April 2013 Wrap-Up: Books and Reviews

Ye Grande Olde TBR(e) Challenge Update

I started April with 241 unread books sitting around my house. And I ended with … *drumroll* …247! Bad Nicki, very bad. But in my defense, the local friends of the library booksale only happens twice a year, so I’m not going to have a chance to do this much damage again until October. And May is almost always a good month for me reading out of my own TBR, so here’s hoping.

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

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

Audiobooks – Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
Read But Not Owned (Books) – Shades of Earth by Beth Revis – The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson
Read But Not Owned (Graphic Novels) – Amulet, Vol. 3: The Cloud Searchers and Vol. 4: The Last Council by Kazu Kibuishi – Level Up by Gene Luen Yang – Friends With Boys by Faith Erin Hickman – Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse – Fables, Vol. 18: Cubs in Toyland by Bill Willingham
Re-Reads – Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides – The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (huzzah!) – Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – A Murder for Her Majesty by Beth Hilgardner – The Thief of Always by Clive Barker

Non-TBR acquisitions (storage-space-related shame!)
– Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold	– The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
Added to my TBR pile (all-around shame!)
– Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin	– Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip – Confessions of a Cynical Waiter by Steve Dublanica
– The Line Between by Peter S. Beagle	– The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
– The Boleyn King by Laura Andersen	– Snapper by Brian Kimberling
– Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks	– The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black by E. B. Hudspeth
– Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff
Added to my eTBR pile (non-storage-space-related shame!)
– Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver	* Pursuant to the discussion on this post, I’ve decided to create an eTBR pile for e-books for which I actually pay money. I’m not adding them into my total TBR numbers, but I have to fess up about them somewhere. Keeps me honest.

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