Down The TBR Hole - March 16, 2023

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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've left this until very late in the day because I managed to waste my entire morning on the phone trying to sort out insurance issues and getting nowhere. I was going to skip this week but then I realized that I may have skipped last week, and honestly? I was in the mood to throw stuff in the trash after my frustrating phone marathon.

Here's what I found on Week Five:

Maid Marian by Elsa Watson - a retelling of Robin Hood. Probably good, but I don't think I need it right now. Gone.

Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd - If I was still teaching Literature, I would want to read this, but since I'm not I guess I'll pass.

The Seashell On the Mountaintop by Alan Cutler and Paul Hecht - I suppose I must have put this on my reading list in an effort to understand where the ridiculous notion of the earth being millions or billions of years old came from. What nonsense. Also gone.

Leonardo da Vinci - The First Scientist by Michael White - I thought long and hard about whether to send this one down the hole, but in the end, I did it. Interesting it might be, but I know myself well enough to know I'll never get to it.

The Road to Avalon by Joan Wolf - Finally! I thought I might have to keep going until I found one I was keeping, and this is it. It's a historical novel about King Arthur that apparently allows the main characters to be basically good people rather than having them all be dark and corrupt. I hope I do get to read it at some point.

 

This post will be linked at Down The TBR Hole hosted by Jody at I'm Into Books.

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