Chuckles Weekend Roundup

Welcome to my feature Chuckles Weekend Roundup where I will be looking at what books I've received, anything interesting I've done or bought or watched and other random stuff. I'll be taking a look back at what happened in my blogging world too, sort of like The Sunday Post that some of you do! 

Please note that I'll be visiting your STS/SP as normal, but I don't follow or leave comments on blogs run by Google Plus, or DISQUS as I refuse to join something just to leave comments, and I won't allow DISQUS to follow new people, update my profile or post tweets 'on my behalf'. I am the only one who does that on my social media! I won't comment on any blog that makes me sign in using another account. Sometimes, I have problems leaving messages on blogs hosted by Wordpress-they try to block me because I deleted my account with them but I will persevere as it only happens the odd time!

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I really feel like the beagle on this post at the moment! I'm feeling pretty tired all the time and I could just cuddle that dog and have a snooze! I'm still finding it tough to get back into my reading after taking the break to sort out the TBR! Reading these short novellas is about as much as I can concentrate on at the moment. Still, it's better than nothing and it gets a few things off my list! I'm using these short stories to try a few new authors and see if I want to read more by them in the future. I can also report that I'm on the final stage of my Winterfell project (I'm battling with putting trees together at the moment!) and I was excited to receive my new model kit for The Red Keep. It's all very exciting! 

Today is also Brexit Day, where we officially finish as a nation of the European Union so it's very historic and exciting. I have alcohol and snacks ready to sustain me all night as I watch the official coverage. I'm keen to see who is at the official Downing Street reception and what the Nigel Farage party is like. Now we can look ahead to getting all these trade deals done and moving forward. I'm aware that a few of my friends are Remain supporters and have significant and relevant concerns about it, which I do get, but please, no anti-Brexit comments today as I won't be publishing them! Let me just have my happy moment!

I'm also keeping a cautious eye on the news as this coronavirus has now been confirmed with 2 cases in the UK. My dad is out buying in more bottled water just in case hibernation is required for a few weeks, as a precaution. I only tend to drink the flavoured water rather than the tap water we get so I need a small supply! I did decide to educate myself on these kinds of viruses by downloading a few books on the subject. I've always been interested in viruses but never had the time to read about them so this seems like a good excuse.

DOWNLOADS

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Chuckles Blogging World
This week I'm doing my usual mix of answering comments and visiting blogs, as well as getting back into a normal routine for blog posts.

Book Reviews

Robert Barnard-Hour 23
http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2020/01/book-review-hour-23-by-robert-barnard.html 

Chuckles Mini Reviews Catchup
http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2020/01/chuckles-mini-reviews-catchup_31.html 

Regular Posts

Around The Blogs With Chuckles
http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2020/01/around-blogs-with-chuckles_57.html 

Discussion Posts 

Chuckles Chuntering
http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2020/01/chuckles-chuntering_25.html 

The Big Chuckles TBR Add-On #7
http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-big-chuckles-tbr-add-on-7.html

The Big Chuckles TBR Add-On Missing Stuff
http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-big-chuckles-tbr-add-onthe-missing.html

Constructing Winterfell
http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2020/01/constructing-winterfell.html 

Reading Challenges

Tackling The TBR
http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2020/01/tackling-tbr-january.html 

Chuckles Challenges-Non Fiction
http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2020/01/chuckles-challenges-2020-non-fiction_29.html 

Chuckles Challenges-Fiction
http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.com/2020/01/chuckles-challenges-2020-fiction_30.html

Films & TV
I've been watching various documentaries about the Royal Family this week. Some were good especially a 5 part of The Royal Family At Work, filming behind the scenes with The Queen on her duties along with her family and staff. It was fascinating. 

Book Tags/Blog Awards
none this week

Currently Reading/Up Next
This week was all about catching up with novellas for new authors I was trying and finishing a political memoir too. Next up I'll be looking at more short stories.

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Chuckles Mini Reviews Catchup

I review everything I read, on my blog and on Goodreads. Most reviews are of a decent length but sometimes you don't have much to say about the book because of its length or you DNFed it or various other reasons. In cases like that it makes sense to write a few mini reviews in one post and clear them out your way! So lets catch up with some reviews from January!

1) Nick Williams-Surviving the EMP
When an EMP attack hits the United States and knocks down the entire power grid, two brothers named Randall and Thomas find themselves caught in the middle of the chaos and separated from their loved ones. Making their way to their grandparents' lake cabin in the north, where they believe they can find the rest of their family, things take a turn for the worst after a violent encounter with members from a large and organized survivalist community called The Compound, led by a brutal leader named Lewis Butler who controls the community with an iron fist. After another turn of events that leaves Thomas captured and sent into Butler's hands, Randall must race against time to locate their family and lead a harrowing rescue mission to save his brother before it's too late. 

Randall, Thomas and family are not exactly the sharpest tools in the box for supposed preppers. Their designated bug out location is 120 miles away from where they all live-a cabin by a lake. They only have a week of supplies left at the bug out location when Randall gets there, no winter clothing, no working vehicles and a lack of gun power. None of the family have a vehicle that works after an EMP to get them the 120 miles to the cabin so the brothers have to go on foot and leave all their supplies behind. That is just dreadful planning! Randall is a known prepper, blogger and writer online yet he fails to know anything about a prepper compound near his cabin that has 2000 people and tried to recruit his family. He knows even less than Jon Snow...

The decisions that Randall takes are pretty dumb. First he goes outside to the street after the EMP hits only to decide it's safer to stay indoors seconds later. He waits a full 24 hours to go and find his parents who failed to mention going to the cabin that week. He makes no attempt to scout his neighbourhood for an old vehicle to get his supplies to the cabin. When he is hunting food, his brother stands aimlessly beside him and lets three armed men sneak up on them. He forgets to check his radio for news. He should have avoided the abandoned homes and kept moving, a mistake that got Thomas captured. He gets ambushed every time he sets foot outdoors and he seems to want to talk rather than shoot the bad guys. The bad guys are poor preppers too if a small group of people like Randall's can break into The Compound. I also didn't like the jumping back and forward in time between the events now and when the EMP happened. I like a cohesive flow rather than jumping around. I decided to read part two because it was also short  and the author is a decent writer in spite of the dumb things happening in the plot.

Read January 2020
2.5 stars.

2) Nick Williams-The Will To Survive
After successfully rescuing Thomas from the clutches of Lewis Butler and the Compound, the Parker family is reunited but now face a new threat: they're running critically low on supplies and need to replenish themselves quickly if they are to survive in the post-EMP world much longer. Randall volunteers to lead a harrowing supply run for the family, but a chance encounter with a rogue and unpredictable gang in the middle of the woods throws the success of the mission into serious question. Meanwhile, Butler and his radical militia begin hunting for the Parkers throughout the countryside with no intent of showing any mercy. It's going to take every ounce of skill and courage for Randall, Thomas, and their family to get the supplies they need while evading Butler's forces in order to stay alive.  

This book should be called an exercise in stupidity as Randall's hair brained schemes continue. Yes he now realises that there is not enough food, guns and warm clothes to see them through winter as the cabin is totally unstocked. Now he wants to use the stolen vehicle to drive back to their homes to get all the supplies they left behind. Perhaps with 2000 people baying for their blood they should have considered a full bug out as a group rather than split up again or disguised the stolen vehicle. Randall manages to get ambushed by Joe's starving group and is forced to make a deal. Despite not trusting the two people Joe sends with them to gather the supplies, Randall manages to get ambushed by the crazy woman anyway and needs help to get out of trouble. He then lets Joe take him hostage and hands over half the precious supplies to honour the deal that Alex broke!!! Get a brain cell man! He is such an idiot!

The stupid decisions from book one multiply in this book and the bad guys in the two groups get even dafter in their behaviour. The dumb local people are not much better and most of the characters grated on my nerves. The MC's lurch from one crisis to another and make all the same mistakes multiple times without learning anything. If the author took time to pad out the story and put less tell in it and had proper sensible preppers, this could have been a great little series. Instead we get the abrupt serial novel version which feels rushed and underdeveloped with frustrating characters that drive me crazy. I'm not going to continue with the series.

Read January 2020
2.5 stars. 

3) Nick Williams-Our Survival 
Roy and Josie are a survivalist couple and parents to ten year old daughter, Alex, when the EMP knocks down the entire power grid and sends America back to the Stone Ages in an instant. Well stockpiled and supplied on their homestead in the countryside, the family seems ready and well-prepared to outlast the aftermath of the EMP attack. But things change during a home invasion that results in Roy shooting one of the intruders, the brother to the leader of an armed and dangerous ex-prison gang scavenging for supplies and preying on the innocent. Vowing revenge and in desperate need of the family's stockpile, the gang prepares to launch a coordinated attack on the homestead. Suddenly, Roy, Josie, and Alex are faced with a critical decision: do they leave their home and abandon their stockpile with it, or do they stay as a family and defend what's theirs?  

Oh man if there is one thing I HATE in a book it is where the prepper's wife is a whiny, ungrateful and pointless bitch! Roy is former military and is concerned that his is the only family left for miles, worried about what it means. Despite his worries about bad people, Josie lets their sick diabetic ten year old wander around the fences at night on her own and the silly kid forgets to lock the door, leading to a home invasion.Roy is mad at Josie and Alex but I didn't see him checking the doors and windows before going to bed either! Josie then gets upset about all those nasty traps for the bad guys, she freaks when Roy kills intruders and wails that they must go and help the poor injured men. Oh shut up you silly cow! Is she not aware of what these men will do to her and her daughter if Roy fails to stop them? She is appalling.

Again, the bad guys are a mob of idiots but of course you aren't meant to like them. Ben the MC amongst them it just a really pathetic worm and I can't stand him and his whining. The irony is that I like the way the author actually writes and describes the situations but I'm finding his characters each time to be too dumb and annoying to be any kind of preppers. I can't read any more about Josie or Ben so I won't be reading on with the series.

Read January 2020
2 stars.

4) Godsby Jim-Preppers of the Apocalypse
An EMP has blasted America and sent the country back a hundred years. The power has gone and chaos is everywhere, and only the most resourceful people will survive. One man is two hundred miles from home and speaking to his wife. She tells him there is an intruder in the house, but before he can help her, his phone dies. Then his car won't start. Pretty soon he realizes that the power is gone everywhere, and getting back home isn't going to be so easy.

Ash has been going around from town to town, persuading innocent people to put their savings into his non existant scemes so he can steal all their money. He is trying to get out of town and talking to his wife on the phone when the EMP hits. Stranded, he has to go back to town and beg for their help. Ash is one of the most pathetic and nasty characters I've seen in these prepper books. His reason for the theft is to pay for his wife to have IVF and thinks he is not really that bad a guy. Really? I think he's a worm and no attempts by the author to have Ash pitch in and make up for what he did makes me warm to him in any way. 

Ellie the cop is quite an obnoxious woman with her stupid runaway tearaway son who keeps being talked about but is never seen, even when they are rescuing him, which is a bit weird. They team up with prepper Tony and military reject Chad to go on a mission to see if the nuclear plant is approaching meltdown. I didn't really care that much about Ash or Georgia and most of the people we come across. This was ok but nothing special.

Read January 2020
2 stars.

5) Godsby Jim-Preppers of the Apocalypse 2
In part 2 our group or survivors split up. Ash, Sheriff Ellie and army deserter Chad try to leave Pasture Down and head toward the city. Tensions are already high, as Ellie hates Ash for what he did to the town, and Chad seems to have his own problems. They soon find that a simple journey is turned dangerous in a post-EMP America. They must learn to battle nature and other people as the world descends further into chaos, but Ash won't let anything stop him from getting back to his wife. He needs to remember his long-lost survival skills if he is to make it in a post-apocalyptic country.

To be honest, I only read part 2 because I had downloaded it along with part one. I wouldn't say there was anything wrong with the writing or author style as such, but this just didn't appeal to me. Frankly I don't like Ash or Ellie or care much about Georgia and what happened to her though I do like Chad. It is things like the nuclear meltdown that bother me. They go on the mission, find it is in meltdown and then all go to Tony's prepper farm nearby which is to be their new base when Ash finds Georgia. You guys are setting up just outside the town with the nuclear power plant that is going to be spewing radiation soon? Really?

The road trip is not the most exciting trip with Ellie's constant bitching, Ash becoming super prepper and supplies running out way ahead of time. How they intend to get back to Tony is anyone's guess and to be honest I don't care enough to find out personally.

Read January 2020
2 stars.

Tackling the TBR-January

Last year I got my TBR down by 300 books which was great! In 2020 I'm making a big effort to reduce my TBR by buying less, getting stuff read and getting rid of the things that I just don't want to read from my bookshelves and my ereaders Maurice and Myrnin! I'll be doing this regular monthly post to show my progress-what came into the house, what I read and DNFed and what was deleted off the TBR.

The TBR total shown is the total number of books I own but have not read yet-wishlist books are NOT in my TBR!

BOOKS IN

-Books in refers to bought, downloaded or gifted books bought either this week or a while back but just being added to the TBR list now due to Chuckles being lazy. 

BOOKS OUT

-Books read refers to books read that were ON the TBR and DNFed is obvious. 

-Deleted from the TBR are books I lost interest in reading, or sequels to DNFed books I no longer want to read and have been removed without starting to read them. These three categories added together are my books 'out'.

I'm posting my progress on the final day of the month and anyone else is welcome to join in. No rules, set up your posts how you want and when you want, just reduce the pile!

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Jan 1st-31st 

TBR Start Total: 1306

BOOKS IN:

New Books In: 0

BOOKS OUT:

Books Read: 8

Books DNF: 0

Others Deleted From TBR: 0

New Total: 1298

NB Tackled a pile of short story/novella books to try a few new authors, plus finished a big political memoir and a zombie novel. Not a bad end to the month.
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Chuckles Challenges 2020-Fiction

Welcome to another year of challenges with Chuckles! This year I've changed things up for the challenges to allow for all mood reading and less targets to avoid stress, while still getting stuff done. What I'll be doing is putting up the categories and themes that I want to target and I'll then fill in the books as I finish or DNF them, rather than pick out a ton of books in a list. That way when I change my mind, I don't have to start deleting stuff and filling in gaps! This is my Fiction List. Books listed here that are from a series will be on my Series Catchup list under series name too.

HORROR
1) Jack Martin-Halloween II (2.5 star)
2) Jon Athan-The Abuse Of Ashley Collins (3 star)

ZOMBIES
1) Robert Barnard-Hour 23 (3 star)
2) Caleb Cleek-The Fall (3.5 star)
3) Lora Powell-First Contact (3 star) 

APOCALYPSE
1) Godsby Jim-Preppers of the Apocalypse (2.5 star)
2) Godsby Jim-Preppers of the  Apocalypse 2 (2 star) 
3) Nick Williams-Surviving the EMP (3 star)
4) Nick Williams-The Will to Survive (3 star)
5) Nick Williams-Our Survival (3 star)

URBAN FANTASY
1) Spencer Quinn-A Cat Was Involved (4 star)
2) Matt Wallace-Small Wars (2 star)  
3) Orlando A Sanchez-The Date (3 star)

Chuckles Challenges 2020-Non Fiction Update 1

Welcome to another year of challenges with Chuckles! This year I've changed things up for the challenges to allow for all mood reading and less targets to avoid stress, while still getting stuff done. What I'll be doing is putting up the categories and themes that I want to target and I'll then fill in the books as I finish or DNF them, rather than pick out a ton of books in a list. That way when I change my mind, I don't have to start deleting stuff and filling in gaps!

Update 1-a good start to the month with two huge political memoirs, two average sized books and a few short fun reads. A good opening month. The rest of this month will be about fiction.

NON FICTION-POLITICS
1) John Major-The Autobiography (5 star)
2) Michael Heseltine-Life In The Jungle (3 star)
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NON FICTION-EXPEDITIONS
1) Jonathan Waterman-In The Shadow Of Denali (1 star)
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NON FICTION DISASTERS
1) Paul Firth-Four Minutes To Hell (4 star)

NON FICTION HUMOUR
1) Jen Campbell-Weird Things Customers Say In Bookstores (4 star)
2) Jen Campbell-More Weird Things Customers Say In Bookstores (4 star) 
3) Alex Graham-Fred Bassett 2020 (4 star) 
4) Tim Benson-Best Political cartoons 2019 (3 star)

Book Review: Hour 23 by Robert Barnard

In the suburb of East Violet, New York, something horrible has happened. A virus is on the loose, leaving nothing but death and destruction in its wake. Those who are infected transform into bloodthirsty monsters. Those who are spared are left to fend for their lives in a nightmarish hellscape. For the residents of East Violet, survival may be possible, should they be able to endure until HOUR 23. 

My Review:
In a rural town once made famous by the rape and murder of a child, life is peaceful again for the police and local residents of East Violet. Sudden bursts of violence seen on the news from nearby cities don't worry anyone at first. Then the local doctor murders and tries to eat his wife. The police at the crime scene are quarantined by scientists. A teenage girl on the school bus attacks her best friend. Roadblocks quickly spring up to try and contain the infection as families try to locate their loved ones in the chaos. The scientists are working non stop to find a cure but too many people are dying and coming back as zombies. Is the town doomed?

Jim is one of the cops who was first at the murder scene and had to write a report on the zombie activity of the dead couple. He and his partner Min are taken into quarantine straight away. Jim wants to find the kids but his boss really needs his officers back on the street to control the chaos. Jim has to decide on whether to do his job or seek out his child. Chloe and Nolan are on the school bus when hell breaks loose and the school is not the safe haven that the kids and teachers are hoping for. Now they have to decide whether to stay in the school and hide or try to get out and make their way home. Dana also finds that a few creepy guys are going to try and take advantage of the chaos in other ways.

There were a few random niggles over the stupidity of the characters and how they handled weapons. I'm no gun expert but even I know better than the cop. He is looking out a window at the school canteen where there is a zombie. He then decides to shoot it through the glass, missing the zombie, breaking the protection of the glass and sending bullets off the wall and back at the students! Then he thinks it is a good idea to turn his back on the zombie coming through the broken glass. Deary me. Dana saw half a body on the street, her school is under quarantine after a bus crashed into it but instead of turning to the news when she gets home, she decides to watch The Price Is Right. Yes if all hell was breaking loose in my town, I'd be sure to watch Supermarket Sweep re-runs rather than find out what is happening!!! Chloe's idea of safely using a gun almost kills an innocent friend. Still, none of this affected my overall enjoyment of the book.   

I thought that the book was well enough written and had no real issues with the way it was put together. The characters are normal and ordinary and are easy enough to root for. There is also a dog called Elliott who safely makes it through the book, for those who worry about these details. A second dog is also safely rescued. Hurrah! The plot was interesting and I liked following the medical people at the hospital as they tried to cope with the crisis. The whole plot about the cure has some potential for the second book so that could be interesting. It was interesting to see a town where order gradually corrodes rather than total meltdown as soon as the crisis begins. There was also enough action to keep the zombie fan happy so I had no complaints there. Overall it was a pretty decent zombie read.

This is a book that was actually pretty hard to decide on a rating for. It was a book that I mostly enjoyed but it did leave me with quite a few unanswered questions. Who was driving the hit and run vehicle? Why did one character not turn after being bitten when there was never a sign of immunity in anyone else? Is Monica the one being hunted down by the feds? What is happening with these cures? Why are people reacting to it the way they do? It did seem a little bit rushed at the end but I'm guessing the author wanted to set the scene for the second book in the series, which is also available. I also liked how the previous town tragedy is brought into the story, which added a new level of interest.

Am I going to read it? Yes I think I will. The characters were interesting and the plot was decent enough that I want to find out what happens next. I'm not sure when I'll get to it but I certainly do hope to read it.

Read January 2019
3.5 stars?

Constructing Winterfell

As I've mentioned a few times on this blog, I treated myself to a 3D puzzle of Winterfell. I just LOVE Winterfell scenes in Game of Thrones and I'm very much a Stark! I'd love to actually live there in a Westeros winter, a wolf curled up beside me and those warm fires to heat us! I'd love to sit under that gorgeous tree in the spring and summer and read. A few people have asked to see my progress so far so here is my update.

The worst part was putting the base together. As I pieced it together, a few of the slots kept coming out of the holes and I thought it was too flimsy to hold. But I soon sorted that by using fast drying craft glue to hold it in place so that was problem solved. Then I put a few big parts together to form the main structure of the central castle. Craft glue is not meant to be needed but it is a good idea to at least have it on standby.

Next was to get some of the turretts, towers and buildings on top of the main castle part and some of the first ground floor buildings. It's pretty straightforward, just a little patience needed, so it only took half an hour maximum, probably less.

Then it was time to get working on more of the outbuildings on top of the castle and around it and start forming the outer wall. These two photos show progress on the back and front of the castle. I rattled through this bit in about another half hour as I watched the news. In the lower photo you can even see my first tree planted behind the outer wall! That tree was the trickiest bit so far! It's taking shape quickly though.

 

I am so much enjoying the castle construction. The intructions are clear and colour coded, showing where each constructed piece goes on the base and I'm really pleased with how well it has been going. It is a fun thing to do while relaxing in front of a favourite film or the news!

The Big Chuckles TBR Add-ON...The Missing Stuff!

After all the work I did on the TBR this week I was so excited to be finished with it! Or so I thought. I just found another file with books in it on a different drive on my computer. ARRGGHH! I had to add it to the list so here are my next additions!
ZOMBIES

APOCALYPSE

NON FICTION 

 

Chuckles Chuntering

What a week! I have now completed the Big Chuckles TBR Add-On, which has been taking up all of my time for over a week now. It is a relief to get it finished and I'm actually pleased that I decided to do it. I'm pretty sure that most of my TBR are catalogued and on my Goodreads page. There might be the odd paperback on my physical bookshelves that has been overlooked but I'll come across them when I'm rearranging the bookshelves in the coming weeks or months. I haven't added every single sequel I found either. Sometimes I have bought maybe books one and two, then saw five going free. No point in adding five until I get three and four, if I read that far, y'know? 

Anyway I'm pleased to have pretty much completed the task. My TBR stands at a whopping 1290 books to be read but I refuse to mope about it! I have a lot of series on the list and I know I won't love everything so there is room again for quite a few DNFs as well as a lot of novellas which I can read several of in a night. I expect to see the TBR drop sometimes by a few and sometimes in chunks as I discard whole series I'm not enjoying. I'm now looking forward to getting started on the task of actually getting stuff read and DNFed! Looking at the books I've added, I'm struck by how many anthologies there seem to be! I'm not a great fan of anthologies as you have to wade through a lot of guff to get to the gems but I seem to have a few by favourite authors and quite a few zombie and dinosaur offerings. It shows what can lurk in the depths of the e-readers as I don't recall grabbing most of them! 

I also found LOTS of urban fantasy, which is worrying when I seem to have lost the love for it recently. Maybe some of these offerings will kick-start my interest again! I'm pleased to discover lots more horror, zombies and apocalypses and lots with snowy settings! Now the problem will be deciding what to read...If anyone is considering doing this task, I say go for it because I'm finding it better to face up to the real number of books and get started reducing it for real. And you can always join me for Tackling The TBR which resumes this week! 

On a side note, who else is worried about this coronavirus??? I'm getting nervous about it because it sounds like the plot of a zombie novel I read recently and a pandemic series that gave me sleepness nights! I'm dragging my dad out for supplies as we speak (he is being surprisingly understanding about my prepper panics!) and if I had a cabin in the countryside to hide in, we'd be there already!!! I'M NOT READY FOR THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, ME!!! I'm woefully short of anti-zombie weapons, I need more food and water in case of a zombie siege situation and medication is in short supply! Oh to have a rural compound to live in!

 

The Big Chuckles TBR Add-On! #7

OK I'm going to do it! I'm a big brave Chuckles, me!!! 

Over the next couple of weeks I'll be doing a proper search of my e-readers and physical bookshelves to try and locate all the books I have that are not currently on my Goodreads TBR. I suspect there could be hundreds! I will then get them all added to the TBR so I have an accurate number of all the books that I have. I'll be doing a blog post for each pile of additions so I can also showcase some of the things I'm adding, rather than adding them all to my weekend roundup as I've been doing recently.

This is kind of a scary process because I know this will take me way above 1000 books again but I think having an accurate count of what I need to read and having all the books available to count towards Tackling The TBR will be of benefit in the long run. 

Wish me luck, I'm going in!!!

POLITICAL

 
ZOMBIES

HORROR
 

APOCALYPSE

URBAN FANTASY

TUDOR/HISTORICAL

CHILDREN

SF/DYSTOPIA

MYSTERY/THRILLER

FANTASY

ANTHOLOGY