Hemlokgang Climbs Mt. TBR - 2011

My total reading goal for the year is 100....So I think my TBR reduction goal will be....drum roll please.....80, all listed as TBR prior to 2010. There, I am committed to the effort! Good luck to all of us!

Welcome Hemlokgang - you really set yourself quite the goal! Good luck with your Challenge.

#1 - Fingersmith - TBR since January 2009

Fingersmith was one of my favorite books from last year.

Good luck! I'm looking forward to following your progress.

Ambitious! I like it! Good luck on that 80/100 dual goal!
Ellen

#2 - The Tin Drum - TBR since March 2008

#3 - The Sound and The Fury - TBR since Feb 2008

#4 - The Italian Secretary - TBR since Jan 2008

#8 - I just found a very nice hardcover edition of The Sound and the Fury at the thrift store last week. Just read you review. Hmmm. Depressing. Thank goodness I only paid $.27 for it.

#5 - Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese - TBR since April 2009

#6 - Nobody's Home by Dubravka Ugresic - TBR since August 2008

#7 - Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson - TBR since December 2008

#8 - The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett - TBR since December 2010

Unrealistic to reach 80 when I am aiming for a total of 100 and there are some many good books to read. So, I am adjusting that goal to half of my overall goal.....50 TBRs off the shelf, all of which have been there since prior to 2010.

That seems like a reasonable readjustment.

You'll make that goal for sure.

#9 - Herzog by Saul Bellow - TBR since January 2009

#10 - The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi - TBR sinc October 2009

Uncommon Reader is supposed to be excellent - did you enjoy it?

Loved The Uncommon Reader. Fun and insightful!

What did you think of Tree of Smoke? It's on my shelves but there it languishes.

Loved The Uncommon Reader too. The Queen chasing her corgis up to the bookmobile is a great thing to imagine.

I love the corgi stuff too, since I own one and she keeps me in stitches (figuratively, not literally).

I tried to read Tree of Smoke twice......it dragged so much that I gave it up. It is an award winner, and truth to tell I am a bit surprised.

#11 - Humbodt's Gift by Saul Bellow - TBR since November 2008

#12 - The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich - TBR since early 2009, although I forgot to enter it into my LT collection until I started it...oops!

#13 - Light in August by William Faulkner - TBR since January 2009

I knew I didn't have my entire library in my LT collection but I've been surprised and dismayed at how many I've pulled off the shelf to read and then found they weren't there. Oh well, I guess this will help get them there.

#14 - I, Alex Cross by James Patterson - TBR since October, 2009

#15 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser - TBR since November 2008

#16 - Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie - TBR since May 2008

#17 - Salmon Fishing in Yemen by Paul Torday - TBR since Feb 2009

#18 - Biographie de la faim by Amelie Nothomb - TBR since Oct 2008

#19 - Mantissa by John Fowles - TBR since July 2008

#20 - The Pets by Bragi Olafsson - TBR since September 2008

#21 - The Mighty Angel by Jerzy Pilch - TBR since April 2009

#22 - Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani - TBR since August 2008

#23 - Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton - TBR since January 2008

#24 - The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks - TBR since July 2008

#25 - The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai - TBR since January 2008

#26 - Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh - TBR since January 2009