Wednesday Intended Reading Post

[ironed_orchid]

Or: what DIDN'T you read this week?

We all have things we mean to read, but never quite find the time, whether it's a bunch of unopened tabs, or an ever growing pile of books by the bed.

What's on your to-be-read list this week?

Comments

[kerrypolka]

I was tearing through Helen Castor's new (well, 2014) book on Joan of Arc before going on a two-week holiday last month, but now that I'm back I can't get myself back into it. On the plus side I've become quite ruthless about clearing out tabs, which has felt really good.

[ironed_orchid]

Ah, getting back into a book, particularly a serious book, can be so hard when you've had a break.

Did you do any fun reading on your holiday?

[kerrypolka]

Yeah, it's especially annoying because Castor is an unusually lively writer for history, I've just lost the momentum!

My plane book was 'The Royal We', a very fun and very silly romance about serial-numbers-scraped-off-Kate-Middleton-and-Prince-William. (Although I was disappointed it didn't end in a republican revolution, but that's going to be my problem with any book about fictional royals. :P)

[fred_mouse]

I cleared the bedside table off, putting all the half read books bar library books on a separate pile. Which leaves me with a book on political ideology, one on analysis of variance, and one on using the lattice package for the program R (for making pretty graphs auto-magically). I would like to have made progress on any one of these by this time next week.

[ironed_orchid]

Good luck!

[sixbeforelunch]

I didn't read any of the Sir Sidney Smith bio that's been on my coffee table for over a month, and it's due back at the library in a day or two..

I also didn't read either of the Will Eisner collections or the Robert Sheckley short stories that I had checked out, but those I finally took back to the library partially un-read.

[ironed_orchid]

Sometimes I have to admit a book isn't right for at a certain point in time and move on.

[alexseanchai]

my entire collection

I joke. Somewhat.

[ironed_orchid]

Somewhat.

A year or three ago I went trough my bookshelves and sort of half pulled out all the books I had never read. The idea was to read as many as I could before I spent anymore money on books...

I got through maybe 5 or 6 of them before a new book in a series I was reading came out, and then I started buying new (and secondhand) books again.

[fred_mouse]

oh, I hear you on that. I went through a phase where a book I had read was put on the shelf the 'right' way, and a book I hadn't was put in spine facing up, to try and get me to read the collection. Eventually, I hated the way it looked, and tidied it so that all the ones I had read were on one shelf, and all the ones I hadn't were on another. Also drove me batty...

These days, I have 4298 books in librarything, 2260 of which are tagged 'unread (fred)'. Even allowing for my dodgy updating, not good...

I actually have a 20 year plan for getting rid of the books that I'm never going to read. I kid you not.

[weaverbird]

Hee! Yep, I'm with you there.

Interesting collection! Spotted any number of things I want to read (like I need more to-be-reads). Also, now I want to get back to cataloging mine - I stalled out ages ago, when it came to manually entering the miles of pre-ISBN stuff.

[thamesynne]

no joke for me, at all. i have piles of books and piles of time in which to read them... but on the very few occasions i do actually motivate myself to pick one up, i then have to battle handcramp (from keeping it open) and the rapid onset of sleepiness (from, i dunno, something), so that while i feel like i've achieved something when i get to the end of one, i'm not that keen to repeat the experience. which wouldn't be so bad if i didn't know myself to have been capable, at my best, of chugging through three books (well, about 750 pages) a day.

[alexseanchai]

I read the seventh Harry Potter in about two hours the night it came out, having blasted through the previous six in the two days prior to the big release party--which were work days iirc. I have read...fifteen books in 2015? (do I have a tag something like 'book log' or 'reading challenge log'? that should go to an up-to-date post.) That's not even one a week.

So yeah. I feel you.

[alexseanchai]

I stand corrected: Twenty books so far this year. Exactly one a week. Still not many.

[weaverbird]

I've had that essay on Harriet Vane and Lord Peter open in a tab all day and *still* haven't read it. Tomorrow for sure.

[sasha_feather]

I haven't been able to read a novel or non-fiction book in a long time-- I think in August when I read the Summer Prince, was the last full-length one. So bite-sized reading is just my speed!

The next novel I'm hoping to read is Fangirl, by Rainbow Rowell.

[ironed_orchid]

That looks really interesting.