So....how did I do with the Bout of Books Read-a-Thon? Not too well with the daily participation--I took part in only two of the mini-challenges and didn't get a single update entered. Boo! I did (almost) manage to complete all five books as planned--if I hadn't had to go to sleep last night so I could go to work today then I would have finished the Rendell book. So--Books Read? A Participation D+ I'll have to work on that next time around. But--I'm still glad to have joined in...it kept me motivated and on-track as I start out a new year of reading.
1. Shakespeare's Planet by Clifford D. Simak (done! Hope they're all that easy! 1/6/14)
2. The Skeleton in the Clock by Carter Dickson (1/8/14)
3. Shake Hands Forever by Ruth Rendell (90% finished 1/12/14--completed today)
4. Angels & Spaceships by Fredric Brown (1/12/14)
5. Dangerous Visions 3 by Harlan Ellison, ed (1/11/14)
Bev, while you've been reading up a storm already in the new year I am embarrassed to report that I've read nothing, NOTHING new - I've just been searching through my bookshelves, reading comfort-food type books to tide me over until I began the 'real' reading of the year. I've just ordered a few books from the library so we'll see what happens when they're ready to be picked up. I'm just in the funniest mood - not that there's much I can do about it. Feeling out of sorts - reading wise. Just seeming to need the comfort of my very faves.
ReplyDeleteI haven't even bothered to list them on my blog and won't. I'll begin listing once I shake free of this new year inertia.
Just ordered a hard-cover copy of Agatha Christie's THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS which is a book I could read over and over again very happily. My paperback copy fell apart (it was very old) so I was lucky to happen upon a hard cover re-issue. Can't wait to get it. Didn't cost much at all. But now I can read and re-read it to my heart's content.
But that's what I mean, I'm just drifting along.
P.S. As usual, I am amazed by your industry. I wish you'd blog about how you go about reading so many books over the course of a year. How you organize them all and such.
You have much to teach us, Bev.
The secret? Just go crazy with challenges. Be anal-retentive enough that you cannot stand to leave something unfinished and then read every spare minute you've got until your eyeballs fall out (or it feels like they might anyway).
ReplyDeleteI try to be organized--and to a certain extent I manage it (particularly with the mysteries). But I always wind up changing horses in midstream. There are a couple of books (Death Walks in Eastrepps comes to mind) that I keep putting on challenges and then looking at when it's time to read and saying..."Nah."