Down the TBR Hole #4 – This Tangled Skein

Down the TBR Hole was originally created over at Lost in a Story.

Most of you probably know this feeling, you’re Goodreads TBR pile keeps growing and growing and it seems like there is no light at the end of the tunnel. You keep adding, but you add more than you actually read. And then when you’re scrolling through your list, you realize that you have no idea what half the books are about and why you added them. Well that’s going to change!

It works like this:

Go to your goodreads to-read shelf.
Order on ascending date added.
Take the first 5 (or 10, if you’re feeling adventurous) books
Read the synopses of the books
Decide: keep it or should it go?
Keep track of where you left off so you can pick up there next week!

Current “to-read” shelf: 929 titles

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking – Susan Cain

Published: January 24, 2012
On TBR Since: January 12, 2012

The book on introverts, and I’ve been meaning to read it for ages.

Stay or Go? Stay

Ready Player One – Ernest Cline

Published: August 16, 2011
On TBR Since: January 24, 2012

I had an idea of reading this before the movie came out, but I’m not all that psyched about it.

Stay or Go? Go

The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity – Bruce M. Hood

Published: January 1, 2012
On TBR Since: January 26, 2012

Another brain book; I don’t even really remember hearing about this one.

Stay or Go? Go

The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition – Doreen Carvajal

Published: August 1, 2012
On TBR Since: January 30, 2012

I must have heard about this one at an ALA conference, since I put it on my TBR a good six months before publication, and I’m pretty sure I never heard anything about it again. Interesting as the subject (the conversos) is, I’m not all that interested in this particular book about it.

Stay or Go? Go
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail – Cheryl Strayed