To Read Pile
Apr. 28th, 2011 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
effexI haven't been reading many books lately - fanfic, yes, comics, yes, news articles/essays/blog posts, yes, but the only books I've gotten through this year are Hiromi Goto's Half World and a couple about art.
I'm still buying books, though, and the 'To Read' pile next to my bed has become unwieldy. This is tragic on a number of levels, so I've made a plan. 1) I cannot buy a new book until I've read three unread ones and 2) I will post reviews of the books I read here, to keep track. My plans are prone to failure, but I like reading and I like talking about books, so.
The list:
Changes by Jim Butcher
Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier *
Charitable Getting by Sam Starbuck
Boneshaker by Charlie Priest
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
Cold Magic by Kate Elliott
Rocket Girls by Hosuke Nojiri
Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles
Titan by John Varley
Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik
A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin
The Court of Air by Stephen Hunt
A Princess of Roumania by Paul Park *
Prince of Fire and Ashes by Katya Reimann *
100 Selected Poems by ee cummings
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen E McHugh
Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles by Michael Moorcock
The Annotated Persuasion by Jane Austin
...yikes. And that's after setting aside the books I was going to reread.
I'm starting with Magic or Madness, since it's short and on loan fromsitara (that's what the * mean). Larbalestier's been hit or miss for me - I liked Liar and was 'eh' about How to Ditch Your Fairy - so we'll see how this goes.
I'm still buying books, though, and the 'To Read' pile next to my bed has become unwieldy. This is tragic on a number of levels, so I've made a plan. 1) I cannot buy a new book until I've read three unread ones and 2) I will post reviews of the books I read here, to keep track. My plans are prone to failure, but I like reading and I like talking about books, so.
The list:
Changes by Jim Butcher
Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier *
Charitable Getting by Sam Starbuck
Boneshaker by Charlie Priest
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
Cold Magic by Kate Elliott
Rocket Girls by Hosuke Nojiri
Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles
Titan by John Varley
Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik
A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin
The Court of Air by Stephen Hunt
A Princess of Roumania by Paul Park *
Prince of Fire and Ashes by Katya Reimann *
100 Selected Poems by ee cummings
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen E McHugh
Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles by Michael Moorcock
The Annotated Persuasion by Jane Austin
...yikes. And that's after setting aside the books I was going to reread.
I'm starting with Magic or Madness, since it's short and on loan from
sitara (that's what the * mean). Larbalestier's been hit or miss for me - I liked Liar and was 'eh' about How to Ditch Your Fairy - so we'll see how this goes.
