Mount TBR 2020 discussion

I'm going for Pike's Peak this year, instead of Mont Blanc. This is because I have a lot of chunky books to get off Mount tbr but can't imagine I can read 24 in one year... so 12 it is.

1. Travelling Light - Alastair Sawday
2. The First Cadfael Omnibus - Ellis Peters
3. Dashing for the Post - Patrick Leigh Fermor
4. The Outsider - Frederick Forsyth
5. Pole to Pole - Michael Palin
6. To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis
7. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
8. Footnotes - Peter Fiennes
9. To War with Whitaker - Hermione Ranfurly
10. The Village - Marghanita Laski
11. Once Upon a River - Diane Setterfield
12. The White Road Westwards - 'BB'
13. Jack - Geoffrey Perret
14. Atlantic - Simon Winchester

The chunksters are some of the hardest books to get off the mountain. Go you!

I know, Alanna... they take such a long time to get through! Thought I'd give it a go though, but it's the reason I'm going for Pike's Peak this year rather than Mont Blanc.

Alanna wrote: "The chunksters are some of the hardest books to get off the mountain. Go you!"

that's why this year i've decided to set a weekly goal and after an "easy read" start chipping on a chunkster . . . the next week, set it aside until i finish my easy read and then bk to my chunkster . . . hoping this may help me to get through some of them rather than plod slowly thru and get frustrated?

The way I got through Moby-Dick in Nov/Dec was to set myself a goal of reading 20 pages a day. In fact I ended up reading more like 30 to 40 and it went surprisingly quickly. I read easier books alongside it and because it worked so well that's the way I'm going to approach the chunky books this year. Of course it means I must concentrate less on numbers of books read this year but actually that's no bad thing.

Hi Cath - wishing you good reading in 2020!

Thanks, Leslie, and the same to you. I love starting a new year of reading, the potential for joy really excites me. :-)

Moby Dick is on my list this year, thanks for sharing your strategy. I'll give it a try!

Karren: Well it certainly worked for me. I honestly don't think I could've read it exclusively as the text is quite challenging and fries your brain if you read it for too long. I was surpised at how quickly I got through it using this method.

I've finished my twelve books, Pike's Peak has been climbed! Now to decide whether to go on to Mont Blanc...

Well done Cath! It's all gravy from here out :)

Thanks, Leslie. Think this is the earliest I've ever finished, mind you it is only 12 books. :-D