Mount TBR 2021 discussion

This'll be my first ascent of Mount TBR and I'm fairly confident I can get more than 6 for Mt Wycheproof so here I am! I haven't made any concrete choices just yet as it's both Christmas and my birthday between now and 2021 so I expect there'll be more books to add to the TBR list by the new year. I suspect a lot of my books on this journey will be fantasy and I'll update as we go along.

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Planned Buddy Reads from my TBR:
Feb: Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Mar: Dune
Apr: Leviathan Wakes
Aug: House of Leaves

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Reading Log in separate comment

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April Update: I've finished Pike's Peak and so have moved my thread up into Mount Blanc as I readjust my sights on the higher target!

Welcome to the climbing crew! I'm so glad you're joining us in 2021.

Hey Rai, good luck and enjoy!

Bev wrote: "Welcome to the climbing crew! I'm so glad you're joining us in 2021."

Sam wrote: "Hey Rai, good luck and enjoy!"

Thank you both!

Good climbing to you in 2021 Rai!

Leslie wrote: "Good climbing to you in 2021 Rai!"

Thank you very much - you too!

Reading Log:

(date finished in brackets)

PIKE'S PEAK:

1. A Dead Djinn in Cairo (2nd January)
2. Prosper's Demon (3rd January)
3. Trail of Lightning (5th January)
4. Warbreaker (16th January)
5. Alice Payne Arrives (17th January)
6. Assassin's Apprentice (29th January)
7. The Apparition Phase (6th February)
8. The Chalk Man (8th February)
9. Cold-Forged Flame (15th February)
10. Dune (30th March)
11. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (3rd April)
12. Leviathan Wakes (10th April)

MOUNT BLANC:

13: This Is How You Lose the Time War (23rd April)
14: To Be Taught, If Fortunate (9th May)
15: A Closed and Common Orbit (17th May)
16: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (30th May)
17: Wain: LGBT reimaginings of Scottish folktales (5th June)
18: Rogue Protocol (12th June)
19: Malice (17th Sept)
20: Valour (26th Sept)
21: Shutter Man (10th Dec)
22: River of Teeth (11th Dec)
23: Sisters of the Vast Black (15th Dec)
24: Exit Strategy (18th Dec)

Books from my TBR that I DNF:

1: This Little Family
2: Girls of Brackenhill
3: The Silent Wife
4: The Lamplighters
5: The Puritan
6: The Hollow Places
7: Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold
8: House of Leaves
9: Royal Assassin
10: Assassin's Quest
11. Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson is book #4 and it was my first book by Sanderson I've read! Finished today. 4.5/5

#5 is Alice Payne Arrives and I feel like it's a 3.5 star, had some good ideas but didn't grab me enough to continue the series.

#6 was Assassin's Apprentice and another 3.5 star for me. I found it slow, which at times was a bit *too* slow, so I'm hoping there are more events in books 2 & 3.

#7 is The Apparition Phase - 4 stars - I got through this quite quickly and there's a lot more to it than the blurb suggests!

#8 - The Chalk Man - 3.5 stars.

#9 - Cold-Forged Flame

# 10 - Dune - after a bit of a reading slump.

# 11 - The Empress of Salt and Fortune - 3.5 stars (might drop to 3 though tbh)

# 12 - Leviathan Wakes - 4.5 stars. I've reached the summit of Pike's Peak already! I can't quite believe I've done it so soon; I will have to start aiming Mount Blanc now!

# 13 - This Is How You Lose the Time War - 5 stars; brillig!

# 14 - To Be Taught, If Fortunate - 4 stars, really must get back to finish the Wayfarers series!

I must get back to Wayfarers, too. I loved book 1 and 2, but I just never read further.

I just finished #2, sadly #3 & 4 won't count towards Mount TBR as I don't have a copy of 3 and 4 only came out this year :D

# 15 - A Closed and Common Orbit - 5 stars - a lovely cosy sci-fi that I don't know why I put off reading for so long

#16 - To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - 5 stars - a vast, sweeping, epic space-opera with over 800 pages!

#17 - Wain: LGBT reimaginings of Scottish folktales - 5 stars - some delightful poems based on Scottish folktales with LGBT+ twists to them, short and heartwarming

#18 - Rogue Protocol - 4 stars - I read this in the middle of the night while I couldn't sleep because of tooth pain (no fun). It kept me distracted and I enjoyed this newest twist in the continuing story of Murderbot.

#19 & 20 - Malice and Valour both by John Gwynne. Somewhere between 4 and 5 stars, haven't quite decided yet!

You're getting close!

Bev wrote: "You're getting close!"

I know... I keep getting distracted buying/reading new books and feeling guilty about my netgalley backlog.

DNF Update: I have hit 10 DNF's that have been cleared off the TBR. Shame I couldn't add them to the challenge proper but every little helps getting these numbers down!

#21 is Shutter Man, 2 or 3 stars, one of the weakest of the series.

#22 - River of Teeth (4 stars) - fun little alt history with hippos & queer rep

#23 - Sisters of the Vast Black (4 stars) - well written sci-fi novella featuring nuns in space

#24 - Exit Strategy (5 stars) - made it to the top of Pike's Peake! Woohoo! I really enjoy the Murderbot series and hope to get a copy of the novel next!