Mount TBR 2021 discussion
El Toro (75 Books)
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Why the hell not?
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Guy
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Nov 27, 2020 11:24AM
Going for the gold.
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Climbing even higher next year then Guy.
I'm at 74 already this year after pledging 60. Might as well try. What did you sign up for?
This year 24 and I'm struggling with that; I knew I was going to read some long books and ones I didn't own at the beginning of the year. I'm not sure what to go for next year yet.
Guy, I agree that long books should count as extra! I have The Stand, It, and War and Peace on my TBR piles. However, I signed up for 100 books next year. I'll never make it if I read any books that large! Maybe I'll sign up for 12 books in 2022 to conquer the large novels.
Bethea, my "strategy" is to read a tough book in the background. so I usually have a few going at a time whereas one is pretty easy so I can make progress in my allotted time and still make progress on a tough book. granted I horribly failed last year, reading only 23 book. I usually do between 60-75. But I will allot myself a week, grab an easy read and when I finish that during my week I pick up the tough one I'm working on. I did finally.manage to finish IT this year.
When you think of those Victorian triple-deckers...
1) Miami Blues: Charles Willeford (5/09) Took far too long to read this
Thanks Bev, and thanks for organizing this again.
Carla wrote: "Bethea, my "strategy" is to read a tough book in the background. so I usually have a few going at a time whereas one is pretty easy so I can make progress in my allotted time and still make progres..."I think that's a good plan.
4) By Nightfall: Michael Cunningham (9/13)
5) The Zebra-Striped Hearse: Ross Macdonald (2010)
Off to a good start Guy! I have read a bunch of the Lew Archer books - my memory is that The Zebra-Striped Hearse was not one of the best but still a good hardboiled PI story. What did you think of it?
It will be one of my books of the year, I think.
6) The Old Man and Me: Elaine Dundy (7/15)
7) A Kiss Before Dying: Ira Levin (11/12)
9) Appointment With Yesterday: Celia Fremlin (12/13)
10) Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Anne Bronte (reread. 80s?)
12) Scissors, Paper, Stone: Elizabeth Day (2017)
13) A Long Way Off: Pascal Garnier (2020)
14) The Beggar's Pawn: John L'Heureux (2020)
15) The Darkroom of Damocles: Willem Frederik Hermans (6/13)
17) Dead I May Well Be: Adrian McKinty (2009)
20) Nightmare Alley: William Lindsay Gresham(4/10)
22) Meeting Her Fate: Mary Elizabeth Braddon (6/15)
23) The Paper Lovers: Gerard Woodward (2019)
24) The Dean's December: Saul Bellow (12/13)
25) Invented Lives: Andrea Goldsmith (2019)
26) If This Was Happiness: Barbara Leaming (2005)
27) The Ghost Writer: John Harwood (6/05)
28) A Change of Climate: Hilary Mantel (8/14)
29) Mr Bazelgette's Agent: Leonard Merrick (5/15)
30) Memento Mori: Muriel Spark (2004?)
31) New Hope for the Dead: Charles Willeford (2/08)
32) The Loss Adjuster: Afric Campbell (10/10)
33) Generation Loss: Elizabeth Hand (12/13)
35) The Artist's Widow: Shena Mackay (6/15)
36) Barchester Towers: Anthony Trollope (1991) Reread
