Johanne is desperate to trim TBR shelves (yes, not a pile, not a shelf, but shelves plural)

[Johanne]

Trim My TBR

Jumping in almost halfway through the year. I have a "seriously TBR" and "ongoing series" shelves on GR that I picked from, and in addition to that some of my owned books from my physical shelves.

List updated to the randomized-by-Nicole version.

1. Homegoing
2. The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition December
√ 3. Dora Bruder September read 14/9
5. The Left Hand of Darkness
6. The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
7. El Deafo
8. The Fifth Season
9. Before They Are Hanged
10. Red Seas Under Red Skies
11. Saga, Vol. 1
12. The Color of Magic April
13. A Court of Mist and Fury
14. Verdens rum og andre tekster
15. Cirklen
16. The Book Thief August
17. På Bornholm må man græde overalt February
18. Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
19. The Library at Mount Char January
20. The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
21. Livet - en brugsanvisning
22. The Goldfish Boy
√ 23. Tomorrow, When the War Began July read 3/8
24. Dantes guddommelige komedie May
25. 100 års ensomhed
26. Authority
27. Grey Sister
28. Oryx and Crake November
29. Tusind og én nat (book 1/6)
√ 30. The Cruel Prince June read 25/7
31. Kryptalportalen
32. Lord of the Flies October
33. Alt hvad jeg har, bærer jeg hos mig
34. Crown of Midnight March
35. The Thirteenth Tale
36. Hvis en vinternat en rejsende

[Nicole R]

1. Homegoing
2. The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
3. Dora Bruder
4. Station Eleven
5. The Left Hand of Darkness
6. The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
7. El Deafo
8. The Fifth Season
9. Before They Are Hanged
10. Red Seas Under Red Skies
11. Saga, Vol. 1
12. The Color of Magic
13. A Court of Mist and Fury
14. Verdens rum og andre tekster
15. Cirklen
16. The Book Thief
17. På Bornholm må man græde overalt
18. Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
19. The Library at Mount Char
20. The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
21. Livet - en brugsanvisning
22. The Goldfish Boy
23. Tomorrow, When the War Began
24. Dantes guddommelige komedie
25. 100 års ensomhed
26. Authority
27. Grey Sister
28. Oryx and Crake
29. Tusind og én nat (book 1/6)
30. The Cruel Prince
31. Kryptalportalen
32. Lord of the Flies
33. Alt hvad jeg har, bærer jeg hos mig
34. Crown of Midnight
35. The Thirteenth Tale
36. Hvis en vinternat en rejsende

The numbers we have read for so far—19, 17, 34, 12, 24—are locked and you cannot rearrange them. However you have until we announce the June number (typically around the 24/25th of the month) to rearrange the others if you like.

[Johanne]

Cool, thanks! I'll see if I can catch up on the chosen ones. For #24, may I have the Divine Comedy by Dante... way to start off with the heavy stuff...

[Joanne]

Johanne wrote: "Cool, thanks! I'll see if I can catch up on the chosen ones. For #24, may I have the Divine Comedy by Dante... way to start off with the heavy stuff..."

I am hoping your #27 gets called-I am in the midst of the last bookHoly Sister right now and would love to hear your thoughts. This series is not for everyone, but I love it! #Nona

[Johanne]

Joanne wrote: "...I am hoping your #27 gets called-I am in the midst of the last bookHoly Sister right now and would love to hear your thoughts. This series is not for everyone, but I love it! #Nona..."

I will be reading the first in the series soon (I run a youth book club at the library where I work, and this months read is Red Sister, yay!). So I am also hoping #2 in the series will get called. My sister is a fan and we have similar reading tastes.

[Amy]

That is so awesome that you’re just diving in! I love that you’ve joined us and you’re already trying to knock out the five on your list that we have already done. Obsessive and fun just like the rest of us!

[Joanne]

Johanne wrote: "Joanne wrote: "...I am hoping your #27 gets called-I am in the midst of the last book Holy Sister right now and would love to hear your thoughts. This series is not for everyone, but I love it! #Non..."


I am sure the kids at the Library are going to gobble it up! It has all the great elements of "fantastical". I saw a review and I loved this snippet "Think Harry Potter-Only as a convent with girls who are trained to kill" Lawrence has really built a new and inventive Fantasy World, yet really in the back ground you can see "real world" problems as we know them(ex: climate change). Would love to hear about your book clubs progress, and the discussions the kids have! You can post that sort of stuff in the Footnotes section of PBT if you care to chat with anyone, about anything!

[Theresa]

Johanne wrote: "Cool, thanks! I'll see if I can catch up on the chosen ones. For #24, may I have the Divine Comedy by Dante... way to start off with the heavy stuff..."

LOL! I had that in January! First one up, my #19, was Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History - non-fiction (not a go-to for me at all) and long! Loved it though; it was fantastic and fit right in with the Iraq reading I was doing, strangely enough.

I almost put Dante as one of my 36 ... and opted not to do so. I suspect you can easily consider it 'beautiful' too!

[KateNZ]

Welcome, Johanne, and what a great list! I hope Morrigan Crow comes up for you - if not, read it anyway at the end of the year because it’s wonderful!!

[Johanne]

Thanks all. Great being here!

[Amy]

Perhaps you will find you can't help yourself, and will participate in our monthly and other challenges and grow your TBR with us. I am on a desperate slashing mission, and yet these guys have had amazing suggestions and recommendations. I've had to have a quite discerning eye.... but its super fun.

[Johanne]

Between my work at a large public library, recommendations from family and friends, and now GR groups, the temptation to add to tbr is endless... but it's a good 'problem'.

[Johanne]

I managed to read my September trim in September!
Read 3 books so far from this list, so not going to make it in this pace, but this challenge is still giving me a gentle push to at least read some of my seriously TBR :)

[NancyJ]

KateNZ wrote: "Welcome, Johanne, and what a great list! I hope Morrigan Crow comes up for you - if not, read it anyway at the end of the year because it’s wonderful!!"

I agree. I just picked up the sequel to read in October.

[Johanne]

Sounds good! I run a children's book club and we've chosen Nevermoor as our read for january, so I will definitely read it then :)