Bev’s Comments (group member since Nov 24, 2012)

Bev’s comments from the Mount TBR 2013 Reading Challenge group.

Tani wrote: "I really wish I knew how people manage to read three books a week (+). How? Please share the secret. ;)"

We don't do anything else. :-)

Tracey wrote: "I've been behaving so far!

OK: I finished the Patrick Carman trilogy yesterday (because I didn't do much else, laundry be darned); it was kind of disappointing, in that it went to a very religiou..."

Tracey, this update made me laugh out loud at work! (That'll teach me to check these things when I might get caught.)

My last big read off the TBR mountain was The Web Between the Worlds (SF)...it had been hanging out for 20-30 years on the shelves. Glad to have gotten that one shifted.

#8 Veiled Murder by Alice Campbell

Loving your climbing commentary! Glad you've got a spectacular view!

#6 Four Lost Ladies by Stuart Palmer
#7 The Case of the Negligent Nymph by Erle Stanley Gardner

Almost got my 8 or 9!

Hi, Lesley! Welcome to the Challenge. Any books that you've read since the beginning of the year that were downloaded pre-1/1/13 count.

Hi, Ellinor! Good luck with Mt. Olympus! We expect to get messages regularly from Mars.

#5 The Web Between the Worlds by Charles Sheffield

I'm inching along.....

Anna wrote: "I have just finished The Shadow of the Wind. I thought the prose was lovely but somehow the story just didn't work for me.

One book done - 11 to go."

You're on your way!

Yay, Jaime! Glad to have you with us. We'll be here to cheer you on.

Misfit wrote: "Book stores are dangerous places."

They are indeed. But I cannot resist.

Jemidar wrote: "Keep it up Bev, you're making me feel so much better ;-)."

Glad I'm doing something right with all that book-buying. Lol.

Misfit wrote: "Jeannette wrote: "At 3 minutes apart, it's practically cross-posting. This group is so big, it is hard to keep up with!"

I know. I don't know how Bev manages. So many threads."

I'm afraid Bev doesn't manage very well....I miss A LOT of the conversations on here. I try to swing by as much as I can....but then I get distracted by a book Or worse yet a bookstore (like today) and buy more books to add to the mountain range.

#4: Slippage by Harlan Ellison

Bought 5 more books. I seem to be losing ground.... :-)

Karen wrote: "Ha! Bev, storing up for next year?!?"


Storing up for next year? Karen, my dear, I have enough books stacked up in mountain ranges to last for the next decade or so! And---I've now read five and 1/2 books from the TBR stacks and bought five more just today for a nice little total of 25 new books for the New Year. I've got a book-buying habit that just won't quit.

Karen wrote: "A biggie under my belt: Wolf Hall. Number 3.

Tally so far: 3 from the TBR.
3 new books bought.

My only excuse is that one of those was for teaching purposes - it's work, I had to have it. But th..."


You've only bought 3 new books? That's all? I've read 3 from the TBR and added 20. I don't think that's the way it was supposed to work. :-)

Welcome Pamela & Stephanie! Glad you're here. Good luck with those mountains.

Hélène wrote: "It makes me feel virtuous as I've added only eight books till now ;-)"

Now...I've read three books from Mt. Everest, read three library books.....and added two more new books to the TBR mountain range (total 20 new books in 2013). Doing my best to help you all feel virtuous. :-)

Jeannette wrote: "Take a warm coat; it looks chilly!"

Got it in the pack!

Step by Step!

#3 The Puzzle of the Silver Persian by Stuart Palmer.