… that my first fully dated item appeared on my website: a review of Clannad’s 1996 tour at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, attended a week earlier.I blogged about this piece of history 10 years ago. What's changed since then?Back in 2016 I was working at the University of York. I have since retired, although I still have Emerita status there.To date, on my website I have 623 non-fiction book reviews, 1094 science fiction reviews, and 82 other fiction reviews. That's about 5 reviews a month averaged over the 30 years, although it had been decreasing, and was particularly low in 2016. Over the last 10 years, that's a further 189 non-fiction, 250 science fiction, and 7 other fiction reviews, so a reading rate of about 3-4 book per month over that time period. I hadn't decreased my reading, just my reading of books, as reading research papers took up a lot of my time at York. There's a visible spike in number of book reviews last year as retirement kicked in, back to the previous rate of…
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