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Today‘s book haul. I went into the bookstore with nothing in mind and walked out with this glorious stack! A banned book anthology Not That Bad edited by Roxanne Gay. Mark Twain‘s Roughing It (am I not American 🇺🇸?). A Caribbean memoir. A Central African Lincoln In the Bardo. Mary Roach‘s new masterpiece (I would read a phone book by her). And a cookie cookbook!!!! 💗📚#TBR

There's a trend on BookTok of people picking their next TBR book with a spin. I thought it a great idea since I usually have trouble deciding what to read after I finish a book. So created two TBR spins - one for my BOTM books and one for everything else.

Oh my god, it‘s a glitch but it certainly feels like my TBR is this long!!

This feels so accurate. Except there's also constant snow falling, creating a bigger and bigger TBR pile!

I don‘t know what book(s) I‘ll #readordonate this month, but I know I‘ve totally reorganized my shelves and taken a number of books to the LFL, including these from my original list in the top picture.
-Albom
-Brooks
-Cisneros
-Fuentes
-Grann
-James
-O‘Brien
-O‘Dell

I‘ve offloaded enough books that I can have the bulk of my fiction TBR on one shelf as shown in the bottom picture. Hardbacks, MMPBs, and mysteries are elsewhere for now.

(stolen from FB) 😆#sotrue #tbr #booksiwanttoread

My brother got me another cart for Christmas. I asked for a mint green one. Already filling it up with books that are tbr.

My first TBR of 2024! Here is my #JanuaryTBR. My goal this year is to read down my owned tbr stacks. So each month everything on my monthly TBRs will be something I already own. Most of these I have physical copies, a couple are audiobooks I purchased. As always I will be participating in #Roll100 #bookspin #doublespin & #bookspinbingo

My November #bookspin bingo list! Excited to see what I end up getting to!

🤔 Pretty accurate, actually.

#2023Scarathlon TBR Pile

Hoping to tear through that pile like a starving vampire 🧛🏽‍♂️ at a blood bank and finding new treasures to read from everyone participating and posting 📚

#MischiefandMayhem

And it gets longer every day 🤓

I listened to the song About You by The 1975 recently and I was inspired to make this bookish meme. The lyrics from the song that I‘m referring to say,”Do you think that I‘ve forgotten? Do you think that I‘ve forgotten about you?” This seemed like the perfect song to use. I‘ve never made a bookish meme. Maybe I‘ll hear another song and be inspired to make another bookish meme. I don‘t know when inspiration will strike me next.

I‘m sharing a Story Highlight section I made on Instagram with books I want to read. I called it To Be Read and I made a collection called To Be Read where I save books that I want to read. According to the collection, I have 382 books saved. Some of the books I saved are mine and some of the books I saved are not mine.

I‘m sharing how I organized my Goodreads TBR recently. I was on TikTok and some people on there said that they organized their Goodreads TBR by tropes that are in the books they want to read but I decided to organize mine by genre. I have a lot of books that I want to read but when I‘m trying to look through my Want To Read shelf, it takes forever to look through it to find something. I have to continuously scroll through it.

I have so many on my list that I felt this was appropriate… it also made me giggle!! #ontbrlistfor1year #marchmagic @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Here is what my month looks like!! #tbr

Today, I‘m sharing a spreadsheet I made of my book series that I need to finish. I haven‘t started any new series. There‘s 67 series on here. The Harry Potter series was on this spreadsheet before and I finished that series this year so I deleted that one off my spreadsheet. I feel really good about that. If I can‘t find the books in a series to read then I‘ll delete the series off of my spreadsheet.

How is tomorrow February already?!? #FebruaryTBR #JanuaryJazz @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Today, I‘m sharing a photo collage of the books I chose when I was still subscribed to #amazonfirstreads. I have 49 books. I had to look up the books I chose because I didn‘t remember. I subscribed in 2019 and I unsubscribed this month because I wasn‘t reading the books I picked but I just realized that I read 1 of them. I read The Wedding Game by Meghan Quinn and I enjoyed it but I forgot that I picked it.

I‘m an Amazon Prime member and I‘ve decided to unsubscribe from #amazonfirstreads. I picked out 2 ebooks for this month. I unsubscribed from this program last night because I realized that I‘ve been picking out books to read from this program every month but I haven‘t been reading them and I feel bad about it because I want to read them. When I‘ve read the books I picked out, I‘ll subscribe again.

Here is my #bookspin list for January 2023! I‘m so happy to be participating in this challenge this year. Hopefully, I‘ll do it right! As the months go on, this list will probably get edited because there are a few other challenges I‘m participating in that I might sprinkle in here from time to time. Hoping for a successful reading year! Cheers! 📚 🙂

This just makes so much sense to me! 📚📚📚

My TBR jar (or more like cube) 📚💜
#tbrjar #ithasspoken #toberead

Forgot to post my Scarathlon Tbr! It‘s not a huge list as I just joined Litsy but it‘s a start! #scarathlon #teamslaughter

I grabbed a few books off my TBR shelves, so here are eight choices. I have many more if the genres don‘t work or if my #LMPBC group has already read these. Like @Readergrrl , I‘ll add bookmarks in comments. I‘m not sure how the selecting works. Do we comment on each other‘s posts? Communicate via email? #GroupT #Round15 @suvata @BookishBelle @vonnie862

My TBR library (yes, I said library) is out of control!!! I really do have a problem! Here are 9 choices. I have more too, but these popped out to me first. I will add bookmarks below in the comments section.
#LMPBC
#GroupT
#Round15

Here is my #tbr book cart for this month!

My plans for March. Some of them I already finished because I‘m reading a lot while I am on vacation. Both my #bookspin and #doublespin are #NYRB books an I certainly hope to read both this month.
Also I need to finish the first quarter of #Booked2022 and I want to keep up with #ReadingAfrica2022!
Laat but not least, it‘s the month of the #ToB22 and I want to read just one more shortlisted book before the tournament starts!

February plans!

My #bookspin is Katalin Street, which I‘ll be reading for the #NYRBBookClub. The #doublespin is The Burgess Boys. I hope I‘ll read it, I love Strout‘s writing and this one is partly set in #Somalia which comes in handy for #ReadingAfrica2022.

I have been eyeballing the #bookspin and #doublebookspin challenge for a LONG time! I think I‘ll give it a shot this year! Hopefully, I‘ll do it right! If I understood the rules, and because I‘m a big mood reader, I threw in some vague numbers. RM from BTS, Rory Gilmore, the 1,001 list, and my TBRs from here and GoodReads! Here‘s to more reading in 2022!!

Bit of an issue with my TBR shelves now….. (photo is of *some* of my physical unread books).

At the start of 2021 I had 246 books on my TBR mountain. I‘ve only read 35 of those books during the year 😬(mmm….shiny new books instead!)

So now, with the books I‘ve bought and not read in the year my TBR mountain currently stands at 348 books. (194 Kindle, 154 physical)

Guess what one of next year‘s challenges is?! Yes - read the TBR mountain!

My TBR for this month might have some more books but I really want to clear my NetGalley shelf before 2022 begins. My wife and I are both COVID positive so what better relaxation than to read?

#WinterGames2021 #TeamGameSleighers @StayCurious

This is the beginning of my TBR for #Scarathlon2021 - still adding more, but this is what I have so far!!!!

#TeamSlaughter @Clwojick

Just found this comparison of tags on StoryGraph. Interesting to see the difference in the ones I tagged 2020-favorites and the ones on my current #TBR list.
SG is working well to capture my TBRs. I'm still struggling to capture WHY I add certain books. This morning I realized that I could stack them here with a blurb to explain why I'm adding it.
I don't see that done much though? How do you remember why you chose a book for later?

Two month check in for 2021!! Where we at, Littens?? 📚

I guess that's all of us! 🤭

Hey there Littens and #TBRCrew. Who is ready for 2021 and our scheduled reading challenges? Everyone is welcome to join in. Are you getting your lists ready for the challenges? I'd love to hear them!

#4Horsemen
#SinsVsVirtues #7DeadlySins #7HeavenlyVirtues
#AmongTheGods
#WhatsMySign
#BookedBySeasons
#DecadesOfThePast
#PosedByTheBook

@ElizaMarie @AsYouWish @jb72

With all the election stress going on in the US, I probably should have picked a different day to take a #TBR inventory 😪 42 unread books ( if I counted right, of course!) plus 1 #botm on the way...anyone else ever feel smothered by their stacks? 😜

I've been successful at reading at least two physical books per month with the help of #Bookspin and #DoubleSpin created by @TheAromaofBooks . These are tough still left.

Only 6 books left to hit my #MountTBR goal. Its been great to get the pile down, even though I keep buying more 😂

#ReadingLater - Y'all I feel like this TBR shelf is out of control. Right when I think I have it under control, I sign up for a bookswap or visit the used book store. Then this happens again. HAHA! Whatever, it's a problem I don't have a problem with. 😂

#SummerFunBucketList @StayCurious

I don‘t have a before picture but this is after. I went through my bookcases and reorganized. The piles on my tower bookshelf with piles beside it are my TBR books. The books in the cart are books TBR this year to complete my reading challenges. #bookshelfie #summerfun

My TBR letter is here 🥳🥳🥳

Half way through my #MountTBR challenge 📚 Half way up Mt. Vancouver 🏔 Can't remember who posted this template but thank you 😊

My book goals for March. I'm hoping to finish Jane Eyre and American Dirt within the next day 🙏🏻📚.

#bookspin I love this idea! All of these are books I own that are waiting to be read.

Want to get motivated to tackle your TBR list?! Want to do it in a FUN way?! Want to do it together?!

See @TheAromaofBooks announcement about her monthly #BookSpin project above, drop her a line and JOIN IN!!! 😊🎉🙋🏻‍♀️📚