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Been working on my paper books. Am partway through the last #MaeMartin book and am working on the #BookCollector MysterySeries by Victoria Abbot,(with occasional pauses for Rex Stout and Naigo Marsh as I have never read either)Feeling a lot less stress, and my numbers are picking up
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January total: 15 books all fictionThree paper books
Twelve ebooks
I have won 6 books from GoodReads this month
3 books from TBR are the three paper books: Mae Martin #5, Tremontaine and Kinsey and Me
Andrea wrote: "I have won 6 books from GoodReads this month"You must be lucky Andrea. How did you manage to win 6 books?? I won one book once, several years ago, but that's it. I'm going to guess you've won more than the 6 just this month.
Pamela, been doing this a while, and some of them have been around for years. The newer eBooks are often my attempts these days, but it took over a year to win The Bear and the Nightingale and I’ve just received Hannah’s The Nightingale...some,have simply been passed on. Others have been kept and savored again. And still others when they’ve dropped into my price range, have been bought. One thing I do is put them on their own shelf that the publisher and the author can see. With a new-to-me author I’ll go for the kindle book. I watch total chances as well
2 “forgotten books” reviewed, both by Lincoln Cole: Vatican’s Children and Bishop’s Legacy. Both 4 ✨. I don’t do “creepy” but the good vs.evil premise kept me reading. I also reviewed the first in the series and added it to 2017 Mt.TBR Pinterest board
I know I am posting 1 day early, but tomorrow is a busy day:I read 21 1/2 books this month.
This is my 2018 update:
40/150
4 count for Mt. TBR
10 library ebooks
1 kids book, 1 non fiction
Oh and I won 10 from Goodreads this month. All ebooks
We are in the middle of a big move in the next week but I still managed to read a LOT this month:Book Report for March:
19 books: 5 paperbacks [1 non fiction]
69/150
2 count for Mt TBR
2 library ebooks
1 non fiction
Best book so far this year: A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
Runner up: Rules Of Magic Alice Hoffman
and I have won a few books as well.
Working on Kristine Hannah’s Nightingale as my next TBR. Started last night
You're doing an amazing job! Almost halfway thorough your mountain already! And wow, 19 reads in a month! That's a lot! I managed 12 or 13, so it was a good month for me as well!
Well, being disabled and retired this keeps me out of trouble ;)
We are now out of the old place and getting settled in the new one. I for one will be estatic when the boxes are more cleared and the new couch arrives in a few weeks. Getting tired of my walker as my only chair.And...officially retiring on the 20th! Been “disabled” for a decade but my pension begins then!....more books
You live with a retired librarian who’s trying to cut down on smoking and it 48 hours 45 boxes of books are not only shelved, but in Dewey Classification!We had to make room for the new couch coming. I am getting *really* tired of sitting on my walker.... {sigh}
Please send your librarian to my house. I’m forever reshelving because I can’t decide what or where to shelve my books.
She shelved 2000 books. Looks like we’ve been here forever. We’ve been together since ‘99 and seriously, we have never commingled our libraries....well, they are now.She shelved in semi “Dewey” order, since the fiction is mostly mine. And the fiction and oversized “coffee table” books are all together, then the 100’s,200’s etc
Kendyle wrote: "Please send your librarian to my house. I’m forever reshelving because I can’t decide what or where to shelve my books."BTW, she said she would come if you’d cover all expenses
BTW, she said she would come if you’d cover all expenses...LOL, she might not want to, we got about a foot of snow this week! But it was great reading weather.
Hey, until this morning we swore Spring had foresaken us here in Syracuse....we’re used to weather.My biggest challenge when I was a pastor out west was burying a parishioner in a 60 mph ground blizzard..... that was hair raising to say the least
Books read April 2018(The month we moved)
Running total 83/150 55%
Read in April. 14
8. e-books
*** 6 paper books (all Mt.TBR challenge)***
Which makes my Mt. TBR total somewhere near 12 I think. Hey, we moved..... and 1/3 of the way after 4 months is a very good thing for me
May reading report104/150- running total
13 books
2 non fiction
1 poetry
3 Mt. TBR
And I’ve signed onto Edelweiss +
June Book List:13 Books
~3 non fiction
~10 fiction
~4 library
~0 Mt.TBR
OK OK, no TBR additions this month (sigh)
Just finished a re-read- do those count? - of “The Shack” by William Paul Young. That was my third read of this book, and I still bawl like a baby with it. And, it prompted me to pull his “Cross Roads” which has sat on my very FIRST Nook, and of course has followed in my collection now onto my Nook app
Have now “skipped through”- none of them were more than 10 short chapters, the five “Loreticus Intrigues” by J.B. Lucas. That’s 5 more off my TBR.
July31 books 151/150😇
1 paper book
5 TBR (the afore mentioned Loreticus Intrigues)
3 library books
Jessika wrote: "Good job on topping 150 already this year! And you've almost made your Mt. TBR, too!"Thanx
Just finished an old paper TBR and it’s predecessor which I had in ebooks form: Books one and two of Cricket Rohman’s “Lindsey Lark” trilogy...which have sat on my real and virtual shelves since 2016(!)
Since I am now @ 190/150 I’m kinda coasting along here. I read 15 books this month and NONE were old TBR......and, here comes my birthday month....62!
October Book list216/150
18 books
2 non-fiction
2 paper books
14 ebooks
0 Mt.TBR
November is almost over. I do believe I am close to the summit, finally finishing “Confessions of a Transylvanian” by Kevin Theiss as an audiobook. It wasn’t the book...it was me...took me almost 8 months.I am now 250/150
271/150I lost count, and am a bit overwhelmed towards the end of this year. With BUG plans for 2019, I’m sticking to 150 books and for Mt.TBR, I’ve decided to tackle the pile of ebooks that I won in 2018. If I conquer it, then I’ll read 50 in my MTBR.
Final count: 274Best book: “A piece of the World”- Christine Baker Kline
Most fun: “Not Quite The Classics”- Colin Mochrie
I’m a known factor around here. Been on Goodreads a while, and, until ‘17 always hit my challenge goal. This year I missed it, so I’m setting all goals lower this year.
Have also decided to continue to read down my TBR. I was so happy to catch up a bit as we have been culling, donating and getting rid of 50% of a combined 80 years of collections. But that still leaves about 5K of free books/docs/ARCs in audio and eBooks and library loans.
So, let’s do this thing! My first book this year is Tremontaine season 1, and I already have gifts, ARCs and audios.
Bonne chance mon aime