Down the TBR Hole was started by Lia over at Lost in a Story. All book covers are linked to Goodreads unless otherwise noted.
I will be repeating this process until I’ve filtered out my entire TBR.
My TBR pile is up again to 672 books. I came across a few books that I couldn’t resist adding to my wish list while I was reading a new-to-me blog.
Chasing the Flame by Samantha Power – GO. This is not the book I thought it was. I thought it was the memoir of someone else who had survived extreme burns over most of his body, but I can’t remember his name. I just remember watching an interview and then looking for a book that supposedly had the same title.
Eragon by Christopher Paolini – KEEP. This is one of those extremely popular books that everyone but me seems to have read. My BFF says it was beyond boring, but we sometimes disagree about books, so I’ll give this one the 50 page test.
How to Train a Wild Elephant by Jan Chozen Bays – KEEP. This is one of the many books on Mindfulness that I own, but I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet. I probably will the next time I need to “relearn” the skills I learned in therapy.
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous – GO. I’m just not that interested in reading about a teenager’s story of drug addiction.
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen – KEEP. I’ve always been curious about this book, since it’s supposed to be the ultimate armchair-travel experience, but I didn’t add it to my TBR until watching “Gilmore Girls.”
My TBR pile is down again to 670 books. I haven’t yet started any Sci-Fi books for #SciFiSummer, but I’m hoping that now that I’m back home from my trip to Florida, that will change soon.
Down the TBR Hole was started by Lia over at Lost in a Story. All book covers are linked to Goodreads unless otherwise noted.
I will be repeating this process until I’ve filtered out my entire TBR.
My TBR pile is up to 671 books. I came across a couple of books while I was catching up on the blogs I read, and I just had to add them to my wish list.
The Emperor’s Knife by Mazarkis Williams – GO. The synopsis reads like this is a standard Fantasy novel, but everything else I looked at on Goodreads made me think this is not what it appears to be and I would be better off not bothering to find out.
Wish You Were Here by Leslie Simon – KEEP. I’m sure quite a bit of the “today’s music scene” parts of this book will be obsolete, given that it was published a decade ago, but I don’t care. I still want to read it.
The Whitefire Crossing by Courtney Schafer – KEEP. Nothing in the synopsis, or anything else on Goodreads gave me pause. So, while I’m not sure this book will be great, I’m going to give it a chance.
The Last Romanov by Dora Levy Mossanen – GO. This book was a freebie I snatched up with the assumption that it would be Historical Fiction about Anastasia, but apparently it’s more of a Fantasy in an historical setting than anything else and the main character is fictional. I’ll pass.
Rose of Fire by Carlos Ruiz Zafón – KEEP. I loved The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel’s Game. The Prisoner of Heaven is on my TBR and The Labyrinth of Spirits is on my wish list. This is a 30 page short story that is considered to be book 2.5 in the series.
My TBR pile is back down to 669 books. I’m hoping to make a significant dent in it while Sci-Fi Summer is happening. It starts in a couple of weeks, so I’m trying to finish at least one more book before then, that way I can focus on all of the wonderful Science Fiction on my TBR.
Down the TBR Hole was started by Lia over at Lost in a Story. All book covers are linked to Goodreads unless otherwise noted.
I will be repeating this process until I’ve filtered out my entire TBR.
My TBR pile is down to 672 books thanks to Bout of Books.
The Death Series by Tamara Rose Blodgett – GO. From what I was able to gather from the synopsis, this is a near-future YA Paranormal Dystopian Mystery series that goes way beyond these first 3 books. That is just way too much to be good. I’m all for brain candy, but not if it’s going to kill my brain cells.
Out of Time Series by Monique Martin – GO. Again, there is too much going on in these books. This one is a Time-Travel Mystery that also involves Vampires and Romance. I love Time-Travel novels. I also love Vampire novels. I greatly enjoy Mystery series, but usually only when they are somehow book-related. Y’all know my feelings about Romance. Those individual genres or subgenres are great on their own, but I don’t know how anyone can put them all together and do it well.
The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory – KEEP. It has been a while since I’ve read any books by Gregory, but I have several of them on my TBR, and I’ve enjoyed all of the others I’ve read. They’re not the most historically accurate, but I don’t think they need to be in order to be good reading.
The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble – KEEP. You would be right if you said, “this isn’t your usual genre.” Contemporary Women’s Fiction is definitely not what I usually read. You would also be right if you said I only got it because it involves books. That is also why it will stay on my TBR for now.
Planet Urth by Jennifer and Christopher Martucci – GO. The synopsis is too vague and when I looked at the reviews, there were far too many of them that were 2 stars or less.
My TBR mountain is down to 669. At the rate I’m going, I think I can hit my goal for the year, which if I remember correctly, is 625.
