Mount TBR 2018 discussion

I’m a little nervous about aiming so high, but I did make it up Mt Ararat this year, and there are definitely unread mountains chez moi, so as they say I’m spoiled for choice ;). Good climbing, all!

Happy climbing!

1) Rock Crystal, Adalbert Stifter — A good book to start up the mountain with, since it’s set in the Alps...

First Fifty Books Climbed:

1) Rock Crystal, Adalbert Stifter
2) Diamond Solitaire, Peter Lovesey (Kindle)
3) Christmas Holiday, W. Somerset Maugham
4) The Disappearing Spoon, Sam Kean
5) Meanwhile There Are Letters, ed. Marrs and Nolan (Kindle)
6) Christopher and Columbus, Elizabeth von Arnim (Kindle)
7) The Summons, Peter Lovesey
8) Bloodhounds, Peter Lovesey (Kindle)
9) Elements of Jazz, Bill Messenger (audiobook)
10) Better than Before, Gretchen Rubin
11) Kitchen Essays, Agnes Jekyll
12) Felicity, Mary Oliver
13) Blood Sympathy, Reginald Hill (on TBR since ‘96)
14) 11/22/63, Stephen King
15) Edward Burne-Jones, Penelope Fitzgerald
16) Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
17) Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
18) The Dry, Jane Harper
19) Never in a Hurry, Naomi Shibab Nye
20) The Beginning of Spring, Penelope Fitzgerald
21) How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, Robert Greenberg (audiobook).
22) This Old Man: All in Pieces, Roger Angell
23) Bricks and Mortar, Helen Ashton
24) The Shepherd’s Life, James Rebanks
25) Triple Crown, Felix Francis
26) Peace, Locomotion, Jacqueline Woodson
27) Three Sisters, Anton Chekhov
28) Fair Play, Tove Jansson
29) Candide, Voltaire
30) True Grit, Charles Portis (audiobook)
31) Stagestruck, Peter Lovesey
32) Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books, Maureen Corrigan
33) Einstein’s Dreams, Alan Lightman
34) The Village, Marghanita Laski
35) Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
36) A Superior Death, Nevada Barr
37) The Child’s Child, Barbara Vine
38) Letters to the Quick, Letters to the Dead, Shirley Graves Cochran
39) Poor Folk, Fyodor Dostoevsky
40) Art Objects, Jeanette Winterson
41) Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje
42) Snapshot, Linda Barnes
43) Paragon Walk, Anne Perry
44) The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
45) Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe (Kindle)
46) Ripley Under Ground, Patricia Highsmith
47) The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, John Baxter
48) Projection, Keith Ablow (DNF)
49) Death’s Jest-Book, Reginald Hill
50) Looking for Alaska, John Green

How was The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements? I have it on my want to read list, but I don't own it....would likely pick it up from the library.

Pamela wrote: "How was The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements? I have it on my want to read list, but I ..."

Pamela, I enjoyed it and would recommend for folks interested in science — the author uses anecdotes and interesting comparisons to write about chemistry and physics for an entertaining read — I learned quite a bit, too :)

Jessika wrote: "Great job so far! Keep it up :)"

Thanks, Jessika. Sounds like you are off to a great start, too! Onward ;)

I got really off mountain in February between new books, library books and reading for a class, but I’m aiming to get back climbing in March.

Thanks, Jessika! I'm on it ;). Good climbing to you!

And thank you to Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon for a good day’s reading yesterday, mostly from the TBR!

Next Fifty+ Books Climbed:

51) Come, Thief, Jane Hirshfield
52) The Vikings, Kenneth Harl (audiobook)
53) Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
54) The Four Graces, D. E. Stevenson (Kindle)
55) The Book That Changed My Life, ed. Roxanne Coady and Joy Johannessen
56) The Racketeer, John Grisham
57) The House of Dies Drear, Virginia Hamilton
58) The House On Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
59) 36 Views of Mount Fuji, Cathy N. Davidson
60) Life Upon the Wicked Stage, Grace Cavalieri
61) I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
62) Texts from Jane Eyre, Mallory Ortberg
63) Joy In the Morning, Betty Smith
64) Miss Buncle Married, D. E. Stevenson (Kindle)
65) The Magic City, E. Nesbit
66) Fever Season, Barbara Hambly
67) Trial and Error, Anthony Berkeley
68) The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (Kindle)
69) Seneca Falls Inheritance, Miriam Grace Monfredo
70) Killer Market, Margaret Maron
71) Glass Houses, Louise Penny
72) The Last September, Elizabeth Bowen
73) Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
74) New Orleans Beat, Julie Smith
75) The Journal of Jules Renard, ed. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget
76) Wildfire at Midnight, Mary Stewart (Kindle)
77) The Heir, Vita Sackville-West
78) House-Bound, Winifred Peck
79) Under the Harrow, Flynn Berry
80) Two Kinds of Truth, Michael Connelly
81) The Lost Land, Eavan Boland
82) Democracy, Henry Adams
83) Jump Back, Paul, Sally Derby (audiobook)
84) A View of the Harbour, Elizabeth Taylor
85) Water, Water Everywhere, Emily Kimbrough
86) Never No More, Maura Laverty
87) A Reading Diary, Alberto Manguel
88) A Little Yellow Dog, Walter Mosley
89) When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
90) Hillbilly Elegy, J. D. Vance
91) Career of Evil, Robert Galbraith
92) The Rooster Bar, John Grisham
93) Trains and Lovers, Alexander McCall Smith
94) Negotiating with the Dead, Margaret Atwood
95) The Fortune Hunter, Daisy Goodwin
96) The Ballad of Tom Dooley, Sharyn McCrumb
97) A Christmas Guest/A Christmas Secret, Anne Perry
98) The End of the Affair, Graham Greene (audiobook)
99) Joanna and Ulysses, May Sarton
100) The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery (audiobook)
101) The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons
102) Portrait of a Murderer, Anne Meredith

And thanks to Dewey’s 24 Hour Reverse Readathon for a good day’s reading and a boost to a lackluster month of TBR reading.

Thanks for stopping by and wishing me well, Susan.

Ah, how lovely. I see DE Stevenson and Mary Stewart on your last list. :)

Sophia wrote: "Thanks for stopping by and wishing me well, Susan.

Ah, how lovely. I see DE Stevenson and Mary Stewart on your last list. :)"

Yes, I’ve been hoarding a few DE Stevenson and Mary Stewart books I got on sale, and the time had come to treat myself to reading them ;)

Thanks! If I can keep it up without getting distracted by the new and shiny, the top isn’t too far away ;). And good luck with your climb, too!

So close to the top! You are making fantastic progress.

Karen wrote: "So close to the top! You are making fantastic progress."

Thank you! I’ve really slowed down with the holidays but so close....

100) The Little Prince, Antoine Saint D'Exupery (audiobook)

Imagine me doing a little Snoopy-esque dance of joy!

May add a couple more to the finished pile this week, but no worries ;)

101) The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons

Thanks, Jessica! Just under the wire but glad to make it!