tardis reads in 2025
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1tardis
Happy New Year! I look forward to lots of great reading, and wish the same for everyone here in the Green Dragon and across LibraryThing. I hope to receive many book bullets from you all and also to deliver a few :)
Mount TBR currently stands at 89, not counting whatever's on the e-reader and my library hold list. This is up only one (!) from where it sat at the beginning of 2024. I really expected that it would be more. I must have read more of the pile than I thought! Some of them have been on there for such a long time, though. I resolve to read some of the older ones this year. Maybe. Who knows what shiny new book will distract me from my good intentions?
Mount TBR currently stands at 89, not counting whatever's on the e-reader and my library hold list. This is up only one (!) from where it sat at the beginning of 2024. I really expected that it would be more. I must have read more of the pile than I thought! Some of them have been on there for such a long time, though. I resolve to read some of the older ones this year. Maybe. Who knows what shiny new book will distract me from my good intentions?
2MrsLee
>2 MrsLee: May each shiny new book be worth the distraction, and may you be amazed by some of those you do get to in the TBR pile. Happy reading year!
3pgmcc
>1 tardis:
Happy New Thread and wishing you a wonderful 2025. I am sure you will continue to amaze me with the number of books you manage to read and record here.
Happy New Thread and wishing you a wonderful 2025. I am sure you will continue to amaze me with the number of books you manage to read and record here.
4clamairy
>1 tardis: Happy New Year and New Thread! I will diligently tag along since I've found some amazing books in your various threads over the years.
6libraryperilous
>1 tardis: Congrats on the TBR management! That is a rarity in this pub. I hope you have a happy 2025 filled with good reads from the library and your own shelves. :)
7jillmwo
>1 tardis: Happy new thread and Happy New Year! There's nothing wrong with being distracted by new books but reading some of those longer-held-titles can be quite enjoyable!
8Alexandra_book_life
Happy New Thread! Wishing you a wonderful 2025, full of great books.
9Marissa_Doyle
Happy New Reading Year! Looking forward to your book bullets. :)
10haydninvienna
Happy new year, and happy new thread!
12tardis
Thank you all :)
1. Ghost of the White Nights by L. E. Modesitt. Alt-history. Semi-retired spy Johan Eschbach and his wife, diva Llysette du Boise, go to Russia so she can perform for the tsar and he can promote an agreement between Columbia and Russia on oil extraction concessions in Russian-owned Alaska. Politics, murder, music. Pretty good but I won't be keeping it. Also, it's third in a series and doesn't stand alone.
-1 off the TBR pile. According to the receipt I found inside the book, this has been on Mt. TBR since 2009. I didn't realize when I bought it that there were two books ahead of it. The library acquired the first two in e-book form in October 2024 so I was able to read them and then finally this one.
1. Ghost of the White Nights by L. E. Modesitt. Alt-history. Semi-retired spy Johan Eschbach and his wife, diva Llysette du Boise, go to Russia so she can perform for the tsar and he can promote an agreement between Columbia and Russia on oil extraction concessions in Russian-owned Alaska. Politics, murder, music. Pretty good but I won't be keeping it. Also, it's third in a series and doesn't stand alone.
-1 off the TBR pile. According to the receipt I found inside the book, this has been on Mt. TBR since 2009. I didn't realize when I bought it that there were two books ahead of it. The library acquired the first two in e-book form in October 2024 so I was able to read them and then finally this one.
13tardis
The library has started to deliver holds again!
2. Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop by Emmeline Duncan. A pretty good cozy mystery. Bailey has taken over her grandfather's bookshop in an Oregon town with a Halloween obsession. She's putting on a literary festival, there's a ghost-hunting tv series filming in the town, and, of course, there's murder. Good characters. Could have used a more thorough edit for spelling.
2. Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop by Emmeline Duncan. A pretty good cozy mystery. Bailey has taken over her grandfather's bookshop in an Oregon town with a Halloween obsession. She's putting on a literary festival, there's a ghost-hunting tv series filming in the town, and, of course, there's murder. Good characters. Could have used a more thorough edit for spelling.
14tardis
3. Derring-do for Beginners by Victoria Goddard. The meeting of the first three members of the Red Company. Even folk heroes have to start somewhere. Damian is teaching Julianar his language and swordplay and about the area where they live. She's not from around there. When Fitzroy falls out of the sky into their boat, they decide to have adventures. Or something. A slight book with minimal conflict or plot, but good characters.
4. Miss Amelia's List by Mercedes Lackey. Amelia and her cousin, Serena, travel from the US to England to help Amelia's brother, James, set up a new business and also to find husbands. Being in Trade and (shudder) Americans, they're not moving in the Ton, but but they are Elemental magicians, so they have some entree to society. Set during the Regency, mostly just before Waterloo. I always like this series.
4. Miss Amelia's List by Mercedes Lackey. Amelia and her cousin, Serena, travel from the US to England to help Amelia's brother, James, set up a new business and also to find husbands. Being in Trade and (shudder) Americans, they're not moving in the Ton, but but they are Elemental magicians, so they have some entree to society. Set during the Regency, mostly just before Waterloo. I always like this series.
15terriks
>1 tardis: Happy New Year to you, too! Happy new thread!
Your TBR mount is so much more impressive than mine - I tend to stop buying when I come home with 3 to 5 new books and force myself to catch up. Which I am beginning to see makes me an outlier around here! :)
Your TBR mount is so much more impressive than mine - I tend to stop buying when I come home with 3 to 5 new books and force myself to catch up. Which I am beginning to see makes me an outlier around here! :)
16jillmwo
>13 tardis: and >14 tardis:. Now, now, hitting me with two BBs out of the three titles mentioned there does seem a bit excessive. I am seriously tempted by the Mercedes Lackey one (because i'm familiar with her stuff) but a nice cozy mystery is something I like to hoard for reading during stressful periods of life.
17terriks
>16 jillmwo: I feel ignorant. What are BBs?
18jillmwo
>17 terriks: BBs are shorthand for book bullets. Sensitivity (quite real) to various events over the years means that sometimes one uses abbreviations. I think Marissa_Doyle suggested arrows as an alternative for when one gets hit by a book recommendation. The things go zinging all over the place.
19terriks
>18 jillmwo: Oh, thank you for this explanation. I've never heard of book bullets, per se, but appreciate the concept of being particularly "struck" by a good book recommendation.
I'll file this away- thanks again.
I'll file this away- thanks again.
20Sakerfalcon
Happy New Thread and Happy New Year! I hope it is a good one for you in books and in life. I expect to be hit by many more BBs from you this year!
