Challenge: Climbing Mount Tsundoku

[fred_mouse]

Title stolen from a James Davis Nicoll article over at ReacTor from Some Years Ago. Tsundoku is, roughly speaking, acquiring books and then not reading them. As I have just borrowed more than ten books from the library, and ordered more than ten from an online bookseller, I'm about to be awash in books that need reading.

So! the challenge, if you are interested in partaking, is to look at the mountain of books you have acquired with good intentions, and over the course of the next 1-3 weeks (depending on how many check-ins happen, and how much oomph I have), see if you can make a start on reading something.

Comments

[fred_mouse]

To start, I want to finish the two library books I've already started - a kids one that doesn't look like it is going to fit within the scope of my project, and a old murder mystery that I'm reading for fun.

[fred_mouse]

finished the kids book; have picked a different one I'm partway through to finish as the complement to the adult murder mystery.

[phantomtomato]

A good challenge, thank you for hosting! I’m setting myself the goal of 1.5 books (finish one and start another)—I just began Nocturnes for the King of Naples last night, which I’ve owned for a few years, and I must pick something else off of my physical bookshelf when I finish that.

[fred_mouse]

Good plan!

[zdenka]

Oh, that's a great idea!

I want to start by finishing Tools for Food: The stories behind objects that influence how and what we eat, which I got about 2/3 of the way through before I got distracted. (One reason my to-be-read pile doesn't go down is because I'll start reading a book, then get distracted and start reading a different book, and possibly not finish that one either.) And then I'll pick something else from the pile.

[fred_mouse]

I resemble that description! I am forever fighting my 'currently reading' list as I get distracted. Good luck with getting through your choices!

[zdenka]

*g* Thanks!

[axolotls]

I have so many Star Trek books and comics to read, but I still feel like I need to set up my site for liveblogging them before I begin... Although I suppose I might not do that with the comics, so maybe I should just go ahead and read them? Hmmmm.

[fred_mouse]

Good luck with both projects.

I know you didn't ask for advice, but I'm being nosy: could you write the live blogging notes as you read and put them up on the site later? Or does that defeat the purpose?

[mekare]

I‘m joining this one belatedly! Thanks for the article link, that one was very relatable.