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Trim that TBR

1. The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester -Read 01/06
2. A Sense Of The World by Jason Roberts -Read 08/05
3. Dark Country (Dungirri #2) by Bronwyn Parry -Read 04/22
4. The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki -Read 02/14
5. Marathon Man by William Goldman
6. Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly -Read 06/07
7. The Third Victim (Quincy & Rainie #2) by Lisa Gardner -Read 04/29
8. The Next Accident (Quincy & Rainie #3) by Lisa Gardner
9. The Killing Hour (Quincy & Rainie #4) by Lisa Gardner
10. Gone (Quincy & Rainie #5) by Lisa Gardner
11. Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang -Read 03/17
12. Speaks the Nightbird (Matthew Corbett #1) by Robert McCammon -Read 01/31

8/12 books read as at 08/05

Shelfagories

1. A book with more than 750 pages:
Speaks the Nightbird (Matthew Corbett #1) by Matthew McCammon (816p)
Read 01/31 (3*)

2. A classic romance:
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (a re-read)

3. A book that became a movie/TV show:
Where Rainbows End aka Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern

4. A book published this year:
The Amber Shadows by Lucy Ribchester
Read 01/09 (4*)

5. A book written by someone under 30:
Red Rising by Pierce Brown

6. A book based entirely on its cover:
The Evening Spider by Emily Arsenault
Read 01/06 (3*)

7. A mystery or thriller:
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Read 02/29 (3*)

8. A book of short stories:
Dubliners by James Joyce

9. A nonfiction book:
A Fence Around the Cuckoo & Fishing in the Styx by Ruth Park
Read 02/05 5*

10. A popular author's first book:
Carrie by Stephen King

11. A book that won the Pulitzer Prize after 2000:
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson (Fiction 2013)

12. A book more than 100 years old:
Pamela by Samuel Richardson (pub. 1740)

13. A book set somewhere you want to visit:
The Makioka Sisters by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki (Japan)
Read 02/14 (3*)

14. A book set in the future:
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Read 02/19 (2*)

15. A book with magic:
The Tower of Ravens (Rhiannon’s Ride #1) by Kate Forsyth

16. A book you own but have never read:
Ksatria, Putri, dan Bintang Jatuh (Supernova #1) by Dewi 'Dee' Lestari
Read 01/12 (3*)

17. A book that takes place in your hometown:
Fall (Archer & Bennett #3) by Candice Fox (Sydney)
Read 01/14 (5*)

18. A book written by an author with your initials:
Dreaming of Zhou Gong (The Timekeepers #1) by Traci Harding

19. A play:
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Esler
Read 01/13

20. A collection of short stories:
Paper Cities by Ekaterina Sedia

21. A microhistory:
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Read 01/05 (5*)

22. A translated book:
The Copper Sign (Das kupferne Zeichen #1) by Katia Fox
Read 01/02 (4*)

23. A book published by an indie press:
The Semester of Our Discontent (Lila MacLean Mystery #1) by Cynthia Kuhn (pub. By Henery Press)

24. A book by/about an indigenous culture:
Angela by James Moloney
Read 01/28

25. A graphic novel - TBA

26. A book published the year you were born:
Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth #1) by William Golding

27. A book set during Christmas/winter holiday - TBA

28. A book with nonhuman characters:
Cat on the Edge (Joe Grey #1) by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Read 01/17 (3*)

29. A book that scares you:
The Red Queen (The Obernewtyn Chronicles #7) by Isobelle Carmody (scares me for the sheer size! 1,108pages –the thickest book I own on my tbr)

14/29 books read as at 03/30/16

Reducing own-tbr by 20% (down to 208 or less)

Update #1: as at Jan-31-16
Not looking good... I'm at +10 since Dec-31-15
A laughable position! Although I've only added a few books on my shelf last night that I bought back in December... plus a few books given to me so really, the position of my tbr has a NIL balance in movement :p

Update #2: as at Feb-29-16
Yikes! I think +10 since last update YET AGAIN!
I read 4 (only?!!) but added about 10 more (half of those were won from giveaways so... can't complain!)

Update #3: as at Mar-31-16
Okay, not too bad -3 since last month (but +17 from beginning of year)
I've read 6 in March :)
though I'm about to purchase some more books this coming month in preparation for meeting a couple of authors!

GIVEN THIS UP - EPIC FAIL :O