December Talk Meme: Mt TBR
Dec. 10th, 2014 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calissaIt's probably high time I started on my December Talk meme posts, since the month is closing in on half gone already. umadoshi asked: How do you feel about your TBR list? Is it intimidating, or is it good to know there are so many books out there that you know you want to read, or...anything else?
As I begin to draft this post, Mt TBR stands at 216 books. So far this year I've read 54 books, some of which were rereads. If I continue reading at this rate and stop acquiring more books (ha!), it should take me around four years to read everything on Mt TBR. Surprisingly, I'm not all that intimidated by this.
What bothers me more is the notion of keeping up. There are so many books I feel I should be reading--not necessarily because they're on Mt TBR (though that is sometimes the case) but to keep in touch with what's going on. Logically I know it's impossible to keep up with everything that's going on in the spec-fic publishing industry, with the various book-blogging communities, with fandom. I struggle to even stay up-to-date with my reading here at DW and constantly feel the need to apologise for being behind. Nevertheless, this idea that I must somehow keep up is a hard one to shake and possibly tied in with a case of Imposter Syndrome.
Mostly, I see Mt TBR as simply a sign of my great love of reading. And if you think my Mt TBR is tall, you should see the size of my wish list!
umadoshi asked: How do you feel about your TBR list? Is it intimidating, or is it good to know there are so many books out there that you know you want to read, or...anything else?As I begin to draft this post, Mt TBR stands at 216 books. So far this year I've read 54 books, some of which were rereads. If I continue reading at this rate and stop acquiring more books (ha!), it should take me around four years to read everything on Mt TBR. Surprisingly, I'm not all that intimidated by this.
What bothers me more is the notion of keeping up. There are so many books I feel I should be reading--not necessarily because they're on Mt TBR (though that is sometimes the case) but to keep in touch with what's going on. Logically I know it's impossible to keep up with everything that's going on in the spec-fic publishing industry, with the various book-blogging communities, with fandom. I struggle to even stay up-to-date with my reading here at DW and constantly feel the need to apologise for being behind. Nevertheless, this idea that I must somehow keep up is a hard one to shake and possibly tied in with a case of Imposter Syndrome.
Mostly, I see Mt TBR as simply a sign of my great love of reading. And if you think my Mt TBR is tall, you should see the size of my wish list!
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Date: 2014-12-10 08:35 pm (UTC)You make an excellent point about remembering your brain is your friend. I think I need to work on keeping that in mind. And I am aware enough of my limitations that I haven't signed up to be an Aurealis Award judge, though I dearly want to. I know that I'd never be able to keep up with the volume of reading they have to tackle.
At some point, if you're willing, I'd be interested to hear about if/how you prioritise your reading.
400 books is a lot! I take a slightly different approach to interesting library books. Books I'm interested in reading go on my wish list and get highlighted if they are available at the library. That way if I get the opportunity to buy or be gifted something from my wish list, I can ask for a book that isn't as easily available.
Yes! It is exciting to have such a wonderful list of potential reading.
Thanks for stopping by.
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Date: 2014-12-11 09:17 pm (UTC)My spreadsheet will become a little useless for books marked at my library, because I'll have a new library when I move... Although I hope it will still have most of the things, and maybe more, since it'll be a bigger city. Right now my rural library is great but still limited, and I lost access to the academic library when I graduated, unless I wanted to go in and sit there for hours like a creep. >.>
I'll have to think about how I prioritize my reading! That's an interesting question...
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Date: 2014-12-14 09:20 pm (UTC)