Since my last update on July 1 chronicling my progress through the shelves full of pre-2013 books that I was determined to finally recommend on BooksYALove, I have

• traveled to Singapore and Indonesia, via Japan and Korea,
• driven several hundred miles in Texas presenting IASL’s GiggleIT Project for global student writing through school libraries,
• moved 3 truckloads of  semi-tropical plants in containers to their winter home,
• and read many, many eGalleys online with 30-60 day expiration dates.

I haven’t written up as many TBR2012 Challenge books as I did earlier in the year, but did spotlight Nalo Hopkinson’s highly inventive Canadian-Jamaican fantasy The Chaos  (my no-spoiler review here) and Jo Knowles’ growing up novel Pearl  (more here), which brings my total to 51 for the year. Over one per week – not bad!

What’s on your to-be-read shelf these days?
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