Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2012 discussion

Thanks to Laura, Gundula and Jeannette for inviting me to tackle the challenge. I tend to buy more non-fiction than fiction so most of my books will fall under that category. This is a partial list of books I hope read which may change depending on my mood.

1. The Count of Monte Cristo
2. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
3. Killing Floor
4. The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto
5. The Animal Activist's Handbook: Maximizing Our Positive Impact in Today's World
6. Artisan Vegan Cheese

Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone
Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, and Money
Learning All The Time
Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Dark Side of the Light Chasers
Roughing It in the Bush
Out of Africa
My Mother's House & Sido
The Cellist of Sarajevo
The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense
Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals
Out Stealing Horses
Someone Knows My Name
Betsy-Tacy
The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony
Vegan for Life: Everything You Need to Know to Be Healthy and Fit on a Plant-Based Diet
The Book of Learning and Forgetting
Rooftops of Tehran

Great list, Lee! And already 2 down. I went for the smallest mountain, because I tend to change my mind all the time. :)

Thanks Jeannette, I'm debating whether or not to add Anna Karenina....

Hey, do you own A Tale of Two Cities? Summer buddy-read!

Nope, but I do own some other Dickens.

How about The Master and Margarita? I don't own it, but it's our proposed Fall buddy-read. Hayes is just pushing me merrily along....

Darn, I've already read it! I'll have to check both your lists to see if we have any owned books in common.

Well, To2C, I do own, and it will be my first Dickens, not counting Christmas Carol. I don't own Master & Margarita, but I think Hayes does, and I can't remember who else. I am willing to swap out from my list in order to do a buddy-read. :) (I don't own a lot of books that I haven't read. I usually buy a book after I know I like it!)

Good luck Lee!

Just curious, it seems most people are putting up a list of expected reads. I think I'm one of the minority who is listing them as I read them simply because it would be too hard to know what I want to read weeks from now, never mind months from now. I'm just not as disciplined as the rest of you.

I'm listing as I go too Dawn. I would never be able to decide what I want to read in advance.

I probably won't end up reading every book on my list but I'm putting it up there as motivation. Thanks for the encouragement~!

Betsy Tacy is wonderful, hmm, I might consider Roughing it in the Bush as a buddy read, I've been wanting to read that book for years (or reread it, we read a small part of it in school).

Cool! It looks really interesting. If you're up for anytime this year, let me know. I'd love to buddy read with you.

Lee wrote: "Cool! It looks really interesting. If you're up for anytime this year, let me know. I'd love to buddy read with you."

Maybe in the summer sometime, I have to locate my copy first.

Okey dokey!

Dawn (& Ron) wrote: "Good luck Lee!

Just curious, it seems most people are putting up a list of expected reads. I think I'm one of the minority who is listing them as I read them simply because it would be too hard to..."

If I did not do a list, I would never get my challenge off the ground (it's not that I am orgnaised, but that I am unorganised); I would be sunk without a list.

I would probably flounder as well. I'm hoping the list will keep me focused on my goal.

And Lee is here too! Yay!

Hoohaa!

I guess Jemidar and I are the minority then. Maybe besides not knowing what I will want to read throughout the year, it is also because I have so many to choose from. Making a list just seems so overwhelming to me.

My TBR pile lives in a very large bookcase in my bedroom so I really don't need a list because I have 400+ books staring at me whenever I walk into the room and to meet this challenge all I've got to do is go over and pick one :-).

Lee wrote: "Hoohaa!"

Hi Lee! *waves*

Jemidar, that's my situation too. You sound like us with your own mini library to choose from, so how can we make a list when we have all those to pick from?

I have a large bookcase in my bedroom where all my un-read books live too. My list is made up of some of the books I'd really like to get to this year but it's just as likely that I will not be in the mood for any of them and veer off in another direction!

I mostly didn't do a list because like you I figured I would veer off it and it would prove to be a pointless exercise. When I did a Heyer Challenge a while ago I dutifully listed the books I wanted to read and then ended up reading just about everything but the ones I listed, so I know from experience it doesn't work for me. But having said that, there are some I know I will read this year because they're scheduled for buddy reads :-).

I'd love to do buddy reads too because I know they would keep me in line but unfortunately my list of books is not full of titles that are popular.

I enjoy reading Heyer occasionally for comfort.

I usually have to do my NF reading on my own, but Kim and I tend to have similar tastes in fiction so have quite a stack to get through together. Buddy reads certainly keep you committed and are of lots of fun. Reading with Kim has certainly helped me get through more books!

That's great you have a good friend to read with who shares your taste in fiction. I love Kim.

So do I :-).

Lee wrote: "That's great you have a good friend to read with who shares your taste in fiction. I love Kim."

Jemidar wrote: "So do I :-)."

*blushes*

And I love the both of you! :D

Aww shucks.

Jemidar wrote: "I mostly didn't do a list because like you I figured I would veer off it and it would prove to be a pointless exercise. When I did a Heyer Challenge a while ago I dutifully listed the books I want..."

Same here, I jump where the mood sends me.

*waves*

Hi Lee, the more the merrier :)

Hi Misfit! Your status updates on the feed keep me mightily entertained on some days. :-)

Me, too!

Kim, you are like a delicious piece of my favourite cake; complex, memorable and the perfect balance of sweet and tart!

Lee wrote: "Kim, you are like a delicious piece of my favourite cake; complex, memorable and the perfect balance of sweet and tart!"

That is a lovely compliment, Lee, particularly given how I feel about cake!

Cake rates pretty high in my world too!

Lee wrote: "Hi Misfit! Your status updates on the feed keep me mightily entertained on some days. :-)"

Status updates are fun :)

Yours in particular catch my eye. The photos and those funny, racy historicals with the hilarious descriptions of body parts. Love it!

I live to amuse, although Karla is heads and tails ahead of me :p

Lee, when you get around to it, I wouldn't mind reading Rooftops of Tehran with you. I'm bit of a sucker for books by Iranians / about Iran (as you can probably see from my shelves). I don't own it, but I can see if I can rustle up a copy.

Sure, anytime! If and when you get a hold of a copy, I can read it.

Excellent. I'll look into it. I added it to Mt TBR when I saw it on you list the other day.

Even though it would not be part of the challenge, since I don't own the book, I would love to do a buddy read for Out of Africa.

Sure! I've been wanting to read it for a long time. I don't know why I haven't picked it up yet. Let me know when you're in the mood.

Jemidar wrote: "My TBR pile lives in a very large bookcase in my bedroom so I really don't need a list because I have 400+ books staring at me whenever I walk into the room and to meet this challenge all I've got..."
That is really cool.

It's the only way I can keep track of them!

I just finished reading my first Lee Child book which a friend gave to me a few years ago as a joke thinking I'd never read it. Little did he know, I love adventure/action/thriller/mystery type books and I've just created a new shelf in honour of Killing Floor called "man fluff".

Oh boy, I'm way behind on this challenge. I've started several of the books on my list and put them down in favour of lots of library "comfort reads".

Lee wrote: "Oh boy, I'm way behind on this challenge. I've started several of the books on my list and put them down in favour of lots of library "comfort reads"."

I'm way behind as well, so you are not the only one :-)