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The Marvel Trumps Hate auction has started. I am offering the Infinity Gauntlet and Iron Gauntlet pictured below (auctioned separately) as well as a podfic.



There are also many other great items up for auction to support a wonderful group of organizations.

Go check it out!

Huh. Looks like I never made a book poll last year. Well, here is a list for both 2017 and 2018:

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I didn't get as much reading done in 2018 as I'd like but I did a fair bit of crochet: a scarf, a shawl, a beanie shark, 3 juggling sharks, and one infinity gauntlet.

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Wow. I only read 36 books this year. Probably due to reading more fanfic than usual and far more political commentary than I needed.

Lovecraft Country was the best of the fiction, although I was also quite fond of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. 1491 would probably have stood out even in a longer list of nonfiction.

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I haven't been able to get to my bookmarks at delicious.com for several days. Does anyone know what is going on with them? Did they go under while I wasn't watching?

I was too busy or distracted last New Year to post a book poll, so this one covers two years.
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Another relatively short list this year. I have a smartphone now and I tend to read blogs or downloaded fanfic on it more than real ebooks. I should try to do something about that. I have been listening to a lot of short fiction via the Escape Pod podcase, which I recommed for daily commutes.

The poll is late this year because I spent the week between Christmas and new year working of my first (and likely only) fanvid. That also probably cost me a book or two for 2013, since I often try to finish up books-in-progress before the new year. My only real resolution this year is to get more and more regular sleep, but I'm going to try to read more, too.

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For the past two years I've been hoping someone would make a Sherlock video to the song "Aha!" by The Backyardigans. This weekend I decided to try doing it myself. Here is the result:

In 2012 I read (or listened to) just over half as many books as in 2011. I attribute that to reading too much fan fiction and political commentary (it was an election year) and to switching mostly to podcasts in preference to audio books. escape pod has some very good short fiction, but I haven't been tracking what I've listened to.

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen was my favorite book this year. I also particularly enjoyed The Scottish Prisoner and Captain Vorpatril's Alliance. I hope Bujold finds more stories in the Vorkosigan universe as I much prefer those to her fantasy works.

My favorite non-fiction was Ben Behind His Voices, which in addition to being a moving book, led me to the National Alliance on Mental Illness which proved to be an invaluable resource for someone with an affected family member.

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