220,000th scrobble - Sparks - "Whippings And Apologies"

210,000th scrobble - Gerry Rafferty - "Baker Street"

Backdated as I forgot to post this on New Year's Eve.

1. Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - Last Rituals
2. Ted Dekker - White
3. Christopher Stevens - Born Brilliant: The Life Of Kenneth Williams
4. Paul French - North Korea: State Of Paranoia
5. Garry Kasparov - Winter Is Coming

1st song - Melissa Etheridge - Breathe
50,000 - Madonna - Ray Of Light
100,000 - Wendy & Lisa - Why Wait For Heaven?
110,000 - Joan Jett And The Blackhearts - I Hate Myself For Loving You
120,000 - Duran Duran - Late Bar
130,000 - Melissa Etheridge - Down To One
140,000 - Agnetha Fältskog - Dance Your Pain Away
150,000 - Emmylou Harris - For No One ( Read more... )

Not a bad number of books read considering I didn't feel that I'd actually read so much this year. Started off well with a book about the plague and almost finished the year with a book about rabies. I guess I'm just that sort of person. :-)

( Books books books )

The last update regarding my musical scrobbles was the back end of November 2016. That means I am roughly still listening to the same number of tracks as I normally do.

1st song - Melissa Etheridge - Breathe
50,000 - Madonna - Ray Of Light
100,000 - Wendy & Lisa - Why Wait For Heaven?
110,000 - Joan Jett And The Blackhearts - I Hate Myself For ( Read more... )

I purposely didn't number my list of books read in 2016 until the last minute just to see how I was doing. Fewer than the last couple of years, but not a bad number and a fair few of definite length. Obviously the cheery book I'm currently reading about the Black Death will have to wait until next year's list.
( Books I read in 2016 )

This is quite interesting. Lover of stats and lists that I am, I am quite surprised to see how much music I appear to listen to in the wee hours of the morning. I can only put it down to getting up at silly o'clock for the Euro 2016 football. Either that or my timezone setting is completely incorrect ( Read more... )

Ever since last.fm went shite it's not let me keep track of musical milestones. It's almost 9 months since the last one.

1st song - Melissa Etheridge - Breathe
50,000 - Madonna - Ray Of Light
100,000 - Wendy & Lisa - Why Wait For Heaven?
110,000 - Joan Jett And The Blackhearts - I Hate Myself For Loving You
120,000 - Duran Duran - Late Bar
130,000 ( Read more... )

In season 2015/16 I managed to amass 1946 points and came in ranked at 951,487, which is the highest I've ever managed. No doubt many of my points were due to having a couple of high scoring Leicester players, especially Mahrez as captain when he scored a hat-trick ( Read more... )