August Wrap-Up: Books and Reviews
August has been very, very busy at work, which has had two effects: First, it means that when I’m doing tasks that involve my hands but not my brains (which I have been), I listen to a lot – and I do mean a LOT – of audiobooks. Second, it means that by the time I get home in the evening, I’m too fried to focus much on actual reading, preferring to pick up a graphic novel or pop in a DVD instead… so while my total books read count is pretty high, the number of actual books I’ve literally read is much smaller than usual. Honestly, I think I’ve read a grand total of 150 non-graphic novel pages in the past ten days. Blech!
Ye Grande Olde TBR(e) Challenge Update
I started August with 246 unread books sitting around my house (by which I mean mostly packed up in boxes). And I ended with … *drumroll* … 244!
Negative numbers! Holy crap! Let’s take a look at the breakdown:
Neutral books – Read, but don’t affect the TBR pile
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Well, at least your additions to the TBR pile are very worthy ones! I got The Underdog for Christmas, and have been putting off reading it because then I’ll have read all of Markus Zusak’s books and have no more left. :(
Jenny – Oh, man, I do that all the time. I’ve got two Guy Gavriel Kay books that I’ve been sitting on unread for over a year, just because I like knowing that they’re still there to read when I want them.
Woo! You cleared some! I’m guessing the thought of having to find somewhere to pack new arrivals helped?
DoB – Absolutely. Actually, I think it was the increased guilt from having to pack, move, and unpack all of my unread books, plus seeing how badly my shelves were curved, that kept me away from bookmooch and requesting review copies and the library booksale. It was only a temporary stoppage, though… thus far in September I’ve added a book per day to the TBR pile. :)
You really didn’t add much to your TBR pile at all! I think you needn’t attach the word shame; in fact, you could say: proud!
rhapsody – When the TBR pile is already at almost 250 books, *any* additions are *shame!*
You can’t change a reader’s character… in terms of buying books anyway =P
I’ve read Monica Furlong before. I guess you’ve read Wise child and Juniper?
Sharry – I have, yes, and loved them, but I didn’t know Colman even existed until a few months ago.
Congrats on the negative numbers!