Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2012 discussion

Will post titles as I complete them.

1) "Living" Henry Green
2) "The Last Crossing" Guy Vanderhaeghe
3) "Growing Pains" Emily Carr
4) "Let's Kill Uncle" Rohan O'Grady
5) "A Kind of Magic: An Oxfordshire Childhood in the 1920's" Mollie Harris
6) "Another Kind of Magic" Mollie Harris
7) "A New England Girlhood" Nancy Hale
8) "The History of Mr. Polly" H.G. Wells

Good Luck on your climb, Esther. You seem to be off to a good start.
I have added A Kind Of Magic to my TBR list as I was brought up in that area.

That does look good... will think about putting it on TBR. Thanks for the suggestion.

Two Esther's in this challenge? What's the probability of that? At least now I know why it seemed Esther was posting so much! :)

No kidding! I did a double take there! Hi Esther! Good luck to you as well! I am very slow with the reading these days. One book a week might even be a stretch - argghh!! I don't think I'll have a problem reaching Pike's Peak, though. It's been years since I read this many books *that I have on my shelves* in a row - it's about time!

I work with two other Esthers so I'm used to it!
I read a book a week last year (with a two week vacation) but this year I'm aiming for some bricks and clearing through some books that might require slow reading.

I have a niece named Esther, but she never logs on to goodreads. I hope she's doing some reading.

This challenge, and goodreads in general, has me reading two books at a time, which I have never done before.

Jeannette wrote: "This challenge, and goodreads in general, has me reading two books at a time, which I have never done before."

I'm reading a ton of stuff from my shelves; but oddly; none from my original list! I usually have two-three books going at any given time: an audio book, a print fiction and, a print non-fiction that I pick at on Sundays :-)

I always have multiple books going -- short attention span, dontcha know! -- a fiction, a non-fiction and a mystery. I cant have just one, makes me feel naked!

I don't have the brain cells for two, most days. ;)

Jeannette wrote: "I don't have the brain cells for two, most days. ;)"

My brain cells definitely can only handle one at a time, can you imagine Jeannette. Be kinda scary trying to keep track of multiple storylines and no telling what kind of a mish mash I would end up with. I have Murasaki's The Tale of Genji as a perennially always being read book that I read little snippets of in between other books, although this has changed since getting a Kindle.

I view reading multiple books as the same as watching more than one television show. When I watched TV, I watched several shows a week, some similar (e.g. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel), others quite different. For whatever reason, I never had a problem cluing in right away as to what plot I was watching; but now that I think about it, it may have been because there was always that flashback sequence ("on last week's episode" or "previously on The X-Files") at the beginning of every episode. Oddly, I don't need to flip around pages in books or rewind an audio to know what's what; but maybe that's because my memory retention is better these days. Ironically, that may be because I don't watch TV anymore!

Tanya wrote:"Ironically, that may be because I don't watch TV anymore!"

I love your last sentence - Too funny! Be thankful for that wonderful memory retention you have. What was that old saying, a brain is a terrible thing to waste. I think you are proving how right that is. It is a personal pet peeve of mine that people allow electronics and such to think for them instead of learning it themselves.

Tanya/dog eared copy wrote: "I usually have two-three books going at any given time: an audio book, a print fiction and, a print non-fiction that I pick at on Sundays :-) ..."

I always have an audiobook and at least one other (and usually two or three other) books on the go at the same time. However, before I discovered audiobooks a couple of years ago, I was strictly a one-book-at-a-time reader.

Maybe it's just that I like sinking into the story that keeps me reading one at a time. I can read my manga volumes while reading a full-length book, because they take about 1/2 hour to read, and don't pull me too far away. Television is made like that, you expect 1/2 hour episodes, but if a book is good, I don't want to wander off.

I used to be a one-book-at-a-time person but in recent years I've had anything from two to four going at any given time. It started with deciding I needed to read more non-fiction, so my minimum these days is a novel and and a NF book.

I find I'm getting more read by having more than one on the go because if I don't feel like one I can read the other, but when I was only reading one at a time I'd go find something else to do therefore wasting precious reading time. Maybe I'm a bit like Hayes and my attention span has got shorter as Ive got older. LOL.

I won't do 2 fictions, but I will do 1 fiction and 1 non-fiction at the same time.

When I'm reading more than one novel at a time they tend to be different genres, say historical fiction and a mystery for example. It's not something I consciously do, it's just usually how it works out.

That's true for me as well. I used to alternate between mysteries, more "serious" contemporary novels, classics and non-fiction. These days I can do two or three of those genres at the same time. I'm not sure that I've got a shorter attention span, but I'm conscious of growing older and there being lots of books out there that I want to read. Listening to audiobooks and reading more than one book at a time has exponentially increased the time I spend reading.

I can't do audibooks but can see having one of those for the trip to work and having a regular book going at he same time. I admit I've had a non-fiction book going, like a dog behavior/training book that I read over a long period, while reading a fiction book but not anything that I read at the same time at the same pace. I have to keep my reads separate, I rarely ever read similar reads back to back or the next in a series.