24 in 48 Readathon TBR

Oops, it's been a minute, hasn't it? I've been doing a lot of reading, but not a lot of blogging. I think that's because a lot of my reading has been re-reading, so I don't have as many new books to review. I'm going to catch up on my reviews soon, but not this weekend. Which brings me to the point of this post -- the 24 in 48 Readathon!

This will be my first time participating and I'm super excited! My boyfriend is gone for a majority of the weekend, and as much as I love him, I never get as much reading done when he's around.

There are a few books I'd like to get to, although I think I'm probably being a little ambitious for one weekends worth of reading.

July 2018 TBR

New month, new TBR! Last month was such a good reading month, so I have high hopes for July. I'll be travelling a bit but aside from regular grad school lab work I'll be pretty free to read. That of course means another ambition TBR. I certainly have a habit of setting high expectations for myself. This month

I'll be participating in the Tome Topple read-a-thon, so I made a specific TBR for that. I'll mention those books here, but check out my TBR post for more details. I'm also planning on participating in the 24 in 48 read-a-thon. With both of these read-a-thons this month I really think I'll be able to get to all of these books, and possibly even more. I always like to keep my options open since I tend to be a mood reader.

TBR Shelf

Ah, the TBR shelf. Those books that we think about every time we're browsing the book store or scrolling through Amazon looking at new books. "I really should read more of the books I already own," we think to ourselves, before inevitably buying that shiny new book that was just calling our name.

I've been guilty of this more times than I can count, so at the beginning of this year, I decided to go through my shelves and write down every single unread book I own in one of the blank pages of my planner. I personally don't have a separate shelf for TBR books, so I wanted a visual representation of all my TBR books, both physical and digital. Then, as I read books from my TBR shelf, I highlight them in bright yellow.

June 2018 TBR

To say I'm pretty bad at sticking to my planned TBRs is an understatement and yet, moth after month, I always make one.

As I make my glorious, hopefully long-term, return to book blogging, I though I would start out with a bread-and-butter post across the book blogging world, so here we are.

I won't go into too many details about why I was gone for three years, but the short story can be summed up in two words -- grad school. Getting a PhD in STEM is no joke people. Recently, though, I realized I needed a creative outlet, and writing about books used to be one of my favorite past times so why not bring it back. I need something to save me from the monotony of lab work. Don't get me wrong, working toward a PhD is very rewarding, but I've never just lived and breathed science. Books are such an integral part of my life -- and my sanity! Anyway, you didn't come here for my life story, you came here for the books, so without further ado, here's my TBR:

Bout of Books 12.0 Read-a-Thon TBR

I know we are well into day 1 of Bout of Books 12.0 but I didn't get around to posting my TBR list for the read-a-thon earlier. Better late than never though! So here are the books I'm planning on reading:

• The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper (not pictures, already started)
• All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (already started)
• Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
• Catalyst by S.J. Kincaid
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (reread)
• High Wizardry by Diane Duane
• A Wizard Abroad by Diane Duane

Essentially I'm attempting about a book a day for the next week. I think I'm going to read the books roughly in the order mentioned above, but I'm not a huge stickler for planning in advance so we'll see. Who knows, I might even deviate from the list! Last year I only managed 5 books so lets see if I can beat my own record!

I'll post later with my day 1 update and be sure to follow me on Twitter for my #boutofbooks musings throughout the week!