Last Year | Litsy

Last Year | Robert Charles Wilson

I finally had a chance to tally up my 2023 reads and update my Goodreads list. I‘m quite happy with the end result although I‘d have preferred that I‘d stuck with my goal of reading mostly my own books. There‘s just so many good ones at my library!😅 I‘m going to try to make more of a dent in my TBR this year. And I‘ve upped my GR goal from 60 to 75 books. 🤞🏽Hope everyone has an amazing reading year in 2024!💜
(January 4, 2024)

TieDyeDude 🎉 🤘 10mo

marleed You could apply my theory to library loans… I few years back I saw a breakdown on my taxes and I think it was $245 went toward my public library. So let‘s say I can get new books at a discounted $15. That means I need to read 16 books to nullify my tax cost. Same theory after 16+, I start subtracting $15 from my tax bill for each book read! …So, now it‘s totally justified when I hit my library TBR over my physical TBR! 10mo

PurpleyPumpkin @marleed That‘s a fantastic approach! Looking at it this way, I HAVE to use the library for at least some of my yearly reading. I like it! Thanks so much for sharing!🙌🏽 10mo

marleed @PurpleyPumpkin Absolutely, I don‘t consider my library use as free until I‘ve surpassed 16 loans. Then I still don‘t think of it as free so much as making tax dollars work to my advantage. 10mo

MemoirsForMe Wow!!! Way to go! 🥳🙌🏻📚📚📚 10mo

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PurpleyPumpkin

Last Year | Robert Charles Wilson

Happily, I surpassed my GR goal of reading 60 books in 2022. For 2023, I‘m hoping to read 60 books again, with a chunkster or two in there. I‘m also not doing as many challenges but rather focussing on reading books I already own. It‘s time to make a dent in my voluminous TBR stack! Wishing you all a wonderful reading year in 2023! 📚
(January 1, 2023)

MaleficentBookDragon I agree. Have you signed up for the GR Mount TBR Challenge 2023? It‘s for knocking books off your owned stack. 2y

PurpleyPumpkin @MaleficentBookDragon I have! That challenge is going to be my main focus this year. Thanks for mentioning it!😉 2y

Texreader Whoohoo!! 2y

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MemoirsForMe Yay for you! My goal was 50 and I wound up reading 62. I see we both had a great year. 👍🏻 I‘ll have to check out the Mt TBR challenge. 2y

PurpleyPumpkin @UwannaPublishme Yay for you too! Yes, do check out Mt TBR. It‘s a low key challenge that helps to keep me focussed!😅 2y

MemoirsForMe I just signed up! Thx for the idea. Thought I‘d start with Pike‘s Peak. How about you? 2y

PurpleyPumpkin @UwannaPublishme 🙌🏽 I‘m climbing Mt Vancouver. At 24 books, I didn‘t summit last year. But I did summit in 2021! Here‘s hoping I make it again this year.🤞🏽 (edited) 2y

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PNWBookseller85

Last Year | Robert Charles Wilson

Top 10 of 2022. Narrowed down quite easily from 90 titles.

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Twainy

Last Year | Robert Charles Wilson

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🎧 THIS WAS FUN!!

In the future a corporation makes its fortune taking people on trips back in time to visit the 1870‘s where their portal remains for 5 years in the basement of Future City then closes forever. Time isn‘t linear. There‘s infinite pasts. This is never explained but how could you so it was just good fun!

Fun book. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️+ 👇🏻👇🏻

Twainy Jesse Cullen is a Local from the current time that is on a protection detail & saves President Grant from being assassinated. The Gunman has a future gun which shouldn‘t be possible so an investigation ensues that takes Jesse & Elizabeth from the future as his partner into Jesse‘s dark past & more is revealed about Future City.

👇🏻 3y

Twainy Jesse is a great character as you get to see future tech, community & lifestyle through his innocent eyes. It‘s like DATA from ST-TNG.

Scott Brick did a fine job narrating. 3y

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PurpleyPumpkin

Last Year | Robert Charles Wilson

2019 wasn‘t my most stellar year of reading, but it wasn‘t bad. I didn‘t quite reach my GR goal of 75 books, but I‘m satisfied with this finish. On to 2020!👍🏽😉📚

MemoirsForMe Way to go! 👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻👍🏻👍🏻 5y

readordierachel Well done! 👏🏼🎉 5y

mrp27 🎉👏🏽📚 5y

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