October 2010 Wrap-Up: Books and Reviews

Ye Grande Olde TBR(e) Challenge Update

I started October with 260 unread books sitting around my house. And I ended with … *drumroll* … 259! I feel like that is none too shabby, considering my incoming books this month also included a third of last month. I cheated a little and removed some books that shouldn’t have been on my TBR pile in the first place… but hey, whatever works to keep those negative numbers coming, eh?

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

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

Audiobooks – In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson – Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld – Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
Read but not owned – House of Mystery, Vol. 2: Love Stories for Dead People by Matthew Sturges
E-Books & Stories – The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property by John Galsworthy – The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (huzzah!) – The Castle of Otronto by Horace Walpole – Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett – The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting – Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly – The Next Queen of Heaven by Gregory Maguire – The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury – The Sharing Knife: Legacy by Lois McMaster Bujold – Corrag by Susan Fletcher
Acquired and then Read (um… huzzah?) – Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan
Other TBR Removals (huzzah!) I’m removing A Sea of Words and Harbors and High Seas by Dean King, as well as Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer. I’m not getting rid of them, but they’re reference books, not books that I’m ever going to read straight through, so they didn’t really belong on the TBR pile in the first place.

Added to my TBR pile (shame!)
– What’s Love Got To Do With It: The Evolution of Human Mating by Meredith Small (I got this a while ago from a co-worker, but only recently decided to actually read it.)	– My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales ed. by Kate Bernheimer
– The House on Durrow Street by Galen Beckett	– Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip (Alyce’s fault)
– Dark Moon of Avalon by Anna Elliott (Shanra’s fault)	– Firebirds ed. by Sharyn November (indirectly Nymeth’s fault for bringing the series to my attention)
– The Monkey Bible: A Modern Allegory by Mark Laxer	– Lady’s Maid by Margaret Forster (Care’s fault)
– Kingdom Under Glass: A Tale of Obsession, Adventure, and One Man’s Quest to Preserve the World’s Great Animals by Jay Kirk	– Drake’s Bay by T. A. Roberts
Other Non-TBR Additions
– Serenity: Those Left Behind by Joss Whedon (Shanra generously added these to the package with Dark Moon of Avalon)	– Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
– Serenity: Better Days by Joss Whedon (She’s awesome like that.)	– A Mini Guide to the Identification of New Zealand’s Land Birds by Andrew Crowe

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