Now that January 2017 has arrived, we can get down to the business of wiping out the TBR piles. Or at least whittling down the numbers.
Some bloggers use a TBR Jar…and I’ve been studying the receptacles around my house. I settled on the little red container above. It isn’t exactly a jar, but I like it…and it will serve the purpose. Plus…it is bright enough that I won’t forget to pull book titles from it.
I still have some unread books from 2014, if you can believe that! I counted them tonight, and not counting the DNFs that are already gone from the list, there are 21 remaining unread books.
Let’s look at 2015. Using the same criteria, I found 14 unread books there.
And the first half of 2016, the part that doesn’t count for my new Read the Books You Buy Challenge: there are 22 books.
Fifty-seven dusty old TBR books….not polished enough to make the cut of the 2017 Challenge. So into the jar those titles go…and I will try to draw from it each week. At least one of the oldies should come out every week, right?
We’ll see how that goes.
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Currently I am reading one of those old books from 2014: Desolation Row, by Kay Kendall. I’m enjoying it so far. Why did I wait so long?
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Today I finished a book that counts for the new Read the Books You Buy Challenge:
The Sleeping Beauty Murder (e-book), by Mary Higgins Clark/Alafair Burke (click for my review). This was my First Book of 2017, already finished.
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Do you have plans for your TBR pile this year? Are you enthused and rarin’ to go? Please share.
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I tried this in 2015, but for some reason it didn’t work for me at all! It’s such a good idea though 🙂 Good luck!
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Oh, I hope it will work, at least to a certain extent. Whatever I’ve been doing up until now hasn’t cleared those older books off the shelves. Thanks for stopping by, Victoria.
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Good luck, Laurel. I think you’ll be successful if you even make a dent in your TBRs which is what I aspire to 🙂
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Thanks, Mary, I felt better just by taking a look at the numbers, and then when I put the titles in the “jar,” I thought “I can do it!” In fact, we’ll both do it!
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I have seen bloggers do this. I would think it gives you a bit of a surprise. Like “Okay so it’s the time of this one, I hadn’t planned it”! Hope it works well for you. Will be fun to give it a go anyway. You are off to an excellent start.
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Thanks, Kathryn, I have high hopes for it…and think it might work, especially since I’ve whittled the numbers down to a manageable total. We shall see!
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I like the idea of a jar but I’m a rather moody reader so I’m not sure it would work for me.
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Yes, I have to be in the mood for certain books…but maybe I can push myself toward a book, just to see if my mood will change. And it’s probably okay to put one of the titles back and try again, if I don’t like the feel of it..LOL. Thanks for stopping by, Kathy.
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I have been making a list and working with the Alphabet Challenge. But this looks fun and I really like your jar box!
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Thanks, Martha, I found it in one of my closets! I love how it has the “red hats” theme. Thanks for stopping by.
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