Mount TBR 2014 Challenge discussion

here I come Mt. Ararat! I'm all warmed up and ready to go.

#36.5 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I can't quite call this book #37, since I technically read about 1/2 of it about a year ago. While I enjoyed the story, it was a bit slow,and after a vacation, when I got home, I lost interest in returning to it. So it's been sitting by my bed with a bookmark in the middle. I enjoyed the second half a lot less than the first half. It seems the author was a bit more rushed to get done. But still, I'm happy I finished it.

#37 House of Evidence. Good nordic mystery.

#38 Faces and Masks. Not my cup of tea, but happy it's no longer accumulating dust by the bed.

#39 The Sea. Another paperback off the pile!

#40 After the Fog

#41 Pizzicato: The Abduction of the Magic Violin. This was a fun children's book to read over the weekend. I've owned it since 2012.

Nice variety. I'd love to hear how you like the selection in my list. I have upgraded too. :)

#42 The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. I've had this book since 2012 and finally just got to read it but in very short chunks since I've been crazy busy lately. But I think that's how it should be read...slowly.
This was a fun book.

!Andale! Y gracias para tus comentarios sobre mi lista. Me encanta mostrar titulos a la gente, o al menos que algien mira a lo que escribi. Carolyn.

#43 Paper Towns

#44 Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac. I guess I'm on a young adult streak. I enjoyed this one, it was a cute pool/beach read.

#45 The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. I've had this book since 2012. It's definitely for people that love chemistry and history, so...me.
I'm glad to be reading again after my vacation. Usually people read more during vacation, but I was surrounded by family and many little kids and I probably read 1 page each night (some nights, the same exact page).

That book is on my read list too, but since I don't own a copy it won't count for this type of challenge. Sounds like I should get my own copy though, for referring back to and reading a second time. Glad you enjoyed it....maybe I'll place it higher up on my reading list.

Pamela wrote: "That book is on my read list too, but since I don't own a copy it won't count for this type of challenge. Sounds like I should get my own copy though, for referring back to and reading a second ti..."
Pamela, I enjoyed it...and I hope I learned a bit from it. Now I can throw out random chemistry facts into just about any conversation :)

#46 Winter's Tale. It took me a while to get through this book...I think I started it sometime last year and put it down a couple of times. It was really the beginning because once I got past the first 1/3 of the book it was more enjoyable. Still, I expected so much more given the amazing reviews. This is a very rare occurrence for me, but I have to say I liked the movie better despite not being a fan of the main actor.
In areas where the book was repetitive and overly descriptive, the movie was not. Perhaps I read it at the wrong time in my life, when I have little time for contemplation and I just want to get things finished and done.
Sad, I know. I miss my contemplative days.

#47 Looking for Me and #48 Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World.
The first one a different type of chick-lit. It was a lot deeper and emotional. The second one depicts the lives of people stranded in the same place around the same time (1800s). And the different outcomes. Amazing, makes me realize that I wouldn't survive in a desolate island for a minute. I have no survival skills!