November Group Read - Books You Own But Have Never Read

[glinda]

So November is upon us and with it Nanowrimo, which I never do and always think, I should make my own challenge for November so I feel less useless when everyone else is posting word counts. I've been reading quite a lot this year but haven't really made a dent in the number of books I own but haven't read. So I thought I set myself the challenge to reading two books that have been lurking on my bookshelves for ages, during the month of November. I suggested the idea to my dwircle and various people thought it would be fun and some of those people happened to also be part of readingtogether and well, it seemed a fun project for the comm.

Basically this can be as big or as little of a commitment as you feel up to. Dependant on your reading speed/available time you can sign up to read one book or ten books. Doesn't matter how big or small the book, only that its something that has been taking up space on your book shelf (or case/box/tottering pile beside your bed) for some time and you've never quite got round to it.

All you need to do is comment below with the book(s) you want to read this month.

Then each Thursday I post a check-in post, and you comment with your progress so far. Celebrating little achievements as well as big ones is heartily encouraged.

Come play?

Comments

[glinda]

I'm going with paperbacks because they're easy to carry around with me, making them more likely to get read.

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (Lurking on my shelf since my failed attempt to read it for my first year English class at uni some ten years ago)
The Crow Road - Iain Banks (Bought around the same time, because I'd loved The Wasp Factory if I crack the spine on this it will be an achievement)

[glinda]

Urgh, so the minute I signed up with those books my brain went...oooh but I want to read that instead. So I've decided to just write a list of the unread books on my shelf and say I'll read any two of them *sigh*

Iain Banks - The Crow Road
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Peter Biskind - Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
Henri Charrière - Papillion
Eoin Coifer - And Another Thing
Ernest Hemingway - For Whom The Bell Tolls
Homer - The Odessey
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
Robin McKinley - Dragonhaven
John Milton - Paradise Lost
Alice Walker - The Colour Purple
H.G. Wells - The First Men in the Moon
PG Wodehouse - Blandings Castle

Hopefully now that I've done this I'll be able to go back to my original books but who knows...

[shanaqui]

Ooh, I have Dragonhaven and The Colour Purple to read too...

[shanaqui]

If I sign up to read ten books, can I add another ten if I get those read? *grin*

Karen Miller, The Innocent Mage.
Karen Miller, The Awakened Mage. (They've been on my shelves since before I came to university...)
Juliet Marillier, Wolfskin.
Juliet Marillier, Foxmask. (Some of the books hanging over me unread from 2011 that I want to clear.)
Hella S. Haasse, In A Dark Wood Wandering. (This one sits right in the middle of a bunch of struck-out books on my acquired list. Therefore I want to strike it out too. It makes sense to me, okay.)
N.K. Jemisin, The Killing Moon.
N.K. Jemisin, The Shadowed Sun. (Jemisiiiin.)
Diane Duane, The Door Into Fire.
Diane Duane, The Door Into Shadow.
Diane Duane, The Door Into Sunset. (The three oldest books apart from Foxmask on my acquired-2011-unread list.)

[glinda]

If you manage to get through all those, you are absolutely welcome to add another ten. Also I'll be a) very impressed and b) kinda jealous of your reading speed! :)

[shanaqui]

If I wasn't struggling with brain-weasels, I'd be pretty positive of finishing these ten, but the brain-weasels don't like me to finish anything. Grargh.

[krait]

I think I'll join!

As I'm currently halfway through my Amazing Plan of "reread the entire Foreigner series", I'll give the remaining ones first spot on the list:

0. C.J. Cherryh, Destroyer. (#0 because I only have about 50 pages left.)
1. C.J. Cherryh, Pretender.
2. C.J. Cherryh, Deliverer.
3. C.J. Cherryh, Conspirator.

Then it's on down the row of "things I've been meaning to read":
4. Amy Thompson, The Color of Distance.
5. Douglas Hulick, Among Thieves.
6. Alana Morland, Shackle and Sword.

I think that's all I'd better sign up for, but it's a good portion of the To-Be-Read shelf!

[glinda]

Sounds a good plan!

[pebblerocker]

Ooh, I've been derailed from Foreigner onto another long series, but I keep meaning to get back to it! Conspirator is sitting on the shelf unopened, but I can't jump straight to that one because I need to start further back and re-read so I get a handle on the political situation and know what's going on. Possibly I need to start right at the beginning, given the complexity...

[pebblerocker]

I'm in! I'll start with books I planned on reading anyway, because if I don't read them first they'll be due back at the library before I get to them, and then move on to ones I meant to get to but haven't.

Seeds of Earth - Michael Cobley (most of the way through this one already)
The Orphaned Worlds - Michael Cobley
The Patience Stone - Atiq Rahimi
Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett
And at least one book from my file of book recommendations, depending on library availability!