My Head Is Full of Books: Getting serious about reducing my TBR list

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Thursday, March 12, 2020

Getting serious about reducing my TBR list

I had an hour to kill today. Why not drop by the library? While there I decided to check out a book or two. Why not, it is a library after all? I left with nine books in tow, all but one of them from my TBR list and I managed to place holds on a whole bunch of other titles that should be coming my way soon. Why so many books, you ask? Well, I am quite good at adding books to my TBR list and not so good at removing them (aka reading them.) Today I decided to do something about that. I may not decide to read each of them, or indeed to read all of each, if that makes sense. But I will have touched each one, and opened it up, and, with any luck, find my list shorter by eight books!

The Haul:

The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett and Sarah Jacoby
What to Read and Why by Francine Prose (Isn't that a great literary name?)
Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience compiled by Shaun Usher (Super big and heavy but I'm already a third of the way through this one!)
Nanaville by Anna Quindlen
It Ended Badly: 13 of the Worst Breakups in History by Jennifer Wright (I am predicting that this one is the least likely to be carefully read. I predict quick perusing ahead.)
Cicada written and illustrated by Shaun Tan (Sound the trumpet. This one is complete and it ended with a laugh.)
The Book of Books: Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels as Featured on the PBS Series--The Great American Read (Wait. This one wasn't on my TBR but should have been, is now!)
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees written and illustrated by Don Brown

Little Pierrot: Vol 1, Get the Moon written and illustrated by Alberto Varanda

Best go. I have some reading to do!
-Anne

3/14/2020---Lucky I got to the library when I did. They have closed the library due to the corona virus for at least three weeks. Whew!

7 comments:

Terra March 12, 2020 at 3:49 PM
Letters of Note is one I may read, the title alone gets my interest. You have a good idea in rounding up a bunch of your TBRs in this way.
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MargaretMarch 12, 2020 at 3:53 PM
I don't have as much on my TBR list because I've been flying a lot and have burned through several books en route.
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Lark March 13, 2020 at 12:37 PM
My TBR pile always gets pushed aside for my latest library reads, too. Good luck whittling away at yours! :)
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Helen's Book BlogMarch 13, 2020 at 4:43 PM
Why are we so good at adding books to our TBR lists and shelves?! I get a bit overwhelmed by it sometimes, especially when I see books on my shelves that have been there for far too long.
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Rummanah AasiMarch 14, 2020 at 11:14 AM
I read and reviewed "It Ended Badly" which I found highly entertaining and enlightening. It's narrative nonfiction that reads quickly. I've book talked it to my students and it has picked up circulation.
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