Not the best books that came out in 2021, just the best books I read in that calendar year. Same story as for  2020 ,  2019 , 2018 , 2017 , ...

I did albums yesterday . Anyone who got in the top 10 for that list can't make this one. Before I get to my fave songs released in the y...

This annual tradition has lasted long enough [ 2020 ,  2019 ,  2018 ,  2017 , (...),  2014 ,  2013 ,  2012 ,  2011 , &  2010 ]  it deser...

MUSIC - NOVEMBER The space bar on my laptop went on the fritz as I was battling a deadline earlier this month. Met the deadline (short story...

MUSIC - SEPTEMBER BOOKS Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (novel, audiobook) So I've now read Proust. Not all of À la recherche du temps ...

The two biggies since the last diary: we moved house we went back into nationwide lockdown. It feels like more has happened, or at least I...

MUSIC BOOKS So midway through the year and I've read 53 books... On track for 100 in a year for the first time since I started counting....

MUSIC EXTRAS I I got a bit of media coverage after a session I ran for the Otago Energy Research Centre, which was followed by this piece b...