Your teetering TBR pile
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"Throw Away Your TBR List..." article
Comments (5)Like Netla, I try to wait a few days/weeks after I have found a new title and before I buy it. (Most of the time the urge leaves, and most of the time I can wait. Not easy sometimes though... And just discovered adding to the Wish List at amazon! That's a whole new world right there.) I think that the article about the TBR pile had resonated with me as I had been struggling a bit with a small and informal challenge that I had set myself. Numerous other bloggers were implementing the "TBR Challenge" whereby from Jan 01 until Mar 31, one doesn't buy a book or get a new title from the library. You can "only" read what's already in your possession and in your TBR pile. I had been doing ok with that, but then the challenge started to chafe me a bit and so I caved in. Still, I did do the TBR challenge for about 5 weeks, and removed a few (six) titles from the TBR mountain. In doing so, I learned that I am not that fond of limiting what I can read! So - the challenge is no longer an issue (as in I'm off it now), but it was good whilst it lasted. I became more aware of the book selection that I have already on my shelves and I realized how much I loved my local library! And, like Sheri, I have become better at DNFing any titles that aren't working for me. Off with their heads and into the charity pile they go!!...See MoreA Blogger's TBR Challenge for 2010
Comments (21)Here is my list of 12 first-choice TBR books and how I did with this challenge: * Tell Me Where it Hurts - Dr. Nick Trout - Read * Finding Manana - Mirta Ojito - Read * Journey Through Britain - John Hilleby - Read * And Ladies of the Club - Santemeyer - Didn't Finish * The Various Haunts of Men - Susan Hill * New Grub Street - Gissing (Hi PAM!) * Mapp & Lucia - EF Benson - Read * The Road to Wellness - TC Boyle - Read * Writing Home - Alan Bennett * The Great Mortality - John Kelly - Read * The Knife Man - Wendy Moore * Moscow Stories - Graham Alternate List: * Kim - Rudyard Kipling - Didn't Finish * Watership Down - Richard Adams * Under an English Heaven - Robert Radcliffe - Read * Divisidaro - Michael Ondaatje - Read * Cross Country with Grandma - Karen Testa * An Imaginative Experience - Mary Wesley * Night - Elie Wiesel - Read * A Ship of Paper -- Scott Spencer * Waterland - Graham Swift - Read * Stillmeadow Sampler - Taber * Wuthering Heights - Bronte - Read * Cry, Beloved Country - Alan Paton So, I was quite happy with that. Some of these titles have rolled over to the 2011 TBR list, so we'll see if this year can get them completed. Elliot, Chris and Veronica - how did you fare?...See MoreReaders live longer..........( probably to finish that TBR pile !)
Comments (7)Carolyn, would you want to be immortal?! yoyo, I don't know how 'deep' the study was but it might be that non-readers come from disadvantaged backgrounds where books/reading is just never part of their lives, or if female (as most readers seem to be) they never have any time/space to themselves. I don't know about the US but over here reading is often seen as slightly sissy among macho types and even considered by some women to be a sign that someone (probably me) isn't doing enough housework etc!...See MoreThe top five books on your TBR pile right now
Comments (37)Reader in Transit, in response to your request for my opinion, I wanted to tell you that I didn't get as excited about Nature's Best Hope as I did Tallamy's two earlier books, or his talks on Youtube. Perhaps it is just that I have already read the other two, so this one seems repetitive to me. My personal favorite is Bringing Nature Home, though The Living Landscape also very good. In any case, I think his earlier two books do a better job of making his point, though this one wasn't bad....See Morekathy_t
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