It’s the end of August already and the nights are fair drawing in.
As last year, August was a month that I spent reading a lot of Greek tragedies… and comedies, actually. So, I did manage to read a few titles from my physical bookshelves and use those reads as book jokers that I can apply toward my Mt. TBR Project. Hooray!
On top of that, I also managed to read 5 books from the shelves that I dedicated to the Mt. TBR Project this year. Again – Hooray!
Sadly, I also got rid of one book without reading it. I have no idea why I had the book, and it was unlikely to bring me joy.
And because I had a week’s holiday, that I spent reading, August was fantastic reading month.
So, with all of this, and a little bit of shelf re-arrangement, my status update for the end of August looks pretty good … until I consider that very few of the remaining titles will be touched in the next couple of months because I am taking part in an online book bingo game.
On the bright side, I still have not swapped any books for “book jokers” (see explanation at the end of the post), so my current 2020 Mt. TBR shelves look like this:
End of August Mt. TBR:
End of July Mt. TBR:
End of June Mt. TBR:
End of May Mt. TBR:
End of April Mt. TBR:
End of March Mt. TBR:
End of February Mt. TBR:
End of January Mt. TBR:
Start of 2020 Mt. TBR:
The Stats:
Books read this month: 22 (August)
Mt. TBR Books read this month: 5
DNFs this month: 1
Women / Men / Team*: 54% / 42% / 4%
% of original Mt. TBR read: 45.5%
Book Jokers: Available swaps (not made yet): 32 (+4 from previous month)
(* – of all books read since 01 January 2020)
Link to the original Mt. TBR (2020) post.
Rules – same as previously – are that I picked a stack of physical books off my shelves at home which I would try to read over the course of the year. If I pick another (yet unread) physical book off my shelves, I get to take one off the Mt. TBR shelves and put it on the regular shelf – as a substitute. In a change from previous years, new purchases (physical books only) will not be added to the Mt. TBR shelves – I will track these separately.
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Looking good!
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Thank you. I am enjoying this project very much.
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Significant progress – nothing like a few lockdowns to help an already successful plan succeed even further. 🙂 I started the first 6 months of this year in the biggest slump I’ve ever experienced, so even though I haven’t bought more than a dozen books this year, by TBR hasn’t gone down nearly as much as it should have, given the additional time I’ve had. But – the reading pace is picking up a bit, and now that my books don’t have to timeshare bookshelf space, I’m hoping by next year I’ll be back to a more typical reading pace.
Of course, as time goes on, the list of books I want to buy grows longer…
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Great progress on the TBR! It is a very interesting challenge, although I would probably end up creating mainly book jokers, because once I say, These books I will read next month, probably I won’t read a single one of them…
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Different approaches work for different people. It took me a while to find a project that works for me. This is, I think, the third year, I have had a project like this. (I tend to do it every other year rather than every year.) And even tho I am laying out the rules so that I am almost guaranteed to complete the challenge (cue the Book Jokers), it actually helps me to clear out my shelves,
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The last two years I spent a lot of time reading books I owned for a couple of years, but this year with the pandemic I find that I just want to read what I want at most of the times, so I am just going to go with it like that for the time being. Hope to pick up the old books some time though…
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Absolutely! You do whatever works for you.
I ended up ordering a lot of books during the pandemic that I wouldn’t necessarily have bought otherwise – a lot of titles are outwith my usual go-to genres.
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You have definitely thinned the herd!
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Yeah, it was a good year for it. Now, if only I could get rid of the actual books again…
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Wow. Sooo many books gone from Mt. TBR!
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Yeah, and looking at some of the books on the shelf tonight, I have no idea how I ended up with at least three of them, so they may disappear. Still, plenty left to read.
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Absolutely! But I can easily see them all vanishing by December 31 …
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Well, with the substitutes/book jokers, there are only 12 books left. 2 are bingo reads. There may even be a 3rd.
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Piece of cake, then! 🙂
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Yeah, definitely doable.
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