Spring: Spring Cleaning

[Sashana]

The start of spring signifies many things: a change in the weather, the blossoming of sweet smelling flowers, and,of course, cleaning. Though we enjoy all of these things, for this challenge we will only focus on the cleaning.

Timeline
This challenge will begin on March 20, 2011 and end on June 20, 2011. This is when Spring officially begins and ends.

The Cleaning
We wanted to stay true to the challenge name but we were faced with a very difficult question: How does one apply cleaning to books? After much thinking and deliberation we decided to focus on Goodread's bookshelves and TBR lists. Anyone will tell you that much of cleaning involves organization. In fact, some may say that it's the most important part. The objective of this portion of the challenge is to:

*Make new bookshelves and get rid of the irrelevant ones.
*Slowly go through all of your books and move them to their 
appropriate shelves.
*While going through your to-read books delete the ones that no longer
 interest you. (You may be surprised by how many books no longer 
interest you).

Be sure to post the name of the shelves you created or deleted below. As with all of our challenges we want to see your progress.

The Reading
It wouldn't be a reading challenge without, well... reading. While talking with some of our members we realized that many of us have a lot of unread books and lengthly TBR list. We wanted to help our members remedy this problem, or at least give them the motivation to start tackling their neglected books. The objective of this portion of the challenge is to:

*Make a list of all the books you own but are unread.
*After 'cleaning' up your TBR book shelf make a list of the books that you
 want to read the most. 
(Tip: You may want to look at the ones that have been on the list the longest)
*After completing the list making process, come up with a game plan to
 read as many books as possible.
*Read!

Be sure to list all of the books you read for this challenge below. Let us know if they were pre-owned or on your TBR list

The Final Step
Have fun! Obvious as it may sound, we want our members to have fun with this challenge. The word clean is stress inducing and we know first hand that organizing your Goodreads bookshelves can be a daunting task. We advise you to take each step in small doses for the most effective results.

Optional

We want to know if this challenge was useful to our members. Please consider doing the pre and post survey if you participate. Thank You!

Optional
We want to know if this challenge was useful to our members. Please consider doing the pre and post survey if you participate. Thank You!
Pre Challenge Survey

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
How many bookshelves do you have?
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? 
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?

Post Challenge Survey

How many books did you read overall for this challenge?
How many of them were already owned? On your TBR list?
Did you create any bookshelves? If so, how many?
Did you remove any books from your TBR list while organizing your bookshelf? If so, how many?
Did this challenge help you to organize your bookshelves or to your wheedle down your TBR list? 

[Carolyn F.]

I'm in!

[Jex]

This challenge is exactly what I need! (and what I was about to start doing, so great timing!)

Here's my pre-challenge survey:

TBR list? 295 and this doesn't include the books I own that I haven't put in yet
Bookshelves? 36
unread books owned? I'll have to get back to you. Starting the input process as part of my clean up :-)
how many for the challenge? I don't have an exact number, I just want progress and organization

[Kristina]

I'm in! Will post the pre challenge stuff a little later

[Sashana]

I'm glad you like it, Jessica :). I'm in too but I need some time to gather my data.

[Melinda]

I'm in. I've been meaning to update my bookshelves, but keep putting it off. Maybe this will get me moving.

I'll post the pre stuff a little later.

[Sashana]

Pre Challenge Survey
1. How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
*296 and counting :/

2. How many bookshelves do you have?
*39 (created by me) +3 (read, currently reading, to-read)=42

3. How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
*I'll get back to this one. I have to count (Yikes!)

4. How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
*30. Go big or go home, right? I plan to incorporate them all into my other challenges.

[Shay]

Pre Challenge Survey

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
232 books
How many bookshelves do you have? 4 custom
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? 2000+ books, mostly ebook
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
24 books

[Jex]

Slow day at work today so I did a preliminary sweep through books on my TBR list. I was able to down my number from 295 to 229. I'm sure more will disappear when I begin organizing. O how I love organizing :-)

[Sashana]

Wow that's quite a lot, Jessica. I'm glad that you're getting into the 'cleaning' spirit.

[Shay]

I got rid of no books from the TBR shelf and ended up requesting more books from the library. I don't think I'm quite getting into the spirit of this. I actually saw a book in the TBR that reminded me of another book, so I actually have added to my TBR shelf.

[Sashana]

Lol, you don't have to delete anything if you don't want to, Shay. The goal is to go through your shelves and see what you want to keep or take off (kind of liking cleaning your closet).

[Kristina]

Pre Challenge Survey

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
305
How many bookshelves do you have?
14
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover
I would say probably 60
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
25

[Lacy♪ ♫Movements of a Demigod ♪ ♫]

Pre Challenge Survey
1. How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
444 books now 466 books (mostly kindle books that had not been added to my TBR list)

2. How many bookshelves do you have?
36

*deleted shelf for books to be released in April 2011
*added shelf for books to be released in 2012

3. How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
Paperbacks- 4
Ebooks- 206

4. How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
30+ books (15 from my ebooks that I own and 15 from my TBR list that I can obtain at the library)

[Mary X]

I'll have to think about this.

Do I have to create more shelves? I actualy don't really like havign a lot of shelves and I find I don't really look at them. I actually just deleted a bunch of shelves because I never looked at them and found they just cluttered up my list. So can we just make a commitment to going through our TBR and just finish shelving on shelves we already have?

[Mary X]

Pre Challenge Survey (just posting this year and I'll update:

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 910 on goodreads but 970 on paperbackswap.

How many bookshelves do you have? 6
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? 970-give or take a few
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? 13 (1 for each week-only counting books on my TBR 6m+)

[Tommie]

I'm in. I'm at work right now but I'll get to work on the survey questions when I get home. I do know that my TBR shelf is scary big at the moment - 890. This is a great opportunity to go through and clean some things out. Thanks for the challenge, Sashana! :)

[Lacy♪ ♫Movements of a Demigod ♪ ♫]

Well I managed to organize my shelves, but also found more books on my kindle that needed to go on the TBR list.

[Mary X]

Never mind-I just figured out that the shelves only show when you look at all your books and not just your to-read books. Which sucks becuase it just makes more books to scroll through to which ones I haven't shelved yet.

[Alicia]

Pre Challenge Survey

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
486

How many bookshelves do you have?
149 (including exclusive shelves)

How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
I don't have time to actually count them all, but I'm going to estimate about 100.

How many books do you want to read for this challenge? My goal is going to be to read 50 books from either my to-read shelf or books that I own but have not yet read. I don't think I am going to do any "cleaning" of my shelves, because even though I have a lot I quite like it that way and can't think of any shelves I would want to get rid of. I always shelf books immediately after I finish reading them or while I'm reading them, so I don't have any unshelved books that I need to organize either.

Goal: Read 50 books from my TBR list or from my owned but unread list

1. On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta (was on TBR) - read 23/03/11
2. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (was on TBR) - read 29/03/11

2/50 Complete

Books I removed from my TBR because I'm not longer interested:
Checkered Fences
Tracing Iris
Hex Hall
(more to come)

[Kristina]

Pre Challenge Survey

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
305
How many bookshelves do you have?
14
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover
I would say probably 60
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
25

Okay I went through the books on my TBR and took off 27 books that were no longer of interest to me. Some were ones I had added while trying to win one on the Giveaways and I realized I really didn't care to read it anyway


So now I have 278 on my TBR list, I added a couple shelves although I didn't really need them. My goal is 25 books either on my TBR shelf or preferably ones I own and haven't read yet. I'll list the first 15, in no particular order. I'll put a * by the ones I own

1. Living Dead in Dallas * 4/2
2. Club Dead * 4/5
3. Shiver * 3/27
4. Red Riding Hood * 3/23
5.Alice I Have Been *
6.The Angel Experiment *
7. The Alchemist * 4/3
8. This Lullaby *
9.A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond between Two Friends and a Lion *
10. Vixen 3/29
11.Choker
12.The Funhouse *
13. The Mother-Daughter Book Club * 4/5
14. All Together Dead *
15. Peter and the Starcatchers *

COMPLETED: 7/25

[Lori]

Pre Challenge Survey

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? I haven't really built up my TBR list on goodreads, so I only have 3. But I know I have a bunch that are written on pieces of paper and other random places.

How many bookshelves do you have? 15

How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? I have NO idea.. Probably at least 100.

How many books do you want to read for this challenge? Would love to read 10 but that might be ambitious.

[Shay]

TBR Challenge- Books Read

Goal: 24 books

Currently reading: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

[Mary X]

I'm still organizing my shelves. I don't have patience to do it for very long.

I only added 1 shelf because I don't want a whole bunch of shelves and the time it would take to put 900+ books on a whole bunch of different shelves would use up valuable reading time.

But I did create a Read Soon shelf in which I put some books that have been lanquishing in my TBR pile a long time. As well as a few for authors I haven't tried yet and have on PBS WL. I really should read the one I have before I pay a credit to acquire another for someone I end up not liking.

[Mary X]

Are we making new posts to update what we read?

1/13 (13 that have been on my shelf 6m+)

1: The Dead Travel Fast-Deanna Raybourne 3/24

[Sashana]

Are we making new posts to update what we read?

Yes, we are.

[[deleted user]]

tbr 1128
shelves 19
own I have no clue
goal 20

[Kristina]

Goal: 25 books

so far 2/25

1. 3/23
2. 3/27

[cindy]

Very cool idea!

Pre Challenge Survey
Books on TBR list: 514
Number of Bookshelves: 58
Owned but unread books: 16 books, 103 ebooks, and 10 eARCs
Reading goal: 25+ books

[Sarah]

March 20 - June 20

Pre Challenge Survey:

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
865
How many bookshelves do you have?
11
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
108 Paperbacks/Hardcover, 20 +/- a few ebooks(includes some ARCs)
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
40+ (most if not all owned unread books)

Shelves added:
Mystery
Fantasy
Owned-Not-Read
Books-Reviewed
Lit
Horror
Library

Books Removed So Far:
153

Total Books on To Read list:
712

Books Read Since 3/25:
1.River Marked by Patricia Briggs 3.27.11 own
2.Icarus Unbound by Bernadette Gardner 3.27.11 own
3.Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough 3.27.11 library
4.Always a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough 3.29.11 ARC
5.Behind the Throne by Maggie Berkley 3.29.11 ARC
6.Prey by Rachel Vincent 3.30.11 own
7.Haven by Kristi Cook 3.31.11 own
8.Lost Voices by Sarah Porter 4.2.11 ARC
9.Glimmerglass by Jenna Black 4.3.11 library
10.Pleasure Unbound by Larissa Ione 4.4.11 own
11.Shift by Rachel Vincent 4.5.11 own
12.Alpha by Rachel Vincent 4.7.11 own
13.Blood Song by Cat Adams 4.9.11 own
14.Siren Song by Cat Adams 4.10.11 own
15.Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon 4.11.11 own
16.Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare 4.15.11 own
17.Matched by Ally Condie 4.16.11 own
18.Die for Me by Amy Plum 4.18.11 ARC
19.Putting Makeup on Dead People by Jen Violi 4.20.11 ARC
20.Love's Elixir by Tessa McKay 4.21.11 ARC
21.Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry 4.23.11 library
22.The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade 4.26.11 library
23.The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan 4.28.11 library
24.Queen of the Dead by Stacey Kade 4.29.11 ARC
25.Bumped by Megan McCafferty 5.1.11 ARC
26.The Lipstick Laws by Amy Holder 5.1.11 ARC
27.Destined for an Early Grave by Jeaniene Frost 5.3.11 own
28.Afterlight by Elle Jasper 5.6.11 own
29.The Mermaid's Mirror by L.K. Madigan 5.6.11 library
30.Sea Change by Amy Friedman 5.7.11 library
31.Friday Night Bites by Chloe Neill 5.7.11 own
32.Nightkeepers by Jessica Andersen 5.13.11 own
33.Ecstasy's Endgame by Tessa McKay 5.13.11 e-book
34.Witches by Kathryn Meyer Griffith 5.13.11 e-book
35.Lady of the Isle by Temple Hogan 5.15.11 e-book
36.Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris 5.17.11 own
37.A Queen Seduced by Rachel Carrington 5.20.11 ARC
38.Night Myst by Yasmine Galenorn 5.21.11 own
39.Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead 5.21.11 own
40.Bookends by Jane Green 5.22.11 own
41.Twice Bitten by Chloe Neill 5.23.11 own
42.The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa 5.24.11 own
43.The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa 5.25.11 own
44.My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent 5.25.11 own
45.This Side of the Grave by Jeaniene Frost 5.26.11 own
46.Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow 5.27.11 own
47.Outlander by Diana Gabaldon 5.31.11 own re-read
48.My Soul to Lose by Rachel Vincent 5.31.11 own
49.Chasing Brooklyn by Lisa Schroeder 5.31.11 library
50.Mad Love by Suzanne Selfors 6.1.11 library
51.Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews 6.2.11 own
52.Her Scottish Groom by Ann Stephens 6.2.11 own
53.Miles From Ordinary by Carol Lynch Williams 6.2.11 library
54.The Devouring by Simon Holt 6.3.11 library
55.Banished by Sophie Littlefield 6.5.11 library
56.Kiss of Fire by Deborah Cooke 6.6.11 own
57.To Tame a Highland Warrior by Karen Marie Moning 6.9.11 own
58.The Maze Runner by James Dashner 6.10.11 library
59.The Secret Year by Jennifer R. Hubbard 6.11.11 library
60.Choker by Elizabeth Woods 6.12.11 library
61.Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles 6.12.11 library
62.Soulstice by Simon Holt 6.14.11 library
63.The Twisted Tale of Stormy Gale 6.15.11 ARC
64.Radiant Shadows by Melissa Marr 6.17.11 library
65.Shadowspell by Jenna Black 6.18.11 library
66.Darklight by Lesley Livingston 6.19.11 library
67.Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Paranormal Tales of Love by Trisha Telep 6.20.11 library
68.The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald 6.20.11 borrowed

Post Challenge Survey:

How many books did you read overall for this challenge?
68: 31 owned PB/HC (1 re-read owned), 3 e-books, 11 ARCs, 22 library books
How many of them were already owned? On your TBR list?
See above for how many were already owned, all were on my TBR shelf, but I did add some as I went along.
Did you create any bookshelves? If so, how many?
7
Did you remove any books from your TBR list while organizing your bookshelf? If so, how many?
At first I removed about 153 but then I've added some since then.
Did this challenge help you to organize your bookshelves or to your wheedle down your TBR?
It did help me, and I will continue to organize my books better. I'm hoping to wheedle down my TBR some more but right now I'm addicted to getting books out of the library! My next clean up challenge will be all books I own.

[Jennifer]

I'm in-- I actually started three self-challenges this year designed to accomplish whittling down the collection. They'll fit the purpose here nicely. They are

1) Batting Cleanup Challenge-- this one is designed to finish up authors I've already read most of. I chose six or eight authors and am setting myself to finish reading their backlists.

2) Author Focus challenge -- this one is designed for authors I've read a few of, but own a lot of. I chose 4 writers and set myself to read at least 10 books by each. (ultimately this year's "author focus" writer could become next year's "batting cleanup" author.)

3) "read one" challenge-- this one is for writers I've never read but have somehow still managed to collect several books that were written by them. The challenge is to read one by each of a short list of these authors and if I don't like it, donate everything I own by that author and clear some space.

For your spring cleaning challenge I went ahead and made a shelf for each of my private challenges and loaded 'em up.

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 7k plus, but they aren't all necessarily books I own: some are just books I eventually want to read.
How many bookshelves do you have? 6, of which 3 were created this morning for this challenge.
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? Probably 3k.
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? Well, my private challenges were for all year so there are like, 80 books there. No way I'll knock all that out in three months. Let's say 20 and see where I get!

[Tuğçe]

Wow! I haven't realised there was a challenge for my April resolution :) After seeing my TBR out-of-control, I've decided to read the books I owned and not to get new ones at least until I made a serious progress, starting from 1st April. I already made a shelf for own-to-read :) SO I am totally in and will post my pre-challenge survey and progress soon.

[Kristina]

Tugce Nida - good idea! i am so dumb, i didn't even think about makin a "own-to-be-read" shelf. der. i'm going to do that right now! it'll make this so much easier haha

[Sashana]

Cinnamon wrote: "Very cool idea!

Pre Challenge Survey
Books on TBR list: 514
Number of Bookshelves: 58
Owned but unread books: 16 books, 103 ebooks, and 10 eARCs
Reading goal: 25+ books"

I thought I owned a lot of unread ebooks but I was obviously wrong.

[Sashana]

Sarah wrote: "March 20 - June 20

Pre Challenge Survey:

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
865
How many bookshelves do you have?
11
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperba..."

Sarah, you've gotten rid of a lot of books so far.

[Sarah]

Yeah I haven't gotten rid of any books since I joined goodreads 2 years ago so it was time to clean it up. I might get rid of some more as I go.

[Jex]

Oh the progress I've made. I've gone through my shelves up to the H's. I also split up a bunch of broad categories into smaller categories. I don't know if I'll keep them all, but its something.



Spring Cleaning
Start: March 20th, 2011
End: June 20th, 2011

PreSurvey:
TBR list? 295
Bookshelves? 36
unread books owned? 42 and counting
how many for the challenge? As many as I can, really the organization is what I need

The Cleaning
TBR: 231
Owned TBR: 42
Shelves: 53

Shelves Added:
Mythology
Post-Apocalyptic
Android
Owned -Hard Copy
High-Fantasy
Favorites
Dragon
Dark Fantasy
High Fantasy
Fairy Tales
Fantasy of Manners
Sword an Sorcery
Shapeshifter
Psychic
Alternate History
Cyber Punk
Time Travel
Space Opera
Realistic Fiction
Magical Realism
Superhero

Shelves Deleted:
Classics
Manga
Epic Fantasy
Werewolves
Fantasy
Fiction

The Reading

Owned:

Not-Owned:

[Amy J.]

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 216
How many bookshelves do you have? 24
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? 75
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? 30

Books deleted:3 (all ARCs I didn't win)
Shelves deleted: 0
Shelves created: 1 (sci fi) I might need to add a historical fiction shelf

I've liked the organization that resulted from this challenge.

Reading Progress: all tbr books; * indicates a preowned book; # indicates a borrowed book



1. 3/31 *
2. 4/1 *
3. 4/2 #
4. 4/5 *
5. 4/7
6. 4/9 *
7. 4/11
8. 4/12 #
9. 4/15
10. 4/17 *
11. 4/20 *
12. 4/20 *
13. 4/23 *
14. 4/26 *
15. 4/28 *
16. 4/30 #
17: 5/3
18. 5/4 *
19. 5/7 *
20. 5/9 #
21. 5/13
22. 5/15
23. 5/15 *
24. 5/15
25. 5/17 #
26. 5/19 #
27. 5/21 *
28. 5/25 #
29. 5/27 #
30. 5/28 *
31) 6/4 *
32) 6/8 *
33) 6/9
34) 6/10 #
35) 6/13 #
36) 6/17 *

[Kristina]

Goal: 25 books

so far 3/25

1. 3/23
2. 3/27
3. 3/29

[Tuğçe]

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 381
How many bookshelves do you have? 10
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? 137
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? 35
Deleted books - 14 so far

32/35 completed

1.Lover Unleashed by J.R. Ward 03/31 ****
2.The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 04/06 ***
3.Sweet Possession by Maya Banks ***
4.Lying Awake by Mark Salzman 04/11 ***
5.Jane Eyre's Daughter by Elizabeth Newark 04/12 ***
6.Something About You by Julie James 04/15***
7.The Secret by Julie Garwood 04/16 ****
8.Blood Promise by Richelle Mead 04/16 ****
9.The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 04/19 *****
10.Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 04/20 ****
11.Persuasion by Jane Austen 04/24 *****
12.The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas 04/28 ***
13.Undead and Unreturnable by MaryJanice Davidson 04/29 **
14.The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson 04/29 ****
15.In the Woods by Tana French 04/30 ****
16.XVI by Julia Karr 04/30 ***
17.Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning 05/06 ****
18.Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 05/08 ***
19.Eternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost 05/10 ****
20.Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand 05/23 ****
21.Vince by J.M. Snyder 05/28 ****
22.Call Me Irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips 05/28 ****
23.A Lot Like Love by Julie James 05/18
24.Promises by Marie Sexton ***
25.The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy ****
26.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
27.Backstage Pass by Olivia Cunning **
28.A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness ****
29.Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead ****
30.Kiss an Angel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips ****
31.Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie ***
32.Vampire Mine by Kerrelyn Sparks ***
33.The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn ****

[Tuğçe]

Kristina wrote: "Tugce Nida - good idea! i am so dumb, i didn't even think about makin a "own-to-be-read" shelf. der. i'm going to do that right now! it'll make this so much easier haha"

You have pretty good and well managed shelves already :)I am never good at managing them so the easiest ones were the months I have read and the ones I have owned...

[Alicia]

I just removed a couple more books from my TBR that I don't really plan to read in order to "tidy it up": Bones of Faerie, Red and The Devil Inside. Also removed Jesus Potter Harry Christ, which I don't really remember adding to my list. I think it may have been slipped onto my TBR on a certain saturday night when I may or may not have been drinking and found the book funny enough to laugh about for a good 10 minutes. The cover is pure gold though, so I was a bit loathe to delete it, haha!

[Sashana]

OMG...I thought Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter had an awful title. Apparently I was wrong. lol

[Tommie]

Pre Challenge Survey

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 895
How many bookshelves do you have? 33
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? I'm guessing around 75.
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? At least 25 from either my TBR list or from my owned but unread list.

[Sans]

Alicia wrote: "I think it may have been slipped onto my TBR on a certain saturday night when I may or may not have been drinking and found the book funny enough to laugh about for a good 10 minutes."

That is both epic and awesome, Alicia.

[Carey Devine]

Pre Challenge Survey

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
WOW 451 Books TBR and whats worse is I really want to read them all lol
How many bookshelves do you have?
Currently I have 7 but obviously I need to do more
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
I do own alot of books but currently do not know if they are on my TBR list or not I have a habbit of picking up books that are on sale, yard sale and such.
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
As Many as I can read becuase my time is limited at times but I am going to try 10

[Kristina]

Goal: 25 books

so far: 6/25

1. 3/23
2. 3/27
3. 3/29
4. 4/1
5. 4/3
6. 4/5

[Alicia]

Goal: Read 50 books from my TBR list or from my owned but unread list

1. On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta (was on TBR) - read 23/03/11
2. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (was on TBR) - read 29/03/11
3. Across the Universe by Beth Revis (was on TBR) - read 05/04/11

3/50 Complete

Books I removed from my TBR because I'm not longer interested:
Checkered Fences
Tracing Iris
Hex Hall
Bones of Faerie
Red
Jesus Potter Harry Christ
The Devil Inside
(7 so far and more to come)

[Sans]

Looks like you guys are doing well on this challenge. I did a bit of TBR spring cleaning myself but I haven't deleted more than a handful of titles. Er, out of the 2,492 on my to read list. And my 724 wishlist copy. Yes, I have 3,216 books in Mt. TBR. I think it's not a single mountain, more of a range at this point. ~_~

[Courtney]

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 419 books
How many bookshelves do you have? 35
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? I'm guessing around 30 or so.
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? I'm super busy right now and I'm just coming out of a reading rut, so I'm going to say 10. All of these will be books from one series or another that I've been meaning to finish up.