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Getting back to Goodreads
I haven't actually done anything with Goodreads this year. Not sure why, just didn't go there much. So it's now on my To Do list, which I am absolutely not calling resolutions. I just cleared the shelves, which never really got far, and set everything up to receive 2026 reads. Also went through some lists and added various books to the "want to read" which also includes my latest lot of library books which aren't going to get read before the New Year drops on us, like a drunken drop bear looking for its latest victim. For non-Australians thinking wtf, google "drop bear." A feared and savage beast, along with the dreaded hoop snake.
www.goodreads.com/review/list/166316839-alex-isle
Other aims are to write some more short fiction and try the one I managed to produce with another market when they open for submissions in February. There's the longer work I'm currently calling The Misogyny Plague, for which I've done a few chapters and some notes, and a fanfic called Devil's Trap which took over way too much of my life this year.
The excuses are I needed to recover from 32 years in the gulag, I had to move to a new lair, there's more to do re my mum, and I'm a lazy bastard sometimes. I'm also going to do more TV extras work if I can find it.
I promise to do more stuff in 2026, but I don't resolve to become a better person. As a FB meme I recently read declared, "I can't believe it's a year since I didn't become a better person!"
I wrote a lot of notes about last year, from my personal journal. I guess the main thing is moving from Bassendean to Claremont, which has been quite an adjustment. It's useful for carer duties, since my mum's just down the road in the next suburb and I can get there in 10 minutes on the e-bike. The actual move ate up more than a month and actually getting used to an apartment again has taken a while.
The main item of discovery from 2025 is that Cabbage White butterflies can fly six floors up and infest one's balcony plants with their progeny, which I'm never going to fully clear out.
www.goodreads.com/review/list/166316839-alex-isle
Other aims are to write some more short fiction and try the one I managed to produce with another market when they open for submissions in February. There's the longer work I'm currently calling The Misogyny Plague, for which I've done a few chapters and some notes, and a fanfic called Devil's Trap which took over way too much of my life this year.
The excuses are I needed to recover from 32 years in the gulag, I had to move to a new lair, there's more to do re my mum, and I'm a lazy bastard sometimes. I'm also going to do more TV extras work if I can find it.
I promise to do more stuff in 2026, but I don't resolve to become a better person. As a FB meme I recently read declared, "I can't believe it's a year since I didn't become a better person!"
I wrote a lot of notes about last year, from my personal journal. I guess the main thing is moving from Bassendean to Claremont, which has been quite an adjustment. It's useful for carer duties, since my mum's just down the road in the next suburb and I can get there in 10 minutes on the e-bike. The actual move ate up more than a month and actually getting used to an apartment again has taken a while.
The main item of discovery from 2025 is that Cabbage White butterflies can fly six floors up and infest one's balcony plants with their progeny, which I'm never going to fully clear out.
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Drop bear lol