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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 2111 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.
Tangled Tides (The Sea Monster Memoirs #1) by Karen Amanda Hooper — Even though Curly Carla enjoyed it, it doesn’t grab me enough that I can see myself ever getting to it.
Verdict: Goes
Mercury Falls (Mercury #1) by Robert Kroese — It sounds fun, like the Douglas Adams comparison. Read some reviews, a little more doubtful. Read the first page or two and can already feel my mind wandering. Probably has potential, but I have too many other books to read.
Verdict: Goes
My Sister’s Voice by Mary Carter — Could be good for my diversity challenge, but I’m just not that interested.
Verdict: Goes
Hallow’s Eve by Sarah Diemer — Described as cute and short, and it’s appropriate for the month. I’ll keep it. Bummed it’s not LGBT, though apparently the author is.
Verdict: Stays
Heating Up the Kitchen (Lucky Harbor #2.4) by Jill Shalvis — Honestly, I’m not one for Kindle recipe books, so I’m not sure why I got this one. Especially since I haven’t even read this series.
Verdict: Goes
Promise (Soul Savers #1) by Kristie Cook — Now titled A Demon’s Promise. Again, I bet this is a series I might have enjoyed if I’d read it when I first got it, but I’m just not interested anymore.
Verdict: Goes
Summon (Rae Wilder #4) by Penelope Fletcher — Tried to reread book 1. DNFd @13%. Won’t be finishing the series. I kept book 3 (Enchant) in my very first Down the TBR Hole, but given my bad reread experience, I’m ditching it as well (and will adjust my totals below accordingly).
Verdict: Goes
Making You Mine (The Moreno Brothers #5) by Elizabeth Reyes — Last week I got rid of book 4 in this series, and I might as well get rid of book 5 as well.
Verdict: Goes
A Robot Named Clunk (Hal Spacejock #1) by Simon Haynes — Not feeling it.
Verdict: Goes
Barbary Point by Alan Nayes — Wow. That blurb doesn’t grab me at all.
Verdict: Goes
I’m sad you’re getting rid of the Elizabeth Reyes books, but I get the reason. I don’t think I read that Shalvis book, but I did read that series back in the day and love it.