January 2012 Monthly Wrap-Up: Books and Reviews
Ye Grande Olde TBR(e) Challenge Update
I started January with 269 unread books sitting around my house. And I ended with … *drumroll* …270! January was kind of a terrible reading month for me; there were two weeks in the middle when I read practically nothing, because I was thoroughly stressed out with real-life stuff and had neither the time nor the attention span to read anything more than a few pages at a time. Still, a +1 TBR for the month is not a terrible way to start the year! And February will be better, I’m sure.
…anyways, let’s take a look at the breakdown:
Neutral books – Read, but don’t affect the TBR pile
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Audiobooks |
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Read but not owned |
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| E-Books – Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
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Re-Reads |
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Changes to the TBR pile
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Read from my TBR pile (huzzah!) |
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| Added to my TBR pile (all-around shame!) | |
  – Flashman by George Fraser MacDonald |
 – The Mirage by Matt Ruff |
 – The Fault in Our Stars by John Green |
 – Arcadia by Lauren Groff |
| Non-TBR Acquisitions (storage-space-related shame!) | |
 – Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham |
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I’m a big Flashman fan, but I’m honestly not sure how you’ll react to it. I’m doing a reread of the entire series on my blog (http://www.travelsthroughiest.blogspot.com) and I’m just about to start the 3rd book (Flash for Freedom) on it. You may want to have a look at it and decide if it’s for you. They’re excellent historical fiction, but Flashman’s morals are at best questionable and at worst non existent, some of what happens in the first book barely flew in the less politically correct era of the 1960’s, and a lot of people have issues with one incident in particular, If you can get past that you may enjoy not only this book, but the series as a while.
I’ll see, usually I’m not super sensitive about a lot of stuff, plus this series comes highly recommended. You’ve got me really curious, though!