Take the first 5 (or 10 if you’re feeling adventurous) books
Read the synopses of the books
Decide: keep it or should it go?
My shelf is down one book to 1131. Even though I finished 3 books, I bought an ebook and an audiobook.
This week’s books:
Blackout and All Clear by Connie Willis – KEEP. These books are a part of the “Oxford Time Travel” series. I read and loved the first 2 books, Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog.
The Glorius Cause by Robert Middlekauff – KEEP. I got this book around the same time the Boyfriend and I were watching “Turn” (based on the book Washington’s Spies by Alexander Rose). While I studied the American Revolution at various points in school, this book is much more comprehensive than what was covered in class.
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier – KEEP. I love Dinosaurs and everything involving or about Dinosaurs, so there is no way I would pass on a book about Mary Anning, the fossil hunter who discovered the Ichthyosaur.
The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers by Terri-Lynne DeFino – KEEP. After reading the synopsis, I’m skeptical about whether or not I will like this book, but I’m willing to give it the 50-page test, mostly because I already own the book. I would probably ditch it if it were still on my wishlist.
Circe by Madeline Miller – KEEP. Though from an entirely different mythology, I think this story will be similar to The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec, which I greatly enjoyed reading.
My want-to-read shelf is holding steady at 1131 books. The next post will be mostly physical books I already own and I *might* be getting rid of at least one of them.
