Moving Mountains (Mt. TBR)

[md]

Tien wrote: "Mabel wrote:
Welcome, Mabel! I hope you get to trim down lots :)"

I hope I do too, it's starting to take over!

[Erika]

I like this!

Magic Number: 10
Bonus task: Read a stand alone book... I start way too many series!

I'm going to plan ahead: (I have many classics in the beginning :/)

1. Rolled: 1+4=5
#5: The Grapes of Wrath

Rolled 4+1=5
#10: A Bend in the River

Rolled 5+6=11
#21: The Way We live Now

Rolled 6+3=9
#30: A Tale of Two Cities

Rolled 4+3=7
#37: The Sins of the Fathers

Rolled 1+6=7
#44: Snow Crash

Rolled 5+6=11
#55: Lolita

Rolled 6+4=10
#65: The Time Traveler's Wife

Rolled 3+1=4
#69: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Rolled 1+5=6
#75: Oblivion

Rolled 1+3=4
#79: The Raging Quiet

Rolled 6+3=9
#88: The Prince and the Pauper

Rolled 1+2=3
#91: Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's stone

Rolled 2+3=5
#96: Fatherland

Rolled 3+4=7
#103: Genesis

Rolled 1+1=2 + 6+3=9 = 11
#114: Seraphina

Rolled 4+2=6
#120: John Dies at the End

Rolled 2+5=7
#127: Unsouled

Rolled 4+3=7
#134: Along Came a Spider

Rolled 5+1=6
#140: Water for Elephants

Rolled 1+3=4
#144: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Rolled: 3+3=6 + 5+2=7 = 13
#157: Turn of Mind

[Tien]

Erika wrote: "I like this!

Magic Number: 10
Bonus task: Read a stand alone book... I start way too many series!"

Hear! Hear!

And then they get left behind because you've too many series to keep up on ;p

[D.G.]

I need to get back to this challenge! I've stalled on it and haven't been able to continue.

[Tien]

D.G. wrote: "I need to get back to this challenge! I've stalled on it and haven't been able to continue."

Same here! Have been a hard time fitting in these books into other challenges along with time to read review books (which I'm sadly so far behind on!)

[D.G.]

I'm always behind on review books. :)

I think I'll just stop joining other challenges besides this group and the Seasonal. It's just too much work, considering the books I have to review for the blog.

[Erika]

Tien wrote: "Erika wrote: "I like this!

Magic Number: 10
Bonus task: Read a stand alone book... I start way too many series!"

Hear! Hear!

And then they get left behind because you've too many series to keep ..."

I realized that's the best way to reduce the to read list. when you read them you have one book off your list, differently than with a series, in which you read one and then you add the rest of the books to your list.

[Tien]

D.G. wrote: "I'm always behind on review books. :)

I think I'll just stop joining other challenges besides this group and the Seasonal. It's just too much work, considering the books I have to review for the b..."

Glad to hear we made your cut ;)
Would've missed you tremendously :(

[LynnB]

I'm still working on my list...slowly. It's an easy way (throwing dice) for me to pick through the books on my shelves!

[LynnB]

Is anyone else having problems with the numbers shown on this challenge? I have 14 books finished and on the proper shelf, yet it says I've read 8 of them. It seems to have stopped updating at some point.

[Tien]

LynnB wrote: "Is anyone else having problems with the numbers shown on this challenge? I have 14 books finished and on the proper shelf, yet it says I've read 8 of them. It seems to have stopped updating at so..."

Did you read them all this year, Lynn? It will only count the ones you have read from 1 Jan 2013. I think I set it up only to count for this year as I wanted an annual goal.

[LynnB]

Tien wrote: "Did you read them all this year, Lynn? It will only count the ones you have read from 1 Jan 2013. I think I set it up only to count for this year as I wanted an annual goal. "

Aha! That explains it. The others were from the beginning of the challenge itself.

[Adrienne]

4+1=5

6. You are So Undead to Me by Stacey Jay.

Which as it turns out, I can no longer get hold of, so rolling again.

3+3, 3+3, 1+5 = 18

Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading


This one I can get for sure.

[D.G.]

Tien wrote: "Glad to hear we made your cut ;)
Would've missed you tremendously :( "

This is one of the groups I enjoy the most. Your challenges are always so interactive, Tien!

I'm even thinking of dropping the Seasonal Challenge after Spring ends. It's just too stressing if your OCD, like me. Lately I've noticed that I'm not reading as many long books as I used to. I need to get back to read what I want!

[Tien]

D.G. wrote: "This is one of the groups I enjoy the most. Your challenges are always so interactive, Tien!

I'm even thinking of dropping the Seasonal Challenge after Spring ends. It's just too stressing if your OCD, like me. Lately I've noticed that I'm not reading as many long books as I used to. I need to get back to read what I want! "

Aw, thanks, DG :D

I've not completed any of the TSC ever! I haven't participated in a bit until last 'winter' one and I almost made it but didn't so I just wanted to complete ONE - just 1 (to satisfy my OCD-ness, ha ha ha). I seem to manage to fit a lot fo my review books in this season and it's a lot smaller in comparison to 'winter' so hoping I'd be able to complete this one ;)

[Bea]

I second what DG said. I must admit that my cut from four groups to three was a good idea. Now I am thinking of sitting out SRC for a season - not quitting it, just not participating. However, since this season the total points/books are fewer, I was sucked right back in. and I have managed to cross plan 50% of the SRC books to this group and RwS. So now I have a better chance of doing well in all three groups.

[D.G.]

LOL, that's why I said I'll stop participating in SRC after the Spring! With so fewer points, I have a chance to complete it too and I can't let it go. ;)

But it's such a big challenge that it really takes almost every book you read in the period to compete. I like it because it reminds me to read other stuff besides my usual - UF, romance, PNR, mystery, etc. - but at the same time, I don't want to HAVE to read anything if I don't feel like it.

[Adrienne]

Just finished number 53, Shelf Discovery by Lizzie Skurnick.

Rolled 4+5=9

Ding ding ding! My magic number, so I'll be reading River Town, #1 on my list.

[Susan]

As part of a spring cleaning challenge, I moved a number of books off my TBR shelf. That pretty much messed up my Mt TBR list, so in each case, I've replaced those books with the ones that immediately followed them. That means the numbers don't really mean much any more, but I've left them in because they help me find things.

Magic Number: 7
Bonus Task: book on my bedside bookshelf

Roll 1+4=5
✔# 5 - Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3) - finished 11/5
Roll 1+5=6
✔# 11 - Prodigal_Summer Prism - finished 10/21
Roll 2+6=8
✔# 19 - Tonight_I_Said_Goodbye - finished 1/30
Roll 6+2=8
✔# 27 - Along_Came_a_Spider - finished 1/9
Roll 6+1=7
✔# 34 - Bonus Task: book on my bedside bookshelf: Interface- finished 11/18
Roll 4+5=9
# 43 - The_Sound_and_the_Fury Flower Net
Roll 6+5=11
✔# 54 - Puss 'n Cahoots - finished 3/31
Roll 6+1=7
✔# 61 - Bonus Task: book on my bedside bookshelf: Ammonite - finished 12/22
Roll 4+1=5
✔# 66 - Winter_s_Bone - finished 3/22
Roll 6+4=10
# 76 - Dead_Lines
Roll 5+3=8
✔# 84 - The_Disreputable_History_of_Frankie_Landau_Banks - finished 12/2
Roll 6+2=8
✔# 92 - Feathers - finished 1/10
Roll 4+4=8 (doubles); next roll 3+3=6; next roll 2+6=8
✔#114 - Up the Line - finished 5/28
(note -- rolling the next bunch, Up the Line is now # 97, so going on from there)
Roll2+1=3
#100 The Man With a Load of Mischief
Roll1+1=2 (doubles); next roll 5+6=11
#113 Red Mars
Roll5+4=9
#122 Page
Roll4+5=9
#131 Trinity and Other Stories
Roll5+2=7
✔#138 Unto the Daughters - finished 3/12
Roll6+4=10
#148 The Hunt Sing You Home
Roll3+6=9
#157 Open Season Orlando
Roll4+1=5
✔#162 House of Blues - finished 6/20
Roll4+5=9
#165 The Double
Roll2+1=3
✔#168 Faceless Killers An Eye for an Eye - finished 4/30
Roll5+1=6
#174 Knife Edge
Roll5+6=11
#185 Taylor Five
Roll1+4=5
#190 Spandau Phoenix
Roll4+2=6
#196 Sepulchre
Roll 5+1=6
#202 A Place So Foreign
Roll 1+2=3
✔#205 Black Beauty - finished 3/19
Roll 2+1=3
#208 The Magic City The Adventures of Robin Hood
Roll 2+3=5
#213 The Canterbury Tales The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Roll 2+4=6
#219 The Divine Comedy Solis
Roll 1+4=5
#224 Murder at the Vicarage
Roll 3+6=9
✔#233 The Habitation of the Blessed Act One - finished 5/23
Roll 6+2=8
#241 The American Book of the Dead The Defenders
Roll 4+4=8 (doubles); next roll 3+5=8
#257 Smilla's Sense of Snow
Roll 4+1=5
#262 So Cold the River
Roll 6+6=12 (doubles); next roll 2+2=4 (doubles); next roll 1+2=3
✔#281 Finnikin of the Rock - finished 3/2
Roll 5+3=8
✔#289 Legend - finished 8/9
Roll 2+1=3
#292 Last Man in Tower The Orphan Master's Son
Roll 3+3=6 (doubles); next roll 2+4=6
#304 The Other Side of the Island Wide Awake
Roll 1+6=7
✔#311 Bonus Task: book on my bedside bookshelf : Tom's First Spy Adventure - finished 4/6
Roll 6+1=7
#318 Bonus Task: book on my bedside bookshelf OR Into the Beautiful North
Roll 4+5=9
#327 The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag
Roll 1+6=7
#334 Love, Stargirl The Sherlockian
Roll 4+3=7
✔ #341 The Death Cure - finished 4/7
Roll 2+5=7
✔#348 Bonus Task: book on my bedside bookshelf: Ghostman - finished 8/12
Roll 4+5=9
#357 Raft
Roll 3+4=7
#364 In One Person
Roll 5+4=9
#373 Kill Decision
Roll 1+5=6
#379 A Monstrous Regiment of Women
Roll 2+1=3
✔#382 Pleading Guilty - finished 2/14
Roll 2+2=4 (doubles); next roll 5+5=10 (doubles); next roll 6+1=7
✔#403 Inkdeath - finished 3/25
Roll 3+6=9
✔#412 A Game of Thrones - finished 4/11
Roll 2+2=4 (doubles); next roll 5+2=7
#423 After the Snow The Time Ships
Roll 3+2=5
✔#428 Something Rotten - finished 3/20
Roll 6+6=12 (doubles); next roll 4+2=6
#446 The Big Jump By His Bootstraps
Roll 4+1=5
✔#451 The Alchemist - finished 1/13
Roll 4+2=6
#457//now #264 The Executioness - finished 10/11
Roll 6+6=12 (doubles); next roll 5+2=7
#271 The Collectors
Roll 3+5=8
#279 The God Box
Roll 4+5=9
#288 Myra Breckenridge

(This message replaces #51.)

completed 27 of 62 (4 in 2012, 23 in 2013)
last updated 10/22/2013

[D.G.]

Wow, Susan! You're doing well. I've barely read 9 books from my goal of 35!

[Susan]

D.G. wrote: "Wow, Susan! You're doing well. I've barely read 9 books from my goal of 35!"

I really like the little widgets Tien set up for us. Each day, they remind me things like "You're two books behind schedule" (as I am with my LOST books). It's easier to try to keep it saying I'm on schedule than to keep counting how many I've read.

[Adrienne]

Well, after trying and trying and only getting through 70 pages, I have decided to give up on River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze. I am replacing it with Canada which has exactly the same number of pages, 432.

[Adrienne]

6+6+1+2= number 66 The Orphan Master's Son

[Lauren]

My TBR is growing out of control and I really need to work on reading some of the older books on it... hopefully this challenge will help with that.

Magic Number: 4
Bonus Task: Read a Freebie

1. 3+2=5
#5 Waking Nightmare by Kylie Brandt

[Adrienne]

Oh my goodness, I can't read 440 pages of this! I'm disappointed because I waited for it for weeks at the library.

I'm trading The Orphan Master's Son for Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. They were both published in 2012.

[Tien]

Adrienne wrote: "Oh my goodness, I can't read 440 pages of this! I'm disappointed because I waited for it for weeks at the library.

I'm trading The Orphan Master's Son for Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Dea..."

oh, no, what's so bad about it, Adrienne? It's set as one of the SRC group read and I was looking to pick this one up...

[Susan]

Adrienne wrote: "Oh my goodness, I can't read 440 pages of this! I'm disappointed because I waited for it for weeks at the library.

I need to know, too. I've put it on my TBR"

[D.G.]

Completed my 11th book...just 24 more to go!

[Tien]

D.G. wrote: "Completed my 11th book...just 24 more to go!"

well, done, D.G.

I think I was way too ambitious with my goal, 120! I've only read 18, ha ha ha :p

oh wells, at least I'm reading some books which have been on my shelf since before time :)

[Adrienne]

Tien wrote: "Adrienne wrote: "Oh my goodness, I can't read 440 pages of this! I'm disappointed because I waited for it for weeks at the library.

I'm trading The Orphan Master's Son for Behind the Beautiful Fo..."

I really did not like the main character. The story would have been pretty good, but I just couldn't connect to anyone in it, and that's sort of important to me. I decided I couldn't do however many pages with him.

[D.G.]

LOL, Tien!

My TBR only has 400 books and I 'capped' the rolling at 35 books. If this challenge is open ended, I figured I can roll again and start from the beginning once I finish this bunch. :)

[Tien]

yea, well, I had about 2,000 and climbing...

I think I must've went nuts one day and just started adding books from all sorts of lists! Even ones I normally wouldn't read... the reasoning was that it'll make my life easier when I'm searching for a book to fit a task if it's already on my shelf ;p **who's kooky now!**

But... I've been really good lately and been very conservative in adding to TBR. Want to see those numbers down first! Will let you know when it's under 2,000 LOL

[D.G.]

I only add books to my TBR that I have on hand. Things I want to read that I don't have get added to my 'get from library' or 'wishlist' but even those don't have many books. I'm sort of stingy on the books I add there. :)

[Susan]

I finished Up the Line. That makes 18 out of a goal of 50, so the widget says I'm 2 behind schedule. Not too bad, since my LOST list is much further behind than that.

[Tien]

Susan wrote: "I finished Up the Line. That makes 18 out of a goal of 50, so the widget says I'm 2 behind schedule. Not too bad, since my LOST list is much further behind than that."

That's pretty good, Susan! You can read 2 books in no time at all :)

[Susan]

Tien wrote: "That's pretty good, Susan! You can read 2 books in no time at all :) "

Ah, but the question is always which books I'll end up reading. There are so many on my list, and of course, as I keep trying to whittle, I'm also always constantly adding.

[Adrienne]

Alright! Finished Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity.

4+5=9

#74 - Colors Insulting To Nature

[Adrienne]

Got another one down. Woot! Just finished Colors Insulting To Nature and rolled a 7, which takes me to Number 80: When I Was a Child I Read Books

Kind of excited!!!

[Tien]

so glad someone is, at least, trimming down their TBR, since I can't seem to :p

[Adrienne]

So, I really tried to read When I Was a Child I Read Books, but it wasn't what the title sounds like, and I am just not smart enough.

So, I am replacing it with Croak which was published the same year.

Sigh. I would make claims to whittling down my list, but I add more books faster than I can read them.

[Tien]

Adrienne wrote: "Sigh. I would make claims to whittling down my list, but I add more books faster than I can read them."

Adrienne, that's a problem we, bookworms, face everyday! LOL #firstworldproblem

[Julia]

@ Adrienne - I think we're all in the same boat as far as that particular problem :)

[D.G.]

My TBR has currently 394 books. I'll try hard for it not to get to 400!

[Adrienne]

D.G. wrote: "My TBR has currently 394 books. I'll try hard for it not to get to 400!"

O_O

[Coralie]

I keep increasing my upper limit. Once upon a time I decided to limit it to 100, but now I'm over 300.

[D.G.]

LOL, Adrienne. You think that's too much? I'm actually in the minority compared to most of my friends. :)

I used to have it at 200...but ever since I got an e-reader, it's been creeping up and up!

[Lauren]

Coralie wrote: "I keep increasing my upper limit. Once upon a time I decided to limit it to 100, but now I'm over 300."

I had that same once upon a time... now its at 330. I guess I've kissed that particular fairytale goodbye, lol!

[Adrienne]

There's no such thing as too many books. I think I would be overwhelmed by a to-read list that long.

[Adrienne]

So, okay. Question. I have come to the end of my to-read list. (Gasp!) There are a few numbers left over from my last roll. Should I just read the last book on my list, or roll it over and start at number 4 on my list?

[Tien]

Adrienne wrote: "So, okay. Question. I have come to the end of my to-read list. (Gasp!) There are a few numbers left over from my last roll. Should I just read the last book on my list, or roll it over and star..."

Wow! Good on you, Adrienne!

Roll it over and start at number 4 :D