I pretty much killed it for the 2008 TBR. I completed all books in the primary list and all but one in the alternates. The only reason I missed that one is because, as far as I know, it still doesn’t exist. That’s all right. I finished a boat load of books not on either list. By my count, if I finish my current book by 2009-01-01, I’ll have read 36 books. (Maybe more. I think there’s an omnibus or 2 that I didn’t break up for listing.)
This year I’m upping the ante. It won’t all be sci-fi and fantasy, though there is still plenty of that. No, sir. I’m going to pick my knuckles off the ground a bit. That probably means I won’t make into the mid 30’s of books read, but that’s ok.
Primary 12, in no particular order except where series are involved:
It was really hard whittling down to 24 books to meet the TBR rules. This probably wouldn’t happen to such a degree if I didn’t forget to turn down the SFBC featured selections all the time. Then again, I’ve read quite a few good books because of my inattention to the calendar. My abbreviated list of also rans follows. In order to fulfill the TBR challenge I’ll definitely read at least 12 of the above 24, but I’ll almost certainly pull from this list of alternate alternates throughout the year as well.
I’m sure some other tomes not listed here will end up in front of me, too. If you have a sadistic need to affect what I read and when you are welcome to purchase stuff for me off my Amazon wishlist.
With half the year gone I’ve read 18 books, 9 of them being on my TBR list. That makes me more than half way to my self imposed goal of reading 31 books this year, and by the end of July I should have technically completed the TBR challenge.
Events:
Happy birthgay Fictionfiend.
Reverand Horton Heat @ the Dallas City Arts Festival
White Ghost Shivers @ Late Nights at the DMA
Cool things to do downtown two weeks in a row? What city am I in, and what have you done with Dallas?
Happy birthday Tiff
and Jason
and Snackstealer
Games at Dolly’s
I’m pretty sure I lost every game I played.
I also got whined at for using the dictionary at a time not precisely convenient for everybody else at the table. Said whiner can either donate several copies of the house dictionary or, with all due respect, go to Hell.
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