Mount TBR 2022 discussion

I will include physical and kindle books and, as in previous years, I will edit this message with my progress throughout the year.

Currently Reading

Finished Reading
1. MEA CULPA & The Life and Work of Semmelweis by Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Bought in 2021. Started on 08Jan21. Finished on 09Jan22.
2. Caligula by Suetonius. Gift in 2021. Started on 15Jan22. Finished on 15Jan22.
3. The Mangan Inheritance by Brian Moore. Bought in 2018. Started on 16Jan22. Finished on 23Jan22.
4. The Mystified Magistrate: And Other Tales by Marquis de Sade. Kindle book. Bought in 2019. Started on 04Feb22. Finished on 05Feb22.
5. France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich. Kindle edition. Bought in 2020. Started reading 12Feb22. Finished on 26Feb22.
6. Weymouth Sands by John Cowper Powys. Bought in 2019. Started on 28Feb22. Finished on 06Mar22.
7. The History of Modern France by Jonathan Fenby. Bought in 2019. Started on 13Mar22. Finished on 02Apr22.
8. Castle Crazy; And Maroshely by Adalbert Stifter. Downloaded in 2019. Started on 07Apr22. Finished on 10Apr22.
9. Motley Stones by Adalbert Stifter. Bought in 2021. Started on 19Mar22. Finished on 16Apr22.
10. Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki. Kindle edition. Started on 12Apr22. Finished on 03May22.
11. The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen. Bought in 2014. Started on 02Jun22. Finished on 04Jun22.
12. The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature by Brian Nelson. Kindle edition. Bought in 2020. Started on 27Jun22. Finished on 23Jul22.
13. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim. Started on 06Aug22. Finished on 14Aug22.
14. Napoleon by Alan Forrest. Started on 15Aug22. Finished on 03Sep22.
15. Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp by Józef Czapski. Birthday present in 2021. Started on 03Sep22. Finished on 04Sep22.
16. The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read by Stuart Kelly. Bought in 2021. Started on 05Sep22. Finished on 30Oct22.
17. They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell. Kindle edition. Started on 01Nov22. Finished on 05Nov22.
18. The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano. Bought in 2020. Started on 06Nov22. Finished on 07Nov22.
19. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon. Started on 08Nov22. Finished on 19Nov22.
20. The Vatican Cellars by André Gide. Bought in 2014. Started on 27Nov22. Finished on 04Dec22.
21. The Outsider by Albert Camus. Kindle book. Started reading 05Dec22. Finished 06Dec22.
22. The Bible for Grown-Ups: A New Look at the Good Book by Simon Loveday. Bought in 2018. Started on 11Dec22. Finished 17Dec22.
23. The Consumer by Michael Gira. Bought back when. Started on 18Dec22. Finished on 23Dec22.
24. The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton. Bought in 2018. Started on 24Dec22. Finished on 28Dec22.

Last year I only just made the top of Mt Blanc. I started the year off well but ended up reading quite a few books that weren't applicable for this challenge; and some were quite long. I typically read about 50 books in a year so 24 off the TBR pile is quite good. And I'm intending on reading some long books this year too.

Good luck, Jonathan!

Finally finished The History of Modern France; I should've finished it last week but caught the dreaded Covid and was covering absences at work. Sheesh. I've enjoyed reading this book along with JJ Norwich's France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle but really need to read more detailed books on specific periods from hereon.

Finished The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim today, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It is just taking me so long to read books these days as work is taking over my life....still, what to read next?

Finally finished Napoleon by Alan Forrest. It's taken so long as things get steadily worse at work - see note above. Think I might resign and just read books for a few months. :-)

Finally finished The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read by Stuart Kelly. Sheesh! How fkng long does it take me to read a book these days!!!!

Four more to read by the end of the year. Not sure if I'll make it.

Ok, So I read Camus's The Outsider years ago...decades ago (yes, I'm that old). I bought this kindle edition in 2017 and I'm (re-)reading it now. I lose track of whether this counts or not but I think it does. Anyway, I need to read this again at this point in my life. Mersault, c'est moi.

Think I might just make it. Two more to go!

Done it! 24 books! With three days to spare. There really wasn't any doubt I'd do it, was there?

Good job, Jonathan! Enjoy the view atop Mt. Blanc!

Congrats!

Thanks!