Baker's Dozen:Mt Clear a Stack

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

According to my GR stats I have 18 titles for 2019 YTD. A tad fishy because some of those were read last year, but only reviewed this. OTOH I have about 8 titles in front of me awaiting review. So maybe 18 after all.

My real interest in joining the group is because my hard copy /ecopy Mt TBR is way too big. Maybe this will keep me from my want to reads, and out side nudges. If I have a posted commitment to these then maybe nothing gets bought till these are reviewed. FWIW I do not count a book until it is reviewed and sometimes a review waits.

Already started:
1. About two weeks in and just over 1/2 way Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy
2. Charcoal Sketches and Other Tales
Only the intro, and this is 3 novellas, so a little slack ok?
3. The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist Started in Apr, 9% in

The not yet begun:
4. The American Senator Mine is part of an E book anthology, this is Trollope - 600+ pages. Please do not make me read the entire anthology just to call it one book.
Please<?>
5. The Deer Park
6. Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
7. A Time of Gifts
8. Nemesis
9. After the Quake
10 Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
11. The Cat's Pajamas
12. Pagans and Christians
13. Parodies: An Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm--And After

[Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review)]

Happy climbing!

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

One finished, two well underway. The first review will be this weekend

If you are looking for a recommendation:
A Time of Gifts

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Posted and so officially off the TBR list is

Just over 1/2 way on book 2 with the first 1/3 of book 3in the rear view .

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Three reads completed tho only 1 review printed. Two more under way but only one of the horse chokers. At that it is Parodies and a fairly light if long read.

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Charcoal Sketches done and reviewed, Dona Flor well underway
Except it looks like , and despite my public promise I will be adding at least one new book to my TBR hard copy or virtual possessions

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Me thinks I shall be adding at least two new books to my collection and making of at least one a buddy read. Given my progresss to date mabey the simple rouet is to shift to an 18 book challenge, I am at 13 now, about to make that 15 so given a moment or so I ll have my 18 picked out.

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Is now finished and I have started goat choker number two:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

I am also committed to a 14 the book, so I may be in for a longer climb than originally planned.

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Parodies and Cat's Pajama done but not yet reviewed.

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

After the Quake is done whch means seven in the rear view mirror. No 8 Zuleika Dobson will wrap up fairly quick. Then I hit steeper slopes. Likely no more fast finishers for a while

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Fooled ya
Dear Park done first
Zuleika maybe 5 or 6 more days. Oddly the American Senator is 1/2 way ish. Had not thought that would go this fast.

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Zuleika read so ten behind be
Senator going quickly
2 others in play and one still waiting.
Pagans looks like it will be a fight to the finish. If I may borrow a phrase.

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Much to my surprise American Senator is done making the count 9 of my original 13, plus the one extra so 10 of 14 done

Of the 4 remaining 3 are underway. Of these two are proving heavy going.
Even so I am now announcing that number 15 will be:
Sentimental Education (Dover Thrift Editions) Kindle Edition

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Of my original 13, ten are done.
1 over half read, 1 (less than 100 pages read) is going to be a bear
and the last will be started later today.
I will soon have read 15 of my original 13, maybe it is time to shift to Mt. Blanc?

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

As of now I have finished 12 of my original 13 plus one I added later.
Pagans and Christians s going to be a major challenge, but I am going to keep it going even as I shift from this to the next level.

Against 24 I have a few more titles to ID before I can list the my next stage, It may be a few days but this should be my last post here

[Bev]

You did great on this mountain!