In December 2018 I launched Tackling The TBR, a challenge to reduce
the ever extending TBR pile and 2019 was pretty successful in that
regard. In 2020 I intended to make 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! However
the darn Coronavirus Pandemic has put the skids under all my plans and I
had to suspend the challenge. I've now decided to bring it back in a
bid to kickstart my TBR reduction as nothing else has been working.
The TBR total shown is the total number of books I own but have not read yet-wishlist books are NOT in my TBR! Sometimes there will be a difference between the books read and new total-if I read a book not on the TBR it counts for books read for the week but not for this challenge.
BOOKS IN
I'm posting my progress on the 7th, 14th, 21st and final day of the month as before, even if there is no progress to report 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! And each week I'll add my new week to the end of the post so I can track how the whole month went.
October 1st-7th The TBR total shown is the total number of books I own but have not read yet-wishlist books are NOT in my TBR! Sometimes there will be a difference between the books read and new total-if I read a book not on the TBR it counts for books read for the week but not for this challenge.
BOOKS IN
-Books in refers to bought,
downloaded or gifted books being added to the TBR list.
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 7th, 14th, 21st and final day of the month as before, even if there is no progress to report 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! And each week I'll add my new week to the end of the post so I can track how the whole month went.
TBR Start Total: 1538
BOOKS IN:
New Books In: 1
BOOKS OUT:
Books Read: 0
Books DNF: 0
Others Deleted From TBR: 0 Target Total: 1500
New Total: 1539
Sorry
I'm a couple of days late with this one. My brain has been all over the
place this week! One new addition but it's a 29 page prequel and I
intend to read it tonight. No more excuses, I need to start reading this
week and get back in my groove no matter how tired I am.
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October 8th-14th
TBR Start Total: 1539
BOOKS IN:
New Books In: 8
BOOKS OUT:
Books Read: 2
Books DNF: 0
Others Deleted From TBR: 0
Target Total: 1500
New Total: 1545
I
found MORE that I hadn't put on Goodreads. It's depressing. On the
bright side I did read a couple of books which is better than nothing I
guess. Still haven't read any horror and half the month is gone. Grr.
Well, maybe next week!
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October 15th-21st
TBR Start Total: 1545
BOOKS IN:
New Books In: 0
BOOKS OUT:
Books Read: 3
Books DNF: 0
Others Deleted From TBR: 0
Target Total: 1500
Going down slowly but three big non fiction books is a pretty good week!
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October 22nd-31st
TBR Start Total: 1542
BOOKS IN:
New Books In: 6
BOOKS OUT:
Books Read: 3
Books DNF: 0
Others Deleted From TBR: 0
Target Total: 1500
New Total: 1546
This week I did splurge on big Harry Potter volumes and a few other books which takes the total up again. I did read three books but one doesn't count for TBR purposes because it is a Harry Potter re-read. I was in the mood for starting the series again and thought 'sod it'. I'm in a small rut with this challenge but I still have two months of the year to go!
How old is this tbr list? I'm wondering if you could super-cut it by simply removing anything from a certain date and earlier. If you haven't read X by now, then the chances are you won't ever read it. That's the thinking behind it anyway.
ReplyDeleteI have a few UF series from 2010-2013 that I still want to read but I haven't been in a UF mood recently. There are a ton of apocalypse books but I'm not ready to read them with a pandemic raging. I've done lots of book culls to leave everything I still want to read on the list so I don't want to abandon any of them without giving it a try. I NEED to get my fiction mojo back and rattle through some novellas and short novels-that would get the numbers falling and get me back on track!
Deleteyeah, i keep finding some i haven't added to goodreads...bummer. i have been reading a lot just to get them off my kindle, but am behind on review books. i have slowed down on taking them in and i will review when i can. keep plugging away...and i will too
ReplyDeletesherry @ fundinmental
I was a bit slack about remembering to add new reads to my TBR and I keep getting nasty shocks when I find more! I think I have them all listed now but who knows! I'm glad I don't have review books to worry about as I have enough problems with what I bought myself!
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