December 2011 Wrap-Up: Books and Reviews

Ye Grande Olde TBR(e) Challenge Update

I started December with 263 unread books sitting around my house. And I ended with … *drumroll* …269! So that balances out the good work I did last month, but the bigger news is that it puts me at -1 for the year! December was crazy busy – even more so than your average December – and I feel like a lot of reading got away from me. But hopefully now I’m back in the groove!

…anyways, let’s take a look at the breakdown:

Neutral books – Read, but don’t affect the TBR pile

Audiobooks – The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman – Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier – The Wish List by Eoin Colfer
Read but not owned – Morning Glories, Vol. 1: For a Better Future by Nick Spencer – Dead Boy Detectives by Ed Brubaker – A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness – My Dead Girlfriend, Vol. 1 by Eric Wight

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (huzzah!) – Small Gods by Terry Pratchett – Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey – Lord John and the Hand of Devils by Diana Gabaldon – Switched by Amanda Hocking – Holes by Louis Sachar – Faithful Place by Tana French – The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Added to my TBR pile (all-around shame!)
- Impossible Things by Connie Willis	- The Sexual History of London: From Roman Londinium to the Swinging City–Lust, Vice, and Desire Across the Ages by Catharine Arnold
- The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe by Glynis Ridley	- Mistborn: The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
- Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo by Kate Jackson	- Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
- Enchantments by Kathryn Harrison	- Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
- Planesrunner by Ian McDonald	- Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
- In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion by Scott Atran	- Welcome to Bordertown by Holly Black & Ellen Kushner
- Every Living Thing: Man’s Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys by Rob Dunn
Non-TBR Acquisitions (storage-space-related shame!)
- Mosaic Knitting by Barbara G. Walker	- FARMfood by Daniel Orr
- The Bread Baker’s Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Reinhart

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