2022 Book Bingo Retrospective

BINGO! One year ago, I started my (second) 2022 Book Bingo. Let’s see how I did! 2022 Book Bingo Toggle Display Mode Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett Hard Mode ✓ A book on r/Fantasy’s Top LGBTQIA List (Hard: A book/series with ten votes or less) The Bone Ships by R.J. Barker Hard Mode ✓ Weird Ecology (Hard: Not written by Jeff VanderMeer or China Miéville) The Vela by Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, Rivers Solomon, S.

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2022 Year in Reviews

Another year’s over… and a new one just begun. In years past, I’ve done a seperate post for my 2021 Reading Retrospective and 2021 TV & Movies Retrospective, but… that seems silly. Let’s do them all together this year!

In summary:

  • 126 total books: 40 graphic novels, 52 audiobooks, and 8 short stories / children’s books)
  • 24 seasons of TV shows
  • 31 movies
  • 2245 (!) plays across 207 different board games, 88 of them new to me!
  • 45 different games played on Steam, 29 of them new to me

I really should add board games and Steam games to my lists. Not sure how to do that though. We’ll see.

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Shorefall The Founders Trilogy #2

Learn what your city has forgotten. What men of power have forgotten time and time again, throughout history—that there is always, always something mightier.

Foundryside was quite a ride, with an awesome magic system, great characters, and some nice not entirely too dark bits of revolution going on–and hints of something more. Shorefall takes all that… and turns it way the heck up to 11.

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