I was tagged to do the TBR tag by Jess. Created by Dana, the TBR tag is a fun way of embarrassing yourself when it comes to tackling the never-ending TBR. Lucky for us book lovers, nothing embarrasses us for long.
How do you keep track of your TBR?
I use a range of stuff that starts with my bookshelf, continues on with my Goodreads to-read and to-read-so-bad-it-hurts shelves and ends with my Kindle and Kobo libraries. It’s a pretty complicated process where there are instances like uh-I-didn’t-know-I-owned-this-book and oh-I-own-THIS-book.
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| Some of my print TBR. Emphasis on some. |
Is your TBR mostly print or eBooks?
Most of them are eBooks as I’ve been reading books in their electronic formats more and more. I buy print editions for books I know I will love but sometimes I just can’t wait and buy them as eBooks (see: Vicious by V. E. Schwab). I mostly just buy eBooks because it’s easier for me to maintain my library that way and the one shelf I have in my room is mostly full despite being so big.
How do you determine which book from your TBR to read next?
Whatever suits my mood. I try to stay on top of latest releases but as a mood reader, it’s pretty much out of the question. I’ve tried (and failed).
A book that has been on your TBR the longest?
Goodreads tells me that it’s Uglies by Scott Westerfeld and my brain tells me a list of books that starts with Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi and then just goes on and on and on.
A book you recently added to your TBR?
Vicarious by Paula Stokes. I’m always up for YA sci-fi and this one has a Korean stunt girl as the main character who’s searching the real and the virtual world for her sister. The only sad part is that it comes out in March of 2016. Uh…
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| A part of my Goodreads to-read shelf. |
A book in your TBR because of its beautiful cover?
Volume 1 of The Fade Out by Ed Brubaker which I’m so stoked for because I recently rediscovered comics and I’m never going back. Also, artsy vintage covers are the best. Can I has it now instead of January 27th, 2015?
A book in your TBR that you never plan on reading?
I wish I could’ve said Twilight by Stephanie Meyer but that’s not happening ha. I’m least interested in reading Insurgent by Veronica Roth. I loved Divergent but all the meh reviews of Insurgent and then the fact that I got spoiled for Allegiant… Let’s just say that I don’t want touch the series at all right now. I just might in the future. Maybe.
An unpublished book in your TBR that you’re excited for?
I’ve tons of unpublished books in my TBR going as far as 2017. Yes, I’m serious about my reading life. Apart from the obvious book four, five and six from Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maass and the finale of The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater, I can’t wait to read The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh.
A book in your TBR that everyone recommends to you?
Graceling by Kristin Cashore which I planned on reading this year but haven’t gotten around to it. However, I plan to binge-read the trilogy next year.
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| Hell yeah. // No… // YASSS. // Of course, yes. |
Number of books in my TBR?
No idea, really. I guess the number is more than six hundred? It keeps changing because I mainly keep track of it on my Goodreads and I tend to cull every few months. I hardly ever keep track of my print TBR except when I’m buying books he he.
THE PHOTOGRAPHS. THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL. I CAN'T STOP STARING. MY EYES ARE GLUED TO THE SCREEN.
Just so you know, I totally added Vicarious because of you. That synopsis. BUT 2016??!!!!?
YOU HAVE A 2017?? You beat me. I thought I was being a little excited with my 2016 shelf LOL AND WRATH AND DAWN YES. I WANT THAT BOOK SO BADLY.
This is fun, and the questions are actually really good. It's a pain to choose the next book you want to read, but most of the time I pick one based on the mood I'm in (just like you).
Haha, and I love that one of the unpublished books on your list is set to be published in 2017 (true booknerd there!)
Booh, your pictures are always so pretty. Haha, it sounds like you sometimes have a surprise when you look at your shelves, with your 'I-don't-know-I-owned-this-one' I'm also a mood-reader and forcing yourself to read books definitely doesn't work. I now that feeling about Insurgent/Allegiant. I was spoiled as well and it took me SO long before I could finally pick up Allegiant. I have so many unpublished books on my wish list. I just pile them in my 'not published yet' GR shelf.
Your photos are gorgeous, Sana! The uh-I-didn't-know-I-owned-this-book and oh-I-own-THIS-book made me laugh – I can, unfortunately(?) relate. I was cleaning out my bookshelf the other day and I realized that I already owned Love Letters to the Dead (which I'd actually purchased ANOTHER copy of that morning. *sobs*). Shatter Me and Uglies has been on my wishlists for the longest times, too, and I just added Vicarious. *staggers under the weight of my TBR* I've got plenty of books but too little time, and too little money D:
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