Calissa

It'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!

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A few weeks ago, alee_grrl posted a "Some things about me" meme. Since I have a few new friends around here, I thought I'd do the same.

1. I was a professional actor in Italy for 2 weeks.
2. When I was a young, I wanted to be an Olympian in equestrian. I won ribbons in dressage, but my parents refused to buy me a horse.
3. I don't like declaring favourites, particularly in relation to books, movies and tea.
4. I shriek in the presence of wild mice and rats. To my great annoyance, this is involuntary.
5. I would rather have a Kindle than a diamond ring.
6. I have been vegetarian for around 12 years. I have never learned how to prepare or cook meat.
7. With very few exceptions, I find book launches pretentious. I suspect I'm in the wrong line of work.
8. I find it difficult to disguise when I am bored. This is probably unfortunate in combination with #7.
9. I have a mild allergy to fresh pineapple.
10. I have a very good musical ear. This is probably why I've lost what little skill I had in reading music.

I dredged this out of darakat's archives.

Your Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Score
Category	Your Score	Average
Hacklust	66.98% Enjoys the occasional head-lopping	53.7%
Sensitive Roleplaying	63.29% Will talk after everyone important's been killed	54.8%
GM Experience	86.23% "Um... You guys are in a 10'x10' room..."	69.3%
Systems Knowledge	96.47% Played in a couple of campaigns	90.4%
Livin' La Vida Dorka	71.26% Goes nuts on the weekends	63.4%
You are 79.38% pure Average Score: 68.9%
Take The Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Test and see how you match up! (By The Ferrett)

A higher score than I was expecting, particularly on Hacklust, GM experience and System Knowledge.