mistressofmuses (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mistressofmuses) wrote2025-06-23 11:03 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2025-06-23 11:03 pm
TBR dismay... again
I've read 30 books this year, which is something I'm really happy about. (That's more than the last several years combined!) Yet somehow the TBR list just keeps getting longer.
I finished up my old writing notebook (the bugs-and-mushrooms one that I keep getting gifted new copies of, haha.) Starting a new notebook always means I copy over a few pages of things that I refer back to fairly often, and one of those things is my TBR list, because I like having a physical version of it that I can look at. It got a minor reshuffle from the version I put together at the beginning of the year, accounting for some new purchases, and moving a few titles up or down based on interest. (According to a complicated system of vibes, trying to space out the books I am most excited about, as well as the ones I expect I might struggle with, or to avoid a bunch of really long or short books in a row, going back and forth between physical and ebooks, etc.)
I was upset at the beginning of the year when I discovered that I had more than 90 books on my list, which is what prompted me to really start pushing to read more than the 25 I'd originally set as my goal for the year. (I also quickly realized I'd forgotten some books, and I knew that didn't account for instances where, say, I have book one of a series as a TBR but may end up liking it well enough to immediately add the rest once I read it, etc.)
And then of course I acquired more:
I bought a charity book bundle of queer-themed ebooks, so I'll start on those once I'm done with the horror ebooks. The physical books I got for my birthday, and the ones I bought for myself a couple months ago have been added in. Toward the later part of the list, I did start working in the Ursula K Le Guin books as well as some of the Terry Pratchett ones, though I haven't added in all of their works yet, so there are plenty not yet counted in the total. The TBR list also doesn't include all the other ebooks I've acquired. I keep picking up free indie romances and such from promotional events, and now have SO VERY MANY of them. I count them toward my total number of books read, but I pick them based on the whim of the moment, so they don't get TBR slots. It also also does not include some that I want to read but don't own yet. (They probably deserve to be formally on the list, but I have enough books on there that I do own in some fashion, it makes sense to focus on those first.)
That dismaying list of 90, minus the 30 I've read this year, has turned into... 153. :/
Not sure how, but it feels like I really need to pick the reading speed up a bit more!
-
Unrelated, but I got a really sweet comment on one of my fics this morning, and it made me really happy.
I finished up my old writing notebook (the bugs-and-mushrooms one that I keep getting gifted new copies of, haha.) Starting a new notebook always means I copy over a few pages of things that I refer back to fairly often, and one of those things is my TBR list, because I like having a physical version of it that I can look at. It got a minor reshuffle from the version I put together at the beginning of the year, accounting for some new purchases, and moving a few titles up or down based on interest. (According to a complicated system of vibes, trying to space out the books I am most excited about, as well as the ones I expect I might struggle with, or to avoid a bunch of really long or short books in a row, going back and forth between physical and ebooks, etc.)
I was upset at the beginning of the year when I discovered that I had more than 90 books on my list, which is what prompted me to really start pushing to read more than the 25 I'd originally set as my goal for the year. (I also quickly realized I'd forgotten some books, and I knew that didn't account for instances where, say, I have book one of a series as a TBR but may end up liking it well enough to immediately add the rest once I read it, etc.)
And then of course I acquired more:
I bought a charity book bundle of queer-themed ebooks, so I'll start on those once I'm done with the horror ebooks. The physical books I got for my birthday, and the ones I bought for myself a couple months ago have been added in. Toward the later part of the list, I did start working in the Ursula K Le Guin books as well as some of the Terry Pratchett ones, though I haven't added in all of their works yet, so there are plenty not yet counted in the total. The TBR list also doesn't include all the other ebooks I've acquired. I keep picking up free indie romances and such from promotional events, and now have SO VERY MANY of them. I count them toward my total number of books read, but I pick them based on the whim of the moment, so they don't get TBR slots. It also also does not include some that I want to read but don't own yet. (They probably deserve to be formally on the list, but I have enough books on there that I do own in some fashion, it makes sense to focus on those first.)
That dismaying list of 90, minus the 30 I've read this year, has turned into... 153. :/
Not sure how, but it feels like I really need to pick the reading speed up a bit more!
-
Unrelated, but I got a really sweet comment on one of my fics this morning, and it made me really happy.
no subject
no subject
Best of luck to both of us! I really do hope to make it through at least *most* of the list... though by that time the list will have spilled out to hundreds more, I'm sure! I keep trying to remind myself that this is a very good problem to have, because it's a *good* thing to never run out of things I want to read.
At least for now it really does feel nice to have read as much as I have so far. I hit 25 books last year, just barely, but the year before that I think it was only 13, and before that probably even fewer. It's nice to be reading more again.
So cheers to us on our progress... even as the finish line retreats farther into the distance!
no subject
no subject
I may end up doing that with the series, when I start approaching those! Depends how much I want the rest of the series to jump the line, probably, haha.
no subject
no subject
I do keep trying to tell myself that this is a *good* problem to have, that it's a *good* thing that I'll never run out of things to read, that I'll always have things I'm excited for...
no subject
no subject
no subject
Unrelated, but I got a really sweet comment on one of my fics this morning, and it made me really happy.
That's always so wonderful!
no subject
But it's also a good problem to have: it's nice to know I'll never run out of things that I want to read.
(Though I know the frustration of not knowing what to expect I'll like best. Outside of a handful of authors that are pretty steadily enjoyable for me, I've been surprised both positively and negatively by what I end up caring for or not. I didn't quite do a random sort for my TBR, but when it came to some of the book bundles I'd purchased there's a bit of an element of randomness to it. A few of those somewhat random ones have been nice, because the books were decent and I might otherwise not have picked them. Others I wouldn't have picked and while I don't regret reading any of them, some also wouldn't have broken my heart had I not read them, ha.)
no subject
no subject