So my Goodreads total and the total I am presenting here do not match. Again. According to GR, I read 115 books in 2013. My list here tallies 135. That's 20 books that I didn't include on GR for one reason or another - either it was a book that I just didn't consider "worthy" of counting towards my challenge or it was a book that I read for a ( Read more... )

these are the books i've read so far in 2013. if you're also on Goodreads, you'll notice that there are some books here (labelled nGR) that do not appear in my Goodreads challenge totals. this is for various reasons. sometimes they are re-reads that were counted in my 2012 tally, sometimes they are re-reads that i just didn't feel like including, ( Read more... )

Last year I joined up for the Mount TBR challenge and I was pathetic. I think I read 6 books. I was supposed to read 25. This sort of thing happens to me so consistently that I'm starting to think I have a weird streak of perversity that makes me lose all desire to do something as soon as I've actually committed to doing it. But the TBR list is ( Read more... )

I didn't exactly plan on it, but once little_tristan and I started in on re-reading the entire Anne of Green Gables series, I found myself in a re-reading frame of mind. And since, when it's bitterly cold out, there isn't anything more cozy than curling up with a kitty on your lap and a book that you know is going to be good, I devoted the entire month to doing ( Read more... )

I've just posted my thoughts on L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Windy Poplars over at oddlittlecat where little_tristan and I will be discussionating.

Psssst ... little_tristan and I are discussing the Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery over on oddlittlecat. If you're interested, you can find my post on Anne of Avonlea - my first read of 2013 - here.

p.s. If you'd rather I cross-post the entire review to my journal, just shout. There'll be three more Anne of Green Gables posts (Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow ( Read more... )