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The Monthly TBR Cleanup Challenge: March 2022

Does your TBR list looks more and more like a skyscraper with each passing day? Worry not, because here we gather together to cull it down to (hopefully) manageable proportions.

Take stock of your TBR list, and set a goal for yourself. You will unload a set number of books per month, by hook or by crook. The books can be fully read or DNF'ed, but they cannot go back into your TBR.

Levels:

Very Hard: Space Elevator (6215 Miles): 25 Books
Hard: Burj Khalifa (828m/2717ft.): 15 Books
Medium: Taipei 101 (508m/1667ft): 10 Books
Easy: Empire State Building (381m/1250ft): 5 Books
Very Easy: Eiffel Tower (324m/1063ft): 3 Books

Choosing Your Books:

You can always choose whichever book you want. But if you're flooded with options and don't know where to start, here are a couple of options to tide you over:

1. Use the Random Number Generator on random.org. Just input your min/max parameters (1/# of books in your TBR) into the little lavender rectangle on the top-right and run it as many times as you need to.

https://www.random.org/

2. For a more challenge-related TBR completion strategy, as well as an additional level of difficulty, use any of the challenges in the Monthly Challenges folder. This means that any book you read to fulfill the challenge prompts would have to be from your TBR.

Other Instructions:

1. Books can be used for more than one challenge.
2. No page or book type restrictions; they just need to be logged in to Goodreads.
3. If you start a book and then find that you can neither DNF nor Finish it, you can put it back into the TBR pile. But you'll need to pick another book for the challenge instead.
4. Remember, at the end of the day this is just about whittling down that gigantic mountain of books sneering at you, asking why you haven't read them yet. Almost anything goes so long as we get to the finish line. :D

Participants

March 2022

1. Shelly: 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉/10

2. Denise: 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉/5 !!! COMPLETE!!!

3. D.L.: 🎉/5

Updated on 28th March

I’m in!

✅Easy: Empire State Building (381m/1250ft): 5 Books
COMPLETED: 5/5

1.Crochet and Cauldrons - Nancy Warren 03/03/22

2. Book, Line and Sinker - Jenn McKinlay 03/06/22

3. Statue of Limitations - Kate Collins 03/08/22

4. The Rocky Road to Ruin - Meri Allen 03/11/22

5. Fashion, Rosé & Foul Play - Gemma Halliday 03/14/22


We’ll try:
Medium: Taipei 101 (508m/1667ft): 10 Books
9/10 books

6. Cajun Kiss of Death - Ellen Byron 03/17/22

7. Winnie-The-Pooh - A.A. Milne 03/19/22 (I can’t believe in my 63 years I’ve never read this.)

8. Deadly Ever After - Eva Gates 03/24/22

9. Body Over Troubled Waters - Denise Swanson 03/30/22

10.

Jumping in on this one. Let's see what the RNG finds on my endless TBR pile!

The Monthly TBR Cleanup Challenge: March 2022

Level: Easy: Empire State Building (381m/1250ft): 5 Books
Completed: 5/5

1. Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (13 Mar 2022) ****
2. The Three Edwards by Thomas B. Costain (22 Mar 2022) ***
3. Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and His Times by Radu R. Florescu (08 Mar 2022) ****
4. Running With Lions by Julian Winters (10 Mar 2022) ***
5. Travel Glasses by Chess Desalls (18 Mar 2022) **

I'll try!

Level: Easy: Empire State Building (381m/1250ft): 5 Books
Progress: 1/5

1. No Murder Before Its Time
2. I Let You Go
3. A Real Basket Case
4. The Ghost's Grave (3/14/22)
5. Never Been Kissed