July 2014 Wrap-Up: Books and Reviews

Ye Grande Olde TBR(e) Challenge Update

I started July with 239 unread books sitting around my house. And I ended with … *drumroll* …240! Not bad at all! I got some decent reading done on my vacation, which is not always the case, and although I did buy myself some fatty-fat fantasy books, I managed to be really good about only reading books (or e-books) that I already owned! August is going to be kind of crazy for me, I predict – it’s just hit me in the past few days how much work I have to get done between now and the beginning of the semester – but I’m going to try to continue to be good about my reading… and maybe get some reviews done ahead of time, for once!

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

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

Audiobooks – Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey – Redshirts by John Scalzi
E-Books – The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett* – Cinder by Marissa Meyer*
Re-Reads – The Giver by Lois Lowry – Searching for Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (huzzah!) – Among Others by Jo Walton – The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman – Invisible Beasts by Sharona Muir
Added and then read (um… huzzah?) – The Boleyn Reckoning by Laura Andersen

Added to my TBR pile (all-around shame!)
– The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch	– The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett
– The Snowman by Jo Nesbø	– The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett
Added to my eTBR pile (non-storage-space-related shame!)
– A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage	– Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
* 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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