Monthly Archives: July 2013

TBR Pile – Rewired

Of course, I have to use technical terms when describing my reading habits. This time it’s comparing circuit types.
In the not so distant past, I read in series. Not as in The Sorcerer’s Stone,  Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, well sort of, I do tend to read series books together, if they’re all published, but I mean something else. I used to read one book, stay up until all hours and repeat the next day with a new one. Now I read in parallel. I have multiple books in various states of being read.
So for the week of July 29, 2013, here’s what my TBR pile looks like.

I just finished Black Beauty about an hour ago. This link takes you to a free download. I will start on my next 101 chapter books list with Because of Winn-Dixie. It’s short so, I’ll probably have it read in a day or two. All of a Kind Family came in from the library. It’s not on this list but it should be. The book is a re-read from grade school and one of my favorite childhood books. It’s the story of a Jewish family in turn of the 20th century New York City. Think Rebecca Rubin of the American Girl Doll series.

In my pleasure reading pile, I’m halfway through Camy Tang’s Single Sashimi which I actually won in Mary Vee’s blog drawing. Yay! She now has a fan who will likely evolve into a tribal reader. I also got Jody Hedlund’s A Noble Groom from the library, so it’s next on my list. A Noble Groom came from Nancy Kimball’s Fiction Heroes Features. Where I got a tiny spoiler. I found out the heroine’s daughter has a really awesome name!

For my BBC 100 book challenge, The Count of Monte Cristo is on my iPod for listening while doing laundry, dishes, etc. I’m on track 15 of 119, so that one will be with me for a while. Librivox offers free recordings and my link is for a $0.99 version of the book.

What’s on your reading list for the week?

Advertisements

The FAA Requires a Blinking Light on my TBR Pile

What is a TBR pile?

Hands down all of my writing and literary friends, I know you know. It’s a To Be Read pile. Mine is on my Kindle which is a good thing because we’re in the alternate flight path of our local airport.
So how do I decide what to read? My lists come from four places.
1. The BBC Book List Challenge.

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/10203.The_BBC_Book_List_Challenge

2. The 101 Best Chapter Books for Kids

http://www.feelslikehomeblog.com/2013/04/101-chapter-books-to-read-before-you-grow-up/

3. American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) – I’m a member and have gotten to know several of the authors. I am a tribal reader, another vocabulary word I learned when I joined the world of writers. That is someone who is a super-fan of a specific author. You will read anything by them: books, novellas, short stories, blogs, articles, random napkin notes they post on Pinterest. Also, authors often post when a book is free or really inexpensive. I snap up most freebies and a lot of super-markdowns. It’s been a great way for me to sample new authors. Right now I have 52 books marked as TBR (most are ACFW authors) and a total of about 200 on my Kindle.

4. My go-to book review websites:

Lisa Godfrees’ website which reviews mostly but not all YA. http://lisagodfrees.com/ Her tastes are probably the closest to mine of any blog out there. We both love speculative (paranormal, dystopian, fantasy, sci fi).

Nancy Kimball’s Fiction Heroes Features. http://www.fictionherofeatures.com/ I count down until the 1st and 15th of every month to see who her next hero is. We have similar ideas of what makes a hero, so I find great historical and contemporary romances there.

AJ Cattapan’s site which reviews primarily Middle Grade (upper grade school/middle school). http://www.ajcattapan.com/ Her site is great if you’re looking for books for younger kids.

I also listen to various recommendations and have some books I want to read that don’t fall into any of these categories.

So my first few posts are going to be about my progress on these lists. Now it’s your turn.

The Simmering Mind

Stories that Sever the Shadows

| writing & rhythm |

solving world problems, one cup of tea at a time.

Amy Brock McNew ~Author~

Fantastical tales of love & war

Venturing to Other Worlds

The Official Website of Angie Brashear

Lisa Gefrides

REACH Co-op

A Christian Worldview of Fiction

A look at fiction and other bits of culture through the lens of the Bible

Holly Michael's Writing Straight

Connecting and Inspiring Along Life's Crooked Lines by Author Holly Michael

Freedom in Theology

Scribblings on God and the Bible

Sister Chat

Encouragement for you...from Him

God Loves Kids Bible Stories

Bible and missionary stories in family friendly language

Beth Steury, Author

Life Matter Publishing - Because Life Matters

Our Mutual Friends

Liz & Jaz do classics

Bird Face Wendy

Things relevant to reading, writing, publishing or marketing teen fiction.

Karen deBlieck

tracking truth one book at a time

larrywtimm

It's Fiction...for Heaven's Sake.

A.J. Cattapan

Stories with Heart & Hope

Rejoice Evermore

The official website of Will Ramirez

%d bloggers like this:
https://gretchenekengel.com/2013/07/
gretchenekengel.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2019-43
69758
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:2BFQEIBQB2AHUAF5OZDBSY5H5TPXZ4KF
<urn:uuid:30f1ebc1-22e5-4e17-aa62-9eb725b6ace2>
2019-10-19T22:30:48Z
192.0.78.24
text/html
sha1:MN4UI2YVFZ3HL55EERLQGKDEO6ZVDBL2
<urn:uuid:5ce358f5-d01f-47d7-8430-b4521c844671>
https://gretchenekengel.com/2013/07/
response
<urn:uuid:d9377065-30a2-4200-994e-b011d5366e0b>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-43
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for October 2019
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-81.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/