May 2015 Wrap-Up: Books and Reviews

Ye Grande Olde TBR(e) Challenge Update

I started May with 259 unread books sitting around my house. And I ended with … *drumroll* …254! Hooray, I got to read! I spent this month polishing up books that have been partially finished for a long time (January, in some cases), and reading more! Not so much reviewing… I’m way behind, and will have to have a day or two to sit down and churn some of those out. (They’re also probably going to be pretty short, since I don’t remember a ton of details on stuff that I read more than a few months ago, but we’ll make do.) But I got to read! Books! For fun! Crazy talk.

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

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

Audiobooks – The Glass Arrow by Kristen Simmons
E-Books – The Woodcutter by Kate Danley*
Re-Reads – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (huzzah!) – The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett – A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki – The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney – The Pierced Heart by Lynn Shephard – The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh – The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac by Sharma Shields – Finding Zero: A Mathematician’s Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers by Amir D. Aczel

Added to my TBR pile (all-around shame!)
– Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout	– In a French Kitchen: Tales and Traditions of Everyday Home Cooking in France by Susan Herrmann Loomis
– Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett
Non-TBR acquisitions (storage-space-related shame!)
– The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
Added to my eTBR pile (non-storage-space-related shame!)
– The Human Division (audio) by John Scalzi	* Pursuant to the discussion on this post, I’ve decided to create an eTBR pile for e-books and audiobooks 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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