You’ll notice two things about this image: first, that none of these books were on the shelf last month, and second, that I have obviously dropped my “don’t buy new books unless they’re part of a series I already have” rule entirely as of June. Also, there are three different books on the shelf with the word “bone” in them, which entertains me quite a lot.

The Monthly Reads pile tomorrow is going to be staggering.

Three of those are Volume One of finished trilogies. Three of them are either one-shots or Volume Ones when Volume Two isn’t out yet, and I got as pre-orders. So progress is being made even if that technically could be twelve books and not six.

Also, this:

The Tchaikovsky, at the very least, is going down in June. The Robin Hobb books are being saved for last, mostly because I know there are twelve more after those three if I get hooked and I’m terrified.

My goal is to have every book on this shelf that isn’t part one of a finished series read by the end of this month.

Yeah, okay, that looks like a lot, and I’ve broken my vow by ordering both volumes of Shōgun, but have you seen … my other unread books?

I made significant progress this month, I swear I did, but hell if it looks like it.

Not a whole lot different from last time— and I’ll point out that thus far I haven’t broken any of the rules of my new reading projects, since RJB’s The Tainted Cup was pre-ordered the second I heard about it several months ago– but you’ll see tomorrow that I’ve done a fair amount of off-shelf reading in February. The one that is edges-out is Elizabeth May’s To Cage a God, which was the first book I got as part of my new Illumicrate subscription. I thought about doing a whole post about the box and didn’t end up doing it; maybe next month. But the book itself is gorgeous.