September Wrap-Up: Books and Reviews
I do not belive that October is here already… but then I say that every month, don’t I? Blog-wise, I spent a lot of September catching up with my August backlog of reviews, but I did manage to get quite a lot of new reading done as well.
Ye Grande Olde TBR(e) Challenge Update
I started August with 244 unread books sitting around my house. And I ended with … *drumroll* … 246!
Not too shabby! Let’s take a look at the breakdown:
Neutral books – Read, but don’t affect the TBR pile
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Not bad at all! Especially considering that many of your TBR pile additions are the Charlaine Harris books, which are (I’ve been given to understand) fairly quick easy reads.
I sensibly do not count my TBR pile and can never feel shame about it. :P
I agree with Jenny, you’re not doing too badly! The Sookie Stackhouse books are such quick reads that you’ll be able to knock them out in no time.
You’ve got some major Charlaine Harris reading coming up! I think the addition of only 2 books to the pile is pretty good, personally.
Jenny, Meghan, and Jen – The Charlaine Harris books are super-quick; if I count them as half of a normal book each, then I broke even! ;)
I love to see how your TBR pile “moves” every month!
I *have* to start reading the Charlaine Harris books… I’ve been wanting to do so for some time, in fact, but… they’re at the complete bottom of my TBR pile, and I’m too lazy to get to it!
kay – Yes, but once you do manage to dig them out, the first one is a fast read, and then I bet you’ll be hooked. :)
Seem like a great month! Hope you love the next Sookie book as much as I do (I’ve read all of them twice! Dead to the World is my fav though)
Ladytink – You’re not the first person I’ve heard who has said #4 is their favorite… and I’m a big Eric fan, so I’m really looking forward to it!
That sounds like a pretty darned good month! (I jumped from around 200 to 215 – but about half that are coursebooks.)
Maybe if I adopted your tendency to add the TBR totals to my wrap-up posts I’d do better at it…
Shanra – Pshaw, coursebooks don’t count!
I hope you enjoy Lady of Avalon. I have read all the older books in that series and really loved them. One day I read the two most recent ones… and then I think there is another book coming out this year! There is always the fact the author is dead and still rather prolific to consider.
Kailana – I read Mists of Avalon… gosh, six years ago now, and absolutely loved it, and I’ve read The Forest House and really enjoyed that too, so recently I’ve been thinking about re-reading them in the course of reading the whole series. Do you think I should go chronologically by publication order, or within the course of the story?
Goodness. Speechless am I (almost). All that book inning and outing. I suppose that’s happening here, too, but I’m just not keeping track.
Nancy – I’m sure it’s happening to all of us… I just find that the monthly accounting helps keep me honest. :)
Great month! I’m honestly too scared to count the books on my shelves.