Bev’s Comments (group member since Feb 10, 2012)

Bev’s comments from the Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2012 group.

Yes, you can keep adding books till the end of the year.

Misfit wrote: "Hi, question about the rules. Do e-books owned prior to 2012 count, or is this only for dead tree books?"

I will count e-books from the "virtual" mountains stored in the ether prior to 2012.

You can either go ahead a make a list, make a partial list and leave room for future choices (see my Mt. Everest list) or just list the books as you go. You can always edit your sign up comment to add your books and dates read.

Laura wrote: "My first goal was to reach Mt. Kilimanjaro but certainly (I hope so) I'll be able to reach Mt. Everest!!! May I invite some friends of mine to join this group?"

You can invite anyone you'd like. The more the merrier! Don't forget to sign in under your chosen level. Only those who officially choose a level through a sign in (in a level folder here or through a sign up post on the blog) will be eligible for Progress Prizes.

Laura wrote: "Hi Bev, thanks for your invitation to join this group here at GR. Since my passion for books is infinite, I loved the idea of this Mount TBR Challenge."
You're welcome! Glad to have you along. What size mountain will you be going for?

@Jo Ann: The picks come in handy for climbing. :-) Hope the challenge helps encourage you. Yes, it is nice to be old enough not to have to hide under the covers with a flashlight to read...

This is the place if you plan to read 75 books from your TBR pile/s. Sign up with a discussion entry below.

This is the place if you plan to read 50 books from your TBR pile/s. Sign up with a discussion entry below.

This is the place if you plan to read 40 books from your TBR pile/s. Sign up with a discussion entry below.

This is the place if you plan to read 25 books from your TBR pile/s. Sign up with a discussion entry below.

This is the place if you plan to read 12 books from your TBR pile/s. Sign up with a discussion entry below.

I'm such a bookaholic that I'm going straight for Mt. Everest. I'm going to see if I can knock out 100 or more of my very own books that just happen to be in gigantic piles of TBR books stacked up around my backroom. I don't have a TBR shelf. Oh, no. I have "Mount TBR"...possibly a whole mountain range.

Mt. Everest: Read 100+ books from your TBR pile/s

I have put together some planned reading and will list those choices below. I also plan to leave some spaces empty so that if certain books in the TBR stacks just happen to call my name at a particular time I can use them for the challenge as well. Come on and join me in the mountain climbing madness!

1. From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek's Dr. McCoy by Terry Lee Rioux (3/14/12)
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (7/12/12)
3. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (6/30/12)
4. Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen (8/13/12)
5. The Four Million & Other Stories by O. Henry (7/21/12)
6. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
7. My Name is Legion by Roger Zelazny (1/4/12)
8. Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons (1/14/12)
9. Sick to Death by Douglas Clark
10. The Litmore Snatch by Henry Wade
11. So Many Steps to Death by Agatha Christie (5/25/12)
12. Appleby's Answer by Michael Innes
13. Death at Crane's Court by Ellis Dillon
14. The Case of the Blind Barber by John Dickson Carr
15. The Plague Court Murders by Carter Dickson
16. The Third Encounter by Sara Woods
17. Gideon's Month by J. J. Marric (8/8/12)
18. Death Is Relative by Edward Phillips
19. Murder & Magic by Randall Garrett (1/28/12)
20. Nothing Can Rescue Me by Elizabeth Daly (2/18/12)
21. Swing, A Mystery by Rupert Holmes
22. The Fleet Street Murders by Charles Finch
23. Crime on Her Mind: 15 Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties by Michelle B. Slung, ed. (8/18/12)
24. The Edgar Winners: 33rd Annual Anthology by Bill Pronzini, ed.
25. Murder at the Library of Congress by Margaret Truman
26. Gun in Cheek by Bill Pronzini, ed.
27. The Necropolis Railway by Andrew Martin
28. The Love Songs of Sappho by Paul Roche, trans.
29. A Finer End by Deborah Crombie (4/14/12)
30. Shadow of a Doubt by June Thomson
31. The Morning After Death by Nicholas Blake (5/14/12)
32. The Masks of Time by Robert Silverberg (1/16/12)
33. The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom (2/29/12)
34. Bland Beginnings by Julian Symons (4/12/12)
35. The School of Night by Louis Bayard
36. Death's Pale Horse by James Sherburne
37. Future on Ice by Orson Scott Card, ed. (2/15/12)
38. The Fire Engine that Disappeared by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (4/9/12)
39. The Devil to Pay by Ellery Queen (5/6/12>
40. Death of a God by S. T. Haymon (5/1/12)
41. Such Friends Are Dangerous by Walter Tyrer (5/19/12)
42. A Stranger in My Grave by Margaret Millar
43. Silver & Guilt by Cynthia Smith (4/9/12)
44. The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
45. Murder with a Past by Ellery Queen
46. Future Crime by Cynthia Mason & Charles Ardai, eds. (1/23/12)
47. A Sleeping Life by Ruth Rendell
48. O' Artful Death by Sarah Stewart Taylor (6/20/12)
49. The Group by Mary McCarthy
50. Mysterious Incidents at Lone Rock by Rajendra Pillai (8/6/12)
51. The Last Escape by E. C. R. Lorac (5/14/12)
52. A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott
53. The Dark Lantern by Gerri Brightwell
54. Sight Unseen by Mary Roberts Rinehart
55. The Nine Wrong Answers by John Dickson Carr
56. A Question of Time by Helen McCloy
57. The Bone is Pointed by Arthur W. Upfield
58. Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell
59. The Problem of the Green Capsule by John Dickson Carr (1/7/12)
63. The Black Seven by Carol Kendall (1/29/12)
64. The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells (2/3/12)
65. The Red Lamp by Mary Roberts Rinehart (2/7/12)
66. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (2/14/12)
67. The Yellow Room by Mary Roberts Rinehart (2/27/12)
68. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (2/29/12)
69. The Greenwell Mystery by E. C. R. Lorac (3/3/12)
70. Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (3/6/12)
71. Hare Sitting Up by Michael Innes (3/9/12)
72. Five Passengers from Lisbon/Wake for a Lady/The Murder in the Stork Club by Mignon G. Eberhart/H. W. Roden/Vera Casapary (3/11/12 & 3/12/12 and 3/10/12)
73. The Strange Murders at Greystones by Elsie N. Wright (3/16/12)
74. The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux (3/19/12)
75. The Rose Window & Other Verse from New Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke (3/22/12)
76. Full Moon by P. G. Wodehouse (3/23/12)
77. The So Blue Marble by Dorothy B. Huges (3/24/12)
78. The Case of the Grinning Gorilla by Erle Stanley Gardner (3/30/12)
79. A Sprig of Sea Lavender by J. R. L. Anderson (3/31/12)
80. The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer (4/2/12)
81. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (4/4/12)
82. The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Whitechapel Horrors by Edward B Hanna (4/8/12)
83. Chancellorsville & Gettysburg by General Abner Doubleday (4/15/12)
84. The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart (5/15/12)
85. A First Class Murder by Elliott Roosevelt (5/16/12)
86. A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong (5/17/12)
87. Garden of Malice by Susan Kenney (5/21/12)
88. New Graves at Great Norne by Henry Wade (5/31/12)
89. Something to Kill For by Susan Holtzer (6/1/12)
90. The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer (6/12/12)
91. The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson (6/17/12)
92.The 39 Steps by John Buchan (7/3/12)
93. And Four to Go by Rex Stout (7/1/12)
94. File No. 113 by Emile Gaboriau (7/11/12)
95. Compartment K by Helen Reilly (7/15/12)
97. The Fifth Man by Manning Coles (7/22/12)
98. Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis (7/31/12)
99. The Key by Patricia Wentworth (8/5/12)
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Hi! I'm Bev from Indiana. As the Challenge Rules tell you...I have an incredible mountain range of TBR piles. I'm working on climbing and conquering those peaks and clearing out some space in my back room. I'd love it if you'd tell us a bit about yourself and maybe give us an idea what your mountain range looks like. How you acquired it...any little thing you'd like to share about yourself.

If you are a bookaholic like me, then you can't let a bookstore (used or new, it doesn't matter) go by without stopping in ("just to look") and walking out with at least something--if not an armload. I wait all year for the Red Cross Book Sale in October so I can cart them out by the bagful. And, well, that means that I wind up with gigantic piles of TBR books stacked up around my backroom. I don't have a TBR shelf. Oh, no. I have "Mount TBR"...possibly a whole mountain range.

With that in mind, and having read Susan Hill's Howards End Is on the Landing (where she spent a year just reading from her own shelves, I've decided to create my own TBR reading challenge and plan to concentrate on reading primarily from my own books this year. And you're invited to join me in knocking out some of those books that have been waiting in the wings for weeks....months...even years.

Challenge Levels

Pike's Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Vancouver: Read 25 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Ararat: Read 40 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Kilimanjaro: Read 50 books from your TBR pile/s
El Toro: Read 75 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Everest: Read 100+ books from your TBR pile/s

And the rules:
*Once you choose your challenge level, you are locked in for at least that many books. If you find that you're on a mountain-climbing roll and want to tackle a taller mountain, then you are certainly welcome to upgrade.

*Challenge runs from January 1 to December 31, 2012.

*You may sign up anytime from now until November 30th, 2012.

*Books must be owned by you prior to January 1, 2012. No ARCs (none), no library books. No rereads (none). [To clarify--based on a question raised--the intention is to reduce the stack of books that you have bought for yourself or received as presents {birthday, Christmas, "just because," etc.}. Audiobooks and e-books may count if they are yours and they are one of your sources of backlogged books.]

*Books may be used to count for other challenges as well.

*Feel free to submit your list in advance (as incentive to really get those books taken care of) or to tally them as you climb.

*A blog is not necessary to participate. If you have a blog, then please post a challenge sign up and link THAT post (not your home page) into the linky on my blog. Non-bloggers, please sign up in the appropriate Level Folder.

***Addendum (2/20/12): From a question...You may count any "currently reading" book that you began pre-January 1, provided that you had 50% or more of the book left to finish in 2012. I will trust you all on that.


UPDATE: I had NO idea that there would be so many people out there with TBR mountains to tackle (and what mountains!). There is no possible way I could keep up with the reviews for almost 200 of you. Not that I'm upset with the number of challengers. Wow! I love it. But--the overwhelming support for this challenge has made me rethink the progress thing. SO, instead of a review posting, I plan on doing quarterly check-ins. Keep your eyes peeled in March, June and September for the Check-Point posts. Rumor has there may be Progress Prizes.