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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.
My Goodreads shelf is out of control, even though I've used it only sporadically! There are a ton of books there, and a lot I don't remember adding so it's unlikely I still want to read them. Many are sitting there showing TBR but I DID read them. There were even some that showed I was in the process of reading but I either left off ages ago, or finished, or never did start but perhaps I opened and scrolled a bit in my Kindle. After doing this for the first time last week, I barely made a dent in the list, and then - because I was reminded to USE the list - I kept adding books! Sigh. Well, here goes another round!
Here's what I found on Week Two:
Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steven Hockensmith (Jane Austen) - I'm not sure why this is still on my TBR because I read it! Maybe I added it because I wanted to read it again, or read others in the series? It was hysterically funny, if you like zombie humor, but in the interest of paring down my TBR I'm marking it read. (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith is also going off the list although I haven't read it. I'm kind of over the whole zombie-vampire retelling right now)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens - This one was added when I picked it up from a used book store. The synopsis ends this way: "Bleak House, in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A 'great Victorian novel', it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation." Imagine, the 'best of Dickens' and full of 'bleak comedy' (which I love!) but I haven't read it. All the same, I don't have my copy with me at this house, so for now, this is being deleted from the Goodreads TBR.
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe - Of course I wanted to read this, as it was referenced by Jane Austen et al! I think I'll leave it on the list for now.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett - Oh dear, this is one of the "everyone except me has read it" books. For that reason, it stays on the list.
To Hold The Crown by Jean Plaidy - This is a novelized history of Henry Tudor, the first in the Tudor line of the British monarchy. Plaidy does these novelized histories so well and I've read many of them, but I think for now, it will have to be moved off the TBR.
Six more books considered, four down the hole, and I have no idea how many more to go! Pages and pages of them!
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