HAHAHAHA… this is a joke right? No? Oh, well in that case, ALL OF THEM. There, that was easy. Not good enough? Man, there are so many. Let’s see if I can pick a few at random.
How’s that for a small sliver of my yearly reading failure? Let’s face it, the curse of the reader is that even if you’re a very fast reader and either don’t have to work or reading is your job, you’re never going to finish even a small proportion of all the books out there you’re excited to read, let alone the ones that sound okay or vaguely interesting or maybe not that bad. This post is good in theory – it is a chance to look back over some of the books we might want to bring forward and circle back to this year. The problem is that I did the same thing last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, and… well you get the picture. So each year it’s an ever-growing list of all the books I’ve ever meant to read but just haven’t gotten around to, and it’s a bit overwhelming. So here are some books I either started and didn’t finish last year but want to try again, books that came out last year that I thought looked good, books I have heard a lot about over the last year, and a few I have been meaning to read for far longer than that but still have a decent amount of interest to me. There are so, so many more, because there is an unending amount of wonderful and magical books out there that I want to read!
As you’re all in the same boat as me, let me know the top one or two books you really, really wanted to read this year and just didn’t have time for. And if you’ve read any of these, let me know if they’re worth carrying forward or if there are any I should abandon to the shifting sands of time!
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly link-up feature created by The Broke and the Bookish and hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Every week TTT has a different topic, and everyone who links up has to create a link of ten items that fit that topic. To see past and upcoming topics, go here.
Right? I seriously could have made a Top 500 list this week! And I’m a fast reader who doesn’t have a job or little kids or any huge commitments that take up lots of my time. I just can never read all the books I want to. The struggle is real! Glad I’m not alone 🙂
Happy TTT (on a Thursday)!
Susan
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I feel like even if all I did for the rest of my life was read with breaks for food, washing, sleep and the occasional leg stretch, I still wouldn’t come close to even reading a quarter of the books I want to read now, let alone all the ones that are going to come out over the rest of my lifetime that I will want to read! It’s a major issue! I suppose it’s better to be spoiled for choice than run out though. That would be way worse!