Raw Data:
Novels - 8 ↓
Short Stories - 0 ↓
Manga/Graphic Novels - 0 -
Comics - 0 -
Average Rating - 3.44 ↑
Pages - 3087 ↓
Words - 1133K ↓
January was a quiet blog month, as I only blogged the first week of January and then went into silent running mode. Here are all my posts from then:
- Bookstooge Reviews 2025
- January Plans
- All the Feelings!
- Keldon Warlord - MTG 4E
- No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy - Book Review
- Mr Zip Likes'em Big
- To Green Angel Tower - Book Review
- Book Haul: Dune Messiah & Children of Dune Deluxe Editions
- See You in February
I obviously didn't stop reading. Here is a quick grab bag of what else I read in January, but didn't review. Maybe some day they'll get reviews, but not this month.
Mrs Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish by Dorothy Gillman - 4Stars
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" by William Hodgson - 3Stars
Graveyard of Demons by Larry Correia - 4Stars
A Right to Die by Rex Stout - 4Stars
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley - 3.5Stars
The Stony Man Doctrine by Dick Stivers - 3Stars
Also, I gave in (for like the sixth or seventh time) and joined devilreads. I only rate the books I read, no reviews. Words get me in trouble in devilreads and I want to see if I can go a whole year there without having an encounter with some jackass, or the bleeding staff. I can be found at:
https://www.goodreads.com/botstooge
I make no promises about how long I'll be there this time though. My average is like 4 weeks ;-)
January was quite the month. Workwise, winter is here in full force. We had several snow storms. The latest one, which occurred last Sunday and Monday, dumped about 18inches (45cm) of the white stuff on us. That has made this past week especially tough as we acclimate to very different working conditions. It has also been extremely cold this past week. Friday Short Round and I were working at a house on the side of a mountain and the temps were at 0 and the windchills were -19 (-18C & -28C) all day. I just came home exhausted simply from being outdoors. February is going to be tough, as the temps are predicted to stay cold, which means the snow won't melt away.
I have to admit, I enjoyed my time off from blogging. I hadn't realized how much pressure I had put on my own shoulders until I stopped and threw all that weight onto the ground. I felt more free to comment or not on other peoples' blogs because it didn't matter to my own blog. It was a refreshing time and I suspect I will be repeating January's experience later this year. But I'm back now, so.....
February will be back to blogging regularly. Posts will be at 5pm and I don't plan on blogging on Wednesdays or Saturdays. Mondays will always be Magic Mondays ;-) I aim to slow down my reading AND blogging in 2026 and try to enjoy it instead of just consuming and regurgitating mindlessly.
