Reading goals for 2022: A deep dive

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As in all things, you have the reading goal folks and the reading by the seat of their pants, “I am a mood reader” they say. I am a mood reader too, but I still want to make some reading goals this year. After all, most of us are home, thanks to the Rona, we have loads of time to read, right? We can goal set, we can mood read or do both. Or not read. There is no cause to be dramatic about this debacle.

 

For two or three years I utilized the Goodreads challenge until last year. I felt that I was sick of the pressure, sick of the Rona because it makes me tired. I fall asleep all the time, I am home so it’s a place to sleep a place to nap a place to lie down. A lot. Every single damn time I picked up a book I would pin my eyelids to my eyebrows and STILL fall asleep. As 2021 which became a thing, (Jan 1^st) I jabbed my finger onto  the Goodreads app and set my goal at 25 and I was even hostile over that number.  I had had it.

 

By December when Goodreads tally up all your reading stats, I realized that I read some shit books on top of the pathetic but vile stance I took on giving up.

 

I mean, I did read some good books, but as a reader I was appalled over how they  collectively looked like a bunch of moldy books dying a slow death in a Free Little Library.

 

This year I slapped down 75 in the challenge, started doing my usual “have to read seven  books in January” rule to get a head start and choosing my books ever so wisely. More on that in another blog.

 

Tips to keep in mind.

• ·      Do not compare yourself to other readers. Voracious or plucky, you, my dear, are the best kind of reader ever. I totally believe in you.
• ·      The best way to avoid a bad year in reading, do whatever you want to do along  with a tiny goal (that doesn’t need to be announced on Goodreads) and make a tiny list of the books you really want to read. Go tiny. 
• ·      Sail on over to Youtube and put “booktubers top ten books in * year” in and a plethora of top ten vids will pop up.  Set aside a bit of time, make a pot of  coffee and watch. I listed eleven or twelve books as MUST read  in 2022 and if that’s ALL I read I am good.
• ·      I’ll list my favorites in a blog. I will try to cover most genres.
• ·      If a book sucks and you are cursing loudly by the second or third chapter ditch it. There is no psychological DSM diagnosis for hating a book. None. Chemistry is chemistry. This crap is personal!

 

And most of all? Love yourself- hug yourself and feel blessed that you are a reader. No matter what type, what genre, what type of year of goals or mood reading you favor, nothing is written in stone (well, some things are, stop it) you can do whatever you want. 

Just read.

 

Cheryl 

 

Are you having a hard time reading these days?

 I know I am!  I thought long and hard about the reason why reading can be impossible during stressful times. 

Money- face it- we need money to feed the read. 

Some suggestions- if you have a Kindle with Kindle Unlimited- there are many many books to read for free. The cost of joining premium is worth what you get. Plus, they offer First Reads at the beginning of the month- fresh new life books that just came out or are coming out - for free- you can pick one and if you want the others you can pre-order for around 4.99 each. If it’s audible- you have a nice catalog of books to listen to- for free. 

I used to frequent used book stores but now I order used books from them now- they will love you forever ❤️

Can’t focus- no matter how easy it is to read for us book nerds there are times where we cannot focus on anything. 

Ya-Manga-Comics-Middle Grade all genres have given me great joy and focus during a crisis- it’s not they are easy reads- they are not but there are different, one of these genres may pique your interest. Get you bank in the game. 

Anxiety- this aggravating factor contributes to not being able to focus as well. Here are two  options I currently use to defuse before I pick up a book- 

The Calm App- On their app I choose nice natural background with a light chime and follow their different options for deep breathing- learn how to breathe the right way and you will be ready to read. PS there are plenty of calming free apps btw. Breathing correctly corrects the blowing off of too much CO2 - too much O2 sticks around and completely diminishes your capacity to focus. 

Nature and Travel- go far and wide to inhale a deep earthy forest or go down under to feel the dry heat on your face as the Roos hop by. 

I will provide those types of books in my next post- books that help during bad times- 

You are a reader- you may need to go play Animal Crossing (is that what it’s called?) or read a celebrity mag or watch Case Files (all of them) to chill out before reading- 

You are not alone. 

Stay well stay healthy. 

Cheryl 

Catch up over a cuppa of joe

I have returned to the blogging work on a very wonky laptop of ours. The PC has had a tantrum of sorts so I have been left with an iPad which is impossible to blog on. Add my new job and a few other things, you get the picture. Books? What books?

Believe it or not I have been reading, not as much as I want to but have cut through a few books this year. Some fabulous some not finished and some sorta-mkay. Like I have said in the past, books are like people, you must have chemistry with them.

I have discovered a few things since I have been gone. I would like to share! I may have shared some off these things before but I swear I have some amnesia going on.

• Being all about reading different genres I decided that in this time of not being online spouting off about books, to go back to my old favorite authors, read wherever they are in their series and not giving one flying *&#@! if I had missed out on reading earlier books.It helps when life is too fast. 
• I cannot read before bed. I swear it's like taking a truckload of Lunesta.  One sentence and I could probably have surgery done on me after I fall asleep. It's that sad and bad. 
• I have convinced myself that I don't have to read every single NEW book out there. So what if I read a book circa 1986 with yellow pages and a ripped cover. In time the new books will be old books, then I can read them.Okay well, not all, I have to have a brand new book for the smell alone. Once in a while. I have looked through my dusty piles and read a few oldies. I felt pleased after blowing all the dust out of it and reading it once again.
• My friends read much faster than me and it's okay. It wasn't okay but now it's a great way to save on a book after your book friends says, " Skip it, just skip right over it, next to it and save some beans." Okay sure!
• If you noticed the array of blue covers this year, you weren't alone. Blue EVERYWHERE! Every year I love to see what the book cover trend is. This year it was BLUE.
• I enjoyed a few books and  I will post them soon, plus I have to update the blog, it looks pretty damn sad. Next time I will use my H's pc. This wonky sticky space bar is driving me insane!

Tally ho and all that, book friends, see you soon.
Cheryl 

Happy New Year! 2016

It's hard to believe that it's 2016. I am still trying to figure out what happened in the '90s. All joking aside, 2015 wasn't the best year for books. I say this after reading many end of the year articles that readers were not happy with most of the books they read (or tried to read.) I tend to agree, working out what to post on my book group every month was a bit rough. Some books just seemed blah or overdone. There were a few gems, however, and some of those gems were books I never thought I would like. Little Big Lies  by Liane Moriarty, read blog here: 

 http://jerseybookhamlet.blogspot.com/2015/04/big-little-lies-by-liane-moriarty.html received   

received my overall "Best Book of the Year 2015. " Lots of suburbia humor, interesting fun plot, much  laughter and tears and defected by lovable, hate-able characters. I didn't read much this year, unfortunately,  so I don't have a long list of favorites,  we can go back to my original thought, it wasn't the best year for books or for readers. 

 On a fabulous note!  My husband, my daughter and I received some book gifts from family and friends (and each other) for Christmas! Some are not shown as they were Kindle gifts. I am pretty excited. I also looked into this year and there are some GOOD books coming out! I will blog about that later. For now, I am going to finish up a book for a friend (the book hasn't been published yet) for free and it's VERY GOOD. I will be spotlighting "him" in Authors to love soon. Then I will be into an older book from a while back, Peace Like a  River by Leif Enger as promised to a friend who said I need to read it now (she is very pushy like that, said lovingly.) That's my start of 2016.

One of the interesting things about the book blogging world are the peaks and valleys bloggers go through. I noticed many were taking sabbaticals last year, or wanted to read whatever they wanted to read and not books by publishers.  Some just slowed down on their reading as they were not satisfied with 2015 however, they were blogging about how it has been harder to find time to sit down with a book. Some of the bloggers were encouraging and offered up great ideas to get out of the slump, organize and not always read the best seller lists.

I hate resolutions, I tend to forget my list three days into January. I am me, I am not going to change too much but I do want to think about how I approach my reading habits. For one I am going to ditch my Goodreads account and open up a new one. I want to approach it differently so I can keep tabs on what I am reading, and what I want to read by keeping the list very short. The longer the TBR list the bigger the odds I won't read it. Ever. So this year I want to organize a bit. 

Books are hard to get into when you start an intense new job. I am tired at night and tend to fall asleep after three sentences. Reading in bed isn't feasible. So we decided here at our house that we are going to eke out time during the day, any time to sit and read for an hour, together or apart. 

I wish you the best of the year, may great things happen for you, success, love, more books, health and safety of you and your families. Read on my friends!

Thank you so much for following me, please leave a comment!

Cheryl M

 

What's happening this month! TBRs, Grisham and Totes!

 The  TBR book pile is getting bigger and bigger and bigger. What to read next has become quite a chore. Almost finished The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz, which I have tons to write about when it comes to this book. Good and not so bad but not so good, well, really good and some meh stuff. 

But what to read next during the most busy time of the year??? 

I picked out Gray Mountain by John Grisham. It has been a long time since I have read one of his books, it's time.  Plus, no offense to Mr. Grisham, but he is a perfect read during a busy time. PLUS it's a drug store paperback! My favorite.

Shameless plugging of my friend's direct sales business. My friend R got into thirty-one which is totes and bags and purses and all kinds of really neat stuff. I was fortunate enough to book a party and had another friend book a party off of mine so I received lots of credits. One thing I adore is a bag I got for work but would happily use it as a book bag at any time. It has loads of pockets, fits iPads (probably a smallish laptop) and hardbacks, paperbacks and a couple of Kindles. Click the "thirty-one" link and it should take you right to the tote. Good quality and I am a FUSS over bags, though I collect tote bags like some collect Star Wars paraphernalia. Check them out, book a party! My friend R is truly one of the best consultants and gives one hell of a Facebook Event party. 

Link to my friend Robin, my hirty-one consultant:
http://www.mythirtyone.com/rwms70

So that is where I am in the book world. And in the book tote world as well (though the tote is going to be used for work too.) I fully intend to get more reviews out but with job hunting it's a bit hard to fit in time for blogging let alone getting a book finished!

Have the most happiest of Halloweens if I don't get back here any time soon! 

Fall, books and what's blogging got to do with it?

First, I wanted to thank you for following me! For those of you that are not professional writers, the bloggers like me going out on a limb to blog publicly, we are brave! And it's truly like jumping off a cliff.  You have this itch to write, you have things to say or review or show people and that should be the parachute for your jump. With your bag of goals strapped to you back and your followers, no matter how big or small, lifting you up to help you find yourself in a perfect place to write about the things you love the most. No matter how scary it is, do it. Jump. I am so grateful that I had the nerve to do it. Being here is a lot of fun.

My goings on (and it's a bit rushed, sorry!)

• The Girl in the Spider's Web is ticking along. As I said before to someone somewhere, it doesn't have the complexity but it's a good story so far. Lullaby Girl by Aly Sidgwick is a real book (the former is on my iPad) which I read at night. I am enjoying both, and they can be read simultaneously. 
• Tomorrow is a Library book sale. I am going to hit that up with a friend. They have used new hardbacks that were just published. I had a give-away on my book group and it was wonderful to send off a book in mint condition. This library is the next town over. I have joined our own library a couple of weeks ago! Talk about thrilled! I may have mentioned it here. 
• My goal is to save money and still get the books I want so patience, looking into library book sales and the used bookstore plus going online for Bookperks and Bookgorilla, is a huge money saving adventure. That way, when I do go to Barnes and Noble for a hardback "I have to have" is not such a horrible matter when I buy it for a few more beans. It makes it special. 
• I borrowed The Paris Winter by Imogen Robertson (see photo) which isn't my kind of book but it jumped out at me when I signed up at the library. I figured it's not a book I would buy so the library is a perfect place to try new genres! Just take them back if you don't like them! Win Win for everyone!
  
• Fall is a great time to read with the chilly weather bound to come in. And it will be the holiday season soon enough. I have said to some friends on FB (in a group) that it's okay to take time out for yourselves, the holidays are not the be all end all of who you are. I will plan to write a couple of blogs like I did last year about savings and books you can buy for whom and all that fun stuff. 
• I hope everyone has a great week. I will probably return with The Lullaby Girl as the first review in a week. Have a good one. Again, thank you for being here, it means the world!

I am so excited I could scream. But I won't. Not yet.

 Lisbeth Salander.

Normally, I do not get excited over other authors writing the next book in a series that only the original author should write.  Stieg Larsson should be writing this book. Mr. Larsson is no longer with us and that makes me sad to see it in writing, but I am excited to see the story live on. His characters in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series are one of my favorite fictional characters in a series to date. When he passed away I felt incredibly sad for him, for his family, friends, the WORLD.

I was so excited to get this book the other night, I pre-ordered it and had prayed to God that it was just as good as the other books. When I started it I whispered, "I am so excited I could scream!" But I didn't or my husband would have had a heart attack, he was sleeping. But I was wide eyed and awake!

I have been tired lately and falling asleep in seconds. Last night I read all of 28 pages and felt the pull of the story once again. Complexities of Larsson's writing are missing but it's a good story and I feel that Lagercrantz nails the mood of Blomkvist,  I do. 

We shall see how it goes, I will post a review immediately when finished. A scream or a sob, I will lay it on the line here.

By the way, though I like (like) the English version of the movie. The Swedish version is a million times better, so if you are into seeing this ever, please, put up with subtitles, it's worth it.

Teach your children well, as it goes, start them with books!

Amazon.com

These wonderful ABC books with contrast, are everywhere, but I found this image from Amazon. 

 Last night I spent the evening with my daughter and her father (we are divorced and our respective partners could not attend, sadly.) She was being awarded at her high school from Student Council for her kindness and willingness to help others. Her graduation is in two weeks and though a lot  went into my daughter's education and socialization she managed to pull this off, on her very own. She is her own feel good story.

She was born three months prematurely and had an intracranial bleed a day after she was born. We were told she would not be able to speak, hear, see or do much of anything. She almost left the world a few times however, amazingly, she made it. And she hasn't stopped talking (at home) since. Or hearing the tiniest chirp of a baby bird. Or seeing a little bit of cookie I may have left in my cupped palm. She is in a wheelchair but can also move around with a gait trainer and has a lot more control of her body than we ever dreamed of her having.

The award was a huge deal as Christa was not one to socialize much in school Every IEP meeting the teachers and therapists would say the same thing, "she just doesn't join in." After a long haul, she joined in, she raises her hand, she is kind to others, she talks to her friends and she has had a stellar last two years in her school. She is tired, she is ready to transition into adulthood but she hasn't lost her spark to show a lot of love and kindness to others.

What does this have to do with books? In the early nineties when she came home from the NICU, I would prop (a book as seen above) up on her little baby holder and she would stare at it for a long time. I would walk by every half an hour or so and turn the page. I went with the red, black and white for contrast, though I decorated her room in muted pastel Winnie the Pooh and Beatrix Potter, she needed vibrancy so I made sure she got the contrast she needed. I read stories to her, as did her father, step-father and grandparents, she always loved a good story. Her little chuckle or sad noises would always prove to me time and time again that a kid that can "get" the elements of good story, on any level, it's so important to start them off as babies. No matter what their condition is.

She can read on her own now, her favorite books have matured a bit since Okomi, but she still asks me to read to her often. Sometimes she whips out her pointer finger and reads it herself. It may never be Harry Potter or Little House on the Prairie or the wondrous The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe but this summer while she is off (for the first time in decades) I will start one of these series and read them to her. She deserves to be entertained as we all were as young adults, even if it takes someone to read them all to her. I may go audio, I am not sure, but I think it would be more personal reading them to her myself.

http://www.amazon.ca/Okomi-Plays-Leaves-HELEN-DORMAN/dp/158469047X

Congratulations to our tiny but tenacious two pounder who beat the odds, she wakes up every day with wide eyed wonderment, and always, always wanting a good story.

I love you, Apple, Kindle and Internet, but I need some alone time

Photo from Apple.com

I love my iPad dearly. I love my Kindle too but I have the older version of Kindle (you know, with the old keyboard at the bottom) and I spend half my time with fingers on the screen trying to enlarge the page to make the font larger (forgetting the font option), so I tend to fall back on the iPad.

Weak I know. 

Here's the big trouble. 

There are so many places to go! Distractions! Entertainment! Movies! Facebook! Twitter! Pinterest! Word Chums! Apps upon apps to read: the news, magazines or book sites, blogs,  Goodreads, a few music places and I am done. DONE. (I even have Optimum on there, yes I can sit on my front porch and watch the local news at five.) 

Is this really a good thing?

The other night our WiFi went out. The H, who is content anywhere doing anything or nothing at all but sipping from a cup of coffee was fine. "I will read my book," he announced.  I got a book out too, a real book. 

The quiet was incredibly LOUD. It confirmed that the Internet is rotting out our brains, I felt a bit off at first, kind of scared. Eventually, I settled in and read for a couple of hours. I felt like I was missing out but on the other hand, I was perfectly linked in to what  matters. Being real. living in the real world, disconnected from devices and people, connected to my book and my spouse. I read more in that one sitting that I have read in a long time. Lo and behold, my brain's attention span headquarters stayed on top of things and my mind never wandered off.

Though I would probably commit some kind of malfeasance if you took my iPad away, plus, I could hug the Apple people stupid for my iPad and iPhone, both truly necessary in my life, but I need the real world space and LOUD quiet to center me so I can dig deeper into what I am reading. 

Concentration is a beautiful thing. 

There's a time and place for both types of life, that's for sure, I love my reader, my Kindle, my books, and I surely love quiet and my husband, my family. It's all good, it all requires balance and discipline, not just for when my WiFi goes out.

* I realize I can read my iPad reader offline, and the Kindle I can read all the time. But somehow. When the WiFi is out I have an attitude first then the whole, "I am going to rough this, dammit" sulk fest for five minutes which is exactly what makes this work. Push it all aside and pick up a read book.  Sit next to your spouse or kids or the dog or cat (or fish, whatever) and "rough it." It really does feel good.

Sick Day #2

Two days of a wicked UTI  and a sinus infection left me in my chair or bed reading my book. And sleeping. A lot. No complaints here. I think a sick leave of absence from ADLs (activities of daily living) is required every now and then. No one wants to be sick but it sure gives you a chance to take are  of yourself. 

And a chance to read all your favorite book blogs. 

As well as fritter away the hours on Facebook with your friends. 

And read peacefully. 

Some illnesses. Forget it. 

If you are puking it is strictly survival. 

Colds/bronchitis. No. Too many interruptions between snot, sneezing,  and swigging NyQuil. 

Diarrhea? Come on now. 

But UTIs and the vague ridiculous world of infected sinuses lends a margin to read. 

And I have done just that besides drinking gallons of water 

Other Sunday notes: 

The books on my ottoman are all books I'm reading or looking at but I can't possibly write about here. (I hope the whole picture shows up as I'm blogging on my iPad for the first time.)

Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton was, by far, one of my favorite Christmas gifts. Ever. My H bought it for me and I flip through it daily. Check out Brandon's Facebook page. It's one of my favorite places on the web. 

Know the Night by Maria Mutch was given to me by my friend. Anne. During my daughter's emotional changes in the last year I voiced how stressed I was dealing with a child who could not express what was wrong. Special Needs parents have a lot of frustrations that they are unable to express themselves. My friend knew what I needed. This book is perfect. I will review it someday. 

Hotel Pastis is a book I keep nearby when I need something familiar to read. Peter Mayle is a favorite author of mine. I highly recommend his books. They take you to France, what could be any better? 

This Cold Heaven by Gretel Erhlich is a good read as well though it has taken fifth place behind others. I flip through books when I'm sick reading parts I love here and there satisfied with a touch of my favored books. 

It truly is the best medicine. 

Be well! 

PSA on my "Currently Reading" books

I know I know, I have been reading Unbroken and I just cannot get into it just yet. I find it to be well written and a wonderful story but I needed to put it down. Well, I did put it down, I left it to collect dust, felt so guilty that I had stop reading everything to mourn the loss...(the guilt is painful) . Some members in my book group are very honest with this as they are like me, start a book, put a book mark in at page ten  and whisper to the book, "I will be back soon, I promise." 

Sometimes you go back, sometimes you don't . But it's comforting to know that it's there.

For later.

Working a book group is one of the most rewarding, most fun and most wonderful things I have done. It takes a lot of work as everyone reads different genres and I feel it's important to keep up with all so I do a lot of book blog reading. I have became an ace on reading reviews and book news along with all the other book things one can come up with, even on Pinterest. I have so many book boards it's ridiculous. And they are mostly at the top of my Pin page so go take a peek (under Cheryl Poole-Musgrove.) Lots of good ideas, photos and memes.

So I want to shout out a  PSA. I am an insane reader now. I start a book and let go, I can't stress or feel guilty though I do, but I move on to the next one (after sorting out what I am going to read next which can take a whole evening.) I have decided I have gone from a very particular one book at a time reader to a very insane reader, I have to read a book that fits with what is going on or not going on in my life. 

So you will see me changing books around in my "Currently Reading" boxes, if I get through t hem I will be reviewing them (see Review box.) I am learning to accept my fate.

Thanks!

PS I am reading The Miniaturist by  Jessie Burton, so far so good, a bit on the The Girl with the Pearl Earring side but that was one of my favorite books so I am comfortably back in tune with a good book.

Developmental stages of reading

When you were little you could lie on your stomach for hours and read a book. You could scramble to bed, lie flat and hold a book up over your head, for hours. Your arms never tired.

Teens can curl up into fetal position or hang upside down to read. It's insane.

Once you hit adulthood you can read side lying, head propped up by arm and the book out in front of you. Hours. 

Once you hit middle age, you realize that sitting up is the way to go or you will be in a coma by page two. After all, it's the busiest time of one's life. Being tired is an expectation and a right.

Later on in life, some stand at the kitchen counter, so says my mom. She said that it is too much to sit down, she is out like a light. Bed forget it, a chair, forget it, she must stand. She has been doing this for years.

I can't imagine what old age is going to bring! I am thinking audio while being strapped to a chair with a neck harness. Clips to keep your eyes open. Caffeine IV grip.

I have tired many positions, we all have. I can't lie on my side and glare down at a book that is not directly in front of me, my eyes are all over and the lack of precision and geometry distracts me. The bed? NO way. The last bit of utter comfort without falling asleep is in this (above) chair. Straight back, pillows geared for my neck to be in the proper position and a pillow on my lap to hold a book, iPad or Kindle. I can read in cars too, however,  since we don't really go anywhere much these days and doctors are running tighter schedules, AND the TVs blaring in every sort of office now, Kathi Lee, screeching, (no offense to KL fans but really...) it's not even worth taking a book out, though I always will, mind you, always will. You never know.

I do have one doctor that refuses to have a TV in his office, I will never leave him. Never.

Reading has so many variables as you age, font size, heaviness of the book (my grandmother said if it's over two hundred pages, she's not reading it, that was in her eighties.) and character count (my grandmother said if the book has over five characters she can't keep up with them.) God rest her soul, I really didn't believe her. I thought, how can this be?? But as I get older I see the slippery slope one goes down as we find a way to stay in our hobby, a much beloved hobby, downsizing the things that make it too hard. 

For now I will sit in my chair, my books can still be heavy, font size, meh, I have retinopathy so I do tend to find bigger and glossier font and if it's lame font,  hard to see, I buy it on Kindle or eReader. I am getting out of larger population of characters books of late, it seems to be a bit much and I really have a hard time committing to any series (except for one, one I have invested in.) But a series talk will be for another blog on another day. 

I am going now, I need a good propping up to dive back into my book and hope I can maintain this way of book life for another decade or two. The forties and fifties, maybe sixties, a good reading chair is a must. With many pillows to make you feel like you are being put in the perfect position to read.  Good luck!

Reading: when it takes a back seat

January is one of the best times to read and I haven't been able to get past the first chapter of Unbroken. Not that I think it's a terribly boring book, it's quite the opposite, I just can't seem to get through some very important life distractions that seem to be taking up a lot of life-space. When I get like this I usually reach for short stories or magazines. It helps to "brief" so I feel that I am, at the very least, engaged in the one of the areas of my life that is a happy place.

Unbroken is wonderful, I know this, the first chapter is a good indicator. I am anticipating getting back to it as I do want to see the movie. Last night I finally caved to the film, Silver Linings Playbook as I know I won't read the book any time soon. (Fabulous movie, by the way.)  It's quite a struggle, book vs. film. And this is because I have so many TBR piles that naturally, the cave in to a film is easier than fitting in "one more book."  Especially now. But I am going to stand firm with Unbroken.

The new year starts a bit distracted, off kilter and strange, rest assured, book nerds like me always finds a way back to the disciplined book life. I know I will. For now I will continue to tip toe through Unbroken and my short stories (I read all my magazines yesterday. I can tell you what lipstick is in for Spring.)  

* The photo up top? Only one of many piles of TBR books in my bedroom I purposely tipped it over for the snap. I have to get them all in order someday. I think it's time to take all the books I have read off my shelves and replace them with all the TBRs. That way I know what I have.