January Wrap-Up

Between the creeping crud that started the month and the nasty winter weather that’s ended it, I am none too sorry to see January go. Book-wise and blog-wise, though, I’ve had no cause for complaint.

Ye Grande Olde TBR(e) Challenge Update

I started January with 230 unread books sitting around my house. And I ended with … *drumroll* … 240! It would be higher, except we haven’t had mail delivery since last Monday. “Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep the postmen from their appointed rounds… unless it’s kinda gross out and they just don’t feel like it.”

Let’s take a look at the breakdown:

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

Audiobooks
– Emma by Jane Austen

Read but not owned
– Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall by Bill Willingham et al.
– The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 2 by Neil Gaiman et. al.
– Fables, Vol. 11: War and Pieces by Bill Willingham et al.

Re-reads
– Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
– Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling

—Changes to the TBR pile—

Cleared from my TBR pile (huzzah!)
– Etta by Gerald Kolpan
– The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
– Mistress Shakespeare by Karen Harper
– The Lost City of Z by David Grann
– The Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold

Added to, then promptly cleared from my TBR pile (um… huzzah?)
– Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud
– The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
– Elisha’s Bones by Don Hoesel

Other removals from my TBR pile (meh?)
None this month, although I need to get my act together and start actually giving away some of the books in my giveaway pile.

Added to my TBR pile (shame!)
– Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik
– Bellwether by Connie Willis
– Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
– Magyk by Angie Sage
– Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
– Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
– Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
– Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler
– Beyond This Dark House by Guy Gavriel Kay
– The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
– Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
– Summer World by Bernd Heinrich
– Starfinder by John Marco
– The Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon
– To Ride Hell’s Chasm by Janny Wurts

Other Non-TBR Book Acquisitions
– Katie Brown Celebrates: Simple and Spectacular Parties All Year Round by Katie Brown

Commenters

Many thanks to this month’s commenters!

– Alyce from At Home With Books – Amanda from Life and Times of a New New Yorker – Anna from Diary of an Eccentric – Bart from Bart’s Bookshelf – bkclubcare from Care’s Online Book Club – Bobbie from Book Reviews by Bobbie – bookworm from The Bookworm – Carrie K from My Middle Name is Patience – Carrie K. from Books and Movies – Cathy from Kittling: Books – chainletters from A Chain of Letters – Chelsea from Book Maven’s Blog – Darla D from Books and Other Thoughts – Darlene from Peeking Between the Pages – Dawn from She Is Too Fond of Books – Debbie Nance from ReaderBuzz – Devourer of Books – Eva from A Striped Armchair – J. Kaye from J. Kaye’s Book Blog – Jamie from Confessions of a Bibliophile – Jessi from Casual Dread – Joanne from Book Zombie – jocelyn from Teen Book Review – Julie from Outlandish Dreaming – K. Andrews from A Writer’s Pen – Kathy from Bermudaonion’s Weblog – Katy from What a Great Place to be a Cow – Kelly from The Family with Three Last Names – Kim from Sophisticated Dorkiness – Kristina from Kristina’s Favorites – KT from What KT Reads – Ladytink_534 from The Movieholic & Bibliophile’s Blog – Laura

– Lenore from Presenting Lenore – Lezlie from Books ‘n’ Border Collies – Linda from My BlogSong – Lisa from Books Ahoy! – lisamm from Books on the Brain – Literary Feline from Musings of a Bookish Kitty – Literate Housewife from The Literate Housewife Review – Mari from Mari Reads – Maria from Gripping Books – marineko from Dreaming Out Loud – Marny from Marny the Bookworm – Matthew from Matthew – Meghan from Meghan – Melody from Melody’s Reading Corner – Memory from Stella Matutina – Michele from A Reader’s Respite – Michelle from Fluttering Butterflies – Nancy from Bookfoolery and Babble – Natasha from Maw Books Blog – Nymeth from Things Mean a Lot – orchidus from Epiphany – Organic Mama from The Life and Times of Organic Mama – rhapsodyinbooks from RhapsodyinBooks’s Weblog – S. Krishna from S. Krishna’s Books – Sandra from Fresh Ink Books – Serena from Savvy Verse & Wit – Shana from Literarily – Sheri from A Novel Menagerie – softdrink from Fizzy Thoughts – tanabata from In Spring it is the Dawn – Trish from Trish’s Reading Nook – Vivienne from Serendipity

Plus: adrienne nipper, Anna, Astrid, callista83, Don Hoesel, Jim Bisset, Lu, Nicky, purplemoonmyst, samza, trapunto, Ty, Worraps

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