Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2012 discussion

Books Read
in 2012

01 Jan 04 My review of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
02 Jan 17 My review of Wickford Point
03 Jan 27 My review of Mistress of the Art of Death
04 Feb 04 My review of The Raphael Affair
05 Feb 07 My review of The Titian Committee
06 Feb 11 My review of The Irresistible Henry House
07 Feb 16 My review of Déjà Dead
08 Feb 20 My review of Inherit the Wind
09 Mar 08 My review of The Witch Of Blackbird Pond
10 Mar 11 My review of Eating Animals
11 Mar 14 My review of A Fraction of the Whole
12 Mar 20 My review of Pure Drivel
13 Mar 25 My review of The Pale Abyssinian
14 Apr 05 My review of The Mystery of the Yellow Room
15 Apr 21 My review of Cutting for Stone
16 Apr 25 My review of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
17 Apr 28 My review of Roman Blood
18 May 23 My review of Anne of Green Gables
19 May 26 My review of Northern Lights
20 Jun 02 My review of J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys: The real story behind Peter Pan
21 Jun 10 My review of The Golden Compass
22 Jun 22 My reveiw of A Tale of Two Cities
23 Jun 23 My review of Girl in Hyacinth Blue
24 Jul 08 My review of A Suitable Boy
25 Jul 11 My reveiew of The Joy Luck Club
26 Jul 23 My review of The Hunger Games
27 Jul 30 My review of Fatal Voyage
28 July 31 My review of The Secret Life of Lobsters:...
29 Aug 05 My review of Sarah's Key
30 Aug 26 My review of Temeraire
31 Sept 02 My review of The Blessing Way
32 Sept 05 My review of The Secret Adversary
33 Sept 10 My review of King Solomon's Mines
34 Sept 14 My review of Dissolution
35 Sept 21 My review of Unnatural Causes
36 Oct 03 My review of The Curse of the Pharaohs
37 Oct 10 My review of The Red House Mystery
38 Oct 23 My review of The Wrong Kind Of Blood
39 Nov 15 My review of The Piano Tuner
40 Dec 13 RTF Gather Together in My Name

The End

Just out of curiosity,
will keep track of breakdown by format:

Paperback
1 Roger Ackroyd
2 Wickford Point
4 Raphael Affair
5 Titian Committee
7 Deja Dead
8 Inherit the Wind
9 Witch of Blackbird Pond
10 Eating Animals
12 Pure Drivel
15 Cutting for Stone
16 Henrietta Lacks
18 Anne of Green Gables
19 Northern Lights
20 JM Barrie and the Lost Boys
21 The Golden Compass
23 Hyacinth Blue
24 A Suitable Boy
25 Joy Luck Club
27 Fatal Voyage
28 Secret Life of Lobsters
30 Temeraire
35 Unnatural Causes
36 The Curse of the Pharaohs
37 The Red House Mystery
38 Wrong Kind of Blood
39 Piano Tuner

Hardcover
3 Mistress Art of Death
6 Henry House
13 The Pale Abyssinian

eBook
11 A Fraction of the Whole
14 The Mystery of the Yellow Room
17 Roman Blood
22 A Tale of Two Cities
26 Hunger Games
29 Sarah's Key
31 The Blessing Way
32 The Secret Adversary
33 King Solomon's Mines

Audio
34 Dissolution

Breakdown by genre

Mystery
1 Roger Ackroyd
3 Mistress Art of Death
4 Raphael Affair
5 Titian Committee
7 Deja Dead
14 The Mystery of the Yellow Room
17 Roman Blood
19 Northern Lights
27 Fatal Voyage
31 The Blessing Way
32 The Secret Adversary
34 Dissolution
35 Unnatural Causes
36 The Curse of the Pharaohs
37 The Red House Mystery
38 Wrong Kind of Blood
40 Gather Together in My Name

Lit-tra-chure
2 Wickford Point
6 Henry House
8 Inherit the Wind
11 A Fraction of the Whole
15 Cutting for Stone
18 Anne of Green Gables
22 A Tale of Two Cities
23 The Girl in Hyacinth Blue
24 A Suitable Boy
25 Joy Luck Club
29 Sarah's Key
33 King Solomon's Mines
39 Piano Tuner

YA
9 Witch of Blackbird Pond
20 Tintin au Congo
22 The Golden Compass
26 Hunger Games
30 Temeraire

Non Fiction
10 Eating Animals
12 Pure Drivel
13 The Pale Abyssinian
16 Henrietta Lacks
21 JM Barrie and the Lost Boys
28 Secret Life of Lobsters
40 Gather Together in My Name

Just finishing up War Horse, which doesn't count for the challenge as it's a "bookring" and just arrived. Lovely children's story, but suitable for adults. I haven't seen the film, and will wait for it to come to the satellite so I can see it in English.

Has anyone seen the stage production? The South African puppeteers who built the horses are so talented.



photo from The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/th...

Wow, they're amazing! I've heard nothing but good things about the stage production.

A friend of mine recently saw the stage production in NYC. She loved it. The production is coming to Melbourne next year and my daughter and I will definitely travel to Melbourne to see it.

In relation to the film, my kids and some of their friends saw it at Christmas time and were distinctly underwhelmed.

Yes, the movie seems to be getting mixed reviews.

Yeah... I'm not going to race out to see it. I hope it is still showing (on the stage, I mean) in New York this summer. We are planning to be in the US, but we have to sit down and work out the details.

It will be on in NYC until at least the end of August, Hayes, so you should be fine. I'll be very jealous! :D

Goodie! Something to look forward to!

The play is coming to LA in March or April. I am really hoping to get a ticket as a friend of mine saw it in New York too and absolutely loved it.

It's going to be on in Melbourne at some point this year. My daughter and I will definitely be going on an excursion to see it.

Grand fun! The one thing I really miss about living in NYC (as opposed to all the normal/usual things I miss) is having Broadway so close. I used to go 3 or 4 times a year, often going to the TKTS half price place. Such a treat. *sigh* Theatre is not big in Rome. There is more going on up north, but here no.

Hayes wrote: "Grand fun! The one thing I really miss about living in NYC (as opposed to all the normal/usual things I miss) is having Broadway so close. I used to go 3 or 4 times a year, often going to the TKTS ..."

I can well imagine missing NYC for that reason, Hayes. I get to see some great theatre in Sydney, but going to the theatre in NYC or in London is such a treat. The first time my daughter and I went to NYC together, we overdosed on theatre. From memory we saw about eleven productions in sixteen days, with most of the tickets bought from TKTS booth. It was my daughter's first visit to NYC and the light in her eyes the first time we turned a corner and I told her we were on Broadway was priceless!

I've been reading everyone's posts, just not posting much. I have been playing the "one armed paper hanger", so I'm kinda stalled with the challenge. And I'm reading 3 wonderful books, but they are chunksters... I might have to slip in a kid's book just to keep me going!

Hayes wrote: "I've been reading everyone's posts, just not posting much. I have been playing the "one armed paper hanger", so I'm kinda stalled with the challenge. And I'm reading 3 wonderful books, but they are..."

I have to get started with my books as well (I am still hoping to actually go above and beyond Mount Vancouver).

I'm now getting very tired of one of my books, but I am loath to give up on it. I will persevere. Then I'll have to write a negative review and have everyone jump all over me ;-) Decisions, decisions...

Could be fun! I am dragging on a book I always thought my mother loved. It's not very good. So, I can jump on your review to alleviate my feelings of bad-daughter guilt. You're a pal! :D

Any time! What are friends for? :-)))

lol I have to push through and finish, because we start The Fellowship of the Ring this week. Are you in?

No, I'll have to pass. I have to finish A Suitable Boy, and I have a few other bricks that I have to get through. I'm so glad Bev set up this challenge, because I have some books that have been sitting on my shelves since August of 2009... and those are the purchased ones. I finally read the ones that I brought over from the States 26 years ago!

I'm pulling out a mix of recent and neglected books, too.

Slipped in a re-read of a kids' book which doesn't count for the challenge, while I read the others, which are snailing along... good, but slow, all three of them (well, 2.5 of them are good).

The Black Stallion

and I finally posted my review of Inherit the Wind

9. The Witch of Blackbird Pond

I'm chipping away with the YA stuff while slogging through the 3 monsters. Never ending...

My niece has bugged me to read this for years. Have you posted a review?

Jeannette wrote: "My niece has bugged me to read this for years. Have you posted a review?"

Yes, it's there in the first comment.

25% done: finished #10: Eating Animals

review posted above

finished #11 A Fraction of the Whole

review posted above

Very disappointing after a stellar beginning.

finished #12 Pure Drivel

disappointing... on a roll of meh books lately.

Hayes wrote: "finished #12 Pure Drivel

disappointing... on a roll of meh books lately."

That's gonna be par for the course innit? I hate to be a downer on the challenge, but sometimes, just sometimes, there's a damned good reason why those books have stayed on the TBR shelf for years and years - maybe they were a bit of a mistake in the first place? Or at the very least, there was ALWAYS something much more attractive that meant they were passed by.

Self-prophesy with this one?

You're both right!

But that's what this challenge is all about: read 'em and get 'em off the shelves. These will be BookCrossing and BookMooch fodder... and then there will be room for more books!! Yay!!

Get em through the system....

#13 The Pale Abyssinian

I like your Spring glasses. Hayes! :)

Thank you. They're supposed to be Easter Eggs, but it's hard to see them so small.

They are eggs!

Thanks for the Checkpoint Post! Mistress of the Art of Death is still up the road on my climb. I'll check out your review once I've conquered it.

It had the advantage of being a page turner, so I think you'll get through it pretty quickly. You've managed to read so many books! Before I joined GR I considered myself a fast reader, but then discovered that I am a rank amateur!

I'm a true noob in comparison to most of you!

Just finishing up Cover Her Face, which is a re-read so doesn't count for the challenge. Always a pleasure as James writes so well.

Hayes wrote: "Just finishing up Cover Her Face, which is a re-read so doesn't count for the challenge. Always a pleasure as James writes so well."

She did until she wrote Death Comes to Pemberley!

Hayes, I have some of your books sitting on my shelves, too.

Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Seabiscuit (reading this one now)
Suite Francaise

I've also read both of these: Cutting for Stone
and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Isn't Cutting for Stone just fabulous? Henrietta Lacks will be fab I know, but I have just started. I'll be reading those three before too long, so if you want to join me, let me know.

I really liked Cutting for Stone, and the Henrietta Lacks story is incredible to the point that one forgets that she is reading fiction.

As for the other three, I'll keep my eye out for when you start them. I'll try to join you if I can. I have a list mapped out for April. Seabiscuit is on that list. I've only read about 30 pages so far, but I can tell that I'm really going to like it. I love Hillenbrand's writing - have you read Unbroken?

No, seabiscuit will be the first. I am an ex-horse fanatic (when I was 12 I drove my city-bred mother to near insanity with my love for large 4-legged creatures), so I think I will love Seabiscuit too.

My husband read Seabiscuit and really enjoyed it.

The movie is very good, too.

Jeannette wrote: "I'm a true noob in comparison to most of you!"

I'm a noob too, sometimes I can be a jealous noob when I see what others are capable of reading, but most of the time I happily accept my noobdom (aka slowmoville).

Good to know I'm not alone. :)

We noobs need to stick together and buddy read on.