Mount TBR 2016 discussion

Here goes nothing. Starting small and hoping to hit a larger number than this but with two jobs I'll start small.

1. A Stainless Steel Trio
2. Murder in Little Italy
3. Streetlights Like Fireworks
4. The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor
5. The Secret Garden
6. Don Quixote
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OK, so I'm in the middle of a library book so can't really get started on this until I finish that. I am going to start The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which I picked up because my daughter was reading it. I'm going to tackle this over the coming year.

I love the name of your thread. Good one!

Good luck on the removal of Mt. TBR. Mine is never ending. ;)

Mine too. It will be a very minuscule dent but at least it will be a start. The trick will be to not add to the mountain.

Have fun with the climb ...see you at the top

Welcome Teresa! Good luck with the mountain removal.

Still finishing up a couple of library books but have a few of my books in the queue. I think the first one will be The White Magic Five and Dime which will also count toward the 2016 Reading Challenge.

LOVE that title! Why didn't I think of that, since I have a mountain of TBR books threatening to fall over & kill me!

@Kate, remove one rock, add two more. I think I'm going in the wrong direction.

Library books are finished. Starting my first book for the challenge, A Stainless Steel Trio

maybe you need the other ones you added to stand on to reach the top Teresa..lol

Teresa wrote: "@Kate, remove one rock, add two more. I think I'm going in the wrong direction."

That's the way it goes at my house too!

Teresa wrote: "@Kate, remove one rock, add two more. I think I'm going in the wrong direction."

Oh we are kindred souls Teresa! I try so hard to fight that urge, but the magpie syndrome catches me out every time! (magpie syndrome = oooo! shiny! I want it!)

Kate wrote: "Teresa wrote: "@Kate, remove one rock, add two more. I think I'm going in the wrong direction."

Oh we are kindred souls Teresa! I try so hard to fight that urge, but the magpie syndrome catches me out every time! (magpie syndrome = oooo! shiny! I want it!) "

LOL Magpie syndrome. I'm there with the both of you. I've added a bunch of books I want to read. Good gravy, it never ends! :D

So far I've read 13 books I own and the same amount of library books! Crazy!

Teresa- Good luck to you with your mountain removal program! Also, I hope you enjoy Last Train to Istanbul, Ready Player One and The Snow Child. I plan to read Ready Player One in February. :-)

Lisa Ann, I've had several people I work with recommend that one to me so I picked it up.

Ugh, I picked the wrong book from my collection to start with. A Stainless Steel Trio. It's ok enough to keep going but I'm not racing to pick it up either. Its taking a long time to get that first book down in the climb.

Wow, I didn't think I'd be into February before I added my first book for this challenge. Finally finished A Stainless Steel Trio. If this had been my first exposure to the series I definitely wouldn't be going any further. I never felt like I got to know the main character, Jim, at all. It just went from one action sequence to the next with only a cursory look at motivation and emotional reactions to events. Considering these are the first three books in the series time-wise I expected to see some growth but Jim was the same from start to finish. I'll give The Stainless Steel Rat a try because I remember enjoying it and then decide if I want to read the remainder of the series.

I picked up The Stainless Steel Rat a long time ago--tried it, but never finished it. It's still lurking on the piles somewhere....

Book 2 went much faster. I'm reading the Gaslight series and just finished Murder in Little Italy. The whole series is a nice quick read. I love reading about the era and what life was like back then almost more than the mysteries themselves.

Teresa wrote: "Book 2 went much faster. I'm reading the Gaslight series and just finished Murder in Little Italy. The whole series is a nice quick read. I love reading about the era and what life wa..."

I really enjoy the Victoria Thompson series. She gets the period and atmosphere just right.

Third book out of my TBR list down. Streetlights Like Fireworks also fulfilled the book about a trip portion of the 2016 Reading Challenge group. At this point I've read a total of 8 books, 3 of which I own, so 37% of the books I've read have come off of the mountain.

Been awhile but another book has come off. The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor. I got this series for my son because he's a huge Walking Dead fan. I decided I needed to read it too. On par with the television series (I haven't read the graphic novels). It's more about the human condition and the restructuring of self and society than the zombies. Not too subtly, it makes you question who the real monsters are.

The group read of Don Quixote has slowed everything down but I've managed to add book #5. I enjoyed The Secret Garden but as it was obviously written for younger children it didn't have the depth to the plot and characters that I enjoy. I loved all of the Yorkshire spoken though. It reminded me of all the thick accents I would hear when watching All Creatures Great and Small growing up.

Book #6 was a big one. The Don Quixote group read is now finished. Really enjoyed this one.

Teresa wrote: "Book #6 was a big one. The Don Quixote group read is now finished. Really enjoyed this one."

Congrats Teresa! :-)

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is in progress. If I read a chapter a week I will finish by the end of the year.

Book One: The Rise of Adolf Hitler
Chapter 1. Birth of the Third Reich 6/6/2016
Chapter 2. Birth of the Nazi Party 6/12/2016
Chapter 3. Versailles, Weimar and the Beer Hall Putsch 6/16/2016
Chapter 4. The Mind of Hitler and the Roots of the Third Reich 6/20/16
Book Two: Triumph and Consolidation
Chapter 5. The Road to Power: 1925-31 6/29/16
Chapter 6. The Last Days of the Republic: 1931-33 7/8/16
Chapter 7. The Nazification of Germany: 1933-34 7/18/2016
Chapter 8. Life in the Third Reich: 1933-37 7/25/2016
Book Three: The Road to War
Chapter 9. The First Steps: 1934-37 8/1/2016
Chapter 10. Strange, Fateful Interlude: The Fall of Blomberg, Fritsch, Neurath and Schacht 8/4/2016
Chapter 11. Anschluss: The Rape of Austria 8/13/2016
Chapter 12. The Road to Munich 8/29/2016
Chapter 13. Czechoslovakia Ceases to Exist 9/3/2016
Chapter 14. The Turn of Poland 9/8/2016
Chapter 15. The Nazi-Soviet Pact 9/18/2016
Chapter 16. The Last Days of Peace 9/25/2016
Chapter 17. The Launching of World War II 10/03/2016
Book Four: War: Early Victories and the Turning Point
Chapter 18. The Fall of Poland 10/04/2016
Chapter 19. Sitzkrieg in the West 10/08/2016
Chapter 20. The Conquest of Denmark and Norway
Chapter 21. Victory in the West
Chapter 22. Operation Sea Lion: The Thwarted Invasion of Britain
Chapter 23. Barbarossa: The Turn of Russia
Chapter 24. A Turn of the Tide
Chapter 25. The Turn of the United States
Chapter 26. The Great Turning Point: 1942 - Stalingrad and El Alamein
Book Five: Beginning of the End
Chapter 27. The New Order
Chapter 28. The Fall of Mussolini
Chapter 29. The Allied Invasion of Western Europe and the Attempt to Kill Hitler
Book Six: The Fall of the Third Reich
Chapter 30. The Conquest of Germany
Chapter 31. Goetterdaemmerung: The Last Days of the Third Reich

Teresa wrote: "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is in progress. If I read a chapter a week I will finish by the end of the year.

Book One: The Rise of Adolf Hitler
Chapter 1. Birth of the Third Reich 6/6/201..."

That looks pretty daunting! Good luck!

Thanks. I'm hoping that seeing a chapter get crossed off each week will give me the incentive to keep going until the end. So far I'm finding it very interesting.

So I think I've bit off more than I chew with the boulder I'm trying to shift from my mountain right now. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is taking way more time per chapter than I thought it would and I've been tempted to leave it for the year and tackle other books in my TBR list. I'm finding it very interesting however. I wasn't aware of all the political maneuvering by Hitler and others before the war. In fact I was completely uninformed of the goings on between World Wars. The author's voice is somewhat judgmental based on hindsight but considering the time it was written and his first hand experiences it is not unexpected. I will likely keep going and try a more balanced list for next year.