The Towering Pile

Hello! I'm Lianne. I read books and like to talk about them, so now I'm going to talk about them here. I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba (that's in Canada, for readers of the far-away and/or geographically-challenged variety). I'm 24. I have a Bachelor of Computer Science. I play the piano and like to dance. I've been reading enthusiastically since befo... re I learned to read (I used to memorise Dr. Suess books so I could read them to myself). During the 4.5 years I spent in university, my reading time became severely limited. Since graduating in December 2010 I have eased myself back into my old schedule of constant reading, and it's been wonderful. So I decided to share my renewed book-related excitement by writing about the books I read, and thus The Towering Pile was born. I have a lot of books. Specifically, I have a lot of books I haven't read. As of the beginning of this blog, I own 644 books that I've never read. That number has the unfortunate tendency to stay pretty much the same. (Hey, at least it's not going up anymore!) (Update: Yes it is. It's at 717 now.) So, this blog is about that towering pile of books, and my efforts to conquer that pile. In accordance with that goal, I participate in lots of challenges for added motivation and fun. See my reading challenges page for more information. Insert here the usual bit about how my reviews will be brutally honest even if someone gives me a book for free. I use a 5 star rating system, which corresponds with Goodreads's system. So, 1 to 5 stars mean, respectively, "didn't like it", "it was ok", "liked it", "really liked it", "it was amazing". If you're an author or publisher and you'd like to provide me with a copy of a book to review, please see my review policy . If you'd like to contact me for any reason (including wanting to do a guest post, just stopping by to say hi, etc.), you can email me at TheToweringPile@gmail.com.Read More