March Wrap-Up: Books and Reading
April 1, 2010
Ye Grande Olde TBR(e) Challenge Update
I started March with 255 unread books sitting around my house. And I ended with … *drumroll* … 264! Oh my goodness, I do not know what happened to me this month. I was doing pretty good with acquisitions in the early part of the month, and then it was my birthday, but things were still pretty under control, and then all of a sudden books just started appearing out of nowhere. Books I’d requested, books I hadn’t requested, books I’d requested so long ago that I’d already written them off, books I need to read for work, books I’d mooched months ago and forgotten about. Books coming out of my ears, is basically my point.
…anyways, let’s take a look at the breakdown:
Neutral books – Read, but don’t affect the TBR pile
| Audiobooks – Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold – As Simple as Snow by Gregory Galloway |
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| Read but not owned – The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova – Y: The Last Man, Vol. 4: Safeword by Brian K. Vaughan – Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity by Mike Carey – The Sandman Presents: The Furies by Mike Carey |
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Changes to the TBR pile
| Cleared from my TBR pile (huzzah!) – Mathematics and Sex by Clio Cresswell – Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm – Heresy by S. J. Parris – I Am Mordred by Nancy Springer – Year of the Horse by Justin Allen |
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| Added to my TBR pile (shame!) | |
  – The Sharing Knife, Vol. 3: Passage by Lois McMaster Bujold |
 – Life After God by Douglas Coupland (Nymeth and Jenny have sold me on Coupland as an author, though not this particular book… 1/2 point each.) |
 – The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Alyce’s fault) |
 – Fireworks Over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff |
 – The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People by David P. Barash |
 – Blood Feud by Alyxandra Harvey |
 – The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno by Ellen Bryson |
 – Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design is Wrong for Our Schools by Eugenie C. Scott |
 – Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright |
 – The Map of True Places by Brunonia Barry |
 – Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans by Brian Fagan |
 – The Passage by Justin Cronin |
 – Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron by Jasper Fforde |
 – The Dogs of Rome by Conor Fitzgerald |
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I need to read some more Douglas Coupland! I just realized I’ve got two or three of his books lying around my apartment unread. I love your pile of new books. Very curious about the book on intelligent design.
Jenny – I’ve heard Eugenie C. Scott (who is the director of the National Center for Science Education, if you didn’t know) speak before, and she seems like a very cool person; I’m hoping the book will be more of the same.
You have a lot of great looking books there, and really a nice variety among them. Glad I could help add to the TBR pile!
Alyce – This month’s acquisitions did seem a little more schizophrenic than normal, for sure.
Haha! I have problems getting my TBR pile smaller, too. It’s out of control and it’s completely not my fault! But we can do it, right?
Some very interesting books you added though! I’m a bit envious of your copies of “Blood Feud” and “The Passage”! Happy reading!
kay – Positive thinking! I like it!
“The Hero and the Crown” is amazing, and I’m glad it’s been added to your TBR! I’d also recommend its sequel “The Blue Sword,” and another of McKinley’s, “Deerskin.” (Robin McKinley owns me.)