Hello! I am Cris from @the---hermit, that is not my actual main, but it is in fact the main blog I use to track my study and reading, and overall to journal about stuff.
Since I have been reblogging posts and tagging them as tbr in various blogs of mine I decided to make a dedicated blog once and for all. This way I am sure I will find them again when I look for them, and I like the idea of curating a big tbr list online. I am also very much open to any book recs so do drop them in my asks if you have any!
@clearbluewaters (Thank you!! delighted <3) tagged me for 9 books on my TBR list (which, I admit, is usually less structured, or at least kept in various scribbles across whatever notebook was to hand at the time)
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (I adore The Martian, and got this for crimmas, it is on my bedside table now (but I have been writing instead)
Temeraire by Naomi Novik (really the series but look I will find them and I will read them at speeds unbelieved by. Anyone I haven't taught, honestly)
Painted Devils by Margaret Owen (Little Thieves is SO SO SO good, holy shit. I will reread it first xD)
Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao (Again, Iron Widow is bloody brilliant, whole-ass book I had to pause to flail excitedly throughout, and my brother got me a giftcard so THIS) (btw if you haven't gone and listened to the songs by Bookish Songs Collective for this release you're missing out xD "I Am Vengeance" is chilling and exhilarating I LOVE it)
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (birthday present I haven't gotten around to but sounds cool)
Sailing by Orion's Star by Katie Crabb (her writing is phenomenal and I am not immune to pirates or historical fic by any means)(I'm going to have to hassle my library they have a sample (and I have no self-control) (so now I'm invested alreadyyyyyy))
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (just seems up my alley tbh, plus recommended several times and not like the James Marsden series was)
Books 3-8 of Yu-Gi-Oh Season Zero (because at some point I do need to give those back to my friend instead of being dragon-mode but it's so unhinged. Cursed neighbourhood. I love that scrungly little haunted guy and his haunter so very much. I'm gonna need my own copies at some point because the expressions are absolutely gold at all times.)
...I've lost track. OH. Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (ayy unhinged kiwi rep) (Gideon and Harrow are delightfully complicated and as far as I can tell, Nona just keeps that ball rolling xD)
Special mention to the Earthsea Quartet, which I literally had in my house for several months but was busy reading all the stuff I was supposed to be gauging for book-talking (and while I'm proud of the whole 60+ books in eight weeks thing, it did do my head in a tad. I could ramble about most of em if they were presented to me still, some with acid. Maggot zombies, honestly). ANYWAY I will get around to that, also. And Discworld. *old-timey linked stack of printer paper accordions out for several metres* Yeah, that's not getting shorter, huh?
Tagging: @phantomhag-666, @cindersly (Cen got you for the wips, so xD), @centeris2, @kdm13 & @the-grey-hunt (we were just talking about this in tfw!) and anyone else who wants to join in ^^
I'm starting on my tbr list for next . . . week, jfc. Last year I enjoyed a lot of Black male authors: Percival Everett, S.A. Cosby, even Victor LaValle who I have a love-hate relationship with his prose because it can get a little weird.
So, I think this year I want to look into adding some salacious biographies/autobiographies/memoirs. Definitely a lot more comics and graphic novels, but I'm not sure what flavor of fiction I want. I'm a mood reader so I couldn't nail that down--If I did, I wouldn't stick to it.
I also have some dnfs that I want to return to because I might have just not been in the mood for them.
I'm currently in the middle of Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff and this fucker is estimated to be 27hrs as an audiobook. I'll probably finish it in 18hrs . . . maybe. But I like the writing. The other books are also gargantuan. Pray for me.
What's on your list, if you have one?
The Reformatory - Tananarive Due
Ring Shout - P. Djèlí Clark
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones
The Man in my Basement - Walter Mosley
Blood Slaves - Markus Redmond
The Last House on Needless Street - Catriona Ward
A Blade So Black - L. L. McKinney
Rootwork - Tracy A. Cross
Cinderella is Dead - Kalynn Bayron
This is my attempted focus list. Much like this year, I will end up reading some of these and a lot of everything but.
everyone reblogging my post, thank you for the recs!!! i’m reblogging some masterlists/fics I wanna get to asap so pls keep them coming!! i’m loving everyone boosting their fav writers and works 🥰
I tried it once so I can be organized and shit but I can’t follow through. I even tried the one where I will draw little paper stars in a jar to see which book to read. I still have it... in my top drawer collecting webs and dust.
Nothing really works.
I do have an enormous TBR Pile. At present, I have 301 books left unread and by tomorrow I'm sure it would grow again. Some of these books I've started but I can't find the mojo to finish it. Either I find it boring or I’m not in the mood. But most of them, I haven’t even opened yet.
Another thing is that, there was a time that I was big on series. I still read series but I’ve read lots of standalones now. The problem with series is that it doesn’t only take a year for the next book to come, but sometimes it takes YEARS. There were times that I had a hard time recalling what happened to the previous books, so I have to reread again. It was fun rereading but its time consuming… I do have a life outside my books.
Why so many you ask?
I’ll give you three reasons.
If I loved a book, I try to get the rest of the books by that author. Even if that book is the first book I’ve read of that author. No matter what genre. It’s a habit I want to break because I don’t think I’m never gonna finish my TBR Pile.
Also, my group of friends consists of seven-and-a-half book worms (including me). We really are eight in the group, but one rarely reads so she’s the half. Anyway, so yeah, in that big of a group we can’t help but push encourage one another to read this book and that. It’s convenient when you need someone to fangirl with though.
Lastly, I just love books.
I don’t really know how to balance studying and reading. Just like during the 1st semester of S.Y. 2015-2016, I made a promise that I would only read books when they’re released. I could add books on my TBR Pile but I would read them during vacation. I lasted three months. Then I go back to reading anything and everything if I have a free time or in the public transportation or eating. Really, I’m that desperate to read. All this resulted to mediocre grades. *sigh*
Oh well. I just have to get it out. Too many thoughts, and trying to sleep…
Disillusion: Reading a Book You Don’t Like After Reading a Book You Adored
Have you ever read a book that was like “OMG THIS IS EVERYTHING I WANTED RIGHT NOW AND DIDN’T REALIZE IT” and then you are on such a reading high that you cheerfully pick up the next book on you TBR list and you’re like “Oh. Wow. Someone...someone published this. Okay”?
Because I was so disappointed in the next book I read that I ranted to my empty apartment for a good twenty minutes, and I wonder if it is because of the amazing experience I had with other book. I mean, I have issues with this author and the way she has handled her characters. I knew that going in I would probably roll my eyes a time or two (or eight), but still plow through it because I needed to know what happened.
So I guess I had it coming for reading this book at all, even if I just needed to read it to ease my mind about what happened to the characters. I think the problems I have with the plot and the people in it are too deep-seated. They were just made glaringly obvious after reading this amazing, adorable, completely real book.
Every time I'm browsing on Tumblr, I swear I add 2-3 books to my tbr list. I browse with my Nook right next to me so I can look up a book and add it to my wish list. Booklr, you're gonna make me broke
