Down The TBR Hole #8

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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 cut four of the five books I looked at this week, but I still feel like I'm not paring down the list very quickly. I only regret cutting one of these though. I've got to get my list down to a manageable size, especially since I can't read at the pace of an entire book a day!

Here's what I found on Week Eight:

Around the World in 80 Days: Companion to the PBS Series by Michael Palin - British actor and comedian Michael Palin follows in the footsteps of Jules Verne's fictional adventurer Phileas Fogg and circles the globe in 80 days.

This was a bit of a tough choice because this sounds charming and the reviews were good, but I decided to send it down the hole.

Round Ireland With a Fridge by Tony Hawks - Tony Hawks made a drunken bet and wound up hitchhiking round Ireland with a fridge. His foolhardiness led him to one of the best experiences of his life.

This sounds humorous and interesting, but I have no recollection of why I added it to the list so I didn't think it worth keeping at this point.

Murder At Mansfield Park by Lynn Shepherd - This is described as a twist on the Jane Austen novel, with Fanny Price as a rich heiress that is murdered, and Mary Crawford teaming up with a theif-taker from London to solve the crime.

The reviews were not good on this one, and I've been disappointed in so many Austen fan-fiction and retelling novels that I wasn't willing to take a chance. It's gone.

 

None But You by Susan Kaye -This one is also an Austen retelling based on Persuasion, with Frederick Wentworth as the viewpoint character rather than Anne Elliott.

I almost kept this on the TBR until I realized it was only the first of a two-parter. Sorry, I have not got time to add a two-part retelling to my list. This one is gone too.

Confessions Of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim - Arngrim describes how playing this hated character inspired freedom and confidence, her experiences growing up in Hollywood with eccentric parents, her co-stars on Little House, and her life's challenges.

This is the one I decided to keep on my TBR and I hope I'll have time to look for it at the library soon.

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

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