LibraryCin's Trim that TBR

Ok, so I've just joined, but have been keeping track of books that I've read this year that have been on my tbr longer than about 2 years. That's what I'd like to continue to count here.

My tbr includes anything I plan to read, whether it be listed virtually (many of them will come from the library), a physical book I have or an e-book or audio. I will count it if I think it's been languishing on my tbr for 2 or more years.

I'm not sure I have a specific goal so much as just trying to get to some of the older ones and keeping track as a way to remind myself to do that.

I'll post my list of what I've read so far from my tbr that's 2+ years old...

1. High Crimes / Michael Kodas. 4.5 stars
2. Little House on the Prairie / Laura Ingalls Wilder. 4 stars
3. Tab Hunter Confidential / Tab Hunter, Eddie Muller. 3.5 stars
4. Duplicity Dogged the Dachshund / Blaize Clement. 4 stars
5. Tabloid Love / Bridget Harrison. 3.5 stars
6. Chinese Islanders / Hung-Min Chiang. 3.5 stars
7. The Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul / Marty Chan. 4 stars
8. The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw / Bruce Barcott. 4 stars
9. Category 7 / Bill Evans, Marianna Jameson. 3.5 stars
10. The Familiars / Adam Jay Epstein, Andrew Jacobson. 4 stars
11. Amazing Gracie / Dan Dye and Mark Beckloff. 4.5 stars
12. Eating Animals / Jonathan Safran Foer. 4.5 stars
13. Shattered Dreams / Irene Spencer. 4 stars
14. Sweethearts / Sara Zarr. 4 stars
15. Unless / Carol Shields. 3.25 stars
16. No Shortcuts to the Top / Ed Viesturs. 4 stars
17. Jamaica Inn / Daphne du Maurier. 3.5 stars
18. Good to a Fault / Marina Endicott. 3.5 stars
19. The Likeness / Tana French. 4 stars
20. Lancaster and York: The Wars of the Roses / Alison Weir. 3.5 stars
21. The Big Burn / Timothy Egan. 4 stars
22. Murder Past Due / Miranda James. 4 stars
23. The Knife of Never Letting Go / Patrick Ness. 3.5 stars
24. Arkham Asylum / Grant Morrison. 3 stars
25. The Big Thaw / Ed Struzik. 3.5 stars
26. Thin is the New Happy / Valerie Frankel. 4 stars
27. Academy X / Andrew Trees. 3.5 stars
28. The Daughter of Time / Josephine Tey. 3.5 stars

Oh, do I need to set up a ticker? Can someone explain how to do that? Thanks!

Hi Library, and welcome! How to get a ticker?
1. Go to tickerfactory.com
2. Select create a new ticker.
3. Make your fun selections
4. Copy the code (HTML) for the ticker when you are finished
5. paste on here
6. each time you update go to tickerfactory.com and it will automatically update here!

Hope this helps.
Tess

Welcome to the ROOT Group.

There is a special Thread for tickers only. That is a way to help Cyderry with the monthly counting of the numbers. You can paste the HTML code there too.

http://www.librarything.nl/topic/162053

Every time you update your ticker it will change in every thread you have copied the HTML code to.

>4 Tess_W: and >5 connie53: thank you both! Guess I'd better go create my ticker!

You can edit your first post and put the ticker in there. Or in the second post where you list your read books. So everything stays together!

Thanks connie! It's done! :-)

Yes! Nice! good job.

Looks nice and list of books looks interesting!

>10 Tess_W: Thank you! I see that a similar paw print/kitty theme was used by a few people!

Welcome to the group. That's an amazing number of ROOTs you've read!

>12 MissWatson: Thank you! I suppose it helps that I am aiming for 150 in total this year (currently at 113, I think), so percentage-wise, I could probably do better, but at least I'm picking away at them!

Oops! I forgot about this! I read three more in September:

29. The Winter Years / James H. Gray. 3.5 stars
30. My Fair Lazy / Jen Lancaster. 3.5 stars
31. Unbroken / Laura Hillenbrand. 4.5 stars

Well, great. It tells me I chose a PIN when I set up my ticker? Don't remember, so it's not getting updated... unless I can remember it.

Can't you do a: forgot my password?

>16 connie53: I don't think it was an option. I think it said if you can't remember, you have to start over. I'll check again, though.

I think you are right! That's a pity.

I still haven't taken time to figure out my password OR to set up a new ticker, so I'll just post my numbers for October.

In October, I read 4 more:

32. A Beautiful Place to Die / Malla Nunn. 4 stars
33. Natasha and Other Stories / David Bezmozgis. 3.5 stars
34. Three Bags Full / Leonie Swann. 3 stars
35. You've Got Murder / Donna Andrews. 3.5 stars

Through November and December, I've read 6 more, for a 2014 total of 41!

36. The Bone People / Keri Hulme. 2 stars
37. My Sister's Keeper / Jodi Picoult. 4.25 stars
38. Category 5: The Story of Camille... / Ernest Zebrowski & Judith A. Howard. 4.5 stars
39. The Anteater of Death / Betty Webb. 4 stars
40. From a Whisper to a Scream / Charles de Lint. 3.5 stars
41. Blind Faith / Ben Elton. 4 stars