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 needed to read 182 books overall).
- Targets:
- 250 or fewer 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: 182/200.
- October books bought: 11/20.
- October budget: Smashed to smithereens on non-fiction titles.
- Owned books read this month: 9/16.
- Books read this month: 23/31.
- Owned books read overall: 156/167 (11 books behind).
- Books read overall: 293/305 (12 books behind).
A TBR for this month looks more or less the same as last month, because I was hopeless, with a few additions.
- Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer.
- Ben Aaronovitch, The Hanging Tree.
- Ilona Andrews, Magic Binds.
- Marie Brennan, In Ashes Lie.
- Mike Brooks, Dark Sky.
- Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet.
- Mira Grant, Deadline.
- Mira Grant, Blackout.
- Joseph Hansen, Skinflick.
- Seanan McGuire, An Artificial Night.
- Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses.
- Sylvia Moreno-Garcia, Certain Dark Things.
- Emma Newman, After Atlas.
- Cherie Priest, The Family Plot.
- John Scalzi, The Ghost Brigades.
And this month’s ShelfLove challenge theme is to name one bookish thing you’re thankful for, and I think my answer has to be… bookmarks. I love having bookmarks and using them, not just to mark my place in a book, but to celebrate fandoms I like, mark reading targets, and… honestly, just to collect them. Even really plain boring ones. (I have some from my grandfather’s Rotary Club. They are not pretty, just plain stiff paper, but they have been with me a long time now.)
It took me ages to set up the November goals but in just these three days I’ve already read 2, abandoned 4 which is well ahead of schedule. Hope that continues. Goals would be so much easier to get to if authors stopped publishing new and shiny books that you must grab! I blame them…Good luck for this month!
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Oh wow, that is a good start! And yeah, down with those shiny new books… wait.
I love this challenge and will have to look at it for 2017. Your goals are high, so considering that, you are rocking it!
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I normally do read a lot, and this is quite a bit below some of my older goals! But my degree is taking up more and more of my time, alas.
LOL sorry your budget was smashed to smithereens!
I should be sorry, but… books!
Budgets, smudgets. 🙂 Sometimes you have to indulge right. 🙂
Bookmarks are amazing. I have a huge stack of random ones. I do have to avoid ones with tassels as the cats like to pull those out.
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Exactly! And it wasn’t over my goal of how many books to buy, sooo… I call it a win.