2021: Year in Review (going out)

[hollow laughter]
I did actually go out quite a bit, though constantly aware of plague.
I also watched a lot of stuff on a small screen, which is not the best thing for me vis-a-vis concentration: I suspect I 'watched' more than I actually reviewed, because if I ended up tidying or reading or playing games then I don't think it counts as a cultural experience.

Anyway:

Everything is (or will eventually be) reviewed on this blog! (Sometimes rather cursorily.) Check out my monthlyculture tag.

Bracketed figures show range over the last 18 years [see year-in-summary tag for my Cultural History since 2004].

Film (in cinema): 11 (4-20). Best three = Black Widow, Suicide Squad, Free Guy.
Film (streamed): about 35. Best three = The Dig, Midsommar, Palm Springs.

Theatre (live): 5 (1-26). Best three = Paradise, Rossetti's Women, Bad Nights and Odd Days
Theatre (streamed): 16 (38 in 2020). Best three = Angels in America,Medea,Vespertilio

Concerts (classical): 1 (2-22).

Opera: 2 (0-10). 

Gigs: 2 (0-9).

Art: none whatsoever

Books: 169. Separate post coming eventually: reviews here (ongoing: am behind on reviewing).

Also in 2021: visited Edinburgh, Lewes and Crete; zero conventions.

2021/153: The Christmas Murder Game -- Alexandra Benedict

2021/153: The Christmas Murder Game -- Alexandra Benedict

She would have liked to be a snowflake in the drifts that lined the road. An individual lost among many. She’d like to not be seen ever again in a whiteout of her own life. If she always felt cold, then she wouldn’t know when the sun wasn’t shining. [loc. 1267]

Lily Armitage is, despite her inclinations, spending Christmas at Endgame House, her late aunt's mansion in the snowbound Yorkshire Dales.( no spoilers )