Do you pay any attention to your "to read" shelf?:

[Louise]

This is my personal nightstand :-) With the books I'm reading/planning to read in the near-ish future

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I'm a big Garth Nix fan, Louise. I like Charles deLint, too.
That Homo Metropolis is a big book! What's that one about?

[janine]

my unread books of a week ago:

[Louise]

Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "I'm a big Garth Nix fan, Louise. I like Charles deLint, too.
That Homo Metropolis is a big book! What's that one about?"

It's a collection of comic books, by a brilliant Danish artist who makes stories about people dealing with modern life.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I've whittled down my to-read shelf from 944 to 940!

[Sally, la reina]

Wow, Janine. You win the prize for largest photo attachment EVER.

::hands The Dutch a cutting from the Ficus and some glitter in a tube::

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

She needs huge books to go with her huge hands.

[Michele]

not really.

[janine]

Sally wrote: "Wow, Janine. You win the prize for largest photo attachment EVER.

::hands The Dutch a cutting from the Ficus and some glitter in a tube::"

Yay! A cutting from the Ficus AND glitter in a tube! I'd like to thank my bookshelves for supporting my gigantic books.

[Stina]

Now that I finally have a library card, I've been slowly chipping away at my TBR shelf. I never really paid much attention to it until this year.

Also, I wish I'd done a better job of telling myself WHY I was adding a book to TBR.

[Carol]

I imported all my wishlist books from Amazon to GR and I never, ever check it. I currently have 86 books checked out from the library and am on a self-imposed no-fun-reading until my classes are over June 29.

[janine]

86!

[Félix]

That's just too many.

[Riona]

My to-read shelf is massive since I add pretty much everything that might vaguely interest me, so generally anything I read has been on there for a while. It's gotten so out of control that I had to make a bucket-list shelf to narrow down those books I really need to get to one day, though to be honest I don't necessarily reach for those over others. Maybe I should.

Also, 86 library books? Wow. I thought I was bad, but I don't think I've ever had close to that many out at one time. I hope they're not in-demand books that other people are waiting for! (Though if your library is like mine, I guess you can't renew if anyone has that book on hold.)

[Carol]

45 of them are for my classes. Plus I work there, so it's an ongoing battle.

[Amy]

Carol wrote: "45 of them are for my classes. Plus I work there, so it's an ongoing battle."

I don't think I could work in a library. It would be like an alcoholic working in a liquor store.

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Not much. My choices are very subjective. My books talk to me and tell me to read them, or I hear about one I have to read straight away.

[Louise]

I just brought back 32 new books from our vacation in the U.S. - so now the TBR piles are towering again!

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(I need a "like button" for Louise's comment (129).

[~Geektastic~]

I treat my "to read" list like a memo pad. Every book I want to remember goes on there, whether I actually plan to read it or not. Hence the fact it outnumbers my read list at a rate of almost 3 to 1.

[Louise]

We went to a Books A Million store, where they sold ex-library hardbacks for 3 dollars each - what was I to do?

I also had to buy some of the books by Booktopia authors (a book thing I went to in Oxford Mississippi) - have any of you read Kevin Brockmeier? I'm reading a quite interesting one called " A Brief History of the Dead"

[Louise]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I've whittled down my to-read shelf from 944 to 940!"

How very admirable! ;)

[Jackie]

Mine's not in any order. I read what I have on my to read list but I read in any random order.

[Riona]

Louise wrote: "have any of you read Kevin Brockmeier? I'm reading a quite interesting one called " A Brief History of the Dead" "

This one's on my list! Along with every other book in the known universe, it seems like.

[Annette]

Very occasionally. To be honest I have a pile of books by my bed of ones I've bought or been given. My 'to read' shelf is usually for those books I've seen and fancied on Goodreads and want to keep a note of the title in case I ever get a clear bedside table!

[Cloudedleopard]

I don't choose my next read due to the number on the list but I keep it updated in order to know what I still haven't read and what I would like to buy.
The problem with the unread pile in my shelf is that I got an ebook reader since one year and I can't keep an overview on what I haven't read yet in there.

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Cloudedleopard wrote: "I don't choose my next read due to the number on the list but I keep it updated in order to know what I still haven't read and what I would like to buy.
The problem with the unread pile in my shelf..."


I know, right? I hate the way the "shelves" work on the nook, what crap that is, and a total pain, so you wind up with just a huge list of books that you don't even remember what they all are after months. How are you supposed to organize a mess like that? Makes it way less likely that I'll enjoy all of those books if they can't even talk to me properly!

[Jennifer]

I actually use my To-Read list to keep track of recommendations that people have given me or just books that I want to keep track of so that I can read them when I get the chance.

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

I have love medicine too ...

I made a to-be-read shelf and ignore the generic one entirely. I don't pay attention to the order of it at all.

[Kadijah Michelle]

Jennifer wrote: "I actually use my To-Read list to keep track of recommendations that people have given me or just books that I want to keep track of so that I can read them when I get the chance."

I do the same, it's like my almost like my bucket list, lol.

My real to read list is the pile of books next to my bed.

[Carol]

I'm with you, KM. I stopped with the scraps of paper, Amazon wish list, Notebook full of book recommendations and put them all here.

[Bridgette]

I kinda stopped paying attention of my tbr pile as I have to many it keeps growing and it wont stop

[Julie]

Yes. Every time I finish a book that is part of a series, I put the next one on my list. I also have books on there that are stand along and some non-fiction. I don't read them in any particular order from my list.

[evie]

I've been culling my bookshelf recently. I quite often read through the list because that helps me keep the titles in mind for when I'm book hunting at the op shop.

[Annette]

I've occasionally looked at my shelf when I really don't know what to read next.