Another year, another failure to win an award...

Annual Christmas awards today, although I managed to miss the actual ceremony after been double-booked for a meeting. Still, I managed to score a mince pie — which, as usual, served to remind me why I don't really like them — two good pieces of cake — one sponge, one fruit — from a huge thing baked to celebrate a decade in Exeter, a glass of orange juice, and a clementine. Which, I think, counts as a win...

A quick book audit

As we're approaching the end of the year and I've just read Liz Bourke's Thinking About Reading and Radicalisation, I thought it was time for a quick reading audit:

	Male	Female
Read	52	60
Reviewed	26	29

Which brings home three important points: firstly, that I read an awful lot; secondly, I'm actually pretty balanced in my selection of authors; and thirdly, my backlog of books to be written up is far worse than I thought!

ETA: Updated with the final totals for 2013:

	Male	Female
Read	51	70
Reviewed	28	33

Despite counting twice, I seem to have lost one of my male authors somewhere along the way. I can only think that I must have counted one of the James & Mendlesohn collaborations one way last time and the other way this...