Mount TBR 2020 discussion

Last night before I fell asleep I added several books on my shelf and every kindle book and audible book on my devices and in cloud to my Goodreads Want to Read!
As a native of Denver, I feel sure that this is doable.

I have had a copy of Sanditon by Jane Austen for years. (as I am living temporarily in Texas, it is on a shelf in Oklahoma)
I also bought a Kindle book that claimed to hold Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon a few years ago. Instead of reading any of those, I reread Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma and the othe three every few years.
Now that Sanditon is coming to PBS, it was time.
How sad that Austen did not live to complete the novel.
The annotated version in Oxford World Classics was the best to read with a helpful introduction.
So my first Read of 2020 and first climb on TBR mountain is the final unfinished novel by my favorite author:
Sanditon by Jane Austen.

Looking forward to seeing what the miniseries directed by Andrew Davies does with it.

I didn't realize that PBS was going to do "Sanditon" - I will have to reread it. Do you know when it is supposed to air?

Good luck with your climb!

thank you
It begins Sunday January 12 on Masterpiece.
It will be interesting to see how they came up with 8 episodes. I believe it was on in UK in late summer.
Same director as the old BBC P&P!

Ooh just over a week away! Thanks so much for letting me know about it.

book 2 of TBR
Waiting for the Word by Malcolm Guite
I bought this Advent, Christmastide and Epiphany devotional book of poetry on my Kindle three years ago. Every year I would forget I had it!
Finally I remembered and began reading December 1 a poem a day with enlightening and meaningful interpretation by the author editor.
I read the last poem yesterday on Epiphany. Many of the poets were familiar Blake, Tennyson, Rosetti, Donne and Herbert. There were a number of contemporary poets I did not know. My favorite new poet from the collection is Luci Shaw.

book 3 of TBR
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
I read David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities in school, and of course A Christmas Carol several times. Had never read this one, nor even see a movie, considered his masterpiece. Now I have and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Now I feel inspired to put more classics on my TBR. But first....the mountain that still looms before me.

book 4 of TBR
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
I had purchased this because it sounded interesting and then Chose to read The Underground Railroad by the author for a book club. His are challenging reads because of the subjects and the genre of speculative fiction. I wasn't ready to read another soon. I will likely read more because they are challenging but not more than one every year or so!

book 5 of TBR
The Winters by Lisa Gabriele
i read Rebecca by Daphne duMaurier
a couple of years ago because it was on the Great American Read list qnd I had never read it.
Now one of my favorite books!
Soon after, I saw this book on a Kindle sale and bought it. I enjoy updates of classic novels and this one inspired by Rebecca is one of the best I've read! Glad it was on my tbr!

book 6 of TBR
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Tried to read twice before in the last 6 years.
It was time and I was invited to an online discussion group which helped get through it.
Tough but important, groundbreaking read.

book 7 of TBR
Gut by Guiliana Enders
Given me by my daughter 3 Christmases ago. We both have gut issues and she had watched her youtube. Funny, entertaining, and informative tour from one end to the other.

book 8
The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz (continues Stieg Larsen's Millenium Series, a Lisbeth Salander Mystery)

I enjoyed the first three books so much that I kept putting off reading this one written after Stieg Larsen's death. I received the book at a Book Club Dirty Santa Exchange Christmas before last. Not Stieg Larsen but an enjoyable sequel with characters I know and care about.

You can do it

book 9 of TBR
Illuminations by Mary Sharratt
historical novel about the life of Hildegard von Bingen
lived into her 80s in the 1100s
lived for 30 years with an anchorite
in a couple of small rooms bricked in inside a Benedictine monastery.
founded her own female monastery
wrote a book of her visions and was approved by a pope.
goodness
if she did that what are we complaining about?
haven't felt like reading anything new
my comfort books are Jane Austen and Sherlock Holmes.
but now progress.
this book had been on my TBR for a couple of years. I received a copy last Christmas.

book 10
The Feather Thief by Kirk W. Johnson
this book had only been on my TBR since last fall when our daughter read it for her book club and enjoyed it.
Such a page turner. Historical crime and a quirky group of crafters make for a very interesting true tale.

book 11 Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
I bought this book for my husband a couple of years ago. He read it and liked it very much.
now I finally read it because my book club is reading it. Been on my list two years I believe.
Much more subtle suspense than I expected which was done quite effectively. five stars!

book 12 Miriam Toews' Women Talking had been on my list for a couple of years.
Inspired by real events at a Mennonite colony in South America.

and with that I complete Pike's Peak climb and move on up!