The top five books on your TBR pile right now
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Comments (54)Blush Noisette and Francis DuBreuil tied for first place Mme Isaac and Souvenir de la Malmaison & their sports tied for second place MAC, Marchesa Bocella, Marie Pavie, and Yolande d'Aragon tied for third place. Disclaimers: 1.If you're a Jude the Obscure fan you can count his votes. I get so disgusted with DA's that I somehow forgot him. 2. Shameless attempts at stuffing the ballot box for Francis Dubreuil, so I only counted one vote per person and HE WON ANYWAY. Whatta rose! And an richly-deserved honorable mention for: Prairie Harvest-- yummmm spicy & complex White Lady Banks--sublime smell of violets you don't have to lie on your stomach to smell. 2-car garage is minimum size structure for this rose (use next door neighbor's if poss)....See More"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 MoreThe tottering TBR stack
Comments (25)Pam 53, I do like Minette Walters, but I think I keep buying them only because they are offered through the Mystery Guild at a good discount and I have all of them so far. I can't really say which I like best--she doesn't write a new one really often, and I tend to forget them in between. I do know they all seem to have a very tense, if not downright terrifying, denouement. Karalk, here is the complete poem: THE READING MOTHER I had a mother who read to me, Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea, Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth, "Blackbirds" stowed in the hold beneath. I had a mother who read me lays, Of ancient and gallant and golden days. Stories of Marmion and Ivanhoe, Which every boy has a right to know. I had a mother who read me things, That wholesome life to the boy heart brings Stories that stir with an upward touch, Oh, that each mother of boys were such! You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold, Richer than I, you can never be. I had a mother who read to me. Strickland Gillilan...See MoreManaging TBR titles without a tower
Comments (19)Pam53 - If you're interested, here are the instructions on how to load up a photo. (I just learned over the summer, so you're not the only one!) * First, you find and take a photo you want to put in here. Using whichever photo program you have (iPhoto, Picassa etc.), save it and make sure you give it a file name that you can recognize (not IMG123.jpg or something - some meaningful title), and then save it where you can find it again... (Important step.) :-) This could anywhere on your computer, but say it's on your desktop. Note: Change the image title when you're saving it either by during the "save as" step or right-click on the image in your computer file and select "rename". * Open up internet and come to RP (like normal). Come to this set of posts (the TBR pile one). Scroll down to the bottom. * In the "Post a Follow-Up" section (like the place where you write your reactions to the post), at the top of the section (above the message bit); there is a line that says "Image file to upload (optional)" and then there is a box which has "Browse" right by it. * Click "Browse" and find your image file (i.e. the photo that you have just saved). "Browse" will give you access to all your files, you need to dig around a bit and remember where you saved it and what you called it. * Once you have found your photo you want to use, just click "open" on that file upload window (the same kind of window you use to open a normal file). You click on it, press "open" in the bottom right hand corner, and then you should see a trail of letters and back slashes (there "\") in that Browse box. That's good. Go to the message box and just type your message as usual. Then preview message. Bingo....See Morekathy_t
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