January 02, 2010

As the year begins...

Here's a list of the books I'm currently in the middle of reading:

  1. The Absolute Sandman: Vol., 3
  2. The Dance of Intimacy
  3. The Parable of the Talents
  4. Colon Classification
  5. The Practice of the Magical Diary
  6. Chicken Qaballah

Yeesh. I gotta FOCUS a bit more.

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2009 In Review

This hasn't been a good year for me in terms of actually documenting the books I read (or, I see looking back, numbering them correctly as I went). Grrrrrr. However, here's a list:

  1. The Absolute Sandman: Volume 2
  2. The Unseen University Cut-out-Book
  3. Triumph of the Moon
  4. Be a Goddess!
  5. Smart Packing for Today's Traveler
  6. Emily's Book of Strange
  7. Coraline
  8. Agyar
  9. Storm Front (re-read)
  10. Fool Moon (re-read)
  11. Watchmen
  12. The Dark Knight Returns
  13. Break Through Pain
  14. Pornology
  15. The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous, and Broke
  16. Will I Ever Be Good Enough?
  17. The Principles of Aikido
  18. Grave Peril
  19. Summer Knight
  20. Death Masks
  21. Blood Rites
  22. Dead Beat
  23. Proven Guilty
  24. What Happy People Know
  25. The Folklore of Discworld
  26. Pride and Prejudice
  27. White Knight
  28. Small Favor
  29. What Rich People Know
  30. Domino: The Book of Decorating
  31. The Key to Solomon's Key
  32. Unseen Academicals
  33. Nation
  34. The Usual Error
  35. Sister Light, Sister Dark
  36. The Dance of Anger
  37. White Jenna
  38. The Parable of the Sower

38 books! Waaaaay more than last year. Go me! Let's see if I can read more than that this year.

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March 14, 2008

Library Stats!

I have finished entering allll my books into my LibraryThing Catalog!! YAY! A few stats:

202 unread books (can buy more when that's down to 180)
956 read books (nearly all of these are available for loan!)

Of the read books:
536 are fiction
252 are nonfiction

Pretty neat, eh? I'm psyched. I wish I had a widget that would dynamically show how many unread books I have so I could put it in the left column, but Oh Well.

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February 27, 2008

Woo Hoo!

I have finally finished entering alllll my "read" books into LibraryThing! Yay! I have 951 books in that category, wow.

And they are all available for loan!

Well, except the ones that are already out on loan. :)

I've said for some time that I wouldn't add my unread books into the catalog until I'd read them, but I realized that if I catalog them all now, it'll be a LOT easier to count them. And since I've decided to ration my book buying according to how many unread books I have on hand, an easy way to track how many unread books I have will make my life a lot simpler.

So: if a book is tagged "not for loan," it's not for loan. If it's tagged "available for loan," then it's available. :) I'm going to try to update tags according to what's loaned out, we'll see how that works. If I can use LibraryThing to track book loaning, my life will be even simpler (I figure I can tag things "out on loan" and use the comment field to track who borrowed 'em and when).

So how is my book rationing going to work, I hear you ask?

Well. I estimate I have about 300 unread books (I'm still entering them all into LibraryThing, though, so I don't have an exact number). I figure that as I reach nice, round cutoffs every 20 books, I shall allow myself to buy new books. The number of new books bought will depend on my finances on hand, rather than be a predetermined amount. HOWEVER! Once I've exercised the privilege of buying books at a given unread book level, I can't do it again. So if I get my unread pile down to, say, 240 books and then buy ten books, so it's at 250, I have to make it down to 220 before I'm allowed to buy new books.

Once I've finished inputting all my unread books, I shall add a section in the lefthand sidebar tracking my unread books progress. Woot.

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January 11, 2008

2007 In Review

Hm. I read 25 books last year, according to my booklog (The Lost One doesn't count, cos I'm still reading it). I feel like I must've finished a book between November 30 and December 31, but apparently not. Sigh.

I want to finish The Lost One, but it's a real slog. I'm only 60 pages from the end, but it seems like an eternity. Feh. But I love Peter Lorre too much not to finish it, even though I know the end of his life was really sad.

I'm hoping to read (by which I mean, finish reading) more books in 2008 than I did in 2007. Let's see how it goes.

2007 in Books:


  1. Speak Now
  2. How to Succeed in Murder
  3. The Subtle Knife
  4. Gentlemen's Blood: A History of Duelling
  5. Dead Beat
  6. Storm Front (Book One of the Dresden Files)
  7. Fool Moon (Book Two of the Dresden Files)
  8. Grave Peril (Book Three of the Dresden Files)
  9. Summer Knight (Book Four of the Dresden Files)
  10. Death Masks (Book Five of the Dresden Files)
  11. Blood Rites (Book Six of the Dresden Files)
  12. My Life with the Spirits
  13. The Gift of Fear
  14. Stealing Jesus
  15. Proven Guilty (Book Seven of The Dresden Files)
  16. Dead Witch Walking (Rachel Morgan, Book 1)
  17. Moby Dick
  18. East of Eden
  19. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  20. Loving What Is
  21. The Myth of Matriarchal Pre-History: Why a Manufactured Past Won't Give Women a Future
  22. The Way of the Traitor
  23. Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth
  24. Your Money or Your Life
  25. Maverick
  26. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
  27. YOU: On a Diet
  28. The Millionaire Next Door

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December 29, 2003

testing

Just checking to see if the new blog's working...

...or not.

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