{"id":6163,"date":"2017-12-30T16:41:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T00:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=6163"},"modified":"2020-01-18T08:37:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T16:37:27","slug":"mount-tbr-2017-reading-challenge-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/mount-tbr-2017-reading-challenge-wrap-up","title":{"rendered":"Mount TBR 2017 Reading Challenge Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAlan Vernon<\/a> [CC BY<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the most successful reading challenges I completed in 2017 was the Mount TBR challenge from Bev at My Reader’s Block<\/a>. I have way too many books that I’ve purchased over the years sitting unread on my bookshelf or in the Kindle cloud. So I’m very happy that I was able to read 36 books from my TBR pile, climbing Mount Vancouver.<\/p>\n

Some books I acquired mere months before the challenge started, while others had been languishing on my shelves for decades. The books that went unread the longest were probably the David Eddings Elenium<\/em> series, the Alfred Hitchcock short story anthologies, and Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As I wrote earlier<\/a>, next year I plan on climbing to even greater heights by reading 48 books from my TBR shelf, reaching Mount Ararat.<\/p>\n

Here are the books I read in 2017 to reach Mount Vancouver, along with links to my reviews:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Mystery of the Yellow Room<\/em> by Gaston Leroux- Finished 1\/1\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. To the Bright Edge of the World<\/em> by Eowyn Ivey –\u00a0Finished 1\/11\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Black Beauty<\/em> by Anna Sewell – Finished 1\/14\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox\u00a0<\/em>by Barry Hughart\u00a0– Finished 1\/28\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. The Yellow Wallpaper<\/em> by Charlotte Perkins Gilman –\u00a0Finished 1\/29\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu<\/em> by Sax Rohmer – Finished 1\/31\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. The Sorrows of Young Werther<\/em> by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-\u00a0Finished 2\/8\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. How Green Was My Valley<\/em> by Richard Llewellyn\u00a0–\u00a0Finished 2\/11\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  9. 4:50 from Paddington<\/em> by Agatha Christie – Finished 2\/13\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  10. The Diamond Throne<\/em> by David Eddings –\u00a0Finished 2\/20\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  11. The Ruby Knight<\/em> by David Eddings-\u00a0Finished 2\/27\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  12. The Sapphire Rose\u00a0<\/em>by David Eddings\u00a0– Finished 3\/7\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  13. Far from the Madding Crowd<\/em> by Thomas Hardy\u00a0– Finished 4\/8\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  14. Zuleika Dobson<\/em> by Max Beerbohm – Finished 5\/22\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  15. The Trial<\/em> by Franz Kafka\u00a0–\u00a0Finished 5\/28\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  16. A Journal of the Plague Year<\/em> by Daniel DeFoe – Finished 6\/17\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  17. Lonesome Dove<\/em> by Larry McMurtry – Finished 7\/11\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  18. O Pioneers!<\/em> by Willa Cather-\u00a0Finished 7\/16\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  19. The Man in the Brown Suit<\/em> by Agatha Christie – Finished 10\/3\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  20. Romola<\/em> by George Eliot – Finished 10\/22\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  21. The Lincoln Lawyer<\/em> by Michael Connelly\u00a0– Finished 10\/24\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  22. The Last Queen of England\u00a0<\/em>by Steve Robinson – Finished 10\/27\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  23. The Murder in the Vicarage<\/em> by Agatha Christie –\u00a0Finished 11\/4\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  24. The Worm Ouroboros\u00a0<\/em>by E.R. Eddison\u00a0– Finished 11\/15\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  25. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary<\/em> by M.R. James\u00a0–\u00a0Finished 11\/19\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  26. The Violent Land<\/em> by Wayne D. Overholser – Finished 11\/23\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  27. Dead Souls\u00a0<\/em>by Nikolai Gogol – Finished 11\/25\/2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  28. Alfred Hitchcock’s Hard Day at the Scaffold<\/em>\u00a0edited by Alfred Hitchcock – Finished 12\/3\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  29. Rebecca<\/em> by Daphne du Maurier –\u00a0Finished 12\/06\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  30. Kristin Lavransdatter<\/em> by Sigrid Undset –\u00a0Finished 12\/18\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  31. Hunted Down<\/em> by Charles Dickens – Finished 12\/21\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  32. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 12 Stories for Late at Night<\/em>, edited by Alfred Hitchcock –\u00a0Finished 12\/23\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  33. The Ballad of the White Horse<\/em> by G. K. Chesterton – Finished 12\/26\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  34. A Spring Within Us<\/em> by Richard Rohr –\u00a0Finished 12\/29\/2017<\/strong><\/li>\n
  35. The Apothecary Rose<\/em> by Candace Robb –\u00a0Finished 12\/29\/2017<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  36. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 12 Stories They Wouldn\u2019t Let Me Do on TV<\/em> edited by Alfred Hitchcock –\u00a0Finished 12\/30\/2017<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Alan Vernon [CC BY] One of the most successful reading challenges I completed in 2017 was the Mount TBR challenge from Bev at My Reader’s Block. I have way too many books that I’ve purchased over the years sitting unread on my bookshelf or in the Kindle cloud. So I’m very happy that I was able to read 36 books from my TBR pile, climbing Mount Vancouver. Some books I acquired mere months before the challenge started, while others had been languishing on my shelves for decades. The...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7551,"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 2017 Reading Challenge Wrap-up","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":[878,959,873],"class_list":["post-6163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-2017-reading-challenge","tag-mount-tbr","tag-reading-challenges"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mt_vancouver_sm.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-1Bp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163","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=6163"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7556,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163\/revisions\/7556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}