Honestly, I did try this year (in contrast to last year when I let #ALLTHENEWBOOKS find their way onto my shelves).
I started the year with 356 books in the TBR, and I’ve finished with 362 (despite having read 85 so far). Wasn’t helped by a trip to Readings this morning and a quick audit of the TBR stack, at which point I discovered three books I’d forgotten to add to my list.
I’m not going to set a goal for 2023 but will continue to use reading challenges as a means of exploring the books I already own.
How’s your stack looking?
You know me. I am incorrigible. Over 200 NF and over a thousand fiction. More fiction than I had at the end of 2021 but less NF mainly because I jettisoned some because they’d lost their immediacy.
My most recent impulse buy is Precious Bane, a story of a Shropshire lass (family history resonances) bought yesterday because they were talking about it at the Backlisted podcast.
Thanks to meeting a friend for lunch next to a lovely new independent bookshop, not so well!
What a daft question 🙄
Every year, instead of resolutions, I pick a word for the year. It is too hard to remember a list at my age. But a one word resolution gives focus and direction, is easy to remember and call to mind frequently. It also suggests not a fixed result but a Work in Progress. You don’t set yourself up to fail in quite the same way. So this year it is Discipline. No, no, I wouldn’t mange the thigh high leather boots over my arthritic knee, no, not My Year as a Dominatrix, just constant reminders to not be lax in habits, self indulgent, and especially in these straitened financial times , more careful with money.
So that TBR doesn’t know what it’s in for!
(Mind you, I did sneak in half a dozen books before the New Year deadline!)
I think we all understand because we are ALL the same. Happy Reading!
Thank you for sharing Kate. I knew I wasn’t alone 😀 Happy reading!
Well I am marginally down on the tally this time last year – it would have been even lower but for a buying splurge in the last couple of months plus some xmas gifts. Without Sample Sunday (inspired by you) it would have been even higher
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These things happens to me as well. 85 books from your shelves is good though. I read 89 and that is really good for me.