Fic: Second Date Blues [M; Escape Plan; Ray/Emil]

M; Escape Plan (2013); Ray Breslin/Emil Rottmayer, 6000 words. Already-Met AU.

In hindsight, Ray Breslin should have known something was up the minute the familiar words 'your work is a gold-standard in the field' had left the mouth of Manheim's daughter. Not that he'd realized she was Manheim's daughter at the time.

Second Date Blues

(For chantefable in ficinabox)

Fic: Mutually Assured Absurdity [M; Expendables; Lee/Barney]

M; Expendables 3 post-movie; Lee Christmas/Barney Ross, 6100 words. Tropey get-together.

Waking up was the most disorienting experience of his life. Of course, that wasn't saying much, since at the moment it was the only experience of his life that he could recall.

Mutually Assured Absurdity

(For chantefable in ficinabox)

BOOKMARK: THE COMPLEAT 2024 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) 2021 - 255 Books (avg. 312.65 pages) 2022 - 251 books (avg. 328.91 pages) 2023 - 240 books (avg. 337.88 pages)

Starting my reading list for 2024! Getting close to two decades of my most OCD New Year's Resolution. :)

2020 remains my high-water mark in terms of book count at 266; in 2023 I read 240, but on average they were longer, so the total page count was still 81,091 (2020 was 81,480). That's 221 pages per day. Given that this was the fourth year of such high book counts, and that the boost coincides with the length of time I've owned a Kindle and worked at least part of the week from home, I think the change is probably permanent!

In other stats: 48 were non-fiction this time (highest yet); only 5 were re-reads; and 10 were graphic novels. 154 were ebooks, the rest physical. 9 were YA, two were books of poetry. It was also the first year of my work's new book club; we chose to follow Book Riot's 2023 Read Harder Challenge, and I completed 23 of the 24 challenges (the last was for an audio book, which are difficult for me). It'll be interesting to see what we do this year!

So, on to Year Eighteen of book tracking!

Book stats through 236 include 6 rereads, 53 nonfiction, 2 poetry, 12 ya, 135 ebooks, and 7 graphic novels: 21 from the library.

( Books Read in 2024 )

BOOKMARK: 2024 VIEWING LIST

[Past: 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23]

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. I saw only four movies in theater during 2023; at home, I indulged in a lot of reality TV, streaming, and comfort rewatches (many of them for my 'I own it, but I haven't seen it since I started logging; should I still keep it?' project).

I also dove head-first into documentaries and Reel Rock, which probably influenced the year's total significantly - it came to 1055.5 total hours of on-screen entertainment (2.89 hrs/day), a definite jump from 2022's 940 hours (2.58 hrs/day).

Historically, since I started tracking, my average ranged between 1.62 hours/day and 2.52 hours/day until 2020, but roughly two hours/day was the sweet spot. It's fluctuated higher since, though not as dramatically as my book count; I'm not predicting this year will be any different, given it's another Olympics year!

( Bookmark Post: TV and Movies Watched in 2024 )

Fic: Anything So Very Fine [T; Mansfield Park; Henry Crawford/James Rushworth]

T; Mansfield Park (Book); Henry Crawford/James Rushworth, 3200 words. Divergence AU.

Here was a tangle that promised all the challenge Henry could wish for.

Anything So Very Fine

(For Jen_814 in yuletide)