The To Be Read (TBR) List

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There are so many opportunities to find new books to read in life. 


Maybe you see a shiny book at a booksellers, or one that's pretty tattered at the library that needs to be withdrawn and taken home to your shelf, perhaps an Advanced Reading Copy falls into your lap, or maybe a friend brings over a book to your house and says "I think you should read this".


My aunt will randomly send me books (Thanks Aunt Kelly!) that I really like, and then I've also got a huge love life with middle-grade fiction because it's so diverse, and the cover art is often SUPER GOOD


Well, in my case, it's all of that, plus a giant stack of books that I've been slowly accumulating for at least six months, to a year. 


So what I'm saying is, a TBR list is okay to have forever. I'm never gonna read everything I want to, and though I tell myself that I will get to everything eventually that I have sitting on the shelf, the truth is I won't. It's impossible. I get too distracted by new books, or something that pops up at work, or whatever. Books are constantly flowing. There's books going on forever.


It's okay to have a pile of books for the sake of a having books. It doesn't matter if you read them. You have them and they give you that weird feeling of being a hoarder of knowledge, like a dragon! Who doesn't want to be a dragon!?! If you don't you aren't being kind to yourself cuz dragons are BOSS. 

Image from http://iguanamouth.tumblr.com/post/90613272412/unusual-hoard-commission-for-fatetea-this-dragon

Anyway, here are a few of the books I have on my TBR list that I am ABSOLUTELY COMMITTING TO READING. No excuses. 

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I'm always in search of books that Debbie Reese would approve of. She's an authority on American Indians in children's literature. See her reviews of recent and memorable books here: https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/  Red Dove is written by a woman who consulted Lakota tribes-people. It's fiction, but it's refreshing to see an author try to represent voices that are not heard as loudly as others.

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My dearest babe Steve  gave me this to read, and I've been aware of it for a long time, but don't you love it when people give you books to try? We actually kind of traded books with him since I gave him my copy of We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.

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I'm seeing Amanda Palmer play her new album live in April, so I'm hoping to get her book read by then, and maybe have some more perspective into her work.

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A NetGalley find, I'm not sure what to expect and I'm excited to see what this book is all about!

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I found this book at a book shop and honestly, it's just pretty. I don't even care if it's good. I'm gonna give it a shot because sometimes judging a book by its cover is FUN.

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I loved Ruta Sepetys book Out of the Easy, and so I think this book will be excellent.

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Music is life, and listening to one lovely song a day sounds super great. I'm gonna take notes! I'll probably start this one in June.


That's it! For now anyway!


WhaleSnark

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