April 2024 TBR

February starting TBR: 369

March ending TBR: 437
(I found a big cache of books I had saved on Everand and hadn’t added to my TBR)

I completely forgot to post at the end of February so I’m just picking up where I left off. March was a slow reading month, but I know April will be better because soon it will be front porch reading season!

Here’s my planned list:

1) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (reading a chapter a day-expect to finish in April)

2) File M For Murder by Miranda James

3) The Women by Kristin Hannah

4) Built To Last by Jim Collins

5) Murder at the Marina by Ellen Jacobson

6) Eight Bears by Gloria Dickie

7) Tales From The Torrid Zone by Alexander Frater

8) The $64 Tomato by William Alexander

9) Climate Resilience by Kylie Flanagan

10) Fancy Bear Goes Phishing by Scott J. Shapiro

11) Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

12) Something by Ruth Ozeki

13) Book club book TBD

14) Pete and Alice in Maine by Caitlin Shetterly

15) The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun

16) Big Cherry Holler by Adriana Trigiani

17) Sugar Birds by Cheryl Grey Bostrom

18) Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse by William Neuman

19) A New Song by Jan Karon

20) Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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February 2024 TBR

January starting TBR: 376

January ending TBR: 369

Celebrating here because my TBR actually went down for the first time since I’ve been tracking. If I keep going at this rate I should be done by…2030 or so.

Here’s my rough reading list for February. It’s a short month, but I’m hoping to get through 20 books or so.

1) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (reading a chapter a day-expect to finish in March)

2) The Brother Gardners by Andrea Wulf

3) Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

4) Whale Rider by Ihimaera

5) On Fragile Waves by E. Lily Yu

6) Love and Death In Kathmandu by Amy Willesee

7) A library book from my list (depends on what comes in)

8) You Are Your Best Thing

9) Koala : A Natural History and an Uncertain Future by Danielle Clode

10) Book club book

11) In the Weeds by Tom Vitale

12) In Extremis by Lindsey Hilsum

13) A Plus One For Murder by Laura Bradford

14) Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers

15) The Longest Line on the Map by Eric Rutkow

16) Lead Through Anything Dustin Seale & Ed Manfre

17) This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

18) Any ARC

19) The County Line by Steve Weddle

20) Glowing Still by Sara Wheeler

Cleaning up my TBR

My TBR (to be read list) has ballooned to gigantic proportions in the past month. It was clear I was never going to get through it. Last weekend I spent an entire afternoon when I should have been getting ready for Thanksgiving cleaning it out.

If a book met any of this criteria I deleted it. It was kind of heart wrenching, but I figure if it was meant to be the book will come back to me some day.

1) Anything that had vampires in it went. The thought of vampires makes me want to vomit so I didn't have a lot of them in there, but a few snuck through. I can't even drink tomato juice. There's no way I'd read a book about vampires

2) Books involving unsolved murders of elementary school age kids or murders of mom who leave young kids behind.

3) Books I included when they were new and promising, but now only have two star reviews.

4) Books that are on my list only because I feel guilty for never having read them.

5) If I was on the fence about it, and my library doesn't have it.

6) Books that I keep returning unread.

7) Books with endings that seem to infuriate people. Given the current climate in this country, I prefer solid endings.

8) Too many people call a book weird or experimental.

I was able to take my list from 499 to 345 books.

Do you ever clean out your TBR? What are your rules?

Because I needed more books on my TBR: what I've added lately

In my world, all of the best of books lists that come out this time of year are more exciting than Christmas morning. I've been devouring them for the past week or so, and now I have hundreds of new to me books on my to-be-read list. Here are some of the highlights:

I can hardly wait! Happy reading!

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