Veronica's Overflowing Bookshelf Challenge

[Veronica]

VERONICA'S OVERFLOWING BOOKSHELF CHALLENGE

My list of owned-but-not-yet-read books: (313 books)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

I've decided to combine the Book Buying challenge and the Book End challenge. I'll need to read six owned books in order to earn one new book purchase credit. Three of those six books will come from those books I've owned the longest (more than a year) and three will come from more recent purchases (less than a year).

Veronica's Mini-Book End Buying Ban Challenge:

Round 1
✔ 1. Sword-Dancer
✔ 2. Broken Souls
✔ 3. Hungry Ghosts
✔ 4. Troubled Waters
✔ 5. Ghost Talkers
✔ 6. The Man With the Golden Torc
Purchased: Valor, Homicide for the Holidays, The Summer Tree, The Darkest Road, The Wandering Fire

Round 2
Old:
✔ 1. As Death Draws Near
✔ 2. Whispers Beyond the Veil
✔ 3. A Most Novel Revenge
New:
✔ 4. An Untimely Frost
✔ 5. The Essence of Malice
✔ 6. Valor
Purchased: Oathbringer

Round 3
Old:
✔ 1. Dead Stop
✔ 2. Nice Dragons Finish Last
✔ 3. Daughter of the Forest
New:
✔ 1. Oathbringer
✔ 2. Ruin
✔ 3. The Summer Tree
Purchased: Wrath, The Curse of Chalion

Round 4:
Old:
✔ 1. God Emperor of Didcot
✔ 2. A Deadly Affection
✔ 3. Kushiel's Scion
New:
✔ 1. The Wandering Fire
✔ 2. Ratcatcher
✔ 3. Speaks the Nightbird
Purchased: The Queen of Bedlam

Round 5:
Old:
✔ 1. An Irish Country Doctor
✔ 2. The Naked Sun
✔ 3. Split Second
New:
✔ 1. What the Dead Leave Behind
✔ 2. The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy
✔ 3. Extinction Horizon
Purchased: Marked, The Blood Gospel

Round 6:
Old:
1.
2.
3.
New:
✔ 1. The Fourth Monkey
✔ 2. Marked
3.
Purchased

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

::stalks Veronica's owned book list::

I see so many good titles on there!! How do you not stare at your collection for like 2 hours every time you need a new book? Lol

Good luck!! :)

[Veronica]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "::stalks Veronica's owned book list::

I see so many good titles on there!! How do you not stare at your collection for like 2 hours every time you need a new book? Lol

Good luck!! :)"

Thanks, Niki. I just wish GR numbered other shelves the way it automatically numbers the "To Read" shelf. I'm always shuffling that one around so that I keep my top 15 (used to be 10) most anticipated books.

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Cool - I didn't even know you could rearrange that one. Good to know haha. Yeah that would make my list easier to manage too if it let it do that for all shelves.

[Bill]

When you in the particular list in my books you click Batch Edit --> Enable Sorting.

That will let you sort by number.

[Veronica]

Bill wrote: "When you in the particular list in my books you click Batch Edit --> Enable Sorting.

That will let you sort by number."

Bill, you are a genius! Woohoo! I'm off to play with my own-it shelf.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

You can also click edit shelves from your bookshelves page at the top of your shelf list... pulls up a list page and you can enable sorting of as many shelves as you want... make more shelves exclusive if you want to break your To-Read list into multiple shelves by genre like I did, and disable recommendations if you have an abandoned series shelf...

[Veronica]

I knew about editing shelves but I do like the idea of an abandoned series shelf. Hmmmm....

[Veronica]

I've knocked out two of my owned books: Sword-Dancer and Broken Souls.

[Tammie]

Good job!

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Wohoo!! Already??

[Veronica]

Thanks, Tammie.

They were both quick reads, Niki. :-)

[Veronica]

Two more owned books are history: Hungry Ghosts and Ghost Talkers.

Two more to go.

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Yaaaasss!!!

[Veronica]

I've decided to combine the Book Buying challenge and the Book End challenge. I'll need to read six owned books in order to earn one new book purchase credit. Three of those six books will come from those books I've owned the longest (more than a year) and three will come from more recent purchases (less than a year).

Starting with the next cycle of six books...

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Nice!! You should get extra credit for that or something haha. I'm looking forward to hearing how the two methods together work out for you. I tried something similar at first, but need to get my incomplete series under control before it could be really effective for me.

[Veronica]

It'll be a trial and error thing, I'm sure, lol. I'll see how it goes and tweak it as needed.

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Good luck Veronica :) Seems like you're already making good progress.

[Veronica]

Jenna wrote: "Good luck Veronica :) Seems like you're already making good progress."

Thanks, Jenna. This is my pattern though...I start out strong and then run out of gas mid-race or else get distracted by commotion in the stands. lol

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Me too... the first half of a challenge generally happens incidentally... the back half and especially the last few tend to take effort to complete

[Veronica]

We should form a support group for challenge losers, lol.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

That's why I joined the easiest challenge ever over at PNR & UF: September Challenge: Read 10 books from 10 different series

[Veronica]

That IS an easy one!

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Hopefully this Team Challenge thing they're putting together here for 2018 will help us hide our deficiencies...

[Veronica]

Iain wrote: "Hopefully this Team Challenge thing they're putting together here for 2018 will help us hide our deficiencies..."

LOL!

[Veronica]

Finished Troubled Waters and I'm only about 100 pages from my sixth book so have almost earned my first new book credit. The problem is there are several new books I'd like to buy, too many!

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Great job!!! Whatever you pick is going to be certain it earned it's spot on your shelves, that's for sure. :)

[Veronica]

Thanks, Niki. Maybe I'll let my eight year old randomly pick my new book from a list. I just can't decide.

Meanwhile, I need to compile the list of my next six already owned books to read.

[Liam]

Great job Veronica =].

Totally understand the need to buy new books haha. I keep seeing books that I want to read and I can't get them =[.

[Veronica]

Thanks, Liam. Yes, it's going to a be a test of my willpower to see if I can hold myself to just the one new book. Book addiction is real! lol

[Veronica]

I've totally failed so far in keeping to this challenge. I started out well, read my six owned books but when it came to limiting myself to one new book...FAIL. I purchased: Valor, Homicide for the Holidays, The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, The Darkest Road.

Also, The Unbearable Lightness of Dragons, Love in the Time of Dragons, The Curse of the Mistwraith, Fugitive Prince, Grand Conspiracy, The Miniaturist. In my defense though, these were all purchased when my library had its semi-annual sale. Paperbacks for 50 cents and HC for $1. I couldn't pass that up.

I'll try to get back on the no-new-book-buying wagon. :-)

[Miche]

At these prices they are like gifts. I wouldn't count them. ;)

[Veronica]

I really like your logic, Miche. lol

[Miche]

I have an exception on my buying ban challenge gor sales under $5. Just in case I run into good deals. 😂😂😂

[Veronica]

Works for me!

[Veronica]

And at least with Valor I bought it and immediately read it. #bookaddictlogic

[Miche]

Veronica wrote: "And at least with Valor I bought it and immediately read it. #bookaddictlogic"

See? It is like you didn't buy it. ;)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

So, you're doing a 1 to 2 Challenge? Only buy 2 books for every 1 you read? :D

[Veronica]

It could be worse!

[Veronica]

I'm going to have to jump the gun just a tad on buying my new book. I only have one more owned book to read left in my second round but I can't read that one until next month or else it won't count for another challenge. But Oathbringer is out tomorrow and there's no way I'm waiting a month to buy and read it. :-)

[Miche]

Seems fair to me, Veronica! :)

[Veronica]

LOL, thanks, Miche. I thought it was reasonable. ;-)

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

What Miche said. :)

[Veronica]

I love a forgiving group. :-)

[Miche]

Veronica wrote: "I love a forgiving group. :-)"

No way I could blame you for buying Oathbringer. Especially when I bought that book in three different formats! lol

[Veronica]

Well, I haven't gone that far. Yet. ;-)

I have TWoK and WoR in mmp format but I'm getting this one in HC. I hate having mismatched sets on my shelf. I also hate it when a long running series changes its cover design mid-series. It messes with my mind.

[Miche]

I normally don't buy hardcovers, but I did an exception for this one. With the art included in it, it is worth to have the nice book. :)

[Veronica]

Definitely. The art is amazing.

[Mayim]

Veronica, I'm admiring the strength of your will. You are doing great.

[Veronica]

Mayim wrote: "Veronica, I'm admiring the strength of your will. You are doing great."


Mayim, I luv ya, but your standards must be really skewed, lol. I have no willpower! :-)