Mount TBR 2016 discussion

I didn't make it to 150 last yeaar, but I'm going to redouble my efforts in 2016!

Good luck, Kate! I hope to join you once I plant the flag on Everest.

I'm sure you will Bev! You are an audacious copious reader!

Kate wrote: "I'm sure you will Bev! You are an audacious copious reader!"

Thanks--I manage to get my feet on Olympus, but I haven't yet planted a flag on the peak....

Well, January wasn't such a hot start.

1. Cards on the Table
2. The Visitant
3. The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life
4. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

I'm counting Sunset Song even though I'm actually reading A Scots Quair. It's an older edition, and the print is small and of course the text is very dense. It's written in a style no longer popular, with Scottish dialect, so it's not an easy read and very slow going. I didn't get "hooked" until almost the end of the book.

I'm also reading Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour which is pretty dense and slow reading. It's very interesting though, & explains a lot of little things seen on English tv shows.

And I'm also struggling through The Island Within which meets the requirement for an abandoned book in another chaallenge I'm doing. It's also not an easy or quick read. But hopefully my rate will go up one I get through these!

January stats:
4 books
1,287 pages

Hey, that's ok. Still plenty of time in the year to catch up!

Well, I didn't make it to 150. I've been so busy I haven't posted anything, so I'd better get it done before swinging into 2017!

1. Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot #15) by Agatha Christie
2. The Visitant (The Anasazi Mysteries, #1) by Kathleen O'Neal Gear
3. The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life by BillMcKibben
4. Sunset Song (A Scots Quair) by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
5. Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair) by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
6. Grey Granite (A Scots Quair) by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
7. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox
8. The Island Within by Richard K. Nelson
9. Aunt Epp's Guide for Life: From Chastity to Copper Kettles, Musings of a Victorian Lady by Elspeth Marr
10. Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City by Anna Quindlen
11. My Turn to Make the Tea by Monica Dickens
12. Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1) by E.L. James
13. Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2) by E.L. James
14. Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3) by E.L. James
15. Views from Thornhill: Of Family, Farm, and Other Fancies by Dee Hardie
16. Grey (Fifty Shades, #4) by E.L. James
17. Esprit de Corps & Stiff Upper Lip by Lawrence Durrell
18. The Crazyladies of Pearl Street by Trevanian
19. Country Days by Alice Taylor
20. Donald Has a Difficulty by Peter F. Neumeyer
21. Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey by Lori Perkins
22. Fat Man On A Roman Road by Tom Vernon
23. Never Love a Highlander (McCabe Trilogy, #3) by Maya Banks
24. Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart
25. The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester
26. The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden by William Alexander
27. The Wonderful O by James Thurber
28. The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett
29. There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: A Work of Political Subversion by Jim Hightower
30. The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut by Nigel Barley
31. Le Divorce by Diane Johnson
32. The Bishop's Jaegers by ThorneSmith
33. Control by Charlotte Stein
34. Bachelor Brothers' Bed And Breakfast by Bill Richardson
35. Dearest Dorothy, Are We There Yet? (Dearest Dorothy, #1) by Charlene Ann Baumbich
36. Dearest Dorothy, Who Would Have Thought? by Charlene Ann Baumbich
37. Dearest Dorothy, You're Wearing Us Out by Charlene Ann Baumbich
38. Grave Matters by Nigel Barley
39. Evening Clouds by Junzo Shono
40. The Echoing Green: The Garden in Myth and Memory by Jennifer Heath
41. A Modern Mephistopheles by Louisa May Alcott
42. Dirge for a Dorset Druid by Margot Arnold
43. Lament for a Lady Laird by Margot Arnold
44. The Book of Useless Information by Noel Botham
45. The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey
46. Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1) by Gail Carriger
47. Nebula Awards 33: The year's best SF and fantasy chosen by the Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers of America edited by Connie Willis
48. Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2) by Gail Carriger
49. Blameless (Parasol Protectorate #3) by Gail Carriger
50. Heartless (Parasol Protectorate, #4) by Gail Carriger
51. Come, Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie Mallowan
52. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
53. Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome
54. Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan
55. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
56. How People Change by Allen Wheelis
57. Sir Apropos of Nothing (Sir Apropos of Nothing, #1) by Peter David
58. The Woad to Wuin (Sir Apropos of Nothing, #2) by Peter David
59. Tong Lashing (Sir Apropos of Nothing, #3) by Peter David
60. Depression in Later Life: An Essential Guide by Deborah Serani
61. Three Men in a Float: Across England at 15 mph by Dan Kieran
62. Living with Depression by Deborah Serani
63. What Is God? by Jacob Needleman
64. The Fly Fisherman's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What A Lifetime on the Water Has Taught Me About Love, Work, Food, Sex, and Getting Up Early by Peter Kaminsky
65. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
66. Death at the Chase by Michael Innes
67. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas Friedman
68. All Quiet On The Orient Express by Magnus Mills
69. The Scheme For Full Employment by Magnus Mills
70. Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World by Pico Iyer
71. Murder for Christmas edited by Thomas Godfrey
72. A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy (Inspector Ramsey, #3) by Ann Cleeves
73. Keto Clarity: Your Definitive Guide to the Benefits of a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet by Jimmy Moore
74. The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
75. Gently to the Summit by Alan Hunter
76. The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
77. The Phantom of Pemberley (Pride and Prejudice Murder Mystery #1) by Regina Jeffers
78. Scotched by Kaitlyn Dunnett
79. God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World by Walter Russell Mead
80. Bared to You (Crossfire, #1) by Sylvia Day
81. Reflected in You (Crossfire, #2) by Sylvia Day
82. Entwined With You (Crossfire, #3) by Sylvia Day
83. Captivated by You (Crossfire, #4) by Sylvia Day
84. One With You (Crossfire, #5) by Sylvia Day