ShelfLove Update!

 

The goals where I’m ahead are in blue; bang on are in green; behind by up to five books are in orange; anything else is in red. I now have a running total to show where I should be for the month too (e.g. by June I should’ve read 182 books overall).

• Targets: 
  • 250 or less books bought;
  • 366 books read overall;
  • 200 books read which I owned prior to 2016;
  • no more than 10% of income on books per month.
• Books bought this year so far: 130/140.
• May books bought: 29/20.
• May budget: £40/£35.
• Owned books read this month: 19/16.
• Books read this month: 30/31.
• Owned books read overall: 115/117 (2 books behind).
• Books read overall: 205/213 (8 books behind).

I actually caught up properly at some point this month, but with wedding plans and an assignment due, I slipped back again.

This month’s theme from ShelfLove is about reading rituals and such, and honestly, I don’t really have any. I read wherever I can, whenever I can. I’ve had some reading nooks over time, when I didn’t really have my own space — I used to hide in the little spare shower room at my grandparents’ house, or sit on their stairs to read. But now I just sit in my chair or in bed or whatever and read wherever I am.

And as for a TBR for August, well, I have no idea what I’m going to have time for and I did really badly with actually sticking to my July TBR, but I would like to read the following in August.

• Ilona Andrews, Magic Shifts.
• Ilona Andrews, Magic Binds.
• Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette, The Tempering of Men.
• Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette, An Apprentice to Elves.
• Marie Brennan, In Ashes Lie.
• Marie Brennan, A Star Shall Fall.
• Susan Dennard, Truthwitch.
• Diane Duane, The Door into Sunset.
• Chris Holm, Red Right Hand.
• Tanya Huff, Blood Pact.
• Tanya Huff, Blood Debt.
• Emma Newman, Planetfall.
• V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows.
• Jen Williams, The Iron Ghost.
• Jen Williams, The Silver Tide.

Which sounds very optimistic, and honestly, we’ll just have to see…