Mount TBR 2022 discussion

I've been absent from this group for the last two years, after falling down my Mt TBR in 2019. The hills and valleys and beaches I've explored since then have been wonderful and I'm ready to climb the mountain and take some books off my TBR stacks.

TITLES ON LIST:

Hard Copy Books:
DONE Dune by Frank Herbert
DNF A Clockwork Orange by Burgess

Kindle:
DNF Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
DONE A Fire Sparkling by Julianne Mac Lean
DONE The Passion According to Carmela by Marcos Aguinis
DONE Flare 1, 2, 3 by Theresa Shaver

Guns of Connor 1, 2, 3, 4 by Theresa Shaver

Kobo:
DNF A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

Surviving the Evacuation Series by Frank Tayell:
*Life Goes On DONE#2, DONE#3, DNF#4, #5 ////
*STE DONE#18, #19

DONE In Death by JD Robb #51, #52, #53, #54, #55
DONE Apollo by Rick Rodian #1, #2, #3, #4, #5

The Daylight Marriage by Heidi Pitlor
The Complete Walt Whitman
Coal River by Ellen Marie Wiseman
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev

Library Wish List:
DONE Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

The Cursed Carnival by Rick Rodian

DONE Daughter of the Deep by Rick Rodian
DONE 50 Shades by EL James #6
DONE The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage
I am Legend by Richard Matheson

Done #1 & #2 Kingsbridge Series by Ken Follett #1, #2, #3, #4

Zen and the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (full collection) by Ann Brashares
Uglies by Scott Westerfield
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

DONE One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

DONE The Graveyard Book by Niel Gaiman

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

ON HOLD The Shining by Stephen King

DONE The Next Person You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
DONE Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

So glad you'll be joining us again! Good luck.

January 6
Started DUNE
January 17
I'm enjoying it, it took the first 100 pages, but as usual I found my pace and am looking forward to the next 700 pages.

January 25
Still reading DUNE, I'm past the half way point now. Loving it!

January 26 I get it, now, the hype around this book. I get why my father said I should read it. I get it and I loved it and I'll probably have to go there again. This was a full meal-- rich and savory and complex. DUNE was a beautiful read.

January 27
Checked out from the library the 3 Fifty Shades books and it turns out I read #4 and #5 already. I took them off the list completely and have started #6.

I added two new sets of books to the list, but they are not counted both by Theresa Shaver. I wasn't going to buy any books this year but I won an Amazon gift card in a drawing and decided to treat myself.

January 29
I finished Fifty Shades #6.
Now I'm going to finish HAMILTON. I started it last year, and made it over the 100 page mark and hit a reading slump. What I found, after I'd put it away was that I wanted to find out what happened next. This is why I'm going to finish it this year, I'm actually curious to see how the story of Alexander Hamilton unfolds.

February 6
Working on HAMILTON, at 35%. Still really enjoying it. I can "hear" the soundtrack from the musical in my head. I can tell where Miranda got some of the lyrics.

February 17
ALEXANDER HAMILTON is a difficult read. I'm liking it, but I can only do so much at a time.

I'm doing something I don't do often-- reading more than one book at a time. I've started the Apollo books. I'm half way through #1 and #2 is in the wings.

I'll keep working on AH a few pages at a time and enjoy Apollo at the same time.

February 26
I've blown through the first four of the Apollo books. Book 4 was AWESOME. It made me ugly cry, twice. I'll start the last book tonight and expect to be done quickly.

I'll go back to AH when I'm done with the adventures of Apollo.

March 9
I finished the Apollo books, they were wonderful. Rick Riordan is an F-ing genus with how he's brought ancient mythologies to the modern world and making them accessible to young readers.

I've continued with Hamilton and increased another 10% of reading.

THE GRAVEYARD BOOK by Niel Gaiman finally came in from the library. It is what I am reading now.

July wrote: "January 29
I finished Fifty Shades #6.
Now I'm going to finish HAMILTON. I started it last year, and made it over the 100 page mark and hit a reading slump. What I found, after I'd put it away was..."

There's a 6th Fifty Shades book? I didn't know there was a 4th or 5th.

March 22
I finished THE GRAVEYARD BOOK by Neil Gaiman. It was good.

I checked out, from the library, ATOMIC HABITS, which is not on my list, though it was on my Wish List from the Library. This means I'm off this list for a read. Not intentionally... but I don't modify the list after February 1st.

I'll pick up soon with plans to cover the full list by the end of the year.

I had a long dry spell from reading. The end of our school year slowed me down and I fell into a streaming vortex of binge-watching shows and movies. I'm back now and feeling like reading again, which is good. I'm in the Frank Tayell books with five books to go. Two new ones were added to the queue since they were just released and I'd like to keep the reading momentum going by staying in the same story universe for a while.

I finished STE #18 and am going to the spin-off series Life Goes On #2, 3, 4, and 5 then read #19 of STE.

Here's to getting back in the groove. Happy reading.

Back to reading again. I'm still reading the Frank Tayell books, making reading a lot easier. I'm still weeks behind on my reading goal, but I'm bound to pick up the pace soon, and then I'll be ahead again.

June 22
It's been a long dry spell of not reading. My fear during these dry spells is that I'll never read again. I'll never find a book that will remind me of why I love to read.
Then I read it, the book that reminds me why I love to read.
I don't blame the book I stalled out on. I'll get back to it later. I accept the phase for what it was and move forward with a voracious appetite for the next book.

June 30
I am making progress. I hesitate to say the dry spell is broken, but I have finished four books. I finished THE NEXT PERSON YOU MEET IN HEAVEN, which started to get the end of the dry spell over. I tried to read A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and had to stop. Between the weird slang and the violence-- which normally I don't mind-- I had to stop. I couldn't get through it. So, I stopped after 50 pages. I then picked up and blew through in a handful of days Theresa Shaver's 3 FLARE books-- and they did not disappoint! I'm hopeful that I'll keep up the momentum. Next on deck is THE PASSION ACCORDING TO CARMELA.

I loved DAUGHTER OF THE DEEP. I now have to read Jules Vern's 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA and THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. As with any Rick Riordian book, he takes a classic and spins it masterfully.

I've taken a break to read some comfort re-reading. Next up: EAT, PRAY, LOVE

July 31
Finished EAT, PRAY, LOVE.
Starting THE YEAR OF YES

August 1
YEAR OF YES was an incredibly fast read. It was excellent and has given me a lot to think about.

Now onto RADIUM GIRLS.

September 27
How did things go by so fast?

I finished the IN DEATH book I'd collected. They were, as always, an entertaining read. I enjoyed the binge reading of the five books back to back, it was hard to keep track of which book I was in on GoodReads because I read them so quickly, back to back.

I'm back to the Library part of the list. I have two books on hold, and I'll start ONE LAST STOP next.

Year End:
I did better than I thought on this year's mountain. I made my goal of 52 books total read for 2022. It has been a good year of reading. I've already planned for my mountain next year. The TBR goes on.