Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2020
I'm not officially signing up on goodreads, as usual, but I am sticking to the rules of the Mount TBR reading challenge:
Pike's Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s
Mount Blanc: Read 24 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Vancouver: Read 36 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Ararat: Read 48 books from your TBR piles/s
Mt. Kilimanjaro: Read 60 books from your TBR pile/s
El Toro: Read 75 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Everest: Read 100 books from your TBR pile/s
Mount Olympus (Mars): Read 150+ books from your TBR pile/s
And the official rules, slightly shortened from the version here - underlined parts are changed for 2020:
*Once you choose your challenge level, you are locked in for at least that many books. You are welcome to voyage further and conquer taller mountains after your commitment is met. All books from lower mountains carry over towards the next peak.
*Challenge runs from January 1 to December 31, 2020.
*You may sign up at any time--no matter when you see this challenge. All qualifying books read after January 1st count.
*Books must be owned (or at least ordered) by you prior to January 1, 2020. No library books. The ONLY exception to the library rule: If you own the book in any form and have a reason to check out a version from the library instead, then you may count it. For example--if you own a hard copy, but are planning on taking a trip where listening to the audio version would be a great way to knock out a book while you drive, then by all means check out the audio version and have a wonderful trip!
*Any reread may count, regardless of how long you've owned it, provided you have not counted it for a previous Mount TBR Challenge.
*Audiobooks and E-books may count if they are yours and they are one of your primary sources of backlogged books.
*You may count any "currently reading" book that you begin prior to January 1--provided that you had 50% or more of the book left to finish when January 1 rolled around.
*You may count "Did Not Finish" books provided they meet your own standard for such things, you tried [insert your own preferred number here] pages, you do not plan to ever finish it, and you move it off your mountain.
*Books may be used to count for other challenges as well.
*Feel free to submit your list in advance (as incentive to really get those books taken care of) or to tally them as you climb.
*A blog and reviews are not necessary to participate. If you have a blog, then please post about the challenge and link that post. Non-bloggers may leave a comment below with your chosen challenge level join the goodreads group.
*If you post on Facebook, Instagram, or other social media to log a book, please use #MountTBR2020.
Like last year, I'm doing the Pike's Peak challenge (12 books) and again I took a picture of the books I plan to read this year:
The books I intend to read
As in the pile on the picture, from top to bottom:
1. The Obelisk Gate (Broken Earth #2) by N.K. Jemisin
2. The Stone Sky (Broken Earth #3) by N.K. Jemisin
3. Ashes of Honor (Toby Daye #6) by Seanan McGuire
4. Memory (Vorkosigan Saga #?) by Lois McMaster Bujold
5. Abyss Beyond Dreams (Abyss #1) by Peter F. Hamilton
6. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
7. Blackout (Newsflesh #3) by Mira Grant
8. Black Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London #2) by Ben Aaronovitch
9. Too Like The Lightning (Terry Ignota #1) by Ada Palmer
10. All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
11. Sovereign (Nemesis #2) by April Daniels
12. The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
13. Ghost Spin (Spin #3) by Chris Moriarty
I know, those are 13 books. :D But I like to have some choice. And I like to narrow the choices beforehand. Cake, meet choice. /o\ Anyway, I couldn't quite bring myself to throw out any of these, because there are two that already were on the picture last year but didn't actually get read! (7. and 13.) So I put them on the list again. We'll see how they fare this time.
Oh, and the Rivers of London... I keep meaning to read them, but never do, because we didn't own them. So now I defined them as "owned", since the relative who actually owns them doesn't want them back, and they've been sitting on the book shelf next to me for two years. I will never get through them if I don't add them to the challenge if I don't have a deadline for giving them back. So, now they're mine, and I will finally read them! Yes! Only the first one of them is in German, but I guess I could read an English ebook version of it instead. Not sure yet.
The only book that has not been recced to me by my flist is number 6, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. It was a present, and comes recommended by two people I know IRL, so I am going to read it. (And the Hamilton. Nobody needs to rec me his books anymore. :) )
Like last year, I am also tentatively planning to put a cnovel on the list. I failed at that this year. I mean, I feel like I failed. I started Sha Po Lang (and got to around chapter 80 or so), so it definitely would count in the "Will Not Finish" category. And I finished Memory Lost, but it wasn't complete at the start of the year, so I didn't want to count it. Not sure what I'll do this year, but I might try again.
In any case, I'm very motivated for the challenge again this year, I won it three years in a row, and I feel much better about my progress through the ever-growing pile of books at home. At least I read the *best* of those, if not all. <3
x-posted from dw (comments:
)