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Welcome to my latest edition of Down The TBR Hole! Jody at the blog I'm Into Books has offered this solution to help remind us of all those books we added to our Goodreads list in the distant past and hopefully start managing the list. The idea is to start cleaning up our Goodreads TBR lists of all the books that have piled up over time, and share our progress in the link-up every Thursday. Here's how Jody explains it:
Most of you probably know this feeling, your Goodreads TBR pile keeps growing and growing and it seems like there is no light at the end of the tunnel. You keep adding, but you add more than you actually read. And then when you're scrolling through your list, you realize that you have no idea what half the books are about and why you added them.
So here's what we'll do: On the Goodreads to-read shelf, order all your books ascending by date added. Look at the first four (or more) books on the list, read the synopses and decide whether the books should stay or go. Post in the link-up and share using the hashtag #DTTBRH and tagging @Jodyblogs.
I wonder if my efforts to declutter my Goodreads lists will inspire me to declutter other parts of my home? Honestly, there's not a lot of clutter here since we tried to avoid packing up and moving clutter, but I do still have some things that haven't been nicely organized yet. Maybe I'll tackle those this weekend and find proper homes for those things. For today, I'll tidy these virtual bookshelves!
Here's what I found on Week Three:
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel - At first glance, I was sure I'd read this before and wondered why it was still on the TBR. But this is a story about how John Harrison invented a timekeeper that would work at sea. I read a book about Galileo by the same author, and I believe the cover was similar. Anyway, it sounds interesting, but I don't think I still need to read it. Gone.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon - I purchased this book (second-hand) and am pretty sure I still have it at my other home. So I don't think it needs to be on my virtual TBR list as well as in a bookshelf full of TBRs.
Secrets of a Lady by Tracy Grant - Looks like it might be really good and I'm sure I had a good reason for adding it, but I don't remember anything about it and it's the 10th in a series, so it's off the list.
Who Brings Forth The Wind by Lori Wick - This one I know I've read, and I even own it, so I'm just going to update it to "read" and that's another book off the TBR!
The Centurion's Wife and The Hidden Flame, both by Davis Bunn and Janette Oke - I put these together since they are first and second in a series. I own these books but haven't read them yet. Shame on me! But like The Curious Incident, I don't need them on the Goodreads list to remind me about them.
I feel really productive moving six books off the 'stack'!
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