June 2014 Wrap-Up: Books and Reviews

Ye Grande Olde TBR(e) Challenge Update

I started June with 263 unread books sitting around my house. And I ended with … *drumroll* …239! Good job, self! I finally got up the guts to get rid of the giant stack o’ books that I had pulled for possible donation over a month ago – these were (mostly) books that I’d had for a long time (like seven to eight years or more) but had never made it off the shelf. Basically books that I once had an interest in reading but didn’t so much any more. And even though these were books that I was pretty sure I was okay getting rid of, I still had to be coaxed into actually making the donation by a friend, and then reward myself with ice cream afterwards.

On the reading front, June was okay. I spent a lot of the month sick, first with a cold and then with the Cough That Won’t Give Up. That should have translated into a lot of reading and in some ways it did, but it also made me crave comfort books, so I’ve been in a very re-read-y type mood lately. But I did read a couple of chunksters off the TBR pile, so that counting the donations, my TBR pile went down by more than 10,000 pages! Not too shabby.

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

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

Audiobooks – Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor
Read But Not Owned (Books) – Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Read But Not Owned (Graphic Novels) – Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 1: Cosmic Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis – Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2: Angela by Brian Michael Bendis – Rust, Vol. 1: Visitor in the Field by Royden Lepp – Rust, Vol. 2: Secrets of the Cell by Royden Lepp
Re-Reads – The Fault in Our Stars by John Green – Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold – Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede – Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (huzzah!) – The Quick by Lauren Owen – Firebirds Soaring ed. by Sharyn November – Warriors ed. by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
Other removals from the TBR pile (um… huzzah?) Ooooh, yes, 26 of them. I finally gathered my courage and took a big stack of books to the library booksale. Now my shelves look all empty! (Not really, of course. But comparatively!)

Added to my TBR pile (all-around shame!)
– Wondrous Beginnings ed. by Steven H. Silver & Martin H. Greenberg	– Invisible Beasts by Sharona Muir
– Tinkers by Paul Harding	– Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
– Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Non-TBR acquisitions (storage-space-related shame!)
– Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay	– Me and My Little Brain by John D. Fitzgerald
– The Great Brain at the Academy by John D. Fitzgerald	– The Return of the Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald

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