Happy Year of the Tiger

I rarely make Resolutions at New Year's. But I thought the lunar new year provided as good an excuse as any for a declaration.

A while back, I saw a challenge on a book blog, titled something like "The Clear Your Shelves" challenge.* Which sounds like a good idea. So here's a list of books that I have but haven't read, that I intend to read over the next month:

World Weavers by Alma Alexander, which was given to me by a friend for Christmas
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski, which has been on loan from the sister for an embarrassingly long time
A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin, which called my name at the bookstore. Metaphorically.
Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb, which was suggested by a friend during a conversation about Sherlock Holmes
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, which was selected by my book club for February

Hold me to that, world.


* Found it: S. Krishna's Clear Off Your Shelves Challenge. My choices for this month would not entirely qualifiy -- I haven't had the book club book long enough, for example.