Amy’s Comments (group member since Nov 21, 2020)

Amy’s comments from the Mount TBR 2021 group.

End of November: 4 more books completed towards the summit. Not sure I will make it to the top, but I'll go out trying!

End of October: 11 books total read for the month, 4 that added to my climb. Planted a flag on the summit of Mount Vancouver and heading for the final peak!

37. Lonesome Dove--11/13/21
38. My Sister, the Serial Killer -- 11/15/21
39. Plan B -- 11/23/21
40. The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero -- 11/24/21
41.The Great Believers
42. The Settlers
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*REACHED SUMMIT OF MOUNT ARARAT*

End of September: Added 4 books onto the climb. Getting closer to Mount Vancouver. But Mount Ararat is a distant mirage at this point ..

End of August: 6 books towards my climb this month. I stayed away from the library and finally crested the top of Mount Blanc and headed up for Mount Vancouver! :)

25. Home Field--8/18/21
26. Falling Together -- 8/21/21
27. Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II -- 8/23/21
28. The Other Black Girl -- 8/27/21
29. The Emigrants -- 9/5/21
30 The Heirs --9/11/21
31. Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays --9/22/21
32. American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans -- 9/27/21
33. Little Pieces of Me -- 10/8/21
34. Unto a Good Land-- 10/10/21
35. Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History -- 10/21/21
36. A Town Called Solace --10/22/21


*REACHED SUMMIT OF MOUNT VANCOUVER* -- 10/22/21

End of July: 3 more books towards my goal. This is such a slog this year! Ugh. I guess I should be thankful that it's my library that is distracting me from my climb instead of the bookstore.

End of June: 2 books toward my climb. Library again. I have no real excuse. :0

End of May: Chipped 4 books off the TBR pile. Could have been better, but then again it could have been worse. June is looking like a library-heavy month, so this is going to be a slow slog to Mount Blanc.

End of April: Yikes. Only 1 book towards my climb, even though I read 10 books this month. The majority of those were library books and two others were new purchases. I need to step up my TBR game!

13. Salvage the Bones -- 4/3/21
14 Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village -- 5/4/21
15. Darktown -- 5/22/21
16. Like Water for Chocolate --5/25/21
17. The Midnight Library -- 5/27/21
18. Brighton -- 6/21/21
19. A Tale of Two Cities -- 6/24/21
20. Shuggie Bain -- 7/8/21
21. The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland -- 7/12/21
22. Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring -- 7/14/21
23. Correspondents -- 8/2/21
24. A Good Marriage -- 8/11/21

*REACHED SUMMIT OF MOUNT BLANC* -- 8/11/21

End of March: 5 more off the pile; reached the summit of Pike's Peak. Onward to the next mountain top!

Oops, forgot to update the end of February: added 4 more to my climb. Still having a love affair with my library borrows, so I need to buckle down!

End of January 2021: only chipped 3 off the TBR pile. I need to keep my finger away from the "download from the library" button on Libby. :0

1. Why We Came to the City -- 1/15/21
2. The Stationery Shop --1/17/21
3. The Vision of Emma Blau -- 1/29/21
4. Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit -- 2/10/21
5. The Book of Two Ways -- 2/16/21
6. The Lost Man -- 2/21/21
7. Know My Name -- 2/27/21
8. Grant -- 3/11/21
9. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows -- 3/13/21
10. Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War -- 3/19/21
11. A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom -- 3/24/21
12. All Quiet on the Western Front -- 3/30/21

*REACHED SUMMIT OF PIKE'S PEAK* -- 3/30/21

Reached the summit of Mt. Ararat in 2016 and 2017 ... aiming for the peak again in 2021! That would be approximately 50% of the total number of books I read in a year.

Hi, I'm Amy. I'm a returning climber, although I took a couple of years off. Back at it for 2021! I've made it just past Mt. Ararat each time I've climbed, so I'm going to aim for that peak again and see where the old legs take me this time. ;)