Total: 10,032 pages

In order to keep my giant pile of unread things from getting any bigger, my resolution for 2016 was to not buy a new book until I'd read at least one I already own. How did that go?

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Open Road Media is giving away 5,000 Kindle ebooks for free on Amazon until December 20. There is a huge variety of books available, including some big names in SF and fantasy, along with classics, children's books, mystery, and nonfiction. I've snagged 18 books so far (including most of the Castle Perilous series and the Dave Brandstetter mystery ( Read more... )

My New Year's resolution this year was to not buy a new book until after I've read one of the many, many books I already own. Now that we're just past the halfway point, how am I doing? Abysmally. It sounded like such a good idea on paper, but I clearly didn't think it through ( Read more... )

I subscribe to Barnes & Noble's Nook Daily Find newsletter. February 29th's email contained this gem in the description of Keep Quiet by Lisa Scottoline: "It’s an emotionally gripping story about how far you can, and should go to protect those you love from bestselling author Lisa Scottoline ( Read more... )

"It was a terrible day even before Crispin blew up the study."

--Rag and Bone, K.J. Charles

I made a New Year's resolution this year not to buy a new book until I've read a book I already own. It didn't seem like it was going to be that big a deal, but it's not even the end of February yet and it's the worst. Five books in series I read and/or by authors I like came out this month alone. Also, several books I've been wanting to read went ( Read more... )

Total: 10,062 pages

Last year I struggled to hit 6,700 pages due to the unusually large number of books I read that I didn't like very much. This year I discovered Listopia, and in particular the list for Gay Romance Featuring Psychics/Mediums/Shamans/Spiritualists, and read an absolutely record number of things for me without even trying. ( Read more... )

Goodreads seems to have lulled me into a false sense of security. Every time I read a Nightrunner book by Lynn Flewelling, it recommends some gay paranormal romance books to me, and so far it's really had my number. I've enjoyed several of those books, to the tune of completing 136% of my annual reading challenge on Goodreads ( Read more... )

So, it looks like I've stopped writing episode reaction posts. This was not a conscious decision on my part, more like a confluence of circumstances. Most of my shows are currently engaged in long-term story or character arcs that I actively dislike, while at the same time I've hit an amazing run of really good books in a row. I keep looking at the ( Read more... )

Total: 6,705 pages

Rather than setting a page count goal this year, I decided to focus my efforts on catching up on series I'm behind on (I read a lot of series books) and books I've owned for a long time but hadn't gotten around to reading yet (Why had I not started reading the Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling before now? OMG, it's awesome ( Read more... )