Pick-a-Shelf discussion

✂️trim✂️

/trɪm/

verb: make (something) neat or of the required size or form by cutting away irregular or unwanted parts.

noun: an act of cutting something in order to neaten it.

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A regular bookshelf has 4 sides so we are going to "trim" its 4 "sides" (ie. 4 different ways).

1. How many?!?!
Look at the total number of your TBR, take the last digit and read that many books off your TBR. If you have a "0", read 10 books.
Try to read what's already on your TBR prior to starting this challenge. You may concentrate on a certain TBR shelf if you have a number of TBR shelves.

2. Share the love
Sort your TBR by one (1) of the following options:
✂️ "num ratings"
✂️ "avg rating"
✂️ "date added"
✂️ "date pub"

and read:
a. Books with the highest number / most recent date
b. Books with the least number / oldest date
Try to read the same number of books (a+b) as you did for (1) above, if not more.

3. Monstrosity
Read 1 (one) of the 5 thickest books on your TBR.
Yes, the biggest book and just the One. If the thickest is 1,000+ pages but the 5th thickest is only 300+ pages, DO choose the book closest to 1,000+ pages

4. Catch Up
Read that last book in the series!
Or at least, catch up to the latest instalment.
You must have read at least the first book before October 2022. Again, try to read the same number of book you read for (1), if not more.

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This is an open ended challenge so you're welcome to start anytime and finish anytime you like.

Any book on your TBR counts for this so let's get that number down!

Participants

Bea

Joanna

Lyn (Readinghearts)

LynnB

Marina

I was just telling a friend that each time my TBR reached (down) a certain number, it quickly crept back up and I just can't breach this number so I really need the help... I usually focus on my own tbr for this challenge so here's hoping ;)

I'll be back on / around Oct 1 to update my numbers!

Count me in! Drafting a tentative list using my owned TBR – I'll come back later if the number of books changes by October 1st.

Total: 19/31

1. How many?!?!
1. The Nebuly Coat - read 09/10
2. L'oro perduto - read 13/10
3. This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland - read 24/10
4. Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir - read 30/10
5. If She Knew - read 01/11
6. Kallocain - read 13/11
7. The Beautiful Ones - read 16/11
8. Certain Dark Things - read 26/12
9. The Minister's Black Veil - read 29/12
10. Burnt Offerings - read 22/01

2. Share the love
✂️ "num ratings"

a. Books with the highest number:
1. Little Fires Everywhere - read 24/09
2. Everything I Never Told You
3. Storm Front - read 19/12
4. The Thirteenth Tale
5. Assassin's Apprentice

b. Books with the least number:
1. Der Schoß der Leere
2. Katerina e la sua guerra
3. L'Armenia cantata dai suoi poeti
4. Mit Ohnmacht verkleidet gehe ich aus
5. Rom

3. Monstrosity
Il Visconte di Bragelonne 2306 pages - read 02/04

4. Catch Up
1. Immortal in Death - read 04/10
2. Hard Time - read 17/10
3. The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern - read 23/10
4. Seegrund - read 23/11
5. The Nursing Home Murder - read 28/12
6. Tricked - read 29/07

Trim that TBR 2022, Oct. 1 2022
Completed 10 Sept 2023

TBR list ends in 7 this time (227). Start date will be October 1 for my list. I am limiting this to books I already own or can get through the library.

📚1. How many?!?!
Look at the total number of your TBR, take the last digit and read that many books off your TBR. If you have a "0", read 10 books.
Try to read what's already on your TBR prior to starting this challenge. You may concentrate on a certain TBR shelf if you have a number of TBR shelves.
1. Clark and Division, Naomi Hirahara, 10 Sept 2023
2. Something Wicked, Elizabeth Ferrars, 28 October 2022
3. Weather Girl, Rachel Lynn Solomon, 6 Nov 2022
4. Stormy Weather, Paulette Jiles, 5 Apr 2023
5. Adult Assembly Required, Abbi Waxman, 29 Aug 2023
6. The Engineer's Wife, Tracey Enerson Wood, 24 May 2023
7. The Shattered Tree, Charles Todd, 27 Feb 2023

📚2. Share the love
Sort your TBR by one (1) of the following options:
✂️ "num ratings"
✂️ "avg rating"
✂️ "date added"
✂️ "date pub"

and read:
a. Books with the most recent date
b. Books with the oldest date
Try to read the same number of books (a+b) as you did for (1) above, if not more.
1. Betsy: The Dramatic Biography of Prison Reformer Elizabeth Fry, Jean Hatton, DNF (by read over 1/2), Aug 2023, added 12/17/2018
2. Watching the Dark, Peter Robinson, 22 Apr 2023, added 1/1/2019
3. Ring for Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse, 2 Nov 2022, added 1/15/2019
4. The World That We Knew, Alice Hoffman, 22 Jan 2023, added 8/13/2019
5. Mother Daughter Traitor Spy, Susan Elia MacNeal, 5 Dec 2022, added 8/15/2022
6. The Librarian Spy, Madeline Martin, 14 Nov 2022, added 8/8/2022
7. Love Letters from Ladybug Farm, Donna Ball, 14 Dec 2022, added 9/12/2022

📚3. Monstrosity
Read 1 (one) of the 5 thickest books on your TBR.
1. World Without End, Follette, 1014 pages
2. Peter the Great, Massie, 909 pages
✔3. The Lady Brewer of London, Karen Brooks, 8 Sept 2023, 816 pages

📚4. Catch Up
Read that last book in the series!
Or at least, catch up to the latest instalment.
You must have read at least the first book before October 2021. Again, try to read the same number of book you read for (1), if not more.
1. A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #18), Louise Penny, 9 Dec 2022, read 9 Dec 2022, first book read 2010
2. The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club #3) (read before 1 Oct, replacing with...)
2. A Cup of Silver Linings (Dove Pond #2), Karen Hawkins, read 27 Oct 2022, first book read May 2021
3. Love in the Time of Bertie(44 Scotland Street #15), Alexander McCall Smith, 25 June 2023, first book read 2008
4. Ice Cold Heart (Monkeewrench #10), P.J. Tracy, read 28 Nov 2022, first book read 2011
5. A Distant Grave(Maggie D'arcy #2), Sarah Stewart Taylor, 5 Jan 2023, first book read 2020
6. The Drowning Sea(Maggie D'arcy #3), Sarah Stewart Taylor, 26 Mar 2023, first book read 2020
7. Lucy by the Sea (Amgash #4), Elizabeth Strout, read 1 Oct 2022, first book read 2017

Yay! I was just wondering if this would start again soon.

Read: 9/9
Finished: 7/5/23

1. How many?!?!
Current TBR: 941
✔1. Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical - 2/6/23

2. Share the love
Sort your TBR by one (1) of the following options:
✂️ "num ratings"
✂️ "avg rating"
✂️ "date added"
✂️ "date pub"

and read:
a. Highest rating
✔1. West with Giraffes - 11/26/22

b. Lowest rating
✔1. Web of Desire - 7/4/23

a. Highest # of ratings
✔1. Gone Girl - 2/27/23

b. Lowest # of ratings
✔1. Joe X: Rethinking Physical Fitness for Adults - 12/20/22

a. Date added (oldest)
✔1. Emperor of the Air - 4/23/23

b. Date added (newest)
✔1.Panic Snap - 1/3/23

3. Monstrosity
✔1.Dragonfly in Amber - 11/12/22

4. Catch Up
✔1. Reunion in Death - 12/12/22

How Many?

Current Catch Up TBR 404

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Share the love

Sorted by Number of Ratings
a. Most Ratings

1. Where the Crawdads Sing
2. Little Fires Everywhere
3. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
4. The Woman in the Window

b. Least Ratings
1. The Black Car Business Volume 1
2. The California Immigrant
3. W
4. The Queen's Promise

Monstrosity

Chesapeake

Catch Up

Racing the Light

Trim That TBR
Starting 1 October 2022
Finished 1 March 2023
278 books on my TBR

✔ 1. How many?!?! - finished 28 Oct 22
Look at the total number of your TBR, take the last digit and read that many books off your TBR. Try to read what's already on your TBR prior to starting this challenge.
✔ 1. Fools of Fortune by William Trevor, 4 Oct 22
✔ 2. Moon Palace by Paul Auster, 17 Oct 22
✔ 3. Still Life by Val McDermid, 23 Oct 22
✔ 4. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell, 24 Oct 22
✔ 5. Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine, 13 Oct 22
✔ 6. Sugar Money by Jane Harris, 19 Oct 22
✔ 7. Aesop's Fables by Aesop, 28 Oct 22
✔ 8. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver by Martin Jenkins, 25 Oct 22

✔ 2. Share the love - finished 10 Feb 23
Sort your TBR by ✂️ "num ratings" and read:
a. Books with the highest number
b. Books with the least number
Highest:
✔ 1. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, 3 Dec 22
✔ 2. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, 27 Jan 23
✔ 3. Atomic Habits by James Clear, 13 Oct 22
✔ 4. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle, 4 Nov 22
Lowest:
✔ 5. The Sugar House by Antonia White, 17 Nov 22
✔ 6. Beyond the Glass by Antonia White, 29 Nov 22
✔ 7. Walsingham by Mary Robinson, 22 Oct 22
✔ 8. Murder While You Work by Susan Scarlett, 9 Feb 23

✔ 3. Monstrosity - finished 16 Oct 22
Read 1 (one) of the 5 thickest books on your TBR.
✔ 1. The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith, 16 Oct 22 (1012 pages)

✔ 4. Catch Up
Read that last book in the series!
Or at least, catch up to the latest instalment.
You must have read at least the first book before October 2021.
✔ 1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling, 16 Oct 22
✔ 2. Murder House by Jordan Castillo Price, 24 Oct 22
✔ 3. Other Half by Jordan Castillo Price, 31 Jan 23
✔ 4. Subtle Bodies by Jordan Castillo Price, 1 March 23
✔ 5. The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths, 30 Oct 22
✔ 6. The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths, 22 Oct 22
✔ 7. The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths, 26 Oct 22
✔ 8. The Dark Angel by Elly Griffiths, 13 Nov 22

TRIM
Starts October 1, 2022
Current TBR 1234
2/13

1. How many?!?! = 4
1. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Read 10/9/22 - 3*
2. The Iron Hand of Mars by Lindsey Davis Read 9/8/22 - 4*
3. Silent House by Orhan Pamuk Read 10/26/22 - 2*
4. This Lie Will Kill You by Chelsea Pitcher Read 1/28/23 - 3*

2. Share the love
Sort your TBR by one (1) of the following options: ✂️ "date added"
a. Books with the most recent date
1. Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin Read 10/19/22 - 4*
2. Logging Off by Nick Spalding Read 10/20/22 - 5*

b. Books with the oldest date
1. Ghosts by César Aira Read 11/22/22 - 2*
2. Broken by Karin Fossum Read 4/28/23 - 3*

3. Monstrosity
Read 1 (one) of the 5 thickest books on your TBR.

My top 5 range from 768p to 664p and were added to the TBR in 2011 (2), 2012, 2017 and 2018.

I will read: Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy. (added June 2011, 756p)

4. Catch Up
Read that last book in the series!
Or at least, catch up to the latest installment.
1. The Devil's Bones by Jefferson Bass
2. The English Breakfast Murder by Laura Childs
3. Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich Read 11/19/22 - 4*
4. A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley Read 5/13/23 - 4*

I probably need my head checked because right now I'm drowning in challenges and am not likely to finish most of the ones I already committed to, but hey. I can't stop! I'll probably be flexible with myself and primarily use audiobooks for this challenge, since I know I can't add more physical books to my challenge list for this year.

1. How many?!?! 7
2. Share the love
Sort your TBR by one (1) of the following options:
✂️ "num ratings"
✂️ "avg rating"
✂️ "date added"
✂️ "date pub"

and read:
a. Books with the highest number / most recent date
b. Books with the least number / oldest date
Try to read the same number of books (a+b) as you did for (1) above, if not more.

3. Monstrosity
Read 1 (one) of the 5 thickest books on your TBR.
Yes, the biggest book and just the One. If the thickest is 1,000+ pages but the 5th thickest is only 300+ pages, DO choose the book closest to 1,000+ pages

4. Catch Up
Read that last book in the series!
Or at least, catch up to the latest instalment.
You must have read at least the first book before October 2021. Again, try to read the same number of book you read for (1), if not more.

I'm in as always...:-)

TBR list = 910 so 10 it is!!

1. How many?!?! = 10
I always need guidance for stuff so I'm going to do top 10 with highest ✂️ "avg rating"
1. Poet Of The Wrong Generation
2. A Court of Mist and Fury
3. Kingdom of Ash
4. Crooked Kingdom
5. Shogun, Part 1
6. Empire of Storms
7. Queen of Shadows
8. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
9. If This Is a Man • The Truce
10. The Last Olympian

2. Share the love
Sort your TBR by one (1) of the following options:
✂️ "num ratings"

and read:
a. Books with the highest number
1. All the Light We Cannot See
2. Slaughterhouse-Five
3. The Secret Life of Bees
4. A Court of Thorns and Roses
5. Night
b. Books with the least number
1. Living the Beatitudes
2. Human Guinea Pigs: Experimentation on Man
3. Validity in Interpretation
4. jillian McClout, Happy Scout: A Smile Is Born
5. Being a Christian Without Being an Idiot!: 11 Assumed Truths That Make Us Look Stupid

3. Monstrosity
Read 1 (one) of the 5 thickest books on your TBR.
1. Les Misérables

4. Catch Up
1. The Inimitable Jeeves
2. Very Good, Jeeves!
3. Thank You, Jeeves
4. Right Ho, Jeeves
5. The Code of the Woosters
6. The Daughter of Time
7. The Light Fantastic
8. Equal Rites
9. Sourcery
10. Wyrd Sisters

1. How many?!?!
5:
1. Deathless 7/12
2. The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power 3/8
3. A Man Called Ove
4. Welcome to Lovecraft 4/10
5. Something Wicked This Way Comes 8/19

2. Share the love: "num ratings"
Highest:
A Game of Thrones 6/24
The Shining 10/28
Verity 12/18
Dune
One Hundred Years of Solitude 8/5

Lowest:
Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet 3/20
The Sleepless 7/25
Puzzle for Fools 4/3
Kundo Wakes Up 10/16
The Ghost Sequences 9/12

3. Monstrosity
Cryptonomicon (1152 pgs) 11/4

4. Catch Up
Cetaganda 10/16
Ethan of Athos 12/3
Labyrinth 12/4
Borders of Infinity 12/13
Brothers in Arms
Mirror Dance
Memory
Komarr
A Civil Campaign
Winterfair Gifts
Falling Free
Diplomatic Immunity
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
The Flowers of Vashnoi
CryoBurn
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen

Count me in!      Trim that TBR 2022    (1 October 2022 - 2023)   (9 of 13)

I'll be using my tbr shelf, the same I used last year.

1. How many?!?! (274 books, 4 being the last digit)

- A Study in Stone ✔ read Dec 30, 2022
- La primavera llegó en un carro tirado por caballos ✔ read Feb 22, 2023
- Los hechos de la vida (The Facts Of Life) ✔ read Feb 24, 2023
- Tony Takitani ✔ read Feb 25, 2023
Also:
- Entre cielo y tierra (Heaven and Hell) ✔ read Mar 8, 2023

2. Share the love Sorting my TBR by "date added".

a. Books with the most recent date:
- Anne's House of Dreams (Sep 10, 2022)
- Juego limpio (Fair Play) (Jun 25, 2022) ✔ read Mar 8, 2023
b. Books with the oldest date (Nov 24, 2013):
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(Picked from 5 added on the same day!: Vespera, Blood Canticle, The Silver Chair, Dracula and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World).

3. Monstrosity: Read 1 of the 5 thickest books on your TBR.

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Thickest:
- A Court of Wings and Ruin
- Dune
- Tigana (Tigana)
- Por donde una vez caminamos [Where We Once Walked]
- Los días contados (They Were Counted)

4. Catch Up: Read that last book in the series! Or at least, catch up to the latest instalment.

- Blood Lines (Vicki Nelson #3) ✔ read Nov 30, 2022
- Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot #28) ✔ read Jan 24, 2023
- El ejército furioso (The Ghost Riders of Ordebec) (Commissaire Adamsberg #9) ✔ read Feb 1, 2023
- The Body in the Library (Miss Marple #3) ✔ read Mar 16, 2023
Also:
- A Murder is Announced (Miss Marple #5) ✔ read Mar 11, 2023
- The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Miss Marple #9) ✔ read Mar 21, 2023
- Paragon Walk (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt #3) ✔ read Apr 8, 2023
- Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle #5) ✔ read Aug 16, 2023

31/31 as at 09/27

1. How many?!?!
📚 First Person Singular -Read 10/10
📚 The Gift -Read 10/20
📚 The Fish Girl -Read 10/22
📚 Lapse (Clementine Jones #1) -Read 10/30
📚 The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights #1) -Read 11/01
📚 The Beautiful (The Beautiful #1) -Read 11/05
📚 The Cat Who Saved Books -Read 11/13
📚 A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe #1) -Read 11/16
📚 City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic #1) -Read 11/21
📚 The Day of the Triffids -Read 11/30

2. Share the love
✂️ "avg rating"
a. Books with the highest number
🔼 4.76 - Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1) by Rebecca Yarros -Read 05/16
🔼 4.58 - Spy x Family, Vol. 2 by Tatsuya Endo -Read 05/21
🔼 4.57 - The Redgum River Retreat by Sandie Docker -Read 07/13
🔼 4.49 - Becoming by Michelle Obama -Read 11/21
🔼 4.43 - Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree -Read 11/01

b. Books with the least number
🔽 3.21 - Real Differences by S.L. Lim -Read 07/17
🔽 3.22 - Crossroads of Canopy (Titan's Forest #1) by Thoraiya Dyer -Read 09/27
🔽 3.25 - Monstrous Heart (The Monstrous Heart Trilogy #1) by Claire McKenna -Read 08/24
🔽 3.27 - Pug Hill by Alison Pace -Read 09/16
🔽 3.39 - Revenge, Murder in Three Parts by S.L. Lim -Read 09/24

3. Monstrosity
800p - The Locksmith's Daughter -Read 11/13

4. Catch Up
🔗 The Hollow Boy (Lockwood & Co. #3) -Read 10/22
🔗 Manners & Mutiny (Finishing School #4) -Read 10/26
🔗 Dresses of Red and Gold (The Melling Sisters #2) -Read 11/27
🔗 Milk Glass Moon (Big Stone Gap #3) -Read 11/29
🔗 The Sky in Silver Lace (The Melling Sisters #3) -Read 12/04
🔗 The Toll (Arc of a Scythe #3) -Read 12/21
🔗 Gleanings (Arc of a Scythe #3.5) -Read 12/30
🔗 Defy the Worlds (Constellation #2) -Read 01/14
🔗 A Snake Lies Waiting (The Legend of the Condor Heroes #3) by Jin Yong -Read 03/07
🔗 Genesis (Project Nemesis #2) by Brendan Reichs -Read 04/04

I'll be in this one again but will work on it with the calendar year of 2023.

Trim That TBR 2022-2023

Dec 17, 2022 - Dec 1, 2023

1. How many?!?!
Look at the total number of your TBR, take the last digit and read that many books off your TBR.
# of books on TBR: 90 ==> GOAL 10 books per prompt

Try to read what's already on your TBR prior to starting this challenge.
[Don't put series books here - put them in #4 instead]
✔1. This Mortal Coil - fin 12/20
✔2. Sand - fin 1/7
✔3. Paddle to the Sea - fin 1/9
✔4. The Speed of Dark, added 1/11/2012 - fin 1/9
✔5. A Psalm for the Wild-Built - fin 1/11
✔6. Esau - fin 1/25
✔7. The Chatelet Apprentice - fin 1/27
✔8. Dead Irish - fin 1/30
✔9. With a Hammer for My Heart - fin 2/6
✔10. Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe - fin 2/16

2. Share the love
Sort your TBR by one (1) of the following options: num ratings, avg rating, date added, date pub

a date pub most recent
✔1. The Golden Enclaves, pub 9/27/22 - fin 9/3
✔2. Ain't Burned All The Bright - fin 1/12
✔3. American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears, pub 10/12/21 - fin 12/27
✔4. Cloud Cuckoo Land, pub 9/28/21 - fin 1/2/23
✔5. Winterkeep, pub 1/19/21- fin 1/18

b date pub oldest
✔6. It Can't Happen Here, pub 1935 - fin 1/18
✔7. Death in Kashmir, pub 1953 - fin 9/16
✔8. 2BRO2B, pub 1968 - - fin 12/18
✔9. The Bluest Eye, pub 1970 - fin 2/14
✔10. The Skull Beneath the Skin, pub 1982 - fin 12/27

3. Monstrosity
Read 1 (one) of the 5 thickest books on your TBR.
✔Golden Fool, 709 pages - fin 2/6

4. Catch Up
Read that last book in the series!
Or at least, catch up to the latest installment.
You must have read at least the first book before October 2021. Again, try to read the same number of book you read for (1), if not more.
[Any book in a series I've already started]
✔1. The Serpent Sea, pub 1/3/2012 - fin 1/15
✔2. Winterkeep (Graceling Realm # 4) - fin 1/18
✔3. The Fifth Assassin (Culper Ring #2) - fin 1/21
✔4. Camouflage (Ghost Targets #4) - fin 2/4
✔5. The Interior (Red Princess #2) - fin 1/30
✔6. [b:Clay's Ark (Patternmaster #3)- fin 2/10
✔7. The Bookman's Wake (Cliff Janeway #2)
✔8. Pandemonium (Delirium #2) - fin 2/23
✔9. The Game(Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes # 7), added 2/9/22 - fin 3/9
✔10. The Bookman's Promise (Cliff Janeway #3) - fin 3/23

FINISHED 9/16

I have been working on this one since 1 October, but realised I forgot to post here.

Trim That TBR 2022/23
1 October 2022 - 30 September 2023

Books from my Want-to-read (books in the house), and my To-read-net-galley (books downloaded) shelves = 108 + 9 = 117

1. How many?!?!
GOAL : 7 books
✔️1. 14/10/22 Moving Parts
✔️2. 14/11/22 Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
✔️3. 12/12/22 Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
✔️4. 27/12/22 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
✔️5. 3/1/23 Chasing the King of Hearts
✔️6. 25/1/23 Aranyak: Of the Forest
7.

2. Share the love
Sort your TBR by one (1) of the following options:
✂️ "num ratings"
✂️ "avg rating"
✂️ "date added"
✂️ "date pub"

and read:
a. Books with the highest number / most recent date
b. Books with the least number / oldest date
Try to read the same number of books (a+b) as you did for (1) above, if not more.

Sort your TBR by "num ratings" and read:
a. Books with the highest number
1. Anna Karenina
2. Circe
✔️3. 19/12/22 The Vanishing Half
4. A Little Life
5. Their Eyes Were Watching God
✔️6. 30/12/22 Madame Bovary
7. Cloud Atlas

b. Books with the lowest number
✔️1. 14/12/22 Dead Reckoning
✔️2. 13/12/22 Nest of Vipers
3. Murdering Mr. Velfrage
4. Death of a Train
5. Department of Dead Ends: 14 Detective Stories
6. The Tree of Heaven
7. Revenge of the Translator

3. Monstrosity
Read 1 (one) of the 5 thickest books on your TBR.
1. The Life of Charles Dickens
2. The Mirror & the Light
3. Anna Karenina
4. Cathedral of the Sea
5. A Little Life

4. Catch Up
(You must have read at least the first book before October 2022. )
✔️1. 19/10/22 Olive, Again
✔️2. 8/11/22 Ruddy Gore
✔️3. 24/11/22 My Friend Maigret
✔️4. 31/12/22 Aethelred the Unready (Penguin Monarchs): The Failed King
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Trim That TBR
January - December 2023

My Trim That TBR Challenge (msg 18)

Books Read🔹28

✅1. How many?!?!🔹Take the last digit of your TBR total and read that many books off your TBR

TBR Owned shelf = 2579
💟Nightwork🔹09.09 ★★★★
💟Part-Time Lover🔹01.04 ★★★★
💟The End of Tomorrow🔹03.26 ★★★
💟Gator Bait🔹02.22 ★★★
💟Dragon on Top🔹04.29 ★★★★
💟On the Rocks🔹03.13 ★★★★
💟A Scandal in the Headlines🔹05.06 ★★★
💟Mr. Fixer Upper🔹04.18 ★★★★
💟Heart of the Sea🔹05.04 ★★★★


✅2. Share the love🔹Sort your TBR by date added and read:

a. Books with the most recent date
💟Dec 2022🔹Window Shopping🔹12.23 ★★★★
b. Books with the oldest date
💟Mar 2013🔹The Miles Between Us🔹03.21 ★★★★
💟Mar 2013🔹The Bride Came C.O.D.🔹02.16 ★★★
💟Mar 2013🔹All Good Things...🔹09.03 ★★★
💟Mar 2013🔹Ice Cold🔹06.19 ★★★★
💟Mar 2013🔹Fuzzy Navel🔹02.25 ★★★
💟Mar 2013🔹Stuck on You🔹09.22 ★★★
💟Mar 2013🔹Her Perfect Stranger🔹09.17 ★★★★
💟Apr 2013🔹The Night Is Alive🔹07.26 ★★★


✅3. Monstrosity🔹Read 1 (one) of the 5 thickest books on your TBR

💟672 pp🔹With Everything I Am🔹04.30 ★★★★


✅4. Catch Up🔹Read that last book in the series! Or at least, catch up to the latest instalment

💟Aegis Security #3🔹Fatal Pursuit🔹01.30 ★★★★
💟Afterlife #3🔹Waiting in the Wings🔹07.05 ★★★
💟Sicily's Corretti Dynasty #8🔹A Hunger for the Forbidden🔹10.17 ★★★
💟Brute Force #3🔹Lethal Nights🔹11.04 ★★★★
💟Dirty Martini Running Club #4🔹Flirting With Forever🔹10.07 ★★★★
💟White Rabbit Chronicles #4🔹A Mad Zombie Party🔹09.11 ★★★★
💟Night Prince #4🔹Into the Fire🔹05.16 ★★★★
💟The Burrow #4🔹The End of Lies🔹08.09 ★★★★
💟Woodlands #5🔹Unwritten🔹07.30 ★★★★

Finished! https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Rosemary wrote: "Finished! https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."

Congrats, Rosemary. I'm seriously impressed!

Woohoo!! well done, Rosemary - I'm still plodding along lol

TRIM THAT TBR - 2023

I'm using my "I own it" shelf as much as possible for this challenge.

1. How many - 747 books on list = 7 books
Read 0/7
1.Number the Stars
2.Moloka'i
3.I Heart You, You Haunt Me
4.Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
5.The Amber Spyglass
6.Time Will Tell
7.The Tale of Despereaux

2. Share the love - oldest and newest on list
Read 0/7
1.Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
2.The Golden Compass
3.A Little Princess
4.Shiver
5.The Holy Covenants
6.Angels: Agents of Light, Love, and Power
7.Covenant Keepers

3. Monstrosity - 1 of 5 thickest books
Read 0/1
Options:
1.The Count of Monte Cristo
2.The Arabian Nights
3.Bleak House
4.Anna Karenina
5.Lonesome Dove

Catch Up - Finish series
Read 0/7
1.No Unhallowed Hand: 1846-1893
2.Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret
3.Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want
4.Leven Thumps and the Wrath of Ezra
5.Leven Thumps and the Ruins of Alder
6.Scorch Trials
7.The Death Cure

Finished this one, but my number of TBR books has gone up instead of down. When I started this, it was 941, now it's 975. So it goes.

Trim that TBR 2022, 1 Oct. 2022 - 30 Sept 2023 (one year)
Completed 10 Sept 2023

TBR list ends in 7 this time (227). Start date will be October 1 for my list. I am limiting this to books I already own or can get through the library.

📚1. How many?!?!
1. Clark and Division, Naomi Hirahara, 10 Sept 2023
2. Something Wicked, Elizabeth Ferrars, 28 October 2022
3. Weather Girl, Rachel Lynn Solomon, 6 Nov 2022
4. Stormy Weather, Paulette Jiles, 5 Apr 2023
5. Adult Assembly Required, Abbi Waxman, 29 Aug 2023
6. The Engineer's Wife, Tracey Enerson Wood, 24 May 2023
7. The Shattered Tree, Charles Todd, 27 Feb 2023

📚2. Share the love
1. Betsy: The Dramatic Biography of Prison Reformer Elizabeth Fry, Jean Hatton, DNF (by read over 1/2), Aug 2023, added 12/17/2018
2. Watching the Dark, Peter Robinson, 22 Apr 2023, added 1/1/2019
3. Ring for Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse, 2 Nov 2022, added 1/15/2019
4. The World That We Knew, Alice Hoffman, 22 Jan 2023, added 8/13/2019
5. Mother Daughter Traitor Spy, Susan Elia MacNeal, 5 Dec 2022, added 8/15/2022
6. The Librarian Spy, Madeline Martin, 14 Nov 2022, added 8/8/2022
7. Love Letters from Ladybug Farm, Donna Ball, 14 Dec 2022, added 9/12/2022

📚3. Monstrosity
3. The Lady Brewer of London, Karen Brooks, 8 Sept 2023, 816 pages

📚4. Catch Up
1. A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #18), Louise Penny, 9 Dec 2022, read 9 Dec 2022, first book read 2010
2. The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club #3) (read before 1 Oct, replacing with...)
2. A Cup of Silver Linings (Dove Pond #2), Karen Hawkins, read 27 Oct 2022, first book read May 2021
3. Love in the Time of Bertie(44 Scotland Street #15), Alexander McCall Smith, 25 June 2023, first book read 2008
4. Ice Cold Heart (Monkeewrench #10), P.J. Tracy, read 28 Nov 2022, first book read 2011
5. A Distant Grave(Maggie D'arcy #2), Sarah Stewart Taylor, 5 Jan 2023, first book read 2020
6. The Drowning Sea(Maggie D'arcy #3), Sarah Stewart Taylor, 26 Mar 2023, first book read 2020
7. Lucy by the Sea (Amgash #4), Elizabeth Strout, read 1 Oct 2022, first book read 2017

Well done, LynnB!!

I still got 3 to go & erm, 2023 one should be posted soon too :D

I am just going to edit Message 15, to indicate that I've finished. But I see I've somehow never been listed as a participant in Message 2. I don't suppose it matters now, but I do want to declare that I've finally finished. And anyway, I'm in good company, because you're not listed in Message 2 yourself, Tien. LOL

Judging from Tien's message just above this, I'm just in the nick of time.

oops, sorry, Susan... I must admit to being terrible at admin this year.

It's been busy at work this year that by the time workday's over, I don't really want to be on the computer anymore... I've been meaning to catch up on everything.

Tien wrote: "oops, sorry, Susan... I must admit to being terrible at admin this year.

It's been busy at work this year that by the time workday's over, I don't really want to be on the computer anymore... I've..."

No problem, Tien. I don't think it matters at all, now that I've finished. It's so much more important that you spend what time you have dreaming up the challenges we all love so much. Sorry things are so busy at work.

Finished for 2023 (calendar year, that is) - I know it's off but I think some of us wait to start this with the calendar year each year and work on it that way. I hope that's still okay!
Updated post: My Trim That TBR Challenge (msg 18)

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