Showing posts with label Operation TBR Reduction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Operation TBR Reduction. Show all posts

Sunday, September 30, 2012

September 2012 Wrap-Up

Here's a summary of my book-related activity for September. It's gonna be a big one! The Children's Hospital Book Sale happened, which means lots of very cheap books for a good cause. I can't resist!

Books I read (linked to the reviews)


Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (borrowed)
Claws by Will Weaver (TBR pile)
The Message (Animorphs #4) by K.A. Applegate (TBR pile)
Carrie by Stephen King (TBR pile)
Change the World Before Bedtime by Mark Kimball Moulton (NetGalley)
Confessions of a Teenage Hermaphrodite by Lianne Simon (review copy)
The Hermitage House Miracle by Malcolm Ater (NetGalley)
The Predator (Animorphs #5) by K.A. Applegate (reread)
Killer Virus (Choose Your Own Adventure #177) by R.A. Montgomery (TBR pile)
Zombie Surf Commandos from Mars by Tony Abbott (reread)
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice (TBR pile) (still in progress)

Books I bought


The Beauty of Humanity
Movement by Camilla Gibb
The Forest House by
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Ozma of Oz by
L. Frank Baum

The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
The Time Raider by
R.L. Stine
Silent Night 3 by
R.L. Stine


The Ruby in the Smoke
by Philip Pullman
Eat Cheese and Barf! by
R.U. Slime (Goosebumps
parody)
Are You There God? It's Me,
Margaret by Judy Blume


Bloodletting & Miraculous
Cures by Vincent Lam
Misery by Stephen King
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen


The Dead Zone by
Stephen King
I Am Hutterite by
Mary Ann Kirkby
Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke


In Too Deep (Fear Street
Senior #2) by R.L. Stine
Curtains by R.L. Stine
Into the Dark by
R.L. Stine
Escape From Camp Run-For-
Your-Life by R.L. Stine
Shop Till You Drop... Dead!
by R.L. Stine
All-Day Nightmare
by R.L. Stine
Caution: Aliens at Work
by R.L. Stine
Creep From the Deep
by R.L. Stine
Horror Hotel part II
by R.L. Stine


Monster Blood for Breakfast!
by R.L. Stine
Who's Your Mummy?
by R.L. Stine
Dr. Maniac vs. Robby Schwartz
by R.L. Stine


Say Cheese - And Die Screaming!
by R.L. Stine
'Salem's Lot by
Stephen King
Welcome to Camp Slither
by R.L. Stine


Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Guards! Guards!
by Terry Pratchett
The Silence of the Lambs
by Thomas Harris

The Last Summer (of You & Me)
by Ann Brashares


Priestess of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Books I've been approved for on NetGalley


The Hermitage House Miracle
by Malcolm Ater
Change the World Before Bedtime
by Mark Kimball Moulton
Andy Squared by Jennifer Lavoie



Fog by Caroline B. Cooney
The Slumbering Masses
by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

Other e-books I received for review


Shifted Perspective by J. Bridger
The Mine by John A. Heldt
Rick & Wylie's Fantastical,
Magical Adventures by
Andi Katsina

Books that magically appeared in my mailbox!


We're All Different but We're
All Kitty Cats: First Day of School
by Peter J. Goodman
Confessions of a Teenage
Hermaphrodite by Lianne Simon
The Secret Book of Frida
Kahlo by F.G. Haghenbeck

Books my honey lovingly bought me, because he knows me so well


11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Casual Vacancy
by J.K. Rowling

Progress on challenges


The Witching Hour was my September book for the Read Your OWN Library! Challenge.

Claws was my September Random Read.

I completed the following letters for the 2012 A-Z Book Challenge: K, P, and Z

I read 5 books for the Mount TBR Reading Challenge.

I read 1 book for the 2012 Anne Rice Challenge. You can still sign up!

Operation: TBR Reduction: I added 48 (!) books to my to read list and removed 13 (the number of books I read, plus the 5 I got rid of [go me!]), so my pile increased by 35 this month. Well, that's what happens when the Children's Hospital Book Sale comes to town! C'est la vie! But I think I'll try not to buy any books in October.

Friday, August 31, 2012

August 2012 Wrap-Up

Here's a summary of my book-related activity for August 2012. This month there was a Review Copy Cleanup Challenge, which is why I mostly read NetGalleys. I was quite successful in catching up on my review copies this month, and just in general! This month is the first month since starting Operation: TBR Reduction that I actually succeeded in reducing my TBR pile, despite the fact that I somehow wound up acquiring a bunch of new books! So I'm extremely happy about that. Here's to the next few months being just as awesome, so I can finish all my challenges. :)

Books I read (linked to the reviews)


Bandwidth by Angus Morrison (NetGalley - did not finish)
The Encounter (Animorphs #3) by K.A. Applegate (TBR pile)
A Tale of Two Mommies by Vanita Oelschlager (NetGalley)
A Tale of Two Daddies by Vanita Oelschlager (NetGalley)
What I Didn't Say by Keary Taylor (NetGalley)
Spying Eyes (Sabrina the Teenage Witch #14) by Nancy Holder (TBR pile)
Lucretia and the Kroons by Victor LaValle (NetGalley)
Talisman of El by Alecia Stone (NetGalley - did not finish)
The Enchanted Truth by Kym Petrie (NetGalley)
Quarantine by John Smolens (NetGalley)
You are Microscopic (Choose Your Own Adventure #130) by Edward Packard (TBR pile)
The Infects by Sean Beaudoin (NetGalley)
Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice (reread [but this time in audio!])
Anthology I: The Other Side by Hamidah Gul (review copy - did not finish)
Dream Magic: Awakenings by Dawn Harshaw (review copy)
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (TBR pile) (not quite done yet, but I'm well on my way!)

Books I bought


Hunger by
Jackie Morse Kessler
James and the Giant
Peach by Roald Dahl
The Maze Runner
by James Dashner

The Howler (The Nightmare
Room #7) by R.L. Stine
Dr. Horrible and Other Horrible
Stories by Zack Whedon
Smoke and Mirrors
by Neil Gaiman

Horrors of the Haunted
Museum by R.L. Stine
The Map of Time by Félix J. Palma


Books I've been approved for on NetGalley


Lucretia and the Kroons
by Victor LaValle
Talisman of El by Alecia Stone
The Devil in Silver
by Victor LaValle
The Enchanted Truth by Kym Petrie
OMG Queer: Short Stories
by Queer Youth
The Archived by Victoria Schwab


Other e-books I received for review



Dream Magic: Awakenings
by Dawn Harshaw
Anthology 1: The Other Side
by Hamidah Gul

Books that magically appeared in my mailbox!

Twelve Months by
Steven Manchester

Ten Girls to Watch
by Charity Shumway
The Map of the Sky
by Félix J. Palma

Progress on challenges


The Encounter was my August book for the Read Your OWN Library! Challenge.

Spying Eyes was my August Random Read.

I completed the following letters for the 2012 A-Z Book Challenge: D, E, L, and Y

I read 4 books for the Mount TBR Reading Challenge.

I read 1 book for the 2012 Anne Rice Challenge. You can still sign up!

Operation: TBR Reduction: I added 19 books to my to read list and removed 20 (the number of books I read plus the 4 I got rid of), so my pile decreased by 1 this month! (OMG finally!)