Mount TBR 2020 discussion
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Read in full:1-25. Angel & Faith Season 9, Issues 1-25
26. Space Opera
27. Letters for Lucardo, Vol. 1
28. Buffy Classic #48: Withdrawal
29. Lumberjanes: Jackalope Springs Eternal
30. Lumberjanes: Indoor Recess
31. You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack
32. Artificial Condition
33. Buffy Classic 45: Willow and Tara: Wilderness
34. Buffy Classic 42: Night of 1000 Vampires/Ugly Little Monsters
35. Buffy Classic 39: Out of the Woodwork
36. Buffy Classic 41: False Memories
37. Buffy Classic 46: Death of Buffy
38. Buffy Classic 49: Note from the Underground
39. Buffy Omnibus Vol 7
40. Squirrel Girl 11: Call Your Squirrelfriend
41. Classic Penguin: Cover to Cover
42. Spike: Into the Light
43. Spike: The Devil You Know
44. My Lady Jane
45. The Lais of Marie de France
46. Wanted, a Gentleman
47. Titans, Vol. 5: The Spark
48. Fence, Vol. 1
49. Sunstone, Vol. 6
50. Titans, Vol. 6: Into the Bleed
51. Gunnerkrigg Court Vol. 6: Dissolve
52. Gunnerkrigg Court Vol. 7: Synthesis
53. Harry Potter: A History of Magic
54. Black Tudors
55. Wayward Son
56. Words Are My Matter
57. Angel & Faith Season 9 Vol. 1
58. Angel & Faith Season 9 Vol. 2
59. Angel & Faith Season 9 Vol. 3
60. What Makes This Book So Great
61. The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
62. Angel: Masks
63-66. Illyria: Haunted, Issues 1-4
67. Lost Slayer 2: Dark Times
68. Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts
69. Angel: The John Byrne Collection
70. Spike: The Complete Series
DNFs
71. The Diary of a Nobody
72. The Complete Yes Minister
73. A World Lit Only By Fire
74. The Life of Samuel Johnson
75. Asian Journals
76. The Android's Dream
77. The Road to Middle-Earth
78. Wizardry and Wild Romance
79. The Black Mage
80. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
81. Shadowhouse Fall
82. The Prisoner of Heaven
83. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
84. Paradise Lost (just switched formats, though)
85. The Tale of Genji
86. The Priory of the Orange Tree
87. Coming of Age in Samoa
88. One Hundred Nights of Hero
And the ones I just got rid of without having started:
89. Dreaful Company
90. Grave Importance
91. The Song of Roland
92. The Scarlet Pimpernel
93. Robin Hood
94. By Its Cover
95. Almost Lost Arts
96. A Pound of Paper
97. Gork, The Teenage Dragon
98. The Labyrinth of the Spirits
99. Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
100. Cafe Neandertal
101. The Library: An Illustrated History by Stuart A.P. Murray, added 2019, DNFNot exactly focused on libraries after all. If you want a history of books and reading, I'd recommend A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel.
102. This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, added 2019, sold unread103. The Age of Authors, various authors, added 2019, DNF
104. The Magic Ring by Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué, added 2019, sold unread
Currently at 135 total but that Powell's order still hasn't arrived.
105. Poetry and Song in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien: Peter Roe Series XVIII, edited by Anna Milon, added 2019The Powell's order came so I'm back up to 138. :(
106. Will Save the Galaxy for Food by Yahtzee Croshaw, added 2017, DNF (I'm not an Audible member anymore, though, so I'll have to keep the audio. We'll see if I decide to listen to it.)
107. Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire, edited by Glenn Yeffeth, added 2018
Did a small cull today:108. Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing by Ben Blatt, added 2018, DNF
109. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, added 2019, DNF
110. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle, added 2018, DNF
111. Life as I Find It: A Treasury of Mark Twain Rarities, edited by Charles Neider, added 2019, DNF
112. The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain, added 2018, DNF
Plus a couple of others that don't apply here. Current total: 131.
Moved a bunch of others off the mountain for mental health reasons (but I'm not getting rid of them, they're part of a collection). New number: 117 total, 94 applicable to challenge.Not adding them to the list here because I feel they're in a sort of limbo state.
116.King of the Dead by Christopher Golden, added 2017117. Original Sins by Christopher Golden, added 2017
118. Slayers & Vampires: The Complete Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Buffy & Angel by Edward Gross, added 2018, DNFTurns out I am just not interested in Buffy as a show, just as a story.
120. The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson, added 2019, DNF121. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, added 2018, DNF
122. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, added 2018, sold unread
My mountain is now down to 110 from a starting point of nearly 230. And since it's not as if I stopped buying books, I am EXTREMELY pleased.
123. Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience, edited by Shaun Usher, added 2019124. Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade by Assia Djebar, added 2019, DNF
Current TBR-Owned Total: 106 (3 print/audio duplicates)Qualify for Challenge: 78 (3 print/audio duplicates)
Digital: 11/6
Paper: 95 (total)
Audio: 4 (3 print/audio duplicates)
Total for non-Buffy books: 59
Non-Buffy comics: 1
Unread Buffy books (minus single issues): 46
Buffy single issue comics: 0
Buffy novels: 44
127. La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman, added 2019, DNF128. The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman, added 2019, sold unread
Current TBR-Owned Total: 86 (1 print/audio duplicates)Qualify for Challenge: 69 (1 print/audio duplicates)
Digital: 6/3
Paper: 76 (total)
Audio: 1 (1 print/audio duplicates)
Total for non-Buffy books: 40
Non-Buffy comics: 0
Unread Buffy books (minus single issues): 45
Buffy single issue comics: 0
Buffy novels: 43
134. The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan by Ivan Morris, added 2019Morris's stuff is really good; simple enough for the layman but not condescending, and hits a good spot between too dry and too salacious.
135. The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, added 2019
Wow! That is an impressive number! Congrats on doing so well!
137. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, added 2019, DNFNot sure why I didn't realize this is cringe humor.
140. Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić, added 2019, DNFI really liked the idea of this one but the actual story just wasn't clicking with me.
Every time I look at this list and how many DNFs there are I regret my purchasing choices. I'd start using the library more but I'm a member of three different county library systems and all of them kinda suck.
141. Joan of Arc by Mark Twain, added 2019, DNF142. Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin, added 2018, sold unread
143. Baudolino by Umberto Eco, added 2018, DNF
144. More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl, added 2019
145-147. The Captive Prince trilogy by CS Pacat, sold unread
Current TBR-Owned Total: 63Qualify for Challenge: 53
Digital: 4/1
Paper: 58 (total)
Audio: 0
Total for non-Buffy books: 18
Non-Buffy comics: 0
Unread Buffy books (minus single issues): 44
Buffy single issue comics: 0
Buffy novels: 42
150. Door to Alternity by Jeffrey J. Mariotte and Nancy Holder, added 2016Oh. Oh my. I never in a million years expected to move 150 books off the mountain.
*Kermit arms* YAAAAAYYYYYYYYY
Current TBR-Owned Total: 62Qualify for Challenge: 46
Digital: 3/1
Paper: 59 (total)
Audio: 0
Total for non-Buffy books: 21
Non-Buffy comics: 0
Unread Buffy books: 39
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Goal 2: Total TBR down to 120. Currently at 139 with a Powell's order coming in.