Two books I didn’t finish until earlier this month, The Glass Hotel by Emily St. Is there a book that could still shock you and become your favorite of the year? I assembled this set of potentials: four books that I own and am eager to read on the left, and four books from libraries on the right. The Nezhukumatathil would also count towards the #DiverseDecember challenge Naomi F. *These were on my Most Anticipated list for the second half of 2020. World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil*.Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19, edited by Jennifer Haupt.I don’t read so much on my e-readers anymore, but I’ll see if I can squeeze in one or two of these:
My Kindle is littered with 2020 releases I purchased or downloaded from NetGalley and intended to get to this year, including buzzy books like My Dark Vanessa. Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man’s Quest to Rewild Britain’s Waterways by Derek Gow.The 2020 releases I’d placed holds on are still arriving to the library for me. I will also be reading an e-copy of Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce for a BookBrowse review. The Shields, a reissue, is for a December blog tour I might save the snowy one for later in the winter. I still have these four print books to review on the blog. Name some books you want to read by the end of the year. If nothing else, I have to finish the two review books (Gange and Heyman, on the top of the right-hand stack). So many! I hope to finish most, if not all, of the books I’m currently reading, plus I’d like to clear these set aside stacks as much as possible. Is there a book that you started that you still need to finish by the end of the year? Looking at the five weeks left in the year and adapting the End of the Year Book Tag Laura did recently, I’ve been thinking about what I can realistically read in 2020. devotional works on lockdown Sundays), but I don’t perceive this one to be a problem no matter if what’s on it carries over into 2021. In fact, I made another cheaty shelf, “Occasional Reading,” for bedside books and volumes I read a few pages in once a week or so (e.g. I swore I’d do away with the Set Aside shelf in 2020, but it hasn’t happened. For the most part, this works for me, but it does mean that less compelling books or ones that don’t have a review deadline attached tend to get ignored. I know I’m unusual for taking multi-reading to an extreme with 20‒30 books on the go at a time.
This enabled me to continue in my bad habit of leaving part-read books lying around. The other year I did something dangerous: I started an exclusive Goodreads shelf (i.e., an option besides the standard “Read,” “Currently Reading” and “Want to Read”) called “Set Aside Temporarily,” where I stick a book I have to put on hiatus for whatever reason, whether I’d read 20 pages or 200+.
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