Mount TBR 2018 discussion

As I write this, I am two books shy of completing my 2017 Mt. Olympus goal. Because I completely failed to stop buying or being given new books, my TBR is still tall enough to reach Mars.

This will be my third Mount TBR, though in 2016 I discovered the challenge only days before the November signup cutoff, so I only did Pike's Peak.

Here's to another 150!

Best of luck!

I'm always amazed at how much reading some people get done in a year (being more of a slow reader myself) :) Good luck Elena!

Good luck, Elena!

Hilary S wrote: "Best of luck!"

Thank you!

Quirkyreader wrote: "I hope to see you at the top again."

Let's meet up there and have some tea.

Sam wrote: "I'm always amazed at how much reading some people get done in a year (being more of a slow reader myself) :) Good luck Elena!"

Thank you so much!

Kerstin wrote: "Good luck, Elena!"

Thank you!

I'm so excited to get started, so it's time to start a post for January. To keep on track (something I did poorly on in the first half of 2017) it's 12.5 books/month, so I'll shoot for a more sensible 13.

1. Moby-Dick or, The Whale 1/3/18
2. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue 1/4/18
3. The Ice Queen 1/5/18
4. The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building 1/7/18
5. His to Protect 1/7/18
6. Magic Bleeds 1/8/18
7. Tapping the Billionaire 1/9/18
8. Deep Blue 1/9/18
9. The Bean Trees 1/11/18
10. Fahrenheit 451 1/12/18
11. The Cartographer 1/14/18
12. The Virtu 1/16/18
13. Rustled 1/17/18

Let's see how many more I can read before the end of the month, to get ahead!

14. Fingersmith 1/21/18
15. Three Strong Women 1/22/18

16. Night Pleasures 1/25/18
17. Oryx and Crake 1/31/18

Time for February's goals! Shorter month, shooting for twelve books.

18. Dreamer's Pool 2/2/18
19. Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body 2/5/18
20. Wintergirls 2/7/18
21. The Mirador 2/11/18
22. A Room of One's Own 2/12/18
23. The Governess Affair 2/13/18
24. Save the Date 2/13/18
25. Winning Back His Wife 2/13/18
26. Second Chance Summer 2/14/18
27. In Her Court 2/14/18
28. More Than Once 2/15/18
29. When We Touch 2/15/18

Jessika wrote: "You are a fast hiker! Great work! :)"

Thank you!

30. The Color Purple 2/22/18
31. How Stella Got Her Groove Back 2/24/18
32. The Children of Men 2/26/18

March is here! Even though I'm ahead of the curve, I'd like to stay that way, so I'm aiming for twelve books again.

33. Corambis 3/2/18
34. The Little Paris Bookshop 3/6/18
35. Greywalker 3/11/18
36. The Giver 3/12/18
37. The Housekeeper and the Professor 3/16/18
38. Uprooted 3/20/18
39. Come Home To Me 3/21/18
40. The Nearness of You 3/21/18
41. Rocannon's World 3/25/18
42. Frankenstein 3/28/18
43. With a Twist 3/29/18
44. Inhibitions 3/30/18

45. Faking It 3/31/18
46. One is a Promise 3/31/18

I'm doing Camp NaNoWriMo in April, so I'm setting my goal significantly lower, at a mere six books--I'll still be on track for the year at 50+ in the first four months.

47. Crown's Chance at Love 4/2/18
48. The House on Mango Street 4/4/18
49. The Thirteenth Tale 4/7/18
50. The Awakening 4/12/18
51. Enchantress from the Stars 4/17/18
52. Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story 4/19/18

53. Pretending He's Mine 4/19/18
54. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 4/25/18

55. Leviathan Wakes 5/2/18
56. Unexpectedly Mine 5/3/18
57. Fear of Falling 5/4/18

58. Women in Love 5/7/18

59. Norse Mythology 5/12/18
60. Women of the Silk 5/14/18
61. Planet of Exile 5/16/18
62. Prelude to a Wedding 5/19/18

63. The Aeneid 5/21/18

64. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America 5/23/28
65. Wedding Party 5/24/18

66. The Book Thief 5/26/18
67. Grady's Wedding 5/27/18
68. Animal Dreams 5/31/18

I didn't set a target number of books this month, because I knew I'd be busy with family stuff, so I'm happy to see I read 14!

69. Terry Jones' Medieval Lives 6/3/18

I've been doing a read-a-thon on Tumblr for the last week, so...

70. Baudolino 6/4/18
71. Crux 6/4/18
72. Crossroads 6/5/18
73. Deadlock 6/6/18

74. Cipher 6/7/18
75. Impulse 6/8/18
76. Enigma 6/9/18
77. The Death of Vishnu 6/11/18

I hit halfway done this week! I'm ahead!

78. Certain Women
79. The Goldfinch 6/18/18
80. Big Breasts and Wide Hips 6/20/18
81. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 6/21/18
82. All My Friends 6/22/18
83. Dirty Sexy Saint 6/23/18

84. Change of Heart 6/23/18
85. Covet 6/24/18

86. Falling Down 6/28/18
87. Good Karma 7/1/18

Jessika wrote: "Wow, you're flying up those mountains! Great work!"

Thank you! I'm still going to have an overload of unread books when I'm done, but at least I'll have made a dent!

88. Brooklyn Rockstar 7/2/18
89. Rise 7/4/18

Wow, how did I manage to forget updating for over a month when I've been reading so much?

90. My Ántonia 7/8/18
91. Third Daughter 7/13/18
92. The Kalahari Typing School for Men 7/14/18
93. Speak 7/15/18
94. Daughter of Fortune 7/21/18
95. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch 7/24/18
96. In the Company of the Courtesan 7/31/18
97 - 99. His Dark Materials 8/8/18
100. Fierce 8/9/18
101. News of a Kidnapping 8/10/18

Jessika wrote: "Woohoo, over 100! Nice going!"

Thank you! I'm a little ahead, which is good, because it just took me six days to finish #102.

Quirkyreader wrote: "Alright Elena,

You have scaled past Mt. Everest."

I'm floating in the clouds, reading, and totally confusing low-flying planes.

102. The Once and Future King 8/18/18

103. The Archived 8/20/18
104. The Gift of Rain 8/20/18

105. Lavinia 8/22/18

106. The Man Who Loved Dogs 8/23/18
107. The Proposition 8/23/18

108. The Nightingale 8/26/18

109. Quicksilver 8/30/18
110. The Dead Zone 9/4/18

111. Gates of Thread and Stone 9/6/18

112. Saving Fish from Drowning 9/11/18

113. The Left Hand of Darkness 9/17/18

114. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary 9/18/18
115. A Passionate Man 9/20/18
116. Queen of Broken Hearts 9/20/18

117. The Secret Place 9/24/18

118. Wilder's Mate 9/25/18
119. A Tapestry of Dreams 9/26/18
120. The Unconsoled 9/29/18

121. Dracula 10/7/18

122. The Voyage of the Narwhal 10/10/18
123. A Day Late and a Dollar Short 10/14/18

124. The Bookseller of Kabul 10/16/18
125. The Vixen and the Vet 10/17/18
126. Grendel 10/18/18
127. Water for Elephants 10/20/18