May 2011 Wrap-Up: Books and Reviews

Ye Grande Olde TBR(e) Challenge Update

I started May with 267 unread books sitting around my house. And I ended with … *drumroll* …276! Well, I just undid all of the good work I did in April by read-a-thon-ing and not acquiring anything. But there’s so many good books coming out that I just couldn’t say no to! I’m only human!

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

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

Audiobooks – How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell – Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold – Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold – City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
Read but not owned – Fables, Vol. 15: Rose Red by Bill Willingham – Jack of Fables, Vol. 8: The Fulminate Blade by Bill Willingham
E-Books – The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald – The Fiddler’s Gun by A. S. Peterson
Re-reads – A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (huzzah!) – Old Man’s War by John Scalzi – The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett – Joy for Beginners by Erica Bauermeister
Acquired and then Read (semi-huzzah!) – The River Kings’ Road by Liane Merciel – Indigo: In Search of the Color that Seduced the World by Catherine E. McKinley – The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong
Other removals from my TBR pile (um… huzzah?) – The Ill-Made Mute by Cecelia Dart-Thornton (I got about 100 pages in back in April before I set it aside for later, but if I’m being honest, I’m never going to go back to it. DNFed!)

Added to my TBR pile (shame!)
– Wild Cards, Volume 1 by George R. R. Martin	– Heaven’s Needle by Liane Merciel
– Fire Watch by Connie Willis	– Divergent by Veronica Roth
– The Map of Time by Félix J. Palma (bundled with a copy of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells)	– Fool by Christopher Moore
– The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer	– Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey
– The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry	– Wildefire by Karsten Knight
– Centuries of June by Keith Donohue	– In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson
Non-TBR Acquisitions
– The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett	– Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
– Fables, Vol. 7: Arabian Nights (and Days) by Bill Willingham

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