Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2012 discussion
Level 1: Pike's Peak
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Kim's list

Okay, of your list I'm interested in reading The Book Thief, Evelina, Detection Unlimited, Royal Escape and A Tale of Two Cities, so can you please add them to our buddy list?
All but The Book Thief qualify for this Challenge for me.
You actually found 2 Heyer novels you own but haven't read yet!?! I thought you had gone through all of them!
Hayes has called for a Tail of Two Cities buddy-read -- count me in, too!
Hayes has called for a Tail of Two Cities buddy-read -- count me in, too!


Will do, just as soon as I get a faster internet connection. This one is making me tap my foot with impatience!

The Floating Admiral
The Mill on the Floss
The Count of Monte Cristo
One Good Turn
O Jerusalem
Justice Hall
Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller

Hayes has called for a Tail of Two Cities buddy-read -- count me in, too!"
I own a few Heyer novels which I haven't read. Detection Unlimited is the last of the mysteries and I really should have read it last year in the Year of Heyer Mysteries. I own about three of the historical novels, none of which I've read. (Jenny and I plan to take them slowly; possibly only one per year). It's only the romances which I've read and re-read a million times!
I've never read a Heyer, but you have piqued my interest. They have The Black Moth over at Gutenberg, but it doesn't look like my kinda thing. I'll try it anyway... it's free!

I'll read some of her other things first then and them come back to that one.

*aaacckkk*
(Can you tell I didn't like it?)
I'll be very interested to read your review too. It's one of those books that I feel guilty for hating because everyone thinks it's so swell... maybe I just didn't understand it in high school.
(Can you tell I didn't like it?)
I'll be very interested to read your review too. It's one of those books that I feel guilty for hating because everyone thinks it's so swell... maybe I just didn't understand it in high school.

(Can you tell I didn't like it?)
I'll be very interested to read your review too. It's one of those books that I feel guilty for hating because everyone thinks it's so swell... maybe ..."
That's the way I feel about Hemingway, so I undertand completely :)

I'm sure the film will be better than the book.

At least the book is on the short side!
I guess I just didn't care for any of the characters: Daisy, or Gatsby, or Daisy's husband. I had a hard time connecting with any of them.

Well, it is short, and easy to read.....

I really don't think you're supposed to like them. I think that's the whole point! LOL. In all their various ways they represent the worst of the time they lived in. (Or Fitzgerald's interpretation of it.) Both the Buchanan's in particular are vile. I did like Nick Carraway though, and felt sorry for him as he was almost an unwilling witness to the events.
It is mercifully short though :-).

I agree Baz can be so hit and miss! The photos of it are looking good but I'm still not confident that he won't mess it up. The costuming looks to die for though :-).



I'm currently reading Detection Unlimited with Jemidar.


Nice review, Kim. I'll have to slap that one on the re-read list a little sooner than I expected.

Now reading Tomato Rhapsody: A Novel of Love, Lust, and Forbidden Fruit and A Civil Contract. While the latter book is not on the list I posted in my first message, it still counts for the challenge and is a buddy read with my good friend Jemidar. *waves to Jemidar*
ETA: Jemidar, do you own The Book Thief? I've put it on our list of buddy reads, but I don't know whether it would count as part of the challenge for you.

I pulled a few books off the shelf the other day which are not on my GR TBR list but should be, in that they are books I've purchased or which have been given to me and which I've not got around to reading. I'm planning to add them soon and probably make them part of this challenge.


I pulled a few books off the shelf the other da..."
Doesn't that make it 12 you've read off Mt TBR now and the mastering of Pike's Peak?


ETA: I'm not greatly fussed about it though because to reach the summit of Mt Vancouver only half of my reads need to come from Mt TBR.

That sounds like a good recommendation. I don't quite know why I haven't got around to reading The Book Thief until now. It seems that for ages, every time I went to the bookshop I would pick it up and then put it down again, un-purchased. I might have been put off because there was a lot of hype about the book here, the author being a local boy.
As for Agnes Grey, I have avoided reading Bronte (with the exception of Jane Eyre, which I love) ever since detesting Wuthering Heights when I was a a teenager and failing to finish Villette and The Professor, also when I was in my teens. However, last year I listened to an audiobook of Villette, which I loved. So this year I'm going to continue with the Bronte project. It may take a while for me to build up to giving Wuthering Heights another go, such was my desire to slap all of its characters!
Oh, don't do it, Kim. I re-read WH last year thinking that my loathing of it was a Bad Thing (I mean, so many people love it, right?) Well, I'm here to tell you that you can keep on loathing it with a clear conscience! Useless book, IMHO. And I wanted to slap all the characters too.
Don't know Agnes Grey, will go research. And I thought the Book Thief was very good, but it didn't blow me away.
ETA: Agnes Grey received very mixed stars among my friends from 2 to 5
Don't know Agnes Grey, will go research. And I thought the Book Thief was very good, but it didn't blow me away.
ETA: Agnes Grey received very mixed stars among my friends from 2 to 5

Good to know, Hayes, and so nice of you to take one for the team (or at least for me)! I've just discovered that I downloaded an audiobook of Agnes Grey last year. I thought I only had it in book form. It's narrated by Juliet Stevenson who is truly my favourite audiobook narrator. If she can't make me like it, no one can!
Sorry -- I'm on Camp Heathcliff! The book improved on later readings for me. Sure, I still want to throttle those ninnies, but I think there's a great story underneath all the histrionics.

I'll read it again, gladly, if that helps. :)

I don't mind. I might agree with you in places! ;)


If you think you can stand it Jeanette, you're welcome to read along with us whenever we get to it. Heathcliff might need someone on his side ;-).
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Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Tomato Rhapsody: A Novel of Love, Lust, and Forbidden Fruit by Adam Schell
Evelina by Fanny Burney
The Sylph by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Detection Unlimited by Georgette Heyer
Royal Escape by Georgette Heyer
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Faulkner
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
L'homme au ventre de plomb by J-F Parot
Mind you, when I look at my list and think of the other books I have on my Kindle and in my bedroom, it may well be that I will be upgrading to the 25 book list sooner rather than later!