{"id":5274,"date":"2017-10-17T05:05:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T12:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=5274"},"modified":"2017-10-16T22:53:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T05:53:46","slug":"mount-vancouver-tbr-checkpoint-october-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/mount-vancouver-tbr-checkpoint-october-2017","title":{"rendered":"Mount Vancouver TBR Checkpoint – October 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mountain<\/p>\n

Wow, somehow I missed doing any checkpoints for the Mount TBR Reading Challenge<\/a>, but at least I’ll get one in before the end of the year. TBR stands for “To Be Read,” and refers to the mountain of books that have been sitting on my shelves or in my Amazon cloud that I haven’t read yet. It’s the middle of October, and I’ve read 22 books on my way to Mount Vancouver, leaving me with 6 more books to go. Here are my finished books so far:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Mystery of the Yellow Room<\/em>\u00a0by Gaston Leroux-\u00a0Finished 1\/1\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Nineteen Eighty-four<\/em>\u00a0by George Orwell \u2013\u00a0Finished 1\/5\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  3. To the Bright Edge of the World<\/em>\u00a0by Eowyn Ivey \u2013\u00a0Finished 1\/11\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Black Beauty<\/em>\u00a0by Anna Sewell-\u00a0Finished 1\/14\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  5. The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox\u00a0<\/em>by Barry Hughart\u2013\u00a0Finished 1\/28\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. The Yellow Wallpaper<\/em>\u00a0by Charlotte Perkins Gilman-\u00a0Finished 1\/29\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  7. The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu<\/em>\u00a0by Sax Rohmer\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Finished 1\/31\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. The Sorrows of Young Werther<\/em>\u00a0by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-\u00a0Finished 2\/8\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  9. How Green Was My Valley<\/em>\u00a0by Richard Llewellyn\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Finished 2\/11\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  10. 4:50 from Paddington<\/em>\u00a0by Agatha Christie \u2013\u00a0Finished 2\/13\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  11. The Diamond Throne<\/em>\u00a0by David Eddings \u2013\u00a0Finished 2\/20\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  12. The Ruby Knight<\/em>\u00a0by David Eddings-\u00a0Finished 2\/27\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  13. The Sapphire Rose\u00a0<\/em>by David Eddings\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Finished 3\/7\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Far from the Madding Crowd<\/em>\u00a0by Thomas Hardy\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Finished 4\/8\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  15. Zuleika Dobson<\/em>\u00a0by Max Beerbohm\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Finished 5\/22\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  16. The Trial<\/em>\u00a0by Franz Kafka\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Finished 5\/28\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  17. A Journal of the Plague Year<\/em>\u00a0by Daniel DeFoe \u2013\u00a0Finished 6\/17\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  18. Lonesome Dove<\/em>\u00a0by Larry McMurtry \u2013\u00a0Finished 7\/11\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  19. O Pioneers!<\/em>\u00a0by Willa Cather-\u00a0Finished 7\/16\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  20. Empire of the East<\/em>\u00a0by Fred Saberhagen\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Finished 9\/16\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  21. Emma<\/em>\u00a0by Jane Austen\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Finished 9\/27\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  22. The Man in the Brown Suit<\/em>\u00a0by Agatha Christie \u2013\u00a0Finished 10\/3\/2017\u00a0<\/strong>(Review to come)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Bev, the Mount TBR Challenge host, has offered some suggested questions for this checkpoint<\/a> and here’s the one I’ve chosen:<\/p>\n

    Which book (read so far) has been on your TBR mountain the longest? Was it worth the wait? Or is it possible you should have tackled it back when you first put it on the pile? Or tossed it off the edge without reading it all?<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The Elenium\u00a0<\/em>series (The Diamond<\/em> Throne, etc.)\u00a0by\u00a0David Eddings has been on my TBR mountain for about 25 years, and I think I would have enjoyed it more had I read it when I originally bought it. I’m glad I read it, but I’m a different reader than I was in the early 1990s, and it was not as interesting to me now as it would have been to my younger self.<\/p>\n

    I’m pretty confident that I’ll meet this challenge, and if I do it will be a huge relief to have made a dent into a TBR mountain that is still over 700 books tall. Scary thought: if I read 36 books off my TBR pile each year, then I’ll have them all finished in about 20 years. That is, if I don’t buy any more books. Yeah, right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Wow, somehow I missed doing any checkpoints for the Mount TBR Reading Challenge, but at least I’ll get one in before the end of the year. TBR stands for “To Be Read,” and refers to the mountain of books that have been sitting on my shelves or in my Amazon cloud that I haven’t read yet. It’s the middle of October, and I’ve read 22 books on my way to Mount Vancouver, leaving me with 6 more books to go. Here are my finished books so far: The...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Mount TBR Checkpoint - October 2017","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[878,922,959],"class_list":["post-5274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-2017-reading-challenge","tag-david-eddings","tag-mount-tbr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mountainbooks.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-1n4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5274"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5281,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions\/5281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}