TBR for April

Last semester, before I got my handy dandy ebook reader, I had a pretty firm grasp on the books I wanted to read fairly soon, because I’d use Text Aloud to record the ebook text files onto mp3 CD’s that I’d play on my way to school. Now that I have the ebook reader, I can just read whatever I happen to click on next. Which means that shiny things keep distracting me. So I thought it would be useful to write up a list of books I’d like to finish reading for this month. I’m too lazy to hunt up Amazon links, since this is an activity I’m trying to do to calm myself down so I can sleep. Hopefully, you’ll manage to forgive me. Hopefully, I will remember to go back through and edit this list as I finish reading them. Any that are left over I’ll just move onto the list for next month.

• Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian (I know book 3 is supposed to be the awesome one, but I’m a wank about reading order and I think this is the first Midnight Breeds book.)

• Carnival by Elizabeth Bear (I keep hearing that she’s an awesome writer and I find her LJ entertaining.)
• Son of Avonar by Carol Berg (I started this one months ago, loved it, then got distracted by something shiny, so I’d like to start fresh.)
• Heir to the Shadows by Anne Bishop (I hate starting a series and not finishing it and even though I was underwhelmed with the first book, I should probably read the second while I can sort of remember what happened.)
• Doppelganger by Marie Brennan (She leaves interesting blog comments. That proves exactly nada, but hopefully I’ll like the book.)
• Grave Peril by Jim Butcher (I like the Dresden Files books. I’m about due for another one.)
• A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole (I’ve been told this series might be more up my alley than some other paranormal vampire books out there.)
• Atlantis Rising by Alyssa Day (I’m pretty sure I’m not going to like this much, but hey, at least the protectors of humanity aren’t vampires or lycanthropes. The premise alone interests me enough to try.)
• Greenmantle by Charles de Lint (I haven’t read a de Lint book in months and I like his earlier stuff better.)
• King’s Dragon by Kate Elliot (Yet again, I started it, never finished.)
• Gideon by Jacqueline Frank (Why not? It’s Christine Feehan light, but the first book kind of had its charm.)
• The Shadow Game by Christine Feehan (those people that told me that Feehan’s Ghostwalkers books are tons and tons better than the Carpathian books had better be right, dammit!)
• Witchling by Yasmine Galenorn (I really liked the bits of her pagan-y book I was validating for Bookshare, so I put her novels higher on the TBR pile.)
• The Rest Falls Away by Colleen Gleason (I can’t believe this book beat out Meljean Brook in the DABWAHA tournament going on over at Dear Author and Smart Bitches. It better be fantastic is all I’m saying.)
• The Raven Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt (I keep meaning to read this and haven’t gotten around to it yet.)
• The Master by Jean Johnson (I love this series. This is definitely one of the books I will be getting to this month.)
• At Love’s Command by Samantha Kane (I am so sad that this will be my last Samantha Kane book for a while. And Lisabea says it’s awesome, so I won’t horde it.)
• Candles Burning by Tabitha King and Michael McDowell (I validated this for Bookshare, but didn’t end up reading very much of it. What I did glimpse was intriguing enough that I’ll definitely be getting to this one.)
• Immortal in Death by J. D. Robb (I’m about due for more Eve and Rourke goodness.)
• Visions of Heat by Nalini Singh (I got my friend Jaliya to read the first book. She’s now read all of them. *Sigh* I need to catch up.)
• Bitter Waters by Wen Spencer (I don’t know if I’ll get to this one this month or not, but it’s another series I have a prayer of finishing, sooo… We’ll try.)
• Stardoc by S. L. Viehl (Another blogger I read. The commentary about her vampire books has been mostly meh, but I think I’d like to start with her sci-fi.)
• The Tomb by F. Paul Wilson (Validated this one for Bookshare. It was an excellent scan, so I didn’t get to read nearly enough of it. But the Repairman Jack books are ones I’ve been interested in, so we’ll see if they work for me.

OK now… I promise myself that if I don’t read all the books on this list–which I won’t–I won’t guilt myself over it. I’ll never whittle down the list of books I want to read OMG right now, but I figured having a list of books I wanted to try might keep me organized.