Mount TBR 2017 discussion

I've read 94 books so far in 2016, but not all of them qualify for the 2016 challenge. Resolving to do better in 2017!

Good luck, Kate!

Well, January's over with, & we're leaping into February. Read 6 from my TBR, & got 16 in trade. Hmmm, that didn't work out exactly like I planned! In my defense, I read several very long books, & I am committed to reading books in the order they were acquired.

January reads:
1. The Property of a Lady (264 pages)
2. Slow Surrender (287 pages)
3. Slow Seduction (254 pages)
4. Slow Satisfaction (297 pages)
5. The Dreaming Suburb (470 pages)
6. The Avenue Goes To War (630 pages)
7. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (407 pages)

Well another slow month ... although I certainly thought I'd read more than that!

8. Triple Ridge Farm
9. The Circumference of Home: One Man's Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life
10. The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense and Sensibility

March was another slow reading month -- too much extracurricular activities and not enough time to just sit and read.

11. The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
12. Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America
13. Scottish Journey
14. Bedding Down
15. Dances With Trout
16. The Last Bear
17. The Ugly One
18. The Ninety Days of Genevieve

GR, who's keeping track, tells me I'm 16 books behind, so I'd better get to it!

April's books:

19. New Grub Street
20. An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
21. Columbus in the Americas
22. Enslaved by Ducks
23. Death of a Cozy Writer
24. Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror

If I'm shooting for 100 books, I'm only 1 behind. I signed up to read 125 books in the GR challenge, so there I'm 20 books behind. This month I'm reading House of Mirth, which is huge, and Green Thoughts which is also huge, so I may not do any catching up. :(

Oh my goodness! Look how far behind I am posting what I've read!

May:
25. Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front 1939-1942
26. Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive SCRABBLE Players (abandoned)
27. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
28. Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays
29. The Sound of Trumpets
30. Beauty's Punishment
31. Beauty's Release
32. The Collected Feghoot

June:
33, Uncle Fred in the Springtime
34. The Golden Straw
35. Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden
36. Chronicles of a Curate #1-3
37. Night Train to Memphis
38. Death in Zanzibar
39. Tamed by a Laird
40. The Beautiful Cassandra
41. Secret Submission
42. Chronicles of a Vicar
43. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
44. Bound and Determined
45. The Sea, the Sea (abandoned)
46. Planet of Exile

Despite heroic efforts to catch up, for Mt. Everest I'm 4 short at the halfway mark.

"Mount TBR Checkpoint #2"

46 books read, so just short of being halfway up the mountain

a. Choose two titles from the books you've read so far that have a common link.
Chronicles of a Curate and Chronicles of a Vicar. Novelized memoirs of Fred during his career in the English church.

b. Tell us about a book on the list that was new to you in some way.
The Golden Straw; I'd never read anything by this author because I didn't think I'd like the genre. A dear friend brought the book to me while I was in hospital, and I devoured it in 2 days, & loved it!

c. Which book (read so far) has been on your TBR mountain the longest?
Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front 1939-1942. Added top TBR mountain Jan. 10, 2011.
Was it worth the wait? No, but I enjoyed the book & it was just that there were so many other books in front of it.

Wow! I haven't posted here since June! Yikes!

July:
47. A Woman's World: True Stories of Life on the Road
48. Decadent
49. A Shower Of Summer Days
50. The Summer of a Dormouse
51. Mrs. Stevens Hears The Mermaids Singing: A Novel
52. Consuming Passion
53. A Long Way from Verona

August:
54. There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem
55. Outlaw
56. To Please a Lady
57. How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
58. Parnassus on Wheels
59. Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
60. You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You
61. The Solitaire Mystery: A Novel About Family and Destiny
62. Book Lovers

September:
63. The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories
64. The Wind Done Gone
65. Big Dreams: Into the Heart of California
66. The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs
67. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
68. Bigfoot Dreams
69. Guilty Pleasure
70. Melt into You
71. Pemberley: Or Pride and Prejudice Continued
72. In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
73. Traveling Light: A Year of Wandering, from California to England and Tuscany and Back Again

October:
74. Only Pleasure
75. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
76. The Witch of Exmoor
77. The Natural History of Selborne
78. I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease and General Misadventure, as Related in Popular Song
79. Forbidden Pleasure
80. The Women in Black
81. The Dining Club
82. The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
83. Time And Again
84. Writings of John Muir I: The Story of my Boyhood and Youth/A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf
85. Jigs Reels: Stories

November:
86. DogStar
87. The Friendly Young Ladies
88. Three by Finney: The Woodrow Wilson Dime / The Night People / Marion's Wall
89. King of Spades
90. The Light Years
91. Blooming: a Small-Town Girlhood

December:
92. Marking Time
93. Confusion
94. Casting Off
95. Somewhere Towards the End
96. Once Upon a Crime
97. Murder After Hours
98. Double Sin and Other Stories
99. Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
100. Easy to Kill
101. Darker
102. Appointment with Death
103. The Red House Mystery
104. Favorite Father Brown Stories
105. Murder Most Cozy: Mysteries in the Classic Tradition

Made it up Mt. Everest ... by the skin of my teeth!

Excellent work!

Bravo! Congrats!