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.