In January, I read 3 prose books, 1 play, 5 comics, watched 13 movies (including 2 short films), and 2 seasons of television. The dearth of movies and tv are explicable – I have to be out of the house a lot these days, and I refuse to watch anything more involved than a YouTube video essay on my laptop or (god forbid) my phone. I would like to be reading more novels, though, and more difficult ones, if possible.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 52: Season Finale
(I started writing this on 30th December, and wrote most of it by the 31st, before finishing it on 4th January, so we’re going to count this as a late 2024 newsletter rather than the first 2025 newsletter.)
Last one of the year. I’m writing this while on vacation with a few of my friends. We’ve been to Hyderabad and Santiniketan, and are now relaxing together in Kolkata, where I used to live in a different decade and a different life.
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Reading & Film Round-Up July-November
I’m doing this, as mentioned in the previous post, to wipe the slate clean for next year, and to have an accurate count of how much I read and watched this year.
To that end, some of these capsule reviews will be just a sentence or two, and some will be longer. On occasion, when I had written a longer note on something that I didn’t end up posting, I’ve flagged that.
Nevertheless, this is very long. I wouldn’t blame you for just skipping it. This one’s more for me than for you. Therefore, I won’t be sending this as a newsletter either, but I’ll link to it in the next one.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 28: Woo-Woo
This one’s coming to you closer to the weekend, if not quite within it. I count that a victory.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 27: Second Half of the Year
This is coming later than I’d like, but I was pretty slammed with work Monday and Tuesday. Usually, Monday is my busy day. I strictly avoid working on the weekend, and avoid looking at work emails too, so Monday is when I respond to everyone’s weekend emails. Plus Monday is file delivery day for most comics publishers, which means last-minute revisions and pre-flight checks.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 26 Part 2: Watching and Reading
This is a couple of days later than I’d like, but I was under the weather again this week.
Anyway …
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 24: The Mystery Gods
After the eventful weather of last week, it’s been pleasant to have a week with not much incident. I had to stay home last weekend because of the weather, so I wrapped up my work for the week on Wednesday to spend time with K.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 20: Playfulness
The other day, I read Annie Mueller’s notes on the book Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse, and a couple of things stood out to me.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 19: Rest & Relaxation
It’s been a good week – light on work. I’ve been trying to cook at home more (the pandemic and intervening years got me far too used to ordering in), and that’s been going well.
Health-wise, I’m doing much better – no pain these days, though I’m diligent about continuing my physiotherapy-mandated exercises. It took me a few months, but I realised that my pain resurges precisely when I stop doing these, so I can’t be complacent just yet. But I’m back to actually typing these on the computer rather than dictating them or typing them on the phone.
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Reading & Film Round-Up Feb/March
I haven’t posted my usual weekly updates for a bit, but I like having a count of books, comics, movies and tv at the end of the year, so I’m going to catch up with some capsule reviews.
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