Today should be cat pictures, but I got interrupted when I was blogging yesterday and never did get my post up. I will return to cat photos next week. I find one thing that limits my reading as the year gets going is I want to read everything on my TBR. I am an indecisive reader. This leads to me not reading anything. It's terrible. A lot of it is that I have too many books on the go and can't focus on one book. Sometimes this works really well for me... Sometimes it doesn't... Then, I saw this fun idea on Instagram where people are making up slips of paper with the books that want to read this year and to draw one to decide their next read. It won't work all the time for me because I am participating in reading challenges and accepting review copies here and there, but I am hoping it will help me get to some of those lost books on my TBR that have been there forever.
I imagine it will take a while for the amount of papers to decrease. I plan to add new papers to carry on with the series, as new books arrive, and this is not all the unread books I own. I plan to keep the slips of paper in another box as I draw them and use that as more of a determination that the TBR is decreasing in size. I also added slips that say e-books so that I get a kick start when I start to neglect my virtual TBR.
First up, I chose Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk. I bought this book following some blogging buzz surrounding it, but just never got around to reading it. I am not sure how long it would have taken if I hadn't pulled its name out of the box. So far it is good, and I look forward to carrying on with this project in 2014 and onward.
I may add e-books in but just doing this much last night took forever. I have a big TBR. I have had slow reading years and didn't stop acquiring books during those years. Last year was really bad. I only read about 70 books and a bunch of those were audio books. This meant that my TBR pile likely increased in size instead of decreased. I did do a big purge because of the move, but I have to do another one and just have been waiting until I was ready to rearrange my bookshelves.
How do you pick what to read next?
I tried out a free subscription to
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