Hemlokgang's BOMBS in 2012

Books acquired prior to 2011 are eligible for this category for me in 2012. I am psyched!

What's your goal?

I think I will aim for 30, about 1/3 of my overall goal of 100 books.

#1 - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainan by Marina Lewycka - TBR since May 2009

#2 - The Infinities by John Banville - TBR since June 2010

#3 - Two Spanish Picaresque Novels by Francisco de Quevedo - TBR since July 2008

#4 - The Road Home by Rose Tremain - TBR since July 2010

#5 - Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World by Catalina de Erauso - TBR since July 2008

#6 - The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West - TBR since July 2008

#7 - A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay - TBR since September 2010

#8 - The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender - TBR since October 2010

#9 - Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell - TBR since November 2010

#10 - In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje - TBR since December 2010

I think you are going to have no trouble at all this this challange. Good for you.

#11 - Great House by Nicole Krauss - TBR since November 2010

#12 - 2666 by Robert Bolano - TBR since January 2010

How far back does your TBR list go?

Some to 2008 when I first joined LT.......i am only counting books added prior to 2011 for this challenge....

That is a good idea.

#13 - Restless by William Boyd - TBR since Oct. 2010

#14 - Kalki by Gore Vidal - TBR since October 2008

#15 - Collected Short Stories by Anthony Trollope

#16 - On The Road by Jack Kerouac - TBR since December 2010

#17 - The Mill on The Floss by George Eliot - TBR since June 2008

#18 - Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - TBR since 2008

#19 - Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig - TBR since December 2009

#20 - Matters of Honor by Louis Begley - TBR since April 2008

#21 - Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan - TBR since December 2008

#22 - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel - TBR since 2010

#23 - Conversations in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa - TBR since December 2010

#24 - The Warden by Anthony Trollope - TBR since July 2008

#25 - The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell - TBR since October 2010

#26 - The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope - TBR since November 2010

Just wondering, hemlokgang: do you write the date of purchase in every book, or how do you know how long it's been waiting on your shelf? Or are you using LT as a reference for that information?

You're doing a great job of catching up with past acquisitions.

I use the date I entered the book on LT, which I usually do the day I receive or purchase a book.

That's a good system. I'm afraid it wouldn't work for me, though. I've been around here a little less than a year, and I have books that have been waiting on my shelves for decades. Maybe someday I'll be enough caught up that my backlog will all be more recent than my history with LT.

#27 - Notes From The Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man and selections from The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky - TBR since February 2009

#28 - Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and The Man Who Dared To See by Robert Kurson - TBR since February 2008

#29 - Gabriel's Gift by Hanif Kureishi - TBR since April 2009

#30 - Women of Algiers in Their Apartment translated byAssua Djebar - TBR since April 2008