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Spring: Spring Cleaning

A Mountain Range TBR. lol. Well said, Sans.

How many bookshelves do you have? 22 --not including Read, tbr, and now reading--
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? 1/2a box or so. My stuff is in storage so I dont have access to them but I brutally pared it down over the past couple years.
How many books do you want to read for this challenge 4
Step 1: Make new bookshelves and get rid of the irrelevant ones.*Slowly go through all of your books and move them to their appropriate shelves. Now starting this step.
Step 2: 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).
The Reading:
Step 3: Make a list of all the books you own but are unread.
Step 4: 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)
Step 5: *After completing the list making process, come up with a game plan to read as many books as possible.*Read!
Step 6: list all of the books you read for this challenge below. Let us know if they were pre-owned or on your TBR list

3/13 (13 that have been on my shelf 6m+)
1: The Dead Travel Fast-Deanna Raybourne 3/24
2:Ill Wind-Rachel Caine
3:Gilding the Lady-Nicole Byrd 3/26

7 have already been requested on the trading sites I do. I suspect the other one will be requested some time today since it was wish list.

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 895
So far I have purged 120 books from my TBR. It was probably actually more than that but I've also added some new books in.
How many bookshelves do you have? 33
I've deleted 7 bookshelves and added 4 new bookshelves.
Reading goal: At least 25 from either my TBR list or from my owned but unread list.
28/25 complete
Storm Born by Richelle Mead (Own)

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 895
So far I have purged 120 books from my TBR. It was probably actually more than that but I've also a..."
After purging 120 books from my TBR list, and requesting several from the list from my library, I went to the Friends of the Library book sale. I bought a box and paper grocery sack full of books for $25. I couldn't help myself! So now I'm going to have to add those in to my TBR list (only a few were already on there). So much for keeping my list wittled down to a manageable number.

Some starting questions:
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 294 books Update: Still purging (and adding sadlly). Will be done soon. (May 4th)
How many bookshelves do you have? 22 --not including Read, tbr, and now reading--
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? 1/2a box or so. My stuff is in storage so I dont have access to them but I brutally pared it down over the past couple years.
How many books do you want to read for this challenge 4
Step 1: Make new bookshelves and get rid of the irrelevant ones.*Slowly go through all of your books and move them to their appropriate shelves. Now starting this step.
Step 2: 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).
The Reading:
Step 3: Make a list of all the books you own but are unread.
Step 4: 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)
Step 5: *After completing the list making process, come up with a game plan to read as many books as possible.*Read!
Step 6: list all of the books you read for this challenge below. Let us know if they were pre-owned or on your TBR list

End date: June 20
This is a great challenge. I am always saying I need to get caught up on my TBR shelf. Maybe this will help me stay on track.
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
I have two TBR lists. One is fiction which has 13 books on it and the other is non-fiction which currently has 5 so I have 18 total. These are all books I own and haven't read. I have separate shelves for the books I would like to read in the future.
How many bookshelves do you have?
I have 9 right now including the originals that you start with. I will probably be adding quite a few more. I want to keep all the books I would like to read later on different genre shelves.
How many unread books do you own?
18
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
I am going to say 10 for now but I would like to read more than that.
The books I have read so far:
1. The Gates by John Connolly 4.6.11

2. Dark Lover by J.R. Ward 4.7.11 (re-read)

3. XVI by Julia Karr 4.14.11

4. Erak's Ransom by John Flanagan

5. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

6. Moon Called by Patricia Briggs


Pre Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
288 on goodreads, but it's questionable as it's more of a list of books I found interesting while browsing other people's shelves. On my personal list it's less, something like 20.
How many bookshelves do you have?
31 + 3 default.
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
Good Lord, a lot. Roughly 3000 paper, ebooks I'm too scared to count. It's entire family's libraries combined, though.
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
I'll be glad if I'll get through most 'currently reading' books and catch up on my 2011 reading challenge.

Spring Cleaning
Start: March 20th, 2011
End: June 20th, 2011
PreSurvey:
TBR list? 295
Bookshelves? 36
unread books owned? 192
how many for the challenge? As many as I can, really the organization is what I need
Progress:
1. Bookshelves organized and pretty - check
2. TBR's that I don't want to read anymore deleted - check
3. List all of the books I own on Goodreads and determine what I haven't read - check
4. Read, Read, Read! - in progress
The Cleaning
TBR: 395 (this number keeps going up which is the opposite of my goal)
Owned TBR: 191 (Doesn't include ebooks)
Shelves: 59 (so much better organized then it was before)
The Reading
Owned:

Not-Owned:







I've also read a few books that I've had for a long time that I keep passing over for newly acquired ones.

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 294 books at start. Update as of May 4th: 266 Still purging--and adding. OK, for now I have 220 on my tbr shelf and will call it good. A reduction of 74.
How many bookshelves do you have? 22 --not including Read, tbr, and now reading--
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? 1/2a box or so. My stuff is in storage so I dont have access to them but I brutally pared it down over the past couple years.
How many books do you want to read for this challenge 4
Step 1: Make new bookshelves and get rid of the irrelevant ones.*Slowly go through all of your books and move them to their appropriate shelves. Now starting this step.
Step 2: 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).
The Reading:
Step 3: Books are in storage. will skip.
Step 4: After 'cleaning' up your TBR book shelf make a list of the books that you want to read the most.
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2. Blood and Honor
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4. Deathwish Tried reading but cant seem to get into it. (got to 3 out of 4!)
Step 5: *After completing the list making process, come up with a game plan to read as many books as possible.*Read! Ordered them all from library and intergrated them into my challenges, and put them at the front of my tbr list on GR
Step 6: list all of the books you read for this challenge below. Let us know if they were pre-owned or on your TBR list 75%
1. Tangled Threads
2. Undone
3. Deathwish (Read 1/2 and put down).
This process was very helpful. I took control of my tbr list and had fun with it.
Thanks

Doing an update:
7/13 (13 that have been on my shelf 6m+)
1: The Dead Travel Fast-Deanna Raybourne 3/24
2:Ill Wind-Rachel Caine
3:Gilding the Lady-Nicole Byrd 3/26
4: Cut And Run-Carla Neggars
5: Pirate's Mistress-Marianne LaCroix
6: Taming the Scotsman-Kinley MacGregor
7: The Savage King-Michelle Pillow

Post Challenge Survey
How many books did you read overall for this challenge?30
How many of them were already owned? 5 On your TBR list? 25
Did you create any bookshelves? Yes If so, how many? 4
Did you remove any books from your TBR list while organizing your bookshelf? Yes If so, how many? 120. Although it was probably more but I added some owned books in while purging others.
Did this challenge help you to organize your bookshelves or to your wheedle down your TBR list? Definitely! This challenge was a great help in organizing my shelves and pushing myself to read books already on my shelves instead continually adding new books.

Doing an update:
13/13 (13 that have been on my shelf 6m+)
1: The Dead Travel Fast-Deanna Raybourne 3/24
2:Ill Wind-Rachel Caine
3:Gilding the Lady-Nicole Byrd 3/26
4: Cut And Run-Carla Neggars
5: Pirate's Mistress-Marianne LaCroix
6: Taming the Scotsman-Kinley MacGregor
7: The Savage King-Michelle Pillow
8: Jinxed-Beth Ciotta
9: Inner Harbor-Nora Roberts
10: Promises Keep-Sarah McCarty
11: Promises Prevail-Sarah McCarty
12: Wicked Ties-Shayla Black
13: The Girl Most Likely To...-Susan Donovan

3/20/2011-6/20/2011
goal- 30 books
Ebooks:
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Books I Own:
17.
18. Chronicles of Narnia (Reread since I was given a copy with all 7 stories)~currently reading as of 6/20/2011
19.
TBR List Books Added in 2010:
20. (added 9/23/2010)
21. (added 9/15/2010)
22. (added 10/14/2010)
23. (added 7/23/2010)
24. (added 12/9/2010)
25. (added 9/29/2010)
26. (added 12/14/2010)
27. (added 9/23/2010)
28. (added 8/23/2010)
29. (added 10/4/2010)
30. (added 7/7/2010)
31. (added 12/10/2010)
32. (added 12/3/2010)
33. (added 9/23/2010)
34. (Added 10/14/2011)
35. (Added 9/27/2010)
36. (Added 12/7/2010)
37. (Added 10/5/2010)
38. (Added 12/3/2010)
39. (added 9/23/2010)
Removed from TBR List:
1. Take One by Karen Kingsbury
2. A Rush of Wings by Kristen Heitzman
3. A Passion Most Pure by Julie Lessman
4. Private by James Patterson
5. The Remains by Vincent Zandri
6. The Big 5-Oh! by Sandra Bricker
7. The Wieght of Shadows by Alison Strobel
8. The Sari Shop Widow by Shobhan Bantwal
9. The Goddess of Fried Okra by Jean Brashear
10. Dawn's Prelude by Tracie Peterson
11. Rain Song by Alice Wisler
12. On Bear Mountian by Deborah Smith
13. Line of Scrimmage by Marie Force
14. Love at First Flight by Marie Force
15. Flowers for Elvis by Julie Schuster
16. The Adventures of Lily by Darcy Busch
17. A Touch of Grace by Lauraine Snelling

NBRC spring cleaning
King's confidante/plaidy
Crewel world/ ferris
Latte trouble/ coyle
Through the grinder/ coyle
Only the cat knows/ Babson
There goes the bride/ beaton
Murder most frothy/ coyle
In the teeth of adversity/ Babson
Loyal in love/ plaidy
In the last analysis/ cross
The thief of Venice/Langton
In the shadow of the crown/ plaidy
Decaffeinated corpse/coyle
Busy body/beaton
Eat cake/ray

Spring Cleaning
Start: March 20th, 2011
End: June 20th, 2011
PreSurvey:
TBR list? 295
Bookshelves? 36
unread books owned? 192
how many for the challenge? As many as I can, really the organization is what I need
Progress:
1. Bookshelves organized and pretty - check
2. TBR's that I don't want to read anymore deleted - check
3. List all of the books I own on Goodreads and determine what I haven't read - check
4. Read, Read, Read! - in progress
The Cleaning
TBR: 396 (this number keeps going up which is the opposite of my goal)
Owned TBR: 297
Shelves: 59 (so much better organized then it was before)
The Reading
Owned: Read - 9









Not-Owned: Read - 8









How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
-3648 books.
How many bookshelves do you have?
-6 (not including read/to read/currently reading)
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
-224 (which, I guess, isn't accurate, because I only keep track of reviewed books here, and plenty of the books I own are rereads)
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
-Probably ten. (over time)
At least I have as few shelves as possible since I hate extra shelving. (:

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
~410 books + 47 ebooks + 22 maybe-to-read books = 479 books TBR
How many bookshelves do you have?
~about 185 (UGH, I really do need to do some cleaning)
How many unread books do you own (consider ebooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
~not sure. I'll have to count & update later
UPDATE: 215 books (including ebooks, paperback, hardcovers, and soon-to-arrive shipments)
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
~between 20 to 30 (split the difference & make it about 25)

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 1700 8)
How many bookshelves do you have? 97 I have an obsession with pinpointing plot themes
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? A LOT! I have four packed (as in two rows of books on each shelf) bookcases, plus my kindle is almost full. So all in all, I am guessing I have about 2,500 unread books. And that is actually being pretty conservative. And since I frequent my local library, I always save the books I own for later.
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? About 30, since in spring I am pretty busy gardening and I plan to do a lot of writing in the coming months.
Books Read: 16/30
1) The Croningby Laird Barron
2) Unwind by Neal Shusterman
3) The Protector by Gennita Low
4) The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
5) Night of the Loving Dead by Casey Daniels
6) Dead Man Talking by Casey Daniels
7) Servant of a Dark God by John Brown
8) Dragon Bones by Patricia Briggs
9) The Spirit Rebellion by Rachel Aaron
10) The Spirit War by Rachel Aaron
11) Spirit's End by Rachel Aaron
12) The Exiled Queen by Cinda Williams Chima
13) The Gray Wolf Throne by Cinda Williams Chima
14) Lover At Last by J.R. Ward
15) In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust
16)The Crimson Crown by Cinda Williams Chima
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? Yes, I removed 234 books from by tbr shelf.
Did this challenge help you to organize your bookshelves or to your wheedle down your TBR list?

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?124
How many bookshelves do you have? 48
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? Not many. About 10 or so? I borrow most of my books
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? As many as possible

It's only been 1 day, but I've deleted 13 ebooks from my ebooks-to-read shelf & 9 bookshelves.

This is a very good challenge.
Pre Challenge Survey
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
330ish on GR but 704 in my spreadsheet. I'll try to get them to match during this challenge.
How many bookshelves do you have?
363. When you import from a competing site, multi-word tags get split so "coming of age" becomes 3 shelves - "coming," "of," and "age". Lots of cleanup to do.
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
212.
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
30, I think 10 per month is a good goal.

How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
to-read (913)
to-ponder (240)
to-read-series (612)
How many bookshelves do you have?
8 pages pagesHow many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
I can't figure out my paperbacks, hardbacks, and CDs, as some of my books are packed in anticipation of moving. However, I have:How many books do you want to read for this challenge?m-kindle-freebie (165)
m-kindle-prime (18)
m-kindle-via-mobi (3)
Ten sounds good.

NBRC: Spring Cleaning Reading Challenge
Timeline March - June 2013
SO FAR:
The Cleaning
*Make new bookshelves and get rid of the irrelevant ones.
✔Done!
*Slowly go through all of your books and move them to their
appropriate shelves.
✔Done!
*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.
I've been working on this off and on for two day; hard to cover all I've done:
sorted by genreI had my bookshelves sorted by genre before; however, they were scattered though-out all eight pages. Now they all start with the word "genre."
sorted by media (bookshelf starts with m-)
sorted by character
sorted by challenge
sorted by theme
deleted most bookshelves with only one book
combined similar sounding/theme bookshelves
moved some to by era bookshelf
divided:"genre-romance-western-historical"
"genre-romance-western-contemporary"

Batch Editing

*Make new bookshelves and get rid of the irrelevant ones.nothing wrong with my shelves. they´re clean and organized. The last one I added is "manatee" which is a shelf for 2013 round II challenge (for this group) and I´m curently in process of adding books I´ll read for that challenge
*Slowly go through all of your books and move them to their appropriate shelves.all the books are in their appropriate shelves. I delete, move and read books monthly, sometimes even weekly.
*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).clean, as well.
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.Finally a challenge that´s not a challenge, or at least I´m done with it before starting it. (:
all my shelves are up to date and can be found on
Lára´s Bookshelves
that surely sounds like advertising!


I know what you mean, I´m like that myself, with some things. Not with books, though. Especially not with books! no point in having bookshelves if they´re not helpful to you. that´s why I keep it simple, one-word to describe all the books joined together, and I actually read books from my maybe shelf. (;
there´s always time to start maintaining things! I´ve learned it when I discovered my hobby: fishkeeping. You just have to keep a hygiene here - weekly. and little by little it comes natural to you.
This thread is excellent for starting.

Spring Cleaning Reading Challenge
Timeline March - June 2013
The Cleaning
*Make new bookshelves and get rid of the irrelevant ones.
✔Done!
*Slowly go through all of your books and move them to their
appropriate shelves.
✔Done!
*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).
✔Done!
*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 shelves
◈deleted
on_pause
recommends
◈renamed
to_read_pt_edition --> owned_pt
◈new
owned_en
borrowed
◈turned exclusive
arc
nbrc_bom
◈Current status:
currently-reading (7)
to-read (39)
read-the-next-in-series (57)
arc (3)
new_series (86)
*borrowed (3)
*owned_en (8)
*owned_pt (19)
The Reading
Read the ARC books and send reviews to publisher
0/3 read




Pre Challenge Survey:
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list?
4815 I really need this challenge.
How many bookshelves do you have?
102
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)?
72
How many books do you want to read for this challenge?
6
I'm a little late... hope I can still be part of this challenge. It seems to go well with my personal challenge of reading 250 books this year. My Mt. TBR is a small 239 of my 653 total books. Of course, this doesn't include all the books I got yesterday from the library, the ones I'll be getting next week from the library or the ones I've purchased and haven't read :)
Hopefully, I'll have better control of my shelves... and will be able to add the books I own - most are books I want to read again.
Hopefully, I'll have better control of my shelves... and will be able to add the books I own - most are books I want to read again.

Duration: March 20 - June 20 2013
Completed: 6/2/13
My Goal is to see my TBR shelf get down to a manageable length and read some that I have had on there a while.
Pre Challenge Survey The Reading
How many books do you currently have on your TBR list? 1764
How many bookshelves do you have? 60
How many unread books do you own (consider eBooks, paperback, and hardcover)? A house full lol
How many books do you want to read for this challenge? As many as I can. :D
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.
irrelevant/removed bookshelves: New Bookshelves:*Slowly go through all of your books and move them to their appropriate shelves.
middle eastern lit biography-memoir
cupcakes team read
American lit yearly challenge
Asian lit 50 books list
European lit literature
Latin-Spanish lit fantasy
Memoir newberys
team read 2012
team read 2013
Russian lit
2012 challenge
African American 50 books
British 50 books list
brides grooms and marriage
newbery winner
newbery honor
series-r-us
predicted Pulitzer
Completed: 3/10/13
*While going through your to-read books delete the ones that no longer interest you.
Completed: 4/16/13 I have deleted 402 books O_O
The Reading
*Make a list of all the books you own but are unread.
This is impossible. I have over hundreds of unread books. :(
*After 'cleaning' up your TBR book shelf make a list of the books that you want to read the most.
Books I want to read the most:*Books I ownThe Sailmaker's Daughter★★ 4/22/13Samurai Game★★★★★ 6/2/13Al Capone Shines My Shoes★★★★ 5/24/13Gathering Blue★★★★ 5/22/13The Return of Sherlock Holmes★★★★ 5/29/13The Map of Time★★★★ 4/30/13
*After completing the list making process, come up with a game plan to read as many books as possible.
*Read!
I am going to use the last of my extension cards to extend this challenge until July 20, 2013

Melissa (ladybug) wrote: "NbRC Spring Cleaning Reading Challenge
Duration: March 20 - June 20 2013
Completed: ??
Wow - that is serious Spring Cleaning!!! Haven't done that since the last time I moved and donated nearly 2,000 to my local library.
Duration: March 20 - June 20 2013
Completed: ??
Wow - that is serious Spring Cleaning!!! Haven't done that since the last time I moved and donated nearly 2,000 to my local library.

The Cleaning
*Make new bookshelves and get rid of the irrelevant ones.
Deleted
awesome art
books about mermaids
jodi picoult
male protagonist
manga graphic novel
percy jackson
reccomend to everyone
summer days
tstl heroines
Added
surprisingly good
recycled plot
childrens
own a copy
hobbit blue
need this book now
on hold
*Slowly go through all of your books and move them to their appropriate shelves.
Will do this later...
*While going through your to-read books delete the ones that no longer interest you.
Reduced 124 to 109.
The Reading
After 'cleaning' up your TBR book shelf make a list of the books that you want to read the most.
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Angelfall by Susan Ee
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Perfect Scoundrels by Ally Carter
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa
Blood Song by Rhiannon Hart
Boundless by Cynthia Hand











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I deleted 50 books from my TBR shelf.
To Read
1. Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend ~ Victoria Laurie
2. Ghouls Just Haunt to Have Fun ~ Victoria Laurie
3. Ghouls Gone Wild ~ Victoria Laurie
4. Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls ~ Victoria Laurie
5. Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die ~ Nancy Martin
6. Have Your Cake and Kill Him Too ~ Nancy Martin
7. A Crazy Little Thing Called Death ~ Nancy Martin
8. Murder Melts in Your Mouth ~ Nancy Martin
9. Buttercream Bump Off ~ Jenn McKinlay
10. Pretty in Plaid ~ Jen Lancaster