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Tien, can this overlap with Mt. TBR (which has no end date) or does it need to be separate books? In other words, for example, if I roll a book in Mt. TBR, can I count its pile toward Timber?
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To Read & Review:
Alif the Unseen
Absolution Creek
Only in Spain
A Corner of White
Midnight Empire
In Falling Snow
Children of Liberty
Scent of Magic Read 12/24
Books I own to read (alphabetical order of author's last name:
A - The White Tiger by Adiga Aravind Read 12/24
B - Murphy's Law by Rhys Bowen
C - Black Spring by Alison Croggon
D - The Coffin Dancer by Jeffery Deaver
E - The Family Tree by Ilsa Evans Read 12/11
F - Shadows on the Aegean by Suzanne Frank Read 12/21
G - Marathon Man by William Goldman
H - Cabbage, Strudel, and Trams by Ivana Hruba
I - Voices by Arnaldur Indridason
J - N/A
K - The Last 10 Seconds by Simon Kernick
L - N/A
M - Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
N - N/A
O - Green Mountains by Bernard O'Reilly
P - Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park
Q - N/A
R - Thirteen Steps Down by Ruth Rendell
S - A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (yeah, it's time to get this big baby down!)
T - Handpicked by Siew Siang Tay Read 12/06
U - N/A
V - The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy by Barbara Vine
W - The Aunt's Story by Patrick White
X - N/A
Y - Villain by Shuichi Yoshida
Z - Cafe Scheherazade by Arnold Zable
Total books: 27 (!)
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You can if you want to, LynnB. Are you going to add an extra spin on it?
For me, Mt. TBR is to get through my GR to-read list whilst this one is to help me actually phycically clear my shelves (all my print editions).
Seeing as I dont have a whole lot of books in my house that I havent read, this is going to be more focused on my GR TBR list. I'm going to focus on books that are part of a series, I have so many series in my TBR, but I put off starting them because I want to read the entire series together so I dont miss out on any details. I'm on uni break from next week so I'll have a whole lot more reading time to tackle them! Challenge Focus: Series
Method of Selection: will list the first ten books that are part of a series on my GR TBR list. The series that I have started and will continue will have complete lists, other series lists will begin with just the first book, and will decide from that book whether to continue with the series or not, at which point I will add the rest of the books in the series to the list.
Series I plan on tackling:
Series: Wheel of Time (currently on book 4)
The Shadow Rising
The Fires of Heaven
Lord of Chaos
A Crown of Swords
The Path of Daggers
Winter's Heart
Crossroads of Twilight
Knife of Dreams
Dirk Gently:
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Castings Trilogy
Blood Ties
Obernewtyn:
Obernewtyn
Chronicles of Narnia:
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
D'Artagnan Romances:
The Three Musketeers
Pillars of the Earth:
The Pillars of the Earth
Shopaholic:
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Divergent:
Divergent
Miss Marple:
Murder at the Vicarage
Books read: 1
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yeah I know! I doubt I'll get through them, but If I can at least get a bit more read I'll be happy! They're so rich in detail that I can only read a bit at a time or my mind goes into overload, so I tend to read them in the evenings while my daughter is watching tv or in the mornings while eating breakfast, and then have another book to read in between. Slow and steady, I'll finish them one day!
Tien wrote: "For me, Mt. TBR is to get through my GR to-read list whilst this one is to help me actually phycically clear my shelves (all my print editions).Of course, now I can see the difference! These two games will be great in my getting piles down at home and shortening the list at Goodreads. Yay! I like the idea for this one to be reading one book in each pile. I have them in bookcases, but they're stacked there (more books to the shelf, of course).
I'm going to start in the bottom right corner of the biggest bookcase and move across and up, reading one in each stack. Each shelf has about six or so stacks.
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Tien wrote: "ooh! I've just finished Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - that was really tiring... you'll see what I mean when you read it. I don't know where she's got the energy or time for her parenting sty..."I've heard others say that too. It should be interesting to see what she did at least. Just thinking about it makes me tired though :)
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Unless, of course, you are like me and my Goodreads TBR IS the books I own. Of course, on the list they are both e-books and print copies.
My task will be to clear my print editions for reviews, which consists of the following:
Memoir of a Good Death
You Know Your Way Home
The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
Shadow of the Flags
Bright and Distant Shores
The Doctor's Wife
The Last Victim
There may be one or two more sitting around, and I will add them to the list when I get a chance to check.
I'm going to choose 1 book from some of my genre shelves:chick-lit:
classics:
dystopia: The Knife of Never Letting Go
fantasy-scifi: A Great and Terrible Beauty
historical-fiction: Lonesome Dove
holiday: Unwrapping Christmas
juvenile: Number the Stars
literary: Girl in Translation
multicultural: The Poisonwood Bible
mys-sus-thril: The Shack
nonfiction: Fixing Freddie
paranormal: Grave Sight
romance: Garden Spells
young-adult: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
I reserve the right to make substitutions depending on what will fit other challenges I'm doing! :)
This sounds fab! Since my tbr books are arranged in stacks I'm going to aim to read as many from each stack as possible, not only will this help with the overall pile but also a challenge for another griup as some stacks relate to that. Now to plan, will post my Stack List later :-)
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The books I have around the house waiting to be read come under nine categories according to how and why I acquired them. I will try to read one from each category. Subject to change, they will be -The Wizard of KarresRead 26/11/12
Time of the HeathenRead 29/01/2013
Lord of Raven's Peak
The Speed of Dark
Black Hearts in BatterseaRead 11/11/12
The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels and Stories
Billy Budd and Other Stories
Our Kind of Traitor
The Courts of Chaos
3/9 books
Right, I spent the evening with my stacks and my book list v1.0 is:R - Monday Mourning read 30/11/12
I - Isle of Dogs read 01/12/12
N - Life on Earth: A Natural History read 07/11/12
B - Ice Trap read 31/12/12
O - The Magician read 23/11/12
W - Mort read 16/12/12
Non-fiction - These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales read 28/11/12
Thriller 1 - Dead Scared read 23/11/12
Thriller 2 - Deadly Dڻcisions read 17/12/12
Fantasy - Witches Abroad read 29/12/12
Horror - Practical Demonkeeping read 09/12/12
Second Horror - The Walking Dead, Book Seven read 09/12/12
Scifi - Spares read 27/12/12
Classics - Barnum Museum, The read 14/12/12
Second Classics - Diamonds Are Forever read 20/12/12
Fiction - Oh Dear Silvia read 04/11/12
Second Fiction - Everything I Found on the Beach by Cynan Jones read 16/11/12
Third Fiction - The Fall of Charlie Dixon. by David Couldrey read 19/12/12
E-books - Travel To the G-Spot -- The Guide Book read 10/11/12
Second E-book - The Lambsridge Wolves read 14/11/12
So that's 17 books in total (I didn't realise I had so many stacks!)
20/20 books
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Wasn't that fun, Sam? *grins*
Btw, did you mean to spell out 'rainbow'? Seems to be missing an 'a'?
Oh yes Tien, it was fabulous. I even tidied them up a little so at one point I was sat on the floor surrounded by books :-DIt is for a RAINBOW challenge but part of A was that the books had to be read in August so that's been and gone now, but thanks for the double check :-)
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I thought that was the case, but just in case :)
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I get a "page not found" when I try that link. Is there a typo, or did the page maybe get moved?
Also, I thought I'd share what my husband and I initiated a few years back to try to keep the piles in check. (He is also a compulsive book acquirer.) We had just built floor-to-ceiling bookshelves on every wall of our large basement room, and still didn't have room for every book to have a space. Once we cleared out what we needed to, we promised ourselves that either of us could only bring a new discovery home if that person found a book at home she/he was willing to part with in order to make space for it. It doesn't always work, but one thing it's done is that, when I see something I want in a bookstore, old or new, I check first of all to see whether I can get it from our library. As a consequence, these days I pretty much only buy books that are on my GR "to read but can't find" shelf.
There are still way too many books I'm unwilling to part with, but I'm much pickier now about what books I only want to read, and which ones I truly want to keep.
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I get a "page not found" when I try that link. Is there a typo, or did the page maybe get moved?
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sorry, Susan, it appears I forgot to include the "http" part :p
That's a good discipline on you & your hubby's part. Do you know bookmooch too? It's a book swap site (international, if you're willing to pay for intl shipping) and sometimes, you do get good ones that you'd want :)
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I get a "page not found" when I try that link. Is there a typo, or did the page maybe get moved?
Also, I tho..."
That is the hardest thing, isn't it. Deciding which ones you just want to read and which ones you want to own. I used to think that I had to own everything that I was going to read, but I, too, have become a big library user over the last few years. For me it is more of an economical decision, especially since I have two boys in college.
I am going to try read books that I own already! I am trying to be creative with this though... I am going to have my each of kids pick out 3 books each and then pick three from my Lost shelf and then one that I want to read now.
My pick:
Grave Mercy
Lost books:
Time of My Life
Vacation
The Birth House
My daughter's picks:
My son's picks
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It will definitely be interesting to see what they pick. I have so many books they will have fun searching through them and then making me read them.
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Books I own from my LOST list and the 2010 version of 1001 Books list. All of these books are owned and present in my house.
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I worked on this game ongoing and finally finished in 2016.
Ok I am going to use the radomizer to pick my books. I will put in the number of books I have and what number it comes up with I will read. If it is the middle of a series I will read the book I am currently on in that series.Random Pick #1: 201
Book:
Random Pick #2: 1037
Book:
Random Pick #3: 390
Book:
Random Pick #4: 628
Book:
Random Pick #5: 574
Book:
Random Pick #6: 691
Book:
RAndom Pick #7: 841
Book: Hunting Ground
Random Pick #8: 1044
Book: Hostage to Pleasure - Replace with #3 in the series - Caressed By Ice
Random Pick #9: 655
Book: Mackenzie's Magic - Replace with #1 in the series - Mackenzie's Mountain
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If I'm really unwilling to read a book when its turn comes up, then it stays on my GR TBR list, but the physical book will be banished to the basement bookshelves (which is often the kiss of death - out of sight, out of mind). The only exceptions will be the science fiction encyclopedia and books which fall later in a series. That means I'm randomizing 37 books. It doesn't sound like a lot, but there's not that much space, and I seem to keep reading things that have to be returned to the library first; so this pile only seems to grow, never to shrink.
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(2) Schismatrix Plus
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(4) The Golden Grove
(5) Cities in Flight
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Added another to my list with The Lambsridge Wolves by Chrissie Parkes for my second read from my E-book stack :-)
Added yet another to my list with Everything I Found on the Beach by Cynan Jones for my second fiction read (I really must read from one of my other stacks!)
That's my seventh one for this game with Dead Scared, really must focus on some of the others though!
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Me, neither. I was just thinking that I need to at least start one.
I did incorporate 5/11 in my reading plan for SRC Winter Challenge, so potentially I can read 5 before the end of December.
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There are a lot of books I should have read still sitting on the shelf, but I have read 4 of the 5 that I posted and will get the 5th done by the end of the month. I was trying for one book from each pile that I have, but it ended up being only these 5 piles that got touched. But, hey, that's five books off the shelf that have been just sitting there!!
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Looking over my list, i still haven't read 6 of those *cringe*
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Object of the Game: To knock off Mt TBR as much as we can in the next 2 months
Okay, we're coming up to the end of the year and I'm sure your bookshelf is begging for you to clear up some space... for your new books, that is, ha ha ha.
So, we'll be opening up this (#5) challenge all the way up to NYE to make sure we clear up as much space as we can! However, NO re-reads allowed. This challenge is strictly for your TBR books only (ie. books that have been on your TBR before today, 29 October 2012). Hence, clearing up space for NEW TBRs ;)
This challenge will depend on how you have organised your bookshelf. The challenge is to read from each category / section of your shelf.
For example;
I have my books in alphabetical order of author's surname so I'll be reading a book from each alphabet of author's surname. I am only going to read books I physically have (ie. print ones). I'm pretty sure I don't have a book for each alphabet so I won't be reading 26 books!
If your books aren't sorted in any particular way, for example, there's a stack here by the bed, a stack there by the desk, another stack by the kitchen bench, you can read one book per stack. Or... if your shelves are divided into squares, then you can read a book per square. This is up to you, Be Creative!!
This challenge is leaning towards clearing up some space at home but if you wish to work through your GR to-read shelf, you're welcome to 'create' your own 'challenge' too.
AFTER the read...
If your book is, unfortunately, not a keeper or if you love it so much, you'd like others to have a chance to read too, then I would encourage your to actually clear up some space by...
1. donating your book/s to a charity organisation which has a second hand shop that would accept your book/s and sell them; or
2. donating your book/s to your library; or
3. registering them on Bookcrossing and release them to the wild; or
4. listing them on your site of choice for a swap;
5. just giving them to a friend / family member who you think would enjoy them;
etc... etc... etc...
Please note, we are not telling you to give your book/s away but only "encouraging" you to share with those less fortunate :)
Let me know your goal (ie. how many books you'd like to "clear" out of TBR by NYE)