Happy New Year 2021!
To say 2020
was the worst year ever is historical ignorance, but I cannot personally
remember a year that felt as crap the one that is now ending. I am certain I do
not need to expand on the reasons why, that must be obvious to anyone alive on
planet Earth.
As we are
about to start a new year, we are going through a second lockdown in Denmark.
We may have done decently early on, but now it is going pretty bad and the only
consolation is that we have finally started on the vaccination program. Let us
just say we are starting the year on a low.
Thankfully,
here at home we are okay and so is my closest family so there is that. There has been Corona positives in the larger family, but nobody got very sick (fingers crossed).
On my movie
blog it was par for the course. I reviewed 59 movies in 2020. Of these 49 were
List movies and 10 were off-List movies. Clearly, going off-List is getting a
life of its own and I have to consider if I need to change the format on that,
but that will be for another time. The 49 List movies took me from 1969 to
1972. Not a long period at all, 1971 was a killer year with the largest number
of movies yet for a single year. It was as usual a mixed bag of candy, but
enough great movies and small surprises to keep it interesting.
What really
took off in 2020 was my book blog. Not that anybody actually reads it, but I
was far more active there than I have been in previous years. The count ended
on 14 books, which is almost 3 times more than my target. Lockdown provides for
a lot of time to read. This took me from Tom Jones (1749) to Humphry Clinker
(1771), about 22 year, mostly covering a golden period in British literature in
the mid-eighteenth century. The quality was more varied that I am used to with
Rousseau and Sterne marking low points, but also with great stuff from
Smollett, Fielding and Lennox. I may not be able to keep up this pace for long,
but it is a consolation during lockdown.
I wish all
my readers a happy New Year, hope sincerely that you will stay safe and that
there is good stuff out there on the other side.