July 2013 Wrap-Up: Books and Reviews

Ye Grande Olde TBR(e) Challenge Update

I started July with 247 unread books sitting around my house. And I ended with … *drumroll* …246! Not too bad, considering that two of the three books I cleared off my TBR were massive chunksters. (Both of which I started in June, technically. *shhhh*) For teaching again, I think I did pretty good at getting some reading done this month, even if I didn’t clear quite as much as I would have liked. Still, some negative numbers are better than no negative numbers, I guess. I’ll try to do better in August, when I might have at least a little down time that I can sneak some reading in. Let’s take a look at the breakdown:

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

Audiobooks – The Serpent’s Shadow by Rick Riordan – The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided To Go Get Pregnant: An Adoption Story by Dan Savage
Read But Not Owned (Books) – Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger – Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
E-Books – The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
Re-Reads – Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (huzzah!) – A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson – The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub – Q by Evan Mandery
Added and then read (um… huzzah?) – Page by Paige by Laura Lee Gulledge (Technically this was a Read but not Owned but then Rapidly Acquired when I realized that Amazon had the paperbacks for four bucks.)

Added to my TBR pile (all-around shame!)
– A Fatal Likeness by Lynn Shepherd	– Hounded by Kevin Hearne
Added to my eTBR pile (non-storage-space-related shame!)
– Boneshaker by Cherie Priest	– Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
– The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle	– The Poison Eaters by Holly Black
– Machine of Death ed. by Ryan North	– Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton
– Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey	* 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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