TBR take 2
Added 2025-01-28 14:49:19 +0000 UTCThe first attempt just sounded a bit...judgy. :D Good for clickbait but not great for everyone's blood pressure, soo...
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I'm guilty of the TBR pile. Very, very guilty... that's where I am ;;'
Cashagon Oak
2025-08-28 11:44:02 +0000 UTCAs long as you are actually reading, I don't care how you get there!
Bryan C Edwards
2025-02-05 22:53:40 +0000 UTCThe freedom to read what you want to read, and stop reading what you don't like, is a freedom from the tyranny of the sunk cost fallacy. Good for you, and don't become like me, with dozens and dozens of books in boxes, as they won't fit in my library.
Gene Simonalle
2025-01-30 20:06:17 +0000 UTCI’m the same. I have books which I know are coming soon, or where I know I need to read to catch up across a series, usually something an author has something out soon. I do have a historic list of books from before I ditched my tbr pile … and these are the equivalent of people loitering at a party, hoping to get involved in something interesting. Maybe they will be read, maybe they won’t. Maybe they will be gifted to others, maybe they will be ripped apart and used as test pieces for improving my bookbinding skills … or maybe they are used to prop up a shelf which has started to sag. So instead of a TBR pile it becomes my “do not throw out as there may be some use in the future” pile.
Tony Sheppard
2025-01-30 15:42:49 +0000 UTCI wasn't bothered at all by the 1st version, taking it as your expression of where you're "at" regarding the TBR pile....
Alan Taylor
2025-01-30 12:53:12 +0000 UTCThe internet is bean soup central, (look up tiktok bean soup if you want to be enraged) so I figured a “this is what I do” tone would work better 😁
Jill Bearup
2025-01-29 18:14:13 +0000 UTCA counterpoint: one of my favorite authors recently recommended four books. Because I value her opinion, I want to read them all, but, due to my limitations, I had to select a first book to read, leaving the others to be read... Since I acquired her suggestions on my eReader, the clutter in the house was not increased, and I am cheerfully making my way through the list. I loved Trooper #3
Jim Sanderson
2025-01-29 16:26:52 +0000 UTCMy TBR is largely a function of preordering books that I definitely want to read but don't have time for right when the release date rolls around. I've made a dent in it recently though!
Natalie Arnold
2025-01-29 09:47:40 +0000 UTCI confess I love having (many) books available to grab at a whim. I have books to be read or to be finished all over the place. I concede that the place is not tidy.
Jim Sanderson
2025-01-29 09:07:21 +0000 UTCUgh, I hope this wasn't due to the fact that I responded to the first attempt with "I feel attacked". On the one hand: yes, I did feel attacked a bit, but I will say that I deserve to be. You made great points and I should be honest with myself that an ever-growing TBR pile is unsustainable. It doesn't matter how many I do actually get through if I am buying at a rate that exceeds what I'm actually reading... I think that the redo does pull the punches a bit and I hope that this is because it was the tone you were originally going for. However, I'm honestly glad I got to see the original and got a bit more force in those punches because it was something that I needed to hear, even if it did make be squirm a bit.
Greg Boege
2025-01-29 05:29:51 +0000 UTCGreat idea! I will give myself the emotional freedom to do the same….hmmmm, I wonder what other emotional expectational baggage I’m lugging around. I’ll need a nice cup of tea and a good book to figure that out. I’ll need to pick one I really want of course! 😉
Emily Flanigan
2025-01-29 02:17:56 +0000 UTC
