Mount TBR 2013 Reading Challenge discussion

OK, just completed my first book in this challenge (which also had the benefit of being a triple whammy - fitting into three of the blog challenges I'm doing - historical fiction, featuring a key word from January).

Firelight by Kristen Callihan. Completed 12/01/13. 23 to go.

Just completed The Crown of Embers by Rae Carson (15/01/13). Review to follow tomorrow. 22 to go.

I think I need to do a TBR purchased before 2012 now, just to really feel that I'm getting somewhere.

It does make you feel a wee bit better, have some sort of list in this to look at...lol.

So far this is going very well indeed. Finished and reviewed Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson last night (22/01/13), and that one had been on my TBR list for years.

Just finished another book I've been putting off for years. The Snow Queen by Mercedes Lackey completed on 27/01/13.

First TBR book in February completed. The Dust of 100 Dogs by A.S. King read and reviewed (09/02/13). That one had been TBR since 2009.

While Goodreads counts them as 5 books (four of them are novellas), I don't think it's right to count more than 2. So I'm counting the novellas The Assassin and the Pirate Lord, The Assassin and the Desert, The Assassin and the Underworld and The Assassin and the Empire by Sarah J. Maas as one book, and Throne of Glass is the second. That's three books on my TBR for February so far - making a total of 7.

That's a quarter of the way there already. Wow, if I manage to keep this up, I may even manage a bigger mountain. :)

Ok, so this last book felt like more of a slog than some of the others, definitely a steeper part of the mountain than some of the others. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson completed and blogged on 28/02/13. That was another book that had been on my TBR list since 2009. Now I can also tell the friend who gave it to me that it's been completed, but that I don't share his love for it.

Malin wrote: "OK, just completed my first book in this challenge (which also had the benefit of being a triple whammy - fitting into three of the blog challenges I'm doing - historical fiction, featuring a key word from January).

Firelight by Kristen Callihan. Completed 12/01/13. 23 to go.
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Would you happen to be doing the What's in a Name? Challenge?

Malin wrote: "Ok, so this last book felt like more of a slog than some of the others, definitely a steeper part of the mountain than some of the others. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson completed and blogged on 28/02/13. That was another book that had been on my TBR list since 2009. Now I can also tell the friend who gave it to me that it's been completed, but that I don't share his love for it."

I read this one a few years ago and, like you, it was given to me by a male friend who loved it. I liked it, but the insane level of descriptive detail really slowed me down too. It's definitely not a fast read! I did like the interactive tablet though :-) I also read Stephenson's Snow Crash. It had the same style/issues as The Diamond Age in that it was a bit of a slog. I think I'll stay away rom The Baroque Cycle and Reamde ;-)

Tanya/dog eared copy wrote: Would you happen to be doing the What's in a Name? Challenge?

No, Tanya, that one I'm not doing that one. I'm doing the Monthly Key Word challenge, the Mount TBR challenge and the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge, as well as the Cannonball Read 5. So four challenges in total. :)

Yay, I finished my first two TBR books for March, bringing my grand total up to 10 books (ahead of schedule, always nice). Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling had been on my shelf for so long that I hadn't even written my name and the date when I got it in the front (which I've been doing for over a decade now), so I'm honestly not sure entirely when I bought it.

The Mislaid Magician: or Ten Years After by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer has also been on my shelf since 2009, so it was nice to get that one finished as well. Both books qualified as triple whammys, making me even more smug that I got them done.

Another book, that's been on my shelf since mid-2009 finished, which is also optional curriculum for the Uni course I'm taking at the moment. Få meg på, for faen by Olaug Nilssen (Turn me on, damn it). It was very strange, can't say I liked it all that much.

Just passed Mont Blanco on way to Everest.Will write on books tomorrow-Daphne

Halfway there! Book 12 completed and reviewed. The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Claire Legrand, a super creepy book. Highly recommended.

At this rate, I may be able to update my reading challenge for the year, I've finished five more books in the last week. A Swedish book, Ett öga röttby Jonas Hassen Khemiri, and four Lisa Kleypas books: Seduce Me at Sunrise, Tempt Me at Twilight, Married By Morning and Love in the Afternoon, bringing my grand total so far up to 17 books.

Wow....what is your secret Malin on reading at such a rate. I'm struggling at the moment.

Diane wrote: "Wow....what is your secret Malin on reading at such a rate."

It probably helps that I don't have kids, and I don't really like going out much. If I have nothing else lined up, I can devour one to two romances in a day, but I rarely get the chance to. Romance novels don't tend to have overly complicated plots, and I consider it relaxation to read them.

I work as a teacher, and spend a lot of time doing correction work. I allow myself at least half an hour a day for reading, or I become cranky and unpleasant to be around.

Thanks to Dewey's Read-a-thon this weekend, I've now managed to complete several more on my TBR list.

Maskeblomstfamilien by Lars Saabye Christensen, The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman and Briar Rose by Jane Yolen brings my grand total up to 20. I'm going to have to set myself a bigger reading goal. :)

it is lovely to be able to set time aside to switch off from every day things. I always read in bed but end up falling asleep. I should maybe read before I get there...lol.

Tanya/dog eared copy wrote: "Malin wrote: "Ok, so this last book felt like more of a slog than some of the others, definitely a steeper part of the mountain than some of the others. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson completed..."

If you find The Diamond Age a slog (I love it), then the newer ones won't be much better. You can always try earlier books by him like Zodiac which is about a guy who investigates when toxic chemicals are found, it's often referred to as an "ecological thriller". There's also The Big U which is a comedic look at college life. I'm not a big fan of the latter (it's good but not great), but Zodiac is better. Both of them were written before Snow Crash and are roughly the same length.

Bed is my reading place. Settle in at least an hour before you need to sleep. I rest BETTER after reading nightly. If I'm about 5 chapters near the end of a story, my eyes ensure I finish.

C. wrote: "Bed is my reading place. " I can read pretty much anywhere. Public transport, on the sofa, in the bath, in bed, and since I got my E-reader a few years back, while I'm walking and standing in line for things. To make sure I get time to read, I always try to carry a book with me, and take any free moment to read a bit. Even if it's just a few pages, it makes me happier.

Hi Malin! I'm Carolyn, one of those pro-book people hoping to keep print alive. ;) Whatever one uses, your habit is the BEST. "Reading in small sips" makes progress. Before you know it, even a chunkster would be finished. When at a job, I read on breaks.

Malin wrote: "C. wrote: "Bed is my reading place. " I can read pretty much anywhere. Public transport, on the sofa, in the bath, in bed, and since I got my E-reader a few years back, while I'm walking and stand..."

I do the same -- always have a "car" book going, so if I unexpectedly have to wait somewhere, I grab it to read. Often take the book I'm reading with me when I go out, just in case. If I'm watching tv for the night, sometimes there's a half hour or so between shows I want to watch, so I read then. And always read myself to sleep!

I'll hazzard a guess: Thursdays. "The Big Bang Theory" is at the same time as "Community". After "Two 1/2 Men" and "The Office", there's a gap until "Community" repeats. (On satellite dish, you can't set up the VCR to tape anything but the channel it's on).

Well no. That is probably the most popular scenario, but I don't watch any of those programs. Often it's when a Netflix ends & before the PBS News Hour comes on. Or on Saturdays, it's when Doc Martin ends & before the local news comes on.

I know, I have weird taste in tv programs/movies.

Book 21: Across The Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn. Had been on my shelf for nearly 10 years.