Books of 2017
Jan. 23rd, 2017 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhI will eventually get around to posting a recap of all my 2016 reading, but first I wanted to post about my new project for 2017: Mount TBR. The idea is simply to get as many books off your TBR (to-be-read) list as possible, whether that means clearing out your Kindle's harddrive or getting physical books off your shelves.
While I do have plenty of ebooks stored that I've been meaning to get around to someday, my main problem is the physical books I've picked up on sudden impulses at second-hand bookstores or been given as gifts:
Yes, those are all unread books. Even the ones in the piles to side. Yes, the shelves are double-stacked. Clearly I've needed to start reducing their numbers for a while now.
I first heard of the Mount TBR challenge fromjust_ann_now; you can officially sign up on GoodReads or on the challenge starter's blog, and there are levels you can commit to – 12 books is Pike's Peak, 100 books is Mount Everest, etc. However, I think personally I'm going to be lazy and not join any particular group, but simply clear off as much of this bookcase as I can manage in twelve months.
We'll see if that doesn't just tempt me to acquire more.
While I do have plenty of ebooks stored that I've been meaning to get around to someday, my main problem is the physical books I've picked up on sudden impulses at second-hand bookstores or been given as gifts:
Yes, those are all unread books. Even the ones in the piles to side. Yes, the shelves are double-stacked. Clearly I've needed to start reducing their numbers for a while now.
I first heard of the Mount TBR challenge from
just_ann_now; you can officially sign up on GoodReads or on the challenge starter's blog, and there are levels you can commit to – 12 books is Pike's Peak, 100 books is Mount Everest, etc. However, I think personally I'm going to be lazy and not join any particular group, but simply clear off as much of this bookcase as I can manage in twelve months. We'll see if that doesn't just tempt me to acquire more.
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Date: 2017-01-23 09:43 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-01-23 10:07 pm (UTC)Also, I can sell the physical books back to Half-Price books, and use the money to... let's be real, buy more books. But fewer books than I had in the first place!
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Date: 2017-01-24 12:35 am (UTC)So yeah, this might be something I should try, too.
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Date: 2017-01-24 12:44 am (UTC)I'm particularly looking forward to your thoughts on American Gods, if/when you get tot hat one.
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Date: 2017-01-24 04:17 am (UTC)I can totally vouch for the Dick Francis.
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Date: 2017-01-24 09:08 pm (UTC)But having so many books already on my TBR list means it's very very difficult to immediately start on whatever new and exciting book I hear about today!
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Date: 2017-01-24 09:09 pm (UTC)Thanks again for introducing me to the concept!
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Date: 2017-01-24 09:11 pm (UTC)Ha, yeah. This bookcase is the one I have next to my bed, because I thought having such close access to them at times when I'm feeling lazy might make me more likely to read them. ...it has not really worked, unfortunately.
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Date: 2017-01-24 09:14 pm (UTC)Also, I can sell the physical books back to Half-Price books, and use the money to... let's be real, buy more books. But fewer books than I had in the first place!
Hahaha, this is my plan exactly!
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Date: 2017-01-24 09:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-24 09:50 pm (UTC)He's one of my mother's favorite mystery writers, so I grew up with his books in the house, but didn't notice until a couple of years ago that he was actually really good. I have since made up for that.
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Date: 2017-01-24 09:50 pm (UTC)I'm also curious: I bounced off the novel when it came out, but I hadn't realized it had a revised edition.
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Date: 2017-01-24 10:00 pm (UTC)(Though of course Sandman is forever going to be the best thing he's done.)
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Date: 2017-01-24 10:23 pm (UTC)Agreed.
I bounce off most of Gaiman's prose. Every now and then I like a short story of his, but the closest any of his novels has come is Anansi Boys and even that I don't think is genius, I just like it. I also like Stardust, but I have the edition with the Charles Vess illustrations.
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Date: 2017-01-25 04:42 am (UTC)You are totally allowed to love American Gods! I read the entire novel: it just really didn't work for me (and at the time it came out I was surrounded by friends for whom it was their first encounter with the concept of gods in the modern world, which made them think it was brilliant and left me yelling DEATHBIRD STORIES AND THE ENTIRE MYTHIC FICTION MOVEMENT DAMMIT and generally did not help anything). The vignettes were the part that worked best.
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