December Books
Jan. 1st, 2012 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clare_dragonflyDecember was a very busy month, so I didn't do a whole lot of reading...
97. Green by Jay Lake - ** 1/2
98. Chime by Franny Billingsley - **** 1/2
99. Wolf-Speaker by Tamora Pierce - ***
100. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - *****
101. Green River Killer by Jeff Jensen - ***
102. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)
103. The Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry (unfinished)
104. The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory (unfinished)
It looks bad that I ended the month with two unfinished books, but I'm reading a couple of books now that I'm rather enjoying, and those unfinished books were both paper books I owned, so at least they're off the shelf and the TBR list!
The list comes to 104 books attempted this year, and when I counted up the books I'd actually completed, I got 78. Not too shabby.
State of the TBR: 191
I'm actually pretty surprised that I didn't get to 200 between the books I received as gifts and the Amazon gift card I also got for Christmas. Of course this is still a huge number, and I'm definitely planning to reduce it in 2012. I have a couple of plans for this; one is to keep on with the rule I made in October, to read one book I own for every library book, which I've been doing pretty well at. The other is a book-buying rule inspired bysweet_sparrow--I'll keep track of books I read off my TBR list, and for every five paper books or eight Kindle books read, I'll be allowed to buy one more. Hopefully that won't prove too strict for me. (The paper books number is lower because it's more important that I get through them faster.)
Later I plan to post a poll, also inspired bysweet_sparrow, of all the books I read in 2011 so people can tell me which ones they've read too! In the meantime, has anyone else read any of the books I read in December? What did you think? Any books you read in December that you want to talk about?
97. Green by Jay Lake - ** 1/2
98. Chime by Franny Billingsley - **** 1/2
99. Wolf-Speaker by Tamora Pierce - ***
100. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - *****
101. Green River Killer by Jeff Jensen - ***
102. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)
103. The Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry (unfinished)
104. The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory (unfinished)
It looks bad that I ended the month with two unfinished books, but I'm reading a couple of books now that I'm rather enjoying, and those unfinished books were both paper books I owned, so at least they're off the shelf and the TBR list!
The list comes to 104 books attempted this year, and when I counted up the books I'd actually completed, I got 78. Not too shabby.
State of the TBR: 191
I'm actually pretty surprised that I didn't get to 200 between the books I received as gifts and the Amazon gift card I also got for Christmas. Of course this is still a huge number, and I'm definitely planning to reduce it in 2012. I have a couple of plans for this; one is to keep on with the rule I made in October, to read one book I own for every library book, which I've been doing pretty well at. The other is a book-buying rule inspired by
sweet_sparrow--I'll keep track of books I read off my TBR list, and for every five paper books or eight Kindle books read, I'll be allowed to buy one more. Hopefully that won't prove too strict for me. (The paper books number is lower because it's more important that I get through them faster.)Later I plan to post a poll, also inspired by
sweet_sparrow, of all the books I read in 2011 so people can tell me which ones they've read too! In the meantime, has anyone else read any of the books I read in December? What did you think? Any books you read in December that you want to talk about?
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Date: 2012-01-01 08:36 pm (UTC)And yaaaaaay for TBR piles not being as great as they could be. ^-^ Good luck with your rules! *waves pompoms* (And yaaaay! Poll!)