Oct 11, 2021
What’s on your “TBR” (to be read) list?
Winter is on its way, although the forecast has backed off the snow that was predicted for my location this week, and that means more time for reading. (I hope!) So, what’s on my TBR (to-be-read list?)
Let’s start with one that’s been nagging me— Tripwire, the third Jack Reacher book. I got about a third of the way through it, and gave up. I wasn’t getting into the story. I feel obligated to give it another try because I enjoyed the first two in the series.
Then there’s two books I should be getting for my birthday—a Craig Johnson (Longmire) book and a Janet Evanovich
(Stephanie Plum) novel. Not the newest Longmire, because I wait until they come out in paperback. After my disappointment in the book two (?) years ago, I’m not as much as much of a fan as I used to be. And I’m backfilling the Stephanie Plum books because I started reading them in the middle.
Next comes “The Time Is Now, A Call to Uncommon Courage” by Joan Chittister. I’ve mentioned her on this blog before. She’s the Roman Catholic nun famous for the quote “I do not believe that just because you’re opposed to abortion that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed.” She also happens to have been one of my teachers.
I also have a personal goal to read at least one book by every author who participates in this hop on a regular basis. I’m not doing a good job on that one. I’ve read books by two of them, bought books by two of them, and I still need to buy books by the rest of them. (No names. I don’t want to get in trouble with any of them!) Hey. I’ll get there one of these days.
What else? I bought a couple yellow-cover Nancy Drew books a while back to add to my collection. I should read them before I put them on the shelf. The racism in the last one I read has made me hesitate.
I’m trying to make it though a bunch of books I’ve downloaded to my Kindle. The quality varies, and I’m not finishing ones that don’t capture my attention after a chapter or two. I’m even making a mental list of ones I need to remove. (No names here, either.)
That’s enough to last me a month or so. But I’m sure I’ll find more books to add to my list by the time I get done reading the other posts on this hop!
Off-topic- Speaking of the kindle- is there a way to get the library to show books in alphabetical order by author’s name? I’m using the kindle app and haven’t found a way to do it. I can sort by titles alphabetically, but not by author.
Anyway, until next time, stay safe!
Oct 11, 2021
What’s on your “TBR” (to be read) list?
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I used to love the Nancy Drew series of books as a kid. We’ve all got too many books to read, lol.
I must try to be more disciplined, I have never deleted a book from my bulging Kindle app. At least, not yet. I just buy a bigger memory card.
Glad you didn’t get snow. Strange how the older stores which seemed so innocent – aren’t.
If you haven’t purchased one of mine – leave a comment/ dm in Twitter/email me and I will happily gift you a copy of The Last Dragon – ebook or audio version.
I will take you up on that! (Let me check my kindle first.)
It snowed in September here this year. It happens — about every 20 years. Now it’s mostly melted and it was above 40 this afternoon. Indian fall, perhaps?
There is a way to do Kindle books alphabetically by author. That’s how mine is set up and it wasn’t for a long time. But now I can’t remember how I did it. Just look around. I think I found it by accident.
We often get snow in September, but haven’t for a few years. We almost always get some before Halloween.
Two years ago, it didn’t snow until November 1. It was about the 4th or 5th time in my life, though sometimes the first real snowfall was falling while we were trick’n’treating. The first snow that sticks is the unofficial start of winter here because our seasons have no resemblance to the calendar.
Typically we get what we call “termination dust” in September. It’s a light dusting just to remind us that winter is coming, but it usually melts before lunch, so we don’t call it “snow” because it’s temporary (as compared to 6-8 months). This time, it snowed for three days and really looked like it was going to stick. So, by our definition, it’s winter now, but the two-week-old snow is now mostly melted, the leaves are still falling from the trees and it’s shirt-sleeve weather. I sat out on the deck and read a book this evening. So it’s this weird Indian-fall. Usually, when we have such an early sticking snow, we’re going to have a heavy, wet-snow winter, but this weather pattern isn’t typical so…. Our son is spending the winter in Arizona. He would choose to vamos for a snow winter.