I have so many more unread books on our shelves than I'll ever read. Each of those books is somewhere on my TBR
list. I'm thinking that I might complement my #TBR list with a #NTBR list. There are so many (and more and more)
books, and I have so little (and less and less) time in front of me when I might read them. Obviously, winnowing
the collection would help to declutter our small space, but might it also declutter my mind? https://johnrakestraw.com/post/from-the-tbr-pile-to-the-ntbr-pile/. @bookstodon#reading#books
@claudiac Thanks to the smart readers on Mastodon, I have a long #TBR list BUT several are unavailable to me because they aren't yet published in North America. I am an old fashioned reader who uses paper rather than a screen, and reads rather than listens. So I am really PO'd that Hannah Kent's Devotion is not available to me in Canada nor is the Georgi Gospodinov's Time Shelter nor is Hanna Pylväine's The End of Drum Time.You'd think that book publishers could #DoBetter, right, @bookstodon ?
PSA: 'Dear Committee Members', by Julie Schumacher, is a perfect book. If you are an academic of any sort, you must read it. If you are a non-academic, it may not charm you in the same way, but since it is a perfect book you must read it anyway.
Please observe the obscene number of hashtags I have put below, in the attempt taht as many people as possible see this message.
And as for today, it's another one on my tbr. Quenby Olson's first Miss Percy book was excellent though. Synopsis is to that to hook you into the trilogy. #books#bookstodon#tbr
@bookstodon Notable new book releases in the US for September 12, 2023:
The Free People's Village, Sim Kern. [Alt history where Al Gore won and we combatted Climate Change.]
Rouge, Mona Awad. [The author of BUNNY has created a gothic horror fairy tale? Yes, please.]
This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America (GN), Navied Mahdavian. [Creating cultural identity via that delicate dance of learning to belong]
The Vaster Wilds, Lauren Groff. [What if the power to break settler colonialism, and to learn to live in a new way, were simply a matter of inspiration?]
A Market of Dreams and Destiny, Trip Galey. [What if granting each of your desires were merely a matter of price, at a very special underground market?]
Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, Molly Llewellyn, ed. [Honestly, the title sold me.]
The Death I Gave Him, Em X. Liu. [Queer retelling of Hamlet.]
The Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners, Lauren Groff, ed.
Normal Rules Don't Apply, Kate Atkinson. [The rule should be that we always read Kate Atkinson. Eleven interconnected stories.]
Rez Ball, Byron Graves. [I'm hearing rave reviews about this heart-tugging YA tale of a First Nations teen trying to live up to legendary dreams.]
Those Pink Mountain Nights, Jen Ferguson. [Stand-out contemporary YA author gives us a lesson in how we all need each other.]
Hemlock Island, Kelley Armstrong. [Locked room mystery, the island version, with a bit of paranormal thrown in.]
Early Word Galley Chat #ewgc –where librarians talk about great upcoming books– has moved entirely back to Twitter/X so here are 7 galleys I want to download after yesterday's chat! #alttext for details! #bookstodon#ARC#TBR#books@bookstodon@librarians
I present to you: my September TBR! I think it's pretty reasonable but then again I'm cheating and starting today with Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Not shown is my digital TBR which consists of Gideon the Ninth of which I have read three quarters already.
Really looking forward to Pet Semetary by Stephen King. Heard very good things about Pachinko but the size scares me a bit.
Have you read THE NARROW LAND (Atlantic Books) by Christine Dwyer Hickey? The novel, which won the eleventh #WalterScottPrize, explores the marriage of the artists Edward and Jo Hopper.
This morning @tomgauld (in the Guardian) has summed up the problem with my #books addiction... its almost like he poked his head into my home and perhaps @fkamiah17 as well?
@glauber@franciscawrites@bookstodon This made me look again at this book and add it to my #TBR. The movie was playing the day a close family member passed away… I remember none of it except she enjoyed it. I could never get myself to watch it let alone touch one of his books (outside of Good Omens). I’m looking forward to it now. #neilgaiman#stardust
I know financially it's better to support buying the books direct as the author gets paid per page on #KindleUnlimited (last I knew) but I just can't swing it. Also, I don't typically read a book more than once (see #library) and using Kindle Unlimited makes sense. Now to get through my #TBR pile... @bookstodon#books#reading#AmReading
You don't need to know someone living in a retirement village to love THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB (Viking), but it helps. Only just started it, but it's one of the most enjoyable books I've read in ages - character driven, hilariously written, and for young readers who've grown beyond the MURDER MOST UNLADYLIKE series, a great step into adult crime fiction.