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legionseagle and 100 SFF Books You Should Consider Reading in the New Year
Italics = read it. Underline= not it, but another by the same author. Strikethrough = did not finish.
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Probably two thirds of these the names are familiar enough I'm questioning whether I've read something of theirs, or I'm just reacting to the name alone, and I can't go to my bookshelves to check as I'm 300 miles away from them.
Most surprised by the absence of: Elizabeth BearIt was Quinn’s territory, and Jorgensen was dayshift CSU supervisor, but anything that pulled both of them out of their offices couldn’t be good. I glanced around for a disabled parking spot, and growled under my breath that there didn’t seem to be one. On the other hand, the car park was near empty, so I just put us as close to the footpath as I could get.
Two bike squad officers peeled into the carpark as I reassembled my chair and I smiled at a familiar face. Aine Kekoa was the junior-most detective in Aleks' squad, but was back in uniform for a month as administrative punishment for disobeying a direct order. As that had involved her coming along to give covering fire while we rescued my daughter, I was inclined to take her side in the argument.
Aine pulled her bike in next to me and kicked down its stand.
oursin, here's my New Year meme thing:1. What did you do in 2014 that you'd never done before?
Get hospitalised for pancreatitis (could actually have done without this one).
2. Did you keep your New Year resolutions, and will you make more for next year? N/A
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Did notice a cot box outside the neighbours’ :)
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.
5. What countries did you visit?
Didn’t even get out of
6. What would you like to have in 2015 that you lacked in 2014?
Wheels! (I'm waiting for a wheelchair assessment that should hopefully increase my mobility).
7. What date from 2014 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Probably 19th September, when Dad had his stroke.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Probably ongoing disability campaigning.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Don’t really rate anything as a failure.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Pancreatitis, badly sprained ankle, ongoing bendiness
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Worldcon membership
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
The We Need Diverse Books team
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
IDS, DWP, the Tories in general, the Lib Dems for rebranding LD as Lap Dog. UKIP,
14. Where did most of your money go?
Survival
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Worldcon
16. What song will always remind you of 2014?
Nothing springs to mind
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
happier or sadder? thinner or fatter? richer or poorer?
Sadder, thinner, poorer. (Respectively down to: Dad’s stroke, surviving pancreatitis, surviving austerity)
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Seen friends, didn’t get to see the Uni or BAE crowds this year.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Being ill, falling off bins (cf badly sprained ankle above).
20. How did you spend Christmas?
Quietly with the family
21. How will you be spending New Year's Eve?
Quietly with the family
22. Did you fall in love in 2014?
No
23. How many one-night stands?
Chance would be a fine thing ;)
24. What was your favourite TV program?
Watched very little TV this year.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
IDS seems to inspire me to new levels of loathing each year, plus we had a couple of new Ministers Against Disabled People to despise.
26. What was the best book you read?
Probably Ann Leckie’s ‘Ancillary Justice’, though I’d have to review my complete reading list to be sure.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Not doing a lot of music right now.
28. What did you want and get?
A completed first draft of my novel.
29. What did you want and not get?
That wheelchair assessment (at the first attempt).
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Haven’t been going to the pictures lately. Favourite film I’d not seen before – Rust and Bone.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Family meal, 51
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
The Lib Dems rediscovering their principles and triggering the fall of the government.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2014?
34. What kept you sane?
Having a psych tell me I probably am neurodiverse!
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Probably still Rachel Weisz – be still, my beating heart….
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Fighting to retain some semblance of disability benefits from the IDS/ConDem onslaught.
37. Who did you miss?
The Uni and BAE crowds, though I chat to some of the Uni crowd on FB most days.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Has to be kaberett, not just for themself, but for all the new people I met through them.
39. Did you meet anyone you only knew online?
Trialia and Marieke Nijkamp at Worldcon, liv and rmc28 at Kaberett’s party (and possibly one or two more – I got introduced to a whole load of people, not all with screen-names attached!). Kaberett I met back to front, first by stalking their wheelchair at Worldcon, then in the flesh after the final panel, and only later online.
40. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2014
Don’t climb on bins in preference to asking the next door neighbour to let you hop over their much lower fence to get your spare key (see the sprained ankle thing).
41. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year
‘I get knocked down, but I get up again,’ Chumbawumba
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