Trim Challenge 2024: Announcement and Community Thread

[Kelly]

I have finished my 12 TRIM books for 2024!

[Linda C]

July - #5

Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman – Alice Steinbach
4 stars

Review: I read Steinbach's Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman over 10 years ago and it is on my Keeper shelves as a favorite armchair travelers read.

While reading this book I stopped at several points to look up information about the author and place her travels in context. I had trouble setting up a timeline. Each of the places she writes about here are set in a context of time of year and length of stay but not as a continuum or even a hint of whether they are in order or in connected travel. I have the feeling they are selected stays from a few years of travel unlike the one continuous time frame in the earlier book.

Alice has a way of connecting with people and exploring an area without moments of anxiety that I find when I travel. I lack the assurance she has acquired in her years as a reporter and would find much of this intimidating. Thus the reason I am an armchair traveler.

The stays are all interesting in their way but not a journey of personal discovery as the first book was. This book will join the other on my shelves but not with the same affection.

[Theresa]

Kelly wrote: "I have finished my 12 TRIM books for 2024!"

Congrats!

[Booknblues]

I've finished #23 Unlikely Animals
Review -https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Jen]

I have done 12 books but since I had 3 options for each number some months were more than 1 and some I'm still working on.

The number for January is:
#12

[LibraryCin]

It's (sadly) looking very much like I won't finish my Trim books for November or December. I still have a couple to go for other challenges this month, but with Mom and Dad visiting this week, I'm not sure how many more books I'll finish before the end of the month.

[Jen]

LibraryCin wrote: "It's (sadly) looking very much like I won't finish my Trim books for November or December. I still have a couple to go for other challenges this month, but with Mom and Dad visiting this week, I'm ..."

Enjoy the time with your parents. Time with loved ones is precious.

[Book Concierge]

October # 8 ✔ 18Dec24


Whiskers Of the Lion – P L Gaus – 3***
This is book number nine in the Amish-Country Mystery series, but the first one I’ve read. It was an interesting mystery with a great cast of (I presume) regular characters. Readers who might assume that “Amish” means a cozy mystery will be wrong. This is a hard-hitting crime novel, that happens to be set amid the Amish communities of Ohio. I would recommend reading the series in order, beginning with number one.
LINK to my full review

[Patty]

Is there going to be Trim the TBR for 2025?

[Diana]

Patty wrote: "Is there going to be Trim the TBR for 2025?"

Yes, Patty. You can find a new thread here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Joy D]

Finished my #23 for December, which completes my 2024 Trim challenge:
Faith by Jennifer Haigh - 3.5* - My Review

PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Patty]

Diana wrote: "Patty wrote: "Is there going to be Trim the TBR for 2025?"

Yes, Patty. You can find a new thread here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Thanks

[Book Concierge]

I've started my December book, but will probably not get it finished until early January.

[Book Concierge]

December # 23 (Can't believe I got this finished today!)


See What I Have Done – Sarah Schmidt – 2.5**
Schmidt’s debut novel takes a look at one of the most infamous crimes in American history – the 1892 axe murders of Andrew and Abby Borden in Fall River, Massachusetts. I’m not sure I really liked the way in which Schmidt chose to tell this story. It felt very disjointed and left me with more questions than answers.
LINK to my full review