Started out pretty good towards reading things I've never read. Finishing up the second one but then found one of my favorite series in ebooks. So my next eight books will be rereads, that probably will take me through the next couple of weeks. Couldn't resist the chance to revisit the Seven Brides by Leigh Greenwood.

I haven't read anything this year as yet. :(

I really need to make a decision and just start reading.

One of the things I have decided this year is to not allow others to make me feel ashamed of the books I read. I read a little of everything - smut included - and this year I'm going to claim my smut! :D

^Good for you. On taking a break (not so much) and reading what you like (a lot).

Good on you! You can and should read what YOU want. I'm not about to judge, certainly.

You go girl! Last night I was talking with a friend, and the subject of Kindles came up. I mentioned the thread about password protecting ereaders, and she said "Aren't you worried about people seeing what you read??" First I laughed, a lot, then I said, "My Kindle cover says 'A dirty book is rarely dusty' on the front. I use Goodreads ALL THE TIME, and my Goodreads updates are posted on Facebook. I'm pretty sure that ship has already sailed."

There's a poster here who refers to romance novels as "female-type trash". (No names, because I don't actually have a beef with him, just an observation.) This bothered me initially, but after I thought about it, it made me laugh. Most men I know don't get much out of reading that sort of thing. They say men are visual creatures, so maybe that's it. But we gals (and those males who do enjoy it) have an advantage. We can get our smut fix on the bus, in line at the store, waiting at the doctor's office... So load up your ereader or phone with smut, stick it in your bag or pocket, and join the Sisterhood of the Traveling Smut.

Embrace it.

New favorite quote!

Did you see the insult that T posted in the KS Group??! Soooo funny [MOD: Snipped. Not 'family friendly']

:rofl: refer to my earlier post regarding re-reading Leigh Greenwood. Leigh is a 6 ft. tall Texan (male!) and an extremely popular romance writer.

First one done
 

Well one book down towards my goal of 50 this year. On to the next! I'm thinking Napoleon's Pyramids by William Dietrich.

I am so thankful that I was neither eating nor drinking when I read your quote Mrs. J.

:D

Good for you! Cause when I first read it I was drinking coffee. Of course, I couldn't explain to my co-workers what I found so funny that I sprayed my monitor... ;)

I shot Coca-cola out my nose. Oh, it burns! Didn't do much for the head cold, either, but so worth it.

Oh my :rofl:

I am so going to use that at my first opportunity. Probably not in front of the kids or my parents, though :chinscratch:

Re: smut. I remember when this came up a year ago, there was an informal agreement to use The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius as a placeholder for books that dare not speak their names. And if you seem to read and reread the Meditations? Surely it's for the inspiration and consolation they provide.

As for my own challenges, I'm finding it interesting to decide whether or not a book qualifies for my 25 Books about 25 Lands challenge. I didn't have a problem ascribing Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki to England, even though it's by an author surely Scottish in derivation who was born in Burma. The book is entirely English, and England is hardly an issue for me anyway. But book #2, Berlin 1961, was more difficult. It was tempting to check off Germany, but I decided that since the book was really about the Cold War and thus the US and the USSR, it didn't qualify, even though nominally set in Berlin.

On other fronts, even though I can't list or quantify them, two of my challenges were to read less junk and to stop letting Overdrive control my reading. I've had some success with both. I abandoned what would have been a two-star mystery, the first in Charles Todd's newer series about a WWI nurse. I also canceled serveral holds at Overdrive. My new mantra is that if I wouldn't check it out of the physical library, I don't need it from Overdrive.

lol! Good idea.

I think I remember that agreement!

I must say, Issy, that kicking OD into the back bedroom is a good idea. Me? I struggle to not let my impulses and wallet direct my reading. I often abandon series and/or reading plans to read a new book I just had to purchase.

I recall that discussion like it was yesterday! And I believe a few people actually did place it in their reading lists more than once. :-) Inspiration and consolation? Oh, yes. Certainly. :D

At least that means you really, really want to read it! I'm most bothered by OD books that turn out to be mediocre, but I finish them at least in part because OD books can be a now or never (or at least several weeks, if not months, before you can get it again) proposition. I want to be a lot choosier about what I put on hold, so at least when I have to re-arrange my reading to accommodate a book that's finally become available to me (and why do several books always all show up at once? the perennial OD plaint), it's because it's a book that I really do want to read.

:rofl:

I've started my reading challenge. I'm hoping to clean up some outstanding series.

Good. I've also done some of that. And I had the same reaction to the Charles Todd book. I tried twice to read it, and just gave it up as a waste of time. I've got way more than enough books on my TBR to not need to read something I'm not enjoying.

Well, I'm doing OK on the reading part of the challenge -- Just finished a Josephine Tey from the library here. But while I finished one, I bought several more (all short stories, but they add up), and downloaded 3 Deryni books when my hold came up on them at the Library. I really need to slow down on the acquisition side.

Cleared number two off the required reading list, but my TBR pile is growing. I think it's okay as it is still accumulation of things on the required reading list, but I've never been overly comfortable having thousands of pages sitting around unread.

I've started a "Not Yet" folder for all of the freebies I've downloaded in the last week, but do not want to add to my Kindle. After ending the year with almost 1,500 ebooks, some of which I may never read, I've decided to slow down on my acquisitions a bit, and hopefully find a way to weed out the impulse downloads.

Other than that, I'm a bit fed up with The Iliad. I'm hoping its just a case of my not being in the mood to read it right now.

So, tonight I'll start my Dresden Files challenge with a reread of Storm Front. I read the short story prequel, A Restoration of Faith, last night.

1,500?!?

That number would ensure I'd be dead before I finished them all.

I finished The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.

Now I'm partway through Black Rain by Masjui Ibuse and started The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett to take the edge off the Ibuse before bed.

I have Pixel of Ink, and the Freebie sub-forum to thank for that!

Every year I say to myself that I'm going to read more Faulkner. And every year I manage not to do it. :(

^The first 70 pages were a tough read. I need to re-read that section. All dialog with little narrative and I don't think I got as much out of it as I should have.

Now look what you've done. Now I have to add another free book site to my RSS feed. I already have 200+ in my queue so I really didn't need another source. :D

I mostly use Ereader News Today (http://feeds.feedburner.com/EreaderNewsToday), but it looks like Pixel of Ink has a different selection.

One goal for the new year was for me to only grab books that I actually expect to read, so adding another feed shouldn't add too much to that.

I think this thread should be made sticky so it is easier to find.

^Nah, there's too many stickied threads in the subforums for me already. This one should have enough traffic not to be buried.

I'm on the home stretch of Black Rain. Then I can concentrate on Kafka and Pratchett for my challenge reads. It looks like I might actually close in on 2,000 pages and 7 books in Januray.

It's linked in the first post of the List Thread, so if it does get buried it is easy to find.

Agreed. Plus we get notifications on the User CP when updated...

This thread still should be to be stickied.

Have a look at my list in the list thread. I've put in cover images and links to the GoodReads entries. It's quite nice.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...76#post1882476

^Nice. Last year I noticed that I couldn't have more than 30 images in a post (which included smilies) so you might have problems later in the year. I just list the books, but give a link to the goodreads list I have as well if anyone is really interested in one of the books.

I've finished Storm Front, updated my list thread, and will spend the rest of my reading time this week trying to catch up on the Iliad group read!

Just finished Black Rain, so now it's on to my first eBook library loan, Viper by Michael Morley.

If I have a problem with the number of images, I'll just have to figure out what I want to do from there.

Anyway, glad you like it so far. I thought it was different to show the covers.

I'm happy to see that members are starting to update their list threads.:thumbsup:

:book2:Happy Reading Everyone!:book2:

I tried rereading Deryni Rising (originally read it about 30? years ago). I got about 30 - 40 pages into it and it wasn't grabbing me like it did when I was in my 20s. Maybe I'll try again later this year. I have such fond memories of all the Deryni books...:blink: