Things have gotten a little bit out of control lately – I have way too much to read and the list is only getting longer. There is no way to get through everything currently “On The Shelf” – I know that – but it isn’t keeping me from buying more books. I use the excuse that they’ll all be there on the day that I retire and have hours of free time every day – to catch up – to get ’round to everything I so desperately want to read – but I know I’m kidding myself. There are just too many good books in this world.
Let me try to make this a bit more concrete. Anyone who’s read my posts over the course of the last two weeks knows I’ve buried myself in Military Science Fiction (MSF) and I’ve been having a ball with it – I read through a grand total of 8 titles in two weeks. To do so, I pushed the pause button on two books that I was about halfway through: “Stiletto” by Daniel O’Malley and “The Shadow Throne” by Django Wexler – both really fun reads – just shoved to the side temporarily to indulge my literary craving of the moment.
To make things worse, I’m not yet done with the MSF reading I want to do. I still have 3 books left in the “Empire Of Bones” series, 4 books in the “Warp Marines” series and 2 books in the “Last Brigade” series. Once I decided to go down this path, I also ordered “Legionnaire” by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole – the first entry in an 8 book series called “Galaxy’s Edge”. In addition, I picked up “Terms Of Enlistment” by Marco Kloos – the first entry in a 6 book series called “Frontlines. Finally, I picked up a book called “Albion Lost” by Richard Fox – the first of 2 volumes in a series called “The Exiled Fleet”. I know this MSF trip will eventually run its course – likely sooner rather than later – and I’ll head back and finish both “Stiletto” and “The Shadow Throne” but that’s not going to solve the problem.
Take for example the fact that May releases just came in – the subject of my last post:
http://booksofbrian.com/on-the-shelf-new-may-arrivals-5-18-2018/
In an ideal world, I’d finish those books by mid-June – when I can expect June releases to arrive – but this is not an ideal world and I’m just not gonna get ’round to everything.
Combine that with the fact that Bookwraith (yes – I partly blame you for this mess) got me interested enough in”Foundryside” by Robert Jackson Bennett (if you haven’t read his “City” novels, I would highly recommend them – awesome reads) and “The Gods Of Blood And Powder” series – “Sins Of Empire” and “Wrath Of Empire” – to order them all. Of course, once I ordered both of “The Gods Of Blood And Powder” books, it occurred to me – I’ve never gotten around to reading “The Powder Mage” trilogy so why don’t I just pick them up as well – I’ll get round to ’em eventually. There – you see my problem?
Still, as problems go…this is probably one I can live with.
Live Long And Enjoy Your Books!
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I think that’s one of the worst realisations a reader can have: knowing that there are a tremendous amount of amazing books out there and we’ll only get to read a fraction of them.
At the same time, it sort of takes the pressure off reading if you get what I mean.
I do and thank you. It’s funny but I’ve spent too many years not getting to read as much as I wanted to. I’ve recently found that the biggest obstacle is usually me. In the last few months, I’ve been more conscious of the way I’ve used my time – cutting out some of those daily distractions and purposefully putting the time into both my reading and my writing. I’ve been amazed at just how much that helps. It leaves me hopeful. 😀😀
As an fyi for shouting out to other bloggers, if you put a link in their name to either the specific post you are referring to, or to their “About” page, they usually get a notification of it. Otherwise, they’ll never know you mentioned them.
Doing that would also be a good test to see if your blog plays nicely with wordpress.com hosted blogs and the whole notification thingy.
Best of luck figuring out what is going to work best for you in getting your tbr under control 😀
Thanks for both the tip and the best wishes – I’ll see what I can do to get the link set up for BW. Hope you had a good weekend. Cheers