Readathon cancellation

This is only going to be a brief post as I’m just on my way out (an evening at the theatre – lucky me!).

Unfortunately, plans have changed and I’m no longer going to be around for most of the readathon, which starts tomorrow.

I will be doing my best in the limited time I’ll have to support those participating in the challenge, but regrettably my commitment will be minimal.

Best of luck to everyone who is going for it!

A New Genre and Library Reservations

I realised today that I haven’t got any reservations at the library(!), so I’ve placed three:

• Hooking Up by Tom Wolfe
• Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton
• Criminal Records by Andrew Holmes

I’ve also just finished re-reading Hex by Rhiannon Lassiter. I’m a massive fan of the Hex series and I’ve read them all more times than I could count (plus almost all of Rhiannon Lassiter’s other books), but I’ve never really given much thought to trying other sci-fi, so I’ve decided to give that a go. I have read The Technicolor Time Machine by Harry Harrison and Waiting for the Galactic Bus by Parke Godwin, and I enjoyed both of them immensely, so maybe there’s something in the genre for me?

My plan of attack was to post a thread on LT asking for recommendations and also look at the books recommended for readers of Hex. I’ve had a lot of people respond with some ideas, so I’m now going to look all those books up on bookmooch and see what I can get. Any suggestions, anyone?

Dewey’s Readathon October 2009

The next Readathon is on October 24, starting at 1pm GMT.

I’m a little bit daunted by the whole idea, so I’m not going to go in as a reader, but I’ve signed myself up as a cheerleader so hopefully I can still have my share of the fun!

You can visit the Readathon website and sign up yourself here.

TSS: Blog reading

It’s Sunday once again. This week has been crazy for me. I’ve attended several college open evenings and I’ve also been doing work experience at one of my local libraries (I still have another week to go). It’s been an eye-opening experience that’s probably deserving of a longer post someday when I get round to it.

To be honest, there’s rather a lot of things that are deserving of posts that I just haven’t written about…I think a concentrated effort to my act together is in order?

In fact, I’ve already started on that by rearranging my book blog subscriptions. I subscribe to more book blogs than all other blogs combined (and that’s quite a few!) so keeping on top of them is a nightmare. I know I’m guilty of feeling that I’ll never be able to read every entry and therefore not bothering, but I also know that I need to read book blogs because otherwise, I’d never have anything to read!

The solution I’m trying out is to have one folder for my favourite book blogs, which I plan to read every day. All the others have been divided into folders for each day of the week. There’s currently a large backlog, but hopefully, I should be able to work through it and also keep on top of new posts.

What about you? Do you have a strategy for dealing with book blog buildup?

Borders visit

I passed a while this afternoon in Borders. There isn’t a Borders round here (the one we went to was about 40mins drive away), but I wish there was because they always have a good selection. My favourite thing about them is that they stock reprints of old books instead of only new releases, which means there’s a lot more variety.

I didn’t buy anything (I hardly ever buy books new) but I did write down a good selection:

Have you read any of these? What did you think of them? Let me know!

Looking at this lot and dealing with the task of looking them all up on bookmooch and then realising that my printed wishlist for taking to libraries really ought to be updated (I last went through in June), I’m beginning to think I need a better way to organise my wishlist. Librarything, perhaps?

In other news, I’ve completed my first book for the Clear Off Your Shelves Challenge and will shortly be writing a post about how I’m tackling the challenge.