Fic: A Surfeit of Feeling [T; Emma (2020)]

T, Emma/Mr. Knightley; Emma (2020); 4,100 words. Canon divergence; #1/2 for Yuletide 2020.

Emma could not recall the last time she had experienced so many emotions in the span of a single evening.

A Surfeit of Feeling

(For kim47 in yuletide)

Fic: for she is also your salvation [T; SWatH]

T; Ravenna/Snow White; Snow White and the Huntsman (2012); 1500 words. Canon divergence; #2/2 for Yuletide 2020.

The Mirror had given Ravenna a truer answer than she knew: take her heart in your hand, and you shall never again need to consume youth.

for she is also your salvation

(For Damkianna in yuletide)

BOOKMARK: 2021 VIEWING LIST

Because I started off the year with S2 of The Mandalorian and an ep of Forged in Fire; this is the way. :)

[Past: 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20]

As usual, I rounded all TV episodes (whether live or DVD) up to the nearest half-hour mark and all movies to two hours total, then added in repeats. There were far fewer trips to the theater this year for obvious reasons, but a lot more Discovery/History Channel type TV. As a result, in 2020 I watched 749 total hours of on-screen entertainment (2.05 hours/day) - about 7 hours short of 2019's total.

Historically, since I started tracking, my average has ranged between 1.62 hours a day and 2.52 hours a day, but roughly two hours per day has been pretty much the sweet spot. I would have thought it would have been higher this year - but I guess I can tolerate only so much time in front of the TV? As you'll see from today's other summary posts, my 2020 distraction of choice went in another drection!

( Bookmark Post: TV and Movies Watched in 2021 )

BOOKMARK: THE COMPLEAT 2021 READING LIST

2007 - 100 Books (avg. 408.57 pages)   2008 - 80 Books (avg. 385.50 pages) 2009 - 67 Books (avg. 338.03 pages) 2010 - 129 Books (avg. 378.75 pages) 2011 - 133 Books (avg. 375.98 pages) 2012 - 144 Books (avg. 398.92 pages) 2013 - 130 Books (avg. 397.36 pages)

2014 - 130 Books (avg. 391.13 pages) 2015 - 122 Books (avg. 364.18 pages) 2016 - 100 Books (avg. 433.06 pages) 2017 - 104 Books (avg. 413.24 pages) 2018 - 108 Books (avg. 377.99 pages) 2019 - 125 Books (avg. 389.52 pages) 2020 - 266 Books (avg. 306.32 pages)

Cracked the first new book of 2021 today, so I'm starting my reading list for the year, too.

Hilarious now to look at my opening from last year's list: "125 books is no 144 – IDK how I had that much energy in 2012." *snort* Two things happened in March 2020: one of 'em's obvious, and the other is that I bought myself a Kindle for my birthday. Suddenly, I had the ability to download anything I wanted on a whim; and I had an hour and a half every weekday that I would have been commuting freed up by working from home, plus a severe cut in my social time and shopping time. I probably should have written more instead, but: well, 2020. No one needs my litany; you've all lived your own. So: obvious results were obvious.

2020's bookcount was 266 books, just over twenty-two per month. The average book was shorter than usual, because ebooks, but I still ended up reading a total of 81,480 pages (222 per day), two-thirds again as much as last year. I haven't had that kind of readcount since pre-job days. I don't expect it to ever happen again - crossing my fingers for a better year in 2021!

In other stats: 18 were non-fiction this time; 15 were re-reads; and 11 were graphic novels. 179 were ebooks.

In genre analysis, of the 249 fictional books: 130 were science fiction (20 of which were media tie-ins, and 24 were LitRPG); 47 were fantasy of some variety (epic, urban, steampunk, etc.); and 18 were mystery or thrillers or drama, often in a historical setting. 55 were regency romance (50 of which were Jane Austen Variations). Nine were considered YA.

So, on to Year Fifteen of book tracking!

Book stats through 255 include 14 rereads, 28 nonfiction, 5 ya, 156 ebooks and 20 graphic novels.

( Books Read in 2021 )