Virtual Mount TBR Challenge 2024 discussion

I started this on my own, but I'm happy to join fellow climbers!

I'm going to focus on my library wish list, as well as trying to clear out my Kindle's eBook backlog (much of which is magazines - do magazines count?)

Here's my first step up this mountain -

Just finished listening to this book today.

Also, picked up Matt Haig's Reasons to Stay Alive from the library and am really looking forward to getting to it (a couple of other books I should read first, though)

Jumped ahead and read this. At first I was disappointed, but now I think it was all right

Fourth one down -
Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search

Problem with this one is that now I want to add more books about the Franklin Expedition to my library list, but I think I'm going to make myself a rule - I can only add one book for every three that I take off!

Number five has been on my Kindle for at least a year and a half, the oldest title on there -
Guns of the Timberlands

Something of a disappointment, but I've got it done and reviewed now.

I think I need to step it up a bit if I'm going to be on track to read 24 by the end of the year!

Zoomed through this one that came off my library TBR - Storyville!: An Illustrated Guide to Writing Fiction

Another one off my library TBR - I didn't actually finish this one, but I got it off the list! The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel

What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins was much more interesting that The Infiltrator - and I get to add another book to my climb!

Cleared All Worlds Wayfarer Magazine, Issue VIII off my kindle. I am very slowly working through this magazine's back catalogue, they generally include interesting speculative stories in their collections and they're pretty decently priced.

I'm sort of almost not really half way?

Listened and finished this audiobook (which I have a feeling I've heard before, but can't prove it - Make Noise: A Creator's Guide to Podcasting and Great Audio Storytelling

and also read this one - Moonflower Murders
over the weekend, both were off my library TBR.

Cleared both the audio version and the book version of this modern-classic-for-a-reason title off my library list. (I'll only count it once for Mt. Crumpit.)
Half way up the mountain now!

I also read a rhubarb cookbook that was available through my library and on my library list, but it does not appear to exist in goodreads-land.

A Small Compass

And 11 more to go

Yay! I've reached the 10 to go countdown!
10!
Dark Frontier

Read Outlawed by Anna North. No more books left on my kindle!

And one more to cross off my library tbr - Dead Iron by Devon Monk. Made it about 100 pages in, but I've decided that if I continued reading it would likely only be a two-star read, and really, what's the point of continuing with something I'm not really enjoying?

With eight more books to read before the end of the year to succeed at this challenge, I'm willing to admit now this probably won't happen. I'll be concentrating on my physical TBR to try and maybe get it cleared up before the new year instead. Still, it was a fun challenge while it lasted for me. Thanks!