20: On your TBR over 1 year

[Jessica]

#LitsyRC20

A book that has been on your TBR list for more than a year

[Kai]

I've got you beat. In 1996, a friend's stepfather took us on a bookstore crawl down Cape Cod from Falmouth to Provincetown. At one of our stops I picked up a copy of Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles, about journalists in Vietnam. It's been a visible book on my TBR pile ever since. I rotate it up to the top periodically and then get distracted by things less intense (and with bigger print, oh god my poor middle aged eyes!), but now it's time. 20 years on my TBR, this sucker deserves to be read!

[Kristopher]

This one could have been any of 100 books so I just went with the first one to come to mind...The Bone Collector by Jeffrey Deaver.

[AiBBot]

Silly question here. What does TBR stand for?

[Lorrea - WhatChaReadin'?]

AIbbot wrote: "Silly question here. What does TBR stand for?"

To Be Read


I have tons of books that will fit in this category!!

[Gemma]

Finally got around to reading The Handmaid's Tale which has spent at least 2 years on my tbr pile! (I'm not sure exactly when I bought it)

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I picked up Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (by Kazuo Ishiguro) from Bookshop Santa Cruz maybe four or five years ago; but for some reason, kept pushing it back! So, I read it this past week... I was expecting something elegant and slow-burning, with a powerful emotive punch in the end; but this wasn't The Remains of the Day by any stretch. I was careful to read only one short as night, so I wouldn't lose any detail in a crush of reading; but I still somehow missed how they are really connected beyond the motifs of music and nightfall; and the rather sad/depressing theme that "Life is much bigger than loving a person." We meet a handful of characters as they pursue their musical ambitions in various modern European settings. The lack of tension, and the mystifying actions on the part of those characters left me un-engaged and disappointed. Maybe a more careful re-read would shed light on how the characters/arcs inter-relate overall. (★★-1/2)

[Melissa]

Finishing up this trilogy this month... Adulthood Rites