Saturday, 16 January 2021

Tackling The TBR Jan 8th-14th

 

 
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
-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.

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January 8th-14th
TBR Start Total: 1561
 
BOOKS IN:
New Books In: 0
 
BOOKS OUT:
Books Read: 1
Books DNF: 0
Others Deleted From TBR: 0
 
Target Total: 1550
 
New Total: 1560
 
Oops forgot to post this on the 14th! I read a whole book this week! 

 

4 comments:

  1. One book is better than No books, right? :-)

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    1. Totally! I even doubled it to two bigger books this year! Yea!

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  2. You are headed in the right direction!

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    1. Slowly, but I'll get there! It's a slow start to January but next week is going to be better!

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