October 2017 Wrap-Up: Books and Reviews
Ye Grande Olde TBR(e) Challenge Update
I started October with 209 unread books sitting around my house. And I ended with … *drumroll* …211! October was crazy, folks. Let’s not talk about October.
…anyways, let’s take a look at the breakdown:
Neutral books – Read, but don’t affect the TBR pile
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Audiobooks |
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Re-Reads |
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Changes to the TBR pile
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| Added to my TBR pile (all-around shame!) | |
  – Rat Queens Vol. 4: High Fantasies by Kurtis J. Wiebe |
 – Turtles All The Way Down by John Green |
| Non-TBR acquisitions (storage-space-related shame!) | |
 – Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor |
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| Added to my eTBR pile (non-storage-space-related shame!) | |
 – Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley |
* Pursuant to the discussion on this post, I’ve decided to create an eTBR pile for e-books and audiobooks that I accept for review or 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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September 2017 Wrap-Up: Books and Reviews
Ye Grande Olde TBR(e) Challenge Update
I started September with 209 unread books sitting around my house. And I ended with … *drumroll* …209! September wasn’t a lot better than August — and October’s shaping up about the same. I’ve turned a lot to re-reading of comfort books, but I’ve managed to limit my acquisitions so the TBR list isn’t hurting too badly.
…anyways, let’s take a look at the breakdown:
Neutral books – Read, but don’t affect the TBR pile
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Re-Reads |
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Changes to the TBR pile
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Read from my TBR pile (huzzah!) |
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| Added to my TBR pile (all-around shame!) | |
 – My Life in France by Julia Child |
 – The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton |
| Added to my eTBR pile (non-storage-space-related shame!) | |
| – These Vicious Masks by Tarun Shanker & Kelly Zekas |
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August 2017 Wrap-Up: Books and Reviews
Ye Grande Olde TBR(e) Challenge Update
I started August with 214 unread books sitting around my house. And I ended with … *drumroll* …209! August was a beast of a month (bought and moved into a new house, traveled for fieldwork, and prepped and started a new semester), and I read very little. In fact, I read exactly two paper books; everything else was audio. But in the process of moving, I did at least manage to get rid of a few TBR books that I was unexcited about reading.
…anyways, let’s take a look at the breakdown:
Neutral books – Read, but don’t affect the TBR pile
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Audiobooks |
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Read But Not Owned (Books) |
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Re-Reads |
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Changes to the TBR pile
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Other removals from the TBR pile (um… huzzah?) |
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| Added to my TBR pile (all-around shame!) | |
 – The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black |
– The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn |
| Non-TBR acquisitions (storage-space-related shame!) | |
 – Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins |
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| Added to my eTBR pile (non-storage-space-related shame!) | |
 – Rogues ed. by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois |
 – The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg |
| * Pursuant to the discussion on this post, I’ve decided to create an eTBR pile for e-books and audiobooks that I accept for review or 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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July 2017 Wrap-Up: Books and Reviews
Ye Grande Olde TBR(e) Challenge Update
I started July with 214 unread books sitting around my house. And I ended with … *drumroll* …214! So, July wasn’t as productive reading-wise as I wanted, but on the personal front… I bought a house! So that took up a bunch of time last month, and moving and settling in is going to take up a bunch of time in August, but I’m doing my best to squeeze at least a little reading in around the edges.
…anyways, let’s take a look at the breakdown:
Neutral books – Read, but don’t affect the TBR pile
| Read But Not Owned (Books) – The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan |
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Read But Not Owned (Graphic Novels) |
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Re-Reads |
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Changes to the TBR pile
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Read from my TBR pile (huzzah!) |
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| Added to my TBR pile (all-around shame!) | |
 – The Day the Angels Fell by Shawn Smucker |
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| Added to my eTBR pile (non-storage-space-related shame!) | |
 – The Burning World by Isaac Marion |
 – Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer |
 – Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers |
* Pursuant to the discussion on this post, I’ve decided to create an eTBR pile for e-books and audiobooks that I accept for review or 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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Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island
30. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
Read By: Alfred Molina
Length: 7 hours 12 min (304 pages)
Genre: Classic, Action Adventure
Started: 29 June 2016
Finished: 02 July 2016
Where did it come from? Audible.
Why do I have it? Audible had free downloads of a lot of classics for a while and I nabbed all of them while I could.
How long has it been on my TBR pile? Since 07 September 2012.
Jim sets out in search
of buried treasure, but the
pirates want it too!
John Scalzi – Agent to the Stars
27. Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi (2005)
Read By: Wil Wheaton
Length: 8h 49min (365 pages)
Genre: Science Fiction
Started: 22 June 2016
Finished: 27 June 2016
Where did it come from? Audible.
Why do I have it? I haven’t gone wrong yet with Scalzi as read by Wil Wheaton, and it was Audible’s deal of the day.
How long has it been on my TBR pile? Since 08 June 2016.
Gross aliens want
to be friends, but first they must
clean up their image.
David Morrell – Murder as a Fine Art
35. Murder as a Fine Art by David Morell (2013)
Length: 358 pages
Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery
Started: 22 June 2017
Finished: 04 July 2017
Where did it come from? Bought from Amazon.
Why do I have it? It was my book club’s pick of the month.
How long has it been on my TBR pile? Since 25 May 2017.
Copy-cat murders
set Victorian London
into a panic.
Rick Riordan – The Hidden Oracle
36. The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan (2016)
The Trials of Apollo, Book 1
Length: 376 pages
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
Started: 04 July 2017
Finished: 08 July 2017
Where did it come from? The library.
Why do I have it? When I got the second Magnus Chase book it mentioned this one in the back and I couldn’t believe I’d missed one! (This book does sneak in some little references to the Magnus Chase series – a mention of Annabeth going to Boston, Apollo reminiscing about meeting a god in a Stockholm tavern who had a sword that would not shut up, etc.)
Being human is
hard, but it’s worse when you’re used
to being a god.
Matthew Loux – The Time Museum
37. The Time Museum by Matthew Loux (2017)
Length: 256 pages
Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult
Started/Finished: 09 July 2017
Where did it come from? The library.
Why do I have it? Random browsing.
A huge museum
AND the power to travel
through time? Count me in.
Brian K. Vaughan – Paper Girls, Vol. 1
34. Paper Girls Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson, and Jared K. Fletcher (2016)
Paper Girls, Vol. 1
Length: 144 pages
Genre: Graphic Novel, Science Fiction
Started/Finished: 30 June 2017
Where did it come from? The library.
Why do I have it? Random browsing (my library had it on one of their end-cap displays and the cover caught my eye), plus Brian K. Vaughan’s usually pretty reliable.
The dangers of a
paper route don’t usually
involve time travel.
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