One of these weeks, I’ll post something other than Down the TBR Hole. This is not that week.
Down the TBR Hole was originally created over at Lost in a Story.
Most of you probably know this feeling, your 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!
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway by Doug Most
Published: February 4, 2014
On TBR Since: January 11, 2014
Still interested in this slice of history
Stay or Go: Stay
My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
Published: January 28, 2014
On TBR Since: January 11, 2014
I should probably read Middlemarch first, and that’s not likely to happen for a while.
Stay or Go: Go
Adventures in Yarn Farming: Four Seasons on a New England Fiber Farm by Barbara Parry
Published: November 12, 2013
On TBR Since: November 24, 2013
Did someone say yarn?
Stay or Go: Stay
The Traitor’s Wife by Allison Pataki
Published: February 11, 2014
On TBR Since: December 20, 2013
Meh.
Stay or Go: Go
The Case of the Baker Street Irregular by Robert Newman
Published: 1978
On TBR Since: January 6, 2014
Sherlock Holmes for kids. I’ll get my hands on a copy eventually.
Stay or Go: Stay
Muppet Sherlock Holmes by Patrick Storck, Amy Mebberson
Published: March 1, 2011
On TBR Since: January 6, 2014
Wait a second. I read this! But I never marked it as read. And I want to read it again, anyway.
Stay or Go: Stay
The Inheritor’s Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science by Sandra Hempel
Published: October 15, 2013
On TBR Since: January 8, 2014
There’s definitely a theme this week.
Stay or Go: Stay
Fan Phenomena: Sherlock Holmes edited by Tom Ue, Jonathan L. Cranfield
Published: July 15, 2014
On TBR Since: January 23, 2014
And continuing the theme….
Stay or Go: Stay
Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: The Life of the World’s First Consulting Detective by William S. Baring-Gould
Published: 1962
On TBR Since: January 26, 2014
I actually started reading this last year, but set it aside so long that I just bumped it back to TBR.
Stay or Go: Stay
Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart M. Brown Jr., Christopher Vaughan
Published: March 5, 2009
On TBR Since: May 3, 2014
There are a couple more recent books that look more at how this ties to children’s librarianship.
Stay or Go: Go
Seven staying, three going. And one of those staying will be a re-read.
