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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