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It’s the end of 2014 which means it’s once again time for stats and charts! Reading wise 2014 wasn’t a bad year. I read 113 books (I’m back on track for my 101 in 1,001 goal!). I averaged 9.42 books per month, with an average rating of 3.93 stars and 289 pages per book (34,036 pages total). The Fiery Cross was my longest read with 1,443 pages. My shortest read, a book on minimalism, had 32 pages. 68 books had female authors but only 11 books were written by people of color, something I’m planning on working on in 2015. Along with this I’m also planning on reading more books written and set outside of the United States. In 2014, 71 (65%) of the books I read were written by US authors and 52 (47%) were set in the U.S. Of the books I read, less than one percent were set in each of the following, Africa, Australia, and the Caribbean. I reread 12 books in 2014. I read 5 literary fiction books, 12 classics (including modern classics), 17 nonfiction books, 2 books of poetry, 5 graph...

I’ve gone and fallen in love with Flashpoint .  I hadn’t intended to.  It started out a lot like most other things with me watching a couple of episodes with *insert favorite actor here* (Pacale Hutton, in this case, for those of you who are wondering).  The episodes were good, really good, but I chalked it up to the amount of glee I had over cop uniforms and the CN Tower.  I’m really not hard to please when it comes to all things Canadian, but then I watched another episode.  I had an hour before bed, no biggie, but one turned into two, I feel in love with the characters and I was hooked.  And since it’s been awhile since we’ve had some Canada <3 on this blog, here’s a bit of Toronto themed goodness. Sources (clockwise from top left): A Wintery Day in Toronto , Toronto Throw Pillow , The Birds , Transportation Collage of Toronto .

Seeing Women in Scifi’s recent Sam Carter v Helen Magnus character comparison post made me realize two things: 1) I haven’t updated my 42 Things post and 2) I’ve been a bad scifi junkie so far this year.  I’ve managed only one season of Stargate SG-1 (S9), none of Atlantis barring a couple of episodes both of which are my usual scifi staples.  I’ve started Farscape again and picked up a couple of favorites Merlin and Battlestar Galactica. On the reading front I haven’t done much better (I’m halfway through The Chronicles of Narnia).  Although to be fair reading scifi has never been something I’ve really bothered with (which is half the reason I signed up for the challenge…the half other being I’m clearly insane and have to do everything). I have, however, totally rocked it in regard to watching Sanctuary (for those of you who haven’t watched the show yet, emphasis on yet here’s the blurb from wikipedia “The show centers on Dr. Helen Magnus, a 158-year-old English ...