Booking Through Thursday [catch-up]: Anticipation

What’s the last book you were really EXCITED to read?

And, were you excited about it in advance? Or did the excitement bloom while you were reading it?

Are there any books you’re excited about right NOW?

Probably The Perks of Being a Wallflower. At least, I was excited enough to finally purchase the thing, 9 years after having first read it. I’m pretty sure this was my third time through. (Oops…I seem to have left that out of a prior post…)

I had never heard of the book until a friend handed me a copy to borrow back in 2001. This time through, it was in advance as I knew I wanted to RE-read it.

Offhand, can’t say there are any books I’m particularly excited for right NOW. It’s been over 3 months since I purchased The Lost Hero, and while it’s a good book, it hasn’t engaged me as much as I’d hoped–I even took it on VACATION with me, and only read about 60/70 pages–I’m still only about 3/4 through, if that far. I’ve been easily and highly distracted with other stuff, though…and my sister suggested recently that one can’t read much AND have an active Netflix Streaming subscription–which WOULD tend to hold a lot of merit looking at my Netflixing this year.

I’m looking forward to whatever Grisham‘s next “main” novel is, and Brad Meltzer‘s. Probably even Stephen King‘s, though I have yet to get all that far into Under the Dome; I enjoyed Full Dark, No Stars as an audiobook.

Comics-wise, I’m looking forward to getting back into the Ultraverse comics. I’m currently gathering up what issues I own, and intend to track down those I don’t in order to attempt a personal reading project of starting with the June 1993-released issues and read the entire line in publication-order to simulate what the original experience would have been, following the entire line. (This journey is being chronicled in my Ultraverse Revisited blog). I’m also looking forward to the new TMNT comics from IDW, and DC Comics‘ RetroActive: 1990s – Superman issue.

The To-Be-Read Challenge of 2011

To Be Read Challenge 2011 – from readerchallenges.wordpress.com

My List:

1. The Last Days of Krypton by Kevin J. Anderson
2. The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
3. The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
4. Dragons of the Highlord Skies by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
5. Dragons of the Hourglass Mage by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
6. The Wastelands by Stephen King
7. Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
8. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
9. Ancestor by Scott Sigler
10. Vampire a Go-Go by Victor Gischler
11. Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler
12. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Alternates:

1. Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
   
2. Song of Susannah by Stephen King
3. The Dark Tower by Stephen King
4. The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
   
5. The Innocent Man by John Grisham
6. Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer by John Grisham
7. Under the Dome by Stephen King
   
8. The Brethren by John Grisham
9. The Summons by John Grisham
10. World Without End by Ken Follett
    
11. The Ultimate Cat Lover
12. Expiration Date

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This challenge will be tracked on the 2011 Reading Challenge Page in the navigation of this blog, rather than on this post itself.

The rules:

• the challenge is to read 12 TBR books in 12 months — you can read those all in one month if you want, or one a month, or however you wanna do it.
• you should have a list posted somewhere for others to see
• you CANNOT change your list after January 1st, of the current year!!!
• you can create an Alternates list of MAXIMUM 12 books, if you want, in order to have options to choose from (you can read these in place of books on your original list).
• audiobooks and e-books ARE allowed
• re-reads are NOT allowed, as they aren’t TRUE “TBRs”
• you CAN overlap with other challenges
• OPTIONAL: you can join the Yahoo! Group created for participants of the TBR Challenge, if you want to have a place to
• keep your list, or just to share with others about how you’re doing!