I usually wait until mid to late January before posting my reading plans or goals. Mainly because I'm very optimistic about my superhuman capabilities during the start of a new year but much of that enthusiasm fades over the next couple of weeks. I tend to believe I can read more than ever but reality is usually closer to how much I averaged in previous years. So, to allow myself the opportunity to dream big and then plan well, I take the ambitious goals for a road test during the first couple of weeks of the year. If they still look achievable, great! If not, I will part ways with those that are a stretch. The numbers I have an arbitrary number set in Goodreads for this year but it's not a number I will quote as I tend to change it often and it is intended to factor in the many picture books I read with my kids. But that said, there are three numbers I would like to improve this year (last year's stats in parentheses) - total number of pages read (approx. 11k), average n

To liven things up a bit for myself, I'm going to change the way I do Friday Finds. Typically, I put up three finds. I'll still be putting up 3 finds, but with one of them highlighted, which will be the book I would read if I had to choose among the 3.
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I only just saw this book a while back. But after reading the description and the review by Niranjana @ Brown Paper (whose blog, by the way, is really awesome so you should be checking it out!), I just had to add it to my wishlist. In so many ways, this book reminds me of Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman that I read in May. Both have protagonists who are rebels in their time and place. And yet what they actually do can be termed as normal. Moreover, this book is set in the very political and volatile Indian environment, where actors are worshipped and their deaths mourned by strikes, protests and violence.
Twelve-year-old Hari tries to make sense of his tumultuous and complex world in 1980s India. His experiment at eating fish leads to the accidental death of his grandmother; his preference for Hindi over his mother tongue Tamil leads to slanderous graffiti against his family in Madras; and his friendship with the family maid lands him in trouble with a militant Tamil film fan and political functionary called Vishu. |
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
Would you even pick this book off a shelf by its name? I look at the stack away from anything with finance in it. If Nadia @ A Bookish Way of Life hadn't recommended this one, I may never have considered it!
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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
I had never heard of this one! But then, thanks to BBAW, I did! Yesterday's topic was about a book you wished received more attention! Heather @ Age 30+... A Lifetime of Books suggested this one.
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~MizB
My Friday Finds
http://teawithmarce.blogspot.com/2010/09/friday-finds-paranormal-horror.html
Kathy, oh yeah, my TBR just bloated!