There were many big things this year, some of which I will keep to myself and friends. A change in job responsibilities also occurred and there were improvements to our home, including painting and replacement of our back deck.
Besides the magazines I read this year (3 Archaeology and 15 National Geographic), I read ten non-fiction books: A Great and Noble Scheme by John Mack Farager, Achtung Panzer! by Heinz Guderian, Creating Babylon 5 by David Bassom, God: A Biolgraphy by Jack Miles, National Geographic's Indian Wars, Longitude by Dana Sobel, Napoleon's Buttons by Penny le Couteur and Jay Burreson, Six Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynaman, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, and The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason. In 2020 I intend to read at least 9 non-fiction books and continue with my magazines.
Of Fiction books I read a whopping 24 of them but many were short works. They were: Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer, Best SF vol 2 by Edmund Crispin, Emma by Jane Austen, Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen, Gypsies by Robert Charles Wilson, Infinity Box by Kate Wilhelm, Judge Dredd Vol 6, Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler, Little Sister by Raymond Chandler, Man with the Getaway Face by Richard Stark, Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett, Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin, Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson, Suicide Club by Robert Lewis Stephenson, Sword of Rihannon by Leigh Brackett, The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett, The Hunter by Richard Stark, The Outfit by Richard Stark, The Seventh by Richard Stark, The Stars are the Styx by Theodore Sturgeon, The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Them Bones by Howard Waldrop, Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson. I do not know if I can read this many in 2020 but will read what I can.
I attended two concerts this year, which were enjoyable: Constantinople: Gate to the East and Tafelmusik: Bach the Circle of Creation. I have no idea of the music concerts i will attend in 2020. For music in the home, I have been watching Band in Seattle (11 of the 30 min program), Fleetwood Mac: The Dance, Queen Elizabeth 1sts battle for church music, Roy Orbison: Black and White Night, Tommy.
I dipped my toe into podcasts this past year, listening to 16 CBC Idea episodes and 7 Under the Influence episodes. I hope to continue with these two great shows and perhaps more.
For movies, I have seen 15 in a theater, 53 at home, and 12 that were feature length documentaries. Standouts in a theater were: Avengers: Endgame, Ford vs Ferrari, Joker, and Spider-man: Into the Spider Verse. Standouts for movies at home were: After Life, Blakkklansmen, Bohemian Rhapsody, Colossal, Gone with the Wind, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Lawrence of Arabia, Mr Deeds goes to Town, Mark of Zorro '40, Ninotchka, Nobody Knows, On the Waterfront, Rashomon, Shape of Water, Split, Upgraded. Standouts for documentaries were: 20 feet from Stardom, An Honest Liar, Apollo 11, Good ol Freda: The Beatles Secretary, Score, The Greatest Party on Earth, and Woodstock.
For non-fiction TV, 185 hours were watched. These were the standouts: Africa and Britain: A Forgotten History (4), Annie Oakley, Apollo Experience: Apollo 17 (2), Baroque (3), Fake or Fortune (5), Hokusai: Crazy Old Man to Paint, Impressionists (3), Mary Pickford, My Life in Hitler's Germany (2), Nature (10), Nova (14), The Elements (3), Utopia (3).
Of Fiction TV, I watched 275 hours. These were the standouts: And then there were none (3), Babylon 5 - Pilot and S1 and S2 (45), Baroness von Sketch (30 min, 12), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (24), Doom Patrol (15), Elementary (S6 21) (S7 12), Handmaids Tale (11), Orville (15), Rookie (21), Swamp Thing (12), The Crown (10). I hope to reduce the fiction TV I watch and concentrate more on non-fiction and reading.
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