Bev’s
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(group member since Nov 24, 2012)
Bev’s
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from the Mount TBR 2013 Reading Challenge group.
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Carolyn: Stay tuned for the announcement of next year's vintage mystery challenge. You are going to be pleasantly surprised.Also--I too buy like the wind (but don't read at near the blustery rate). When I developed the Mt. TBR challenge, my idea was to help shift books off the stacks that had been languishing there for way too long. It's all to easy for me to go ahead and read the books I just bought and continue to ignore the teetering stacks that I've accumulated over the years (I still have books on my TBR shelves from 20 years ago....but fewer and fewer thanks to challenges!). I don't mind how they get shifted (provided we honestly tried to read them--even if we find that our current self can't figure out why our previous self ever put them on the stack in the first place and give up on them).
Iola wrote: "These two are actually DNF's. I read a quarter of each, then gave up because neither the plot nor the characters had captured my attention. I actually tried to read #30 Latter-Day Cipher by Latay..."
DNF's absolutley count. I've left it up to each of you to decide on what you have to do with them for them to count. But, definitely, if you're positive that you're never going back to them--then you've moved them off the TBR pile and they count.
Congratulations, Diana! As C. mentions...everyone seems to have caught mountain-fever and just keeps climbing to see how many mountains they can conquer.
Climbing, climbing...ever climbing...#70 Famous Ghost Stories edited by Bennett Cerf
It won't be long and it will be time for another Checkpoint! Where does the time go?
You can do it! Go, Célia, go!
Steven wrote: "Aaaand...all the way up Mt. Everest, and boy, am I ever shagged out.I would have been done sooner, but for a variety of things, including eye troubles, and an extended stint away from home that w..."
Congratulations! You definitely deserve a rest. Save up your answers for the next checkpoint! [who knows, maybe you'll make it up Mt. Olympus by then ;-) ]
Congratulations! Laurel leaves all around!
Doing the Mt. Everest quick-step...another book conquered!#67 Murder & Blueberry Pie by Frances & Richard Lockridge
·Karen· wrote: "Well, I'm counting all the seven volumes of Proust as seven separate works, although they are often published in different ways, and sometimes paginated through as one single piece."Anyone tackling all seven volumes of Proust deserves to count them all separately!
Jemidar wrote: "Okay, I know this is going to look like creative accounting but it's not, honestly. Let me explain...I've had this copy of The Forsyte Saga sitting on my shelf for about a decade avoiding it mos..."
Three cheers for creative accounting! [I'm feeling all kinds of generous lately. ;-) ]
·Karen· wrote: "PS, Bev, charming new avatar!thanks!
·Karen· wrote: "I was tidying shelves today and found that I actually have a copy of Mario und der Zauberer/Unordnung und frühes Leid, so I've decided to put that into my tally, even though I actually read it onli..."It's not cheating--as long as you owned the book (hard copy/audio/electronic) prior to 2013. I've read a couple online when a dedicated search did not produce a book that shows up on my spreadsheet as "owned" or when I know it's in one of the inaccessible boxes in the garage....
And.....a little bit further up the trail....#65 A Bullet in the Ballet by Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon
I have missed one along the way (The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton)--I'm actually ready for #63 The Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Hurray!!! Congratulations on your swift climb to the peak!
