Well, I’m a bit late this month, and as you can see, the TBR has grown to epic proportions. Oops! I thought I’d done well getting only one book for Christmas, but then my birthday intervened, and a BookCrossing meetup, and borrowing some books from a friend, and the Month of Re-Reading (argh – still have some reviews to post from that). So, I think this happens every February and it will go down as long as I don’t buy any more books for a while …
Recent acquisitions include a lovely pile from my recent birthday – which kept on coming, the last two being collected from the Post Office depot today, because snowy events conspired to prevent any gathering for my actual birthday. But there are some really good ones here … and I have in fact promoted one past the usual selection criteria, for reasons which I will explain in a moment.
Currently reading – well, I’m still on this Barbara Pym biography, which I started for the Month of Re-Reading and also because it’s the Barbara Pym readalong in the Virago LibraryThing group this year. It’s very good but I’m not that far through it yet. I am also back toiling along with Tony Blair. Actually we’re running up to the Gulf War at the moment, so it’s quite interesting, viewed through the lens of his appearance at the inquiry into the events leading up to the war.
And coming up we have “Capital” by John Lanchester. Yes, I have books acquired last year, but I’ve been after this one for aaaaaages, and Matthew wants to read it on audiobook too, so we are going to read it together as soon as I get to it. My friend Verity, another book blogger, Viragoite and friend, kindly lent me two books recently, a K.M.Peyton and one of Virginia Nicolson’s excellent works of social history. So some really good stuff coming up … and one day I’ll get round to reviewing the last of the fab Month of Re-Reading in January! I also need to pick up the next Barbara Pym novel …
Happy reading, oh happy readers. What’s on your pile for February?
Adventures in reading, running and working from home 
Feb 02, 2013 @ 22:37:11
Oh Dear! Makes me tired just reading your immediate programme. Don’t think I’d dare to make a list like that or I’d be attempted to give up and start watching television! I jest, of course.
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Feb 03, 2013 @ 11:48:40
Oh it’s not tiring, it’s just reading!
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Feb 03, 2013 @ 11:47:24
I spy a Persphone book and Elizabeth Taylor in your recent acquisitions so what’s not to like there? : ) I read the Barbara Pym biography a couple of years ago, I have an old hardback of it. I enjoyed it and have been wondering about re-reading it this year. Happy reading.
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Feb 03, 2013 @ 11:49:55
Indeedy! Not that I will get to them for a little while – although I might get the Taylor short stories out for dipping into once Tony Blair is done!!! The Pym is really well done, I’d forgotten how much editing she did in her day job! Weren’t you going to re-read that mid-year, or was that the volume of letters and diaries?
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Feb 03, 2013 @ 11:57:49
Yes I had thought of re-reading it mid year : ) but actually and shockingly I have never read the volume of letters – and don’t even own it. (Clicky clicky?) : )
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Feb 03, 2013 @ 12:00:00
Borrowy-from-Lizzery?
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Feb 05, 2013 @ 17:27:25
London: A Life in Maps sounds exciting and is probably a lot better than Map of a Nation, another added to the list, WordPress makes my life expensive.
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Feb 06, 2013 @ 12:25:11
Oops! I’ve been after the London book for ages, really excited about it!
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