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Daily Archives: January 3, 2011
Review of 2010 in books
I started the ‘Book A Week’ challenge on the Chaletian Bulletin Board in 2009, which certainly did a lot for my reading of ‘new’ books. For 2010 I aimed for one hundred books over the year, but didn’t manage to … Continue reading
Posted in 2010 New Reads, Discussion, Links, Lists
Tagged 2010, e-books, favourites, Kindle
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2010 in review
I was surprised to get this stats review from WordPress yesterday, and thought I’d post it. The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog … Continue reading