TBR Pile Challenge 2012!

Like every other book blogger and reading fanatic I have come across I have a pretty hefty To Be Read list, both hard copies sitting unread on my bookshelf, and EBooks on my lovely little Kindle. So, I thought it might be fun if I joined in on the 2012 TBR Pile Challenge hosted by Bookish and nine other bloggers. Hopefully, having the list physically written in front of me, and crossing off and reviewing books everytime I read them will help me get through them all! Or at least most of them ;)

The different levels from which you can choose in this challenge are...

1-10 - A Firm Handshake
11-20 - A Friendly Hug
21-30 - A Sweet Kiss
31-40 - Love At First Sight
41-50 - Married With Children

Now, I have a lot of reading and secondary reading to do for my English Literature course at university, so to allow myself a bit of leaway I'm going with the "11-20 - A Friendly Hug" simply because I'm pretty much 100% sure I can cope with that amount, in fact I reckon I'll swap it up to "A Sweet Kiss" within the next couple of months, but since you can't switch down a level I'm playing it safe for now ;)

Here is my list of books - including the two that I'm reading at the moment!... (click on any of the titles to view the Goodreads synopsis)

1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson

2. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

3. Room - Emma Donoghue

4. Night Road - Kristin Hannah

5. Dark Matter - Michelle Paver

6. The Help - Kathryn Stockett

7. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender

8. I Am Number Four - Pittacus Lore

9. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

10. Random Acts of Heroic Love - Danny Scheinmann

11. The Fault in our Stars - John Green

12. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

13. Before I Die - Jenny Downham

14. Across the Universe - Beth Revis

15. When God was a Rabbit - Sarah Winman

16. War Horse - Michael Morpurgo

17. The Book of Fires - Jane Borodale

18. The Host - Stephanie Meyer

19. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

20. The Blasphemer - Nigel Farndale

So there is my list so far... I'm not going to lie, there were quite a few left over I didn't include ;) so I am pretty convinced that it will increase! Not necessarily a bad thing!

I am going to make a designated page on my blog for my TBR Pile challenge, where I will steadily cross the titles off my list and link my reviews as I go through them, I can't promise to read them in this order though! :D

Here is a list of the ten hosts of this challenge and their links...

Evie from Bookish - http://www.evie-bookish.blogspot.com

Nicole from All I Ever Read - http://www.nicoleabouttown.com/

Bonnie from Hands and Home - http://www.handsandhome.ca/

Donna from Book Passion For Life - http://bookpassionforlife.blogspot.com/

Caitlin from WatchYA Reading - http://whatchyareading.net

Rie from Mission To Read - http://missiontoread.com/

Vicky from Books, Biscuits & Tea -http://booksbiscuitsandtea.blogspot.com/

Christa from Hooked On Books - http://christashookedonbooks.blogspot.com

Jenna from Fans Of Fiction - http://fansoffiction.blogspot.com/

Angel from Mermaids Vision - http://mermaidvision.wordpress.com

If you are also a book blogger and want to join in on this challenge, then visit Bookish for the ORIGINAL POST about the challenge and the full set of guidelines, post your linky there and get stuck in! :D

Happy Reading everyone! :D

Abi.. x

Musing Mondays #1

Musing Monday's is a post hosted by Should be Reading which each week asks us a question every loving reader should be able to answer!

This week the question is...

How far along are you in your current read before you start thinking about what you’ll read next?

I have to admit that I'm pretty bad in terms of this question! I usually have a line of books in my head so I tend to be thinking about the book I am going to read next immediatly as I begin a book! But, I end up with so many books on my ever growing TBR list that I just end up swamped sometimes! I'm not very good at reading more than one book at a time so most of my reads tend to lead on from one another, like at the moment for example I'm reading Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks - a well known war novel - and the book I'm going to move onto next is Warhorse by Michael Morpurgo because my current read has put me in the right frame of mind to go for another war novel. So basically, I tend to already have a novel lined up to read next when I begin a book, but the majority of the time, my 'to read next book' tends to be influenced by my current read!

What would your response to this be?

Abi.. x