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Tildes' Book Backlog Burner Event: Week 2 Update Thread

Posted by kfwyre
Tags: event, backlog burner.2020

What is this?

See here for full details on the event.

Post Your Update

  • How did your week go?
  • What books did you get through?
  • How did you feel about them?
  • What's up next for you?

(Optional!) Focuses for Week 3

  • Books with an aggregate review score of less than 4.0/80% on Goodreads, LibraryThing, or any other review aggregator
  • Books that someone else recommended to you
  • Non-fiction books

Let's burn through these backlogs!

2 comments

  1. kfwyre
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    Previous update here, in case anyone's curious. I finished with Alex Robinson's BOP!: More Box Office Poison, which seems to be a collection of assorted stories that got left on the cutting room...

    Previous update here, in case anyone's curious.

    I finished with Alex Robinson's BOP!: More Box Office Poison, which seems to be a collection of assorted stories that got left on the cutting room floor and didn't get aggregated into his main release of Box Office Poison. It was nice, nothing great, and probably done as a bit of afterthought to cash in on Box Office Poison's unexpected success. Still, it gave some more insight and texture into the characters, which I can appreciate.

    I'm almost done with Isaac Asimov's Foundation. I'm liking it enough that I'm going to continue the series with the second one, but not until after I read two more graphic novels in between, as I'm trying to do two graphic novels for every print novel that I read. I've decided that one of the graphic novels will be Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?, and the other has yet to be selected (probably something lighter, as I expect Bechdel's book to be on the heavy side).

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  2. krg
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    Successes: I should be ~450 pages into The Sot-Weed Factor by the end of the day. It's amusing and impressively woven. FAILURES: I missed out on two days of reading because I was elsewhere,...

    Successes:

    • I should be ~450 pages into The Sot-Weed Factor by the end of the day. It's amusing and impressively woven.

    FAILURES:

    • I missed out on two days of reading because I was elsewhere, otherwise I imagine I'd be ~650 pages into the book by now and finished by Friday. No matter, not a huge setback.
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