work, but they're less taxing and more indulgent (because sometimes they mean Acquiring Physical Goods) and just ... easier to process, especially while interfacing with the rest of the world is too hard.
So all my time has been Devon Time or Me Time or Quiet Time—
—and then I realized that I'd read [as of drafting this, numbers have since shifted] ~260 books this year with ~95 days left in the year, which means that at just over a book a day I could hit my arbitrary and ridiculous goal of 365 books in 2019. I was on track for that a few months ago, but then stopped reading Animorphs and started reading novel-length SF/F as well as playing video games and stuff.
So I went back to shamelessly inflating my numbers via children's books and manga, and now 365 is again become an achievable goal. I like it because it's (for me) not tenable, so I will never compare another year to this year & maybe learn the more general lesson that statistics are silly. Given the upcoming Macmillan and Blackstone embargoes, I imagine that 2020 will be a whole new shitshow for library users and I can only guess how it'll impact my reading—maybe it will be a year of decades-old doorstoppers to spite both publishers and statistics while avoiding holds.
I am meanwhile mostly caught up on writing reviews! ...I am still very behind on posting reviews! Between that and this rock I'm hiding under, that's all I've had the energy to post.
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Date: 2019-10-02 08:06 pm (UTC)I'm glad you're taking time for yourself and time to work on your relationship with your partner. That seems really important, after so long of such intense stress.