Down the TBR Hole — September 25th, 2020

Posted September 25, 2020 by lenoreo in Down the TBR Hole / 2 Comments

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Down The TBR Hole is a meme created by Lia @ Lost in a Story that revolves around cleansing your TBR of all those books you’re never going to read and sort through it all to know what’s actually on there.

It works like this:

Go to your goodreads to-read shelf.
Order on ascending date added.
Take the first 5 (or 10 (or even more!) if you’re feeling adventurous) books. Of course, if you do this weekly, you start where you left off the last time.
Read the synopses of the books
Decide: keep it or should it go?

This is all Lillian @Mom With a Reading Problem‘s fault. She started doing this, and I couldn’t help but look at my Kindle, and all the titles that I don’t even remember what they’re about, and I just figured maybe I should start the CLEANSE. It’s about the only CLEANSE you’ll see me participate in. I’m going to be focussing entirely on my Kindle book problem at the moment, since it’s the craziest (and it’s what features most prominently in my Goodreads TBR). And I’ve decided if a book goes, then I’m deleting it from my Kindle cloud library too — GONE! Poof! JUST DO IT! My internal hoarder is screaming right now.

As of writing this post, my current Goodreads TBR shelf has 2125 books on it. No, that’s not a typo. You see why this meme might be good for me. These first few are going to be super easy, b/c when I first got my Kindle I went crazy with free books.

The Strange Case of Finley Jane (Steampunk Chronicles #0.5) by Kady Cross — This whole series isn’t even available for sale any longer, so no way am I going to start this and then never get the next books. Besides all that, it sounds okay, but doesn’t scream “I NEED TO READ THIS!”

Verdict: Goes

Stranded with Her Ex by Jill Sorenson — Eh, it sounds okay. But I haven’t been reading as many Harlequins lately, and since I still have an extensive collection, I might as well pick the ones that really grab me.

Verdict: Goes

Smallworld by Dominic Green — Honestly, I have no idea why I one-clicked this. Maybe it sounded vaguely Douglas Adams-y? I don’t know, but it’s not grabbing me now.

Verdict: Goes

Lights, Camera…Monsters (Monsters in Hollywood #1) by Lila Dubois — now named Dial M for Monster. Yup, I reread that blurb, and I was immediately intrigued again. Hopefully I’ll actually get to it, because it sounds unique.

Verdict: Stays

All Through the Night by Davis Bunn — Ah, oh…I don’t think I realized this was a Christian book. Which, nothing wrong with that, but it’s not for me.

Verdict: Goes

The Curse of the Holy Pail (An Odelia Grey Mystery #2) by Sue Ann Jaffarian — This one still intrigues me a little bit, but it’s the second in the series. And I don’t think I’m interested enough to get the first one. I’m not really a cozy mystery reader.

Verdict: Goes

Through the Fire (First Responders #1) by Shawn Grady — Another one labeled Christian Fiction, and it didn’t grab me enough to take a chance on that.

Verdict: Goes

The Pocket Watch (The Trinity Saga #1) by Ronnell Porter — Eh…not drawn in.

Verdict: Goes

The Watchers from within Moments, Revealed by Mark Paul Jacobs — I will admit, the premise is intriguing…but that title, and then this snippet from the blurb have me saying NOPE: “captivate the world’s conscientious“.