Everyone joins the odd readathon the day they start, right? Denise has created an amazing readathon and I wanted in! You can hear all about it here but in short, there are three levels: Easy, where you use the titles and authors names to get all the letters A-to-Z. Medium, where you use the titles. And Hard, where you just use the first letter of the title. I so want to try that hard version but I have deadlines galore in May and I occasionally have to chose to be responsible. So- medium! I had a blast picking out my books and using a little excel spreadsheet to make sure I hit all the letters. Here’s my TBR…
The Light Fantastic and Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
I haven’t had the best time with Terry Pratchett in the past, but I’ve read enough on the internet to be reassured that his work gets better. And books with Q in the title are super hard to find. So, I’m going to give books two and three again. Especially since book three; Equal Rites is the first of the Witches books. They’re what I’m super interested in getting to.
The Devil You Know by Mike Carey
I’m really excited to get to this book! I bought it years ago and it’s about a gritty London paranormal detective. I completely forgot about it until I searched for books with a V in. I’ve seen a lot of comparisons to the Harry Dresden series by Jim Butcher, which I wanted to read a while ago and have since discovered it’s pretty misoginistic, so I’m hoping this will fill the gap!
The Bronze Key by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare
Despite loving the first book and the second book in this series, and being really excited for the third book to come out– I completely forgot about The Bronze Key. I ended up buying it months after it was released and still haven’t read it. I’m not good with current series apparently. It’s time I finally read it.
Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
There were a couple of different books I could’ve picked to get the letter X but I’ve never read a book with an intersex character before. I think it’s about time I did. Plus, I’ve been listening to a couple of modern classics on audiobook lately so I kind of want to see what happens when I try to read-read one.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
This was actually the last book I added because J was the hardest letter to find and I still needed P. So why not read my first Jane Austen? This has been mentioned over and over on my blog so I’m glad to get that final push to start it! Plus, maybe after reading this I’ll stop trying to spell Prejudice like ‘Predjudice’.
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| Sneaky view of my spreadsheet for the curious! |
So that’s my TBR! I think I have a pretty neat little selection too, and a couple of books to read that I hadn’t thought about in a while. I love that about readathons with interesting challenges.
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