TBR List Update: December

              

I'm working my way through #VirtualMountTBR2024. Here's my current To-Be-Read List, and here's the list of titles I have read this year.

In December 2024

Books read: 8

Books I decided NOT to finish: 1

Wordslut: Like many on the list, it just doesn't rank as highly in reality once I have to weigh it against other books and all the life stuff on my plate.

Life Undercover

Books left on the TBR List: 56 (I added next year's)

Best book of the month: A Deadly Education

This author is new to me (sometimes I'm late to pick up trends) but I've liked everything far. I preferred the fairytale retelling from earlier this year. I've also placed an anthology of short stories from her various universes on hold for a treat in a couple of months. Close runner-up: A Sorceress Comes to Call.

Worst book of the month: How to Stand Up to a Dictator

From the title, it seemed timely. I saw the parallels. I learned a bit about world politics. But I was bored stiff.

Sum-up: There was a nice flurry of interesting, distracting fiction mid-month, just as I crested the peak of 60. I remember when all my reading used to be like that -- or so it seemed. That was why I liked it so much. Then I stocked up on library holds for our vacation days to end the year on a good reading vibe!

TBR List Update: November

             

I'm working my way through #VirtualMountTBR2024. Here's my current To-Be-Read List, and here's the list of titles I have read this year.

In November 2024

Books read: 3

Books I decided NOT to finish: 1

Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: I think I want to read more food writings by MFK Fisher before attempting her journals/memoirs.

Life Undercover

Books left on the TBR List: 45

Best book of the month: Love Comes Softly

Kind of a funny choice, but it was a soothing bit of fluff.

Worst book of the month: None. They were all okay.

I don't think I'm going to summit Mount TBR this year. Too much disruption and too little reading time. But I'll keep swimming, just keep swimming.

TBR List Update: October

            

I'm working my way through #VirtualMountTBR2024. Here's my current To-Be-Read List, and here's the list of titles I have read this year.

In October 2024

Books read: 7

Books I decided NOT to finish: 3

Low-Demand Parenting: This is useful info in general, especially for parents and people who work with kids, but it was most relevant to the foster kiddo who's recently left our house. I'm going to let it go.

Model Home: See below about Rivers Solomon.

She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat: I realized that my library system only had one volume available, and it wasn't the first one. I didn't want to read this manga badly enough to seek it out from interlibrary loan.

Brown Girl in the Ring: I don't know why. I've previously read excerpts and it just doesn't sound so appealing anymore.

Life Undercover

Books left on the TBR List: 45

Best book of the month: Bloodchild and Other Stories

Yummy, chewy morsels of Octavia Butler's work, with an accompanying author's note on each one.

Worst book of the month: An Unkindness of Ghosts

*sigh* This is the second Solomon book I've not connected with, and at this point I'm not up for reading another. There's so much character development and interesting worlds/life circumstances, and you start to really care about the characters' choices, but then what happens in terms of plot? Is there resolution? No! Very unfulfilling.

TBR List Update: September

           

I'm working my way through #VirtualMountTBR2024. Here's my current To-Be-Read List, and here's the list of titles I have read this year.

In September 2024

Books read: 3

Books I decided NOT to finish: 4

When the Angels Left the Old Country: I started this before going on sabbatical, and found my interest in demons and dybbuks and demonstrations at sweatshops waned.

Delicious Foods: Maybe it was the "daring and shape-shifting prose" (as advertised in the jacket copy) , but when I was sorting through my pile, I decided to turn it in unread.

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: Science written for a popular audience -- which is fine, but I thought from the introduction that I'd be reading the author's personal experience with his family. It didn't make the back-to-work cut.

Cane River: This one WAS the author's family's story... and as interesting as it might be over a glass of sweet tea, it doesn't have the systemically crafted plot twists of a novel.

Life Undercover

Books left on the TBR List: 41

Best book of the month: An Unkindness of Ghosts

Space-age SF with social justice along multiple axes.

Worst book of the month:

They were all fine.

TBR List Update: August

           

I'm working my way through #VirtualMountTBR2024. Here's my current To-Be-Read List, and here's the list of titles I have read this year.

In August 2024

Books read: 3

Books I decided NOT to finish: 1

The Mountain in the Sea: Looked forward to this for ages based on the sf premise and a colleague's recommendation, but found it slow going and the loan expired.

Life Undercover

Books left on the TBR List: 

Best book of the month: Aft

This read

Worst book of the month: Cu

What the heck was this??