Readathon 2018

Tomorrow, Dewey’s 24-hour readathon is going to break my reading slump. I guess it isn’t a slump, really—just six weeks in which I only read three books, two of which were audio. I just haven’t wanted to pick anything up since I finished the last batch, and for the most part I’ve actually been fine…

And the Winner of 2017 Is: Audiobooks

I am so excited about the queue I have waiting for me in my Overdrive app, already checked out and downloaded. A defining characteristic of my reading this year has been the number of audiobooks (and the excellence of them). I started a new job in May, moving from the circulation deartment to technical services….

Upcoming

In progress: Monstress is still shockingly beautiful and horrible simultaneously; Bill Nye is Bill Nye, fabulously; but Ta-Nehisi Coates is just woooooow. I am constantly in awe reading his work. Next: I’ve been waiting for The Origin of Others to come in at my library and I just got the notification this morning! I won Invisible No More in a giveaway from…

Getting ready for another readathon

I’ve been thinking about the readathon for the whole month since I started hearing about it, and today—it’s currently sixteen hours from the start time in my time zone—I think I’m getting sick. This could be good or bad for the readathon, but it’s too early to say which; if I’m couch-locked for the whole…

Fall of Pocket Classics

I’ve had these books on my shelves for over ten years now, and I suddenly feel a strong desire to read them all. This is why I can never adopt e-books although their convenience (and my back pain) make me wish I could: the physical format of a book is a huge part of my…

In the Queue

I got unstuck again, so things have picked back up. (This is a constant struggle for me, you may have begun to notice.) I’m in the middle of The Bedlam Stacks and plan to read the following four books before I allow myself to bring anything new home! And on audio: After this, I’m making a…

Reorganizing

Well, if one of my goals was to avoid picking up random things that bump others down in the queue, we can say that I have not been entirely successful. But, on the other hand, I am making my way through this list, and I just happen to be finding a lot of really fascinating things right…

24 in 48 Readathon

I’m actually making good progress on my current TBR! And, although I haven’t committed myself yet, I am hoping to do the 24 in 48 Readathon starting tomorrow, so I need to update the list. Underway right now (The Refugees just came in on hold for me so I’ll be stopping to pick it up…

Next

Because sometimes I do need to have a clearly defined queue, or I end up picking up random things and forgetting ones I’ve waited a long time for. In progress right now:   And then, in this approximate order:       And then possibly, because it’s a big undertaking but something I’ve been wanting…

TBR for Women’s History Month

I have been finding so many brilliant things at my used bookstore lately, and in March I think I’m going to see how many of the ones by women I can get off my TBR shelf. This is also part of my reading “theme” for this year, which can essentially be described as Just Fucking Read It…

2017 Reading Plans

Check out Top Ten Tuesday at The Broke and the Bookish. I haven’t done a specific reading theme for the past few years. Since 2014, my theme has just been diversity, and trying to get as much of it as possible—but this is no longer a reading event for me, it’s just the way I…

Goodreads Choice Nominees

To help myself remember which I’m going to try and read in time to vote on them. Obviously, I will not get to all of these. But I’m actually in a lull between books anyway, and I have been feeling like I didn’t get to do as much of the readathon as I wanted to,…

My Fall TBR

Check out Top Ten Tuesday at The Broke and the Bookish.

Planning My TBR

I really liked it the last time I did one of these posts—I obviously have way too many books on my TBR list, and thinking it through this way is surprisingly helpful. These are a subset of the books I have on my physical TBR shelf, the one right inside my front door where I…

What’s Next, Because I Keep Forgetting:

For several weeks now I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump—making my way slowly through some fiction and nonfiction, but finding that graphic novels are the majority of my finished titles, and everything in general takes me longer than usual. I’ve been reading Hotel Iris, by Yoko Ogawa, and The Return of the Native, by…