Roof Beam Reader
Adam Burgess
May Checkpoint! #TBR2019RBR
Hello, TBR Pile Challengers!
Welcome to the 5th checkpoint for our annual TBR Pile Challenge! I hope you are all making good progress and enjoying yourselves (and your reading selections! We have 169 reviews/check-in posts linked up already, with 7 months to go, and I think that’s beyond awesome! Way to go, you all!
I’m pleased to report that, in this 5th month of the challenge, I have read 5 of my 12 books! That puts me right on pace, with summer freedom (ha!) coming up. I hope to get a little bit ahead during the summer months, so this actually puts me in a good place. The only problem is that I’m behind on reviewing — I have to get some thoughts down for the last two books I’ve read for this challenge. I’ve been in a bit of a blog-writing slump, to be honest, so we’ll see if I can kick that soon.
Progress: 5 of 12 Completed / 3 of 12 Reviewed
As you can see, I need to write reviews for Letters to a Young Poet and for We, and then link them up. I think the next book up from my list might be Gemini (1998) by Michel Tournier, which I’ve wanted to read for a long time; I’ve held off on it so far this year, though, because it is very long and I wanted to make sure I had enough free time to devote to it. In other words, I needed this semester to end!
Books read:
- The House of the Vampire (1907) by George Sylvester Viereck
- The Funhouse by (1980) by Dean Koontz
- Timequake (1997) by Kurt Vonnegut
- Letters to a Young Poet (1934) by Rainer Maria Rilke
- We (1924) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
How are you doing?
Below, you’re going to find the infamous Mr. Linky widget. If you read and review any challenge books this month, please link-up on the widget below. This Mr. Linky will be re-posted every month so that we can compile a large list of all that we’re reading and reviewing together this year. Each review that is linked-up on this widget throughout the year may also earn you entries into future related giveaways, so don’t forget to keep this updated!
MINI-CHALLENGE #2 WINNER: Linday from Three Good Rats!
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Roof Beam Reader 
I’ve read 9 of the 14 on my list. Yay! I’m about 3/4 done with the tenth. One favorite was Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me by Karen Swallow Prior. One that is yet unread is On Writing Well by William Zinsser: I imagine that I’ll probably want to read that one slowly to absorb it better.
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I have quite a few slow non-fiction (mostly writing related) selections on my list, and though I want to read them, I wonder if they were the right choice for the challenge. Oops!
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I have read six of my selections (still need to do a review for Miss Agatha Doubles for Death) and am set to begin number seven (The Lover). So, I’m feeling pretty good at the moment….hope to keep up the momentum.
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Nice!
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I’ve read three and reviewed two and am about to start reading my fourth – a Dorothy Whipple, so that’s a treat! But after a slow start I feel like I’m on the way, so all is good!
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Great! Dorothy Whipple, I’ve never read. What would you recommend first? I’ll add something to my GR list.
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You can’t go wrong with any of them but ‘They were Sisters’ is chilling and is also a creepy film with James Mason!
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I’ve read 4 and reviewed 3, so I’m a little behind where I wanted to be, but not by much.
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I’ve read 4 off my list, plus one of the alternates, so not too bad. Favorite so far is Dorothy Baker’s Young Man With A Horn
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I’m doing much better than last year so far, so I’m proud. I’ve only finished one review so far, but I’ve read three off of my list – one being my longest read, which I was concerned about.
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I finally read 1 of the 14 on my list! I’ve been so focused on two of my other challenges as well as some books I need to read for work. Looks like I don’t have any others from this challenge in the line up for a while, but maybe I’ll move my list around a bit to push one up a bit further.
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Finally read one off my list. Work reading has been such a focus followed by two other challenges. Hopefully I’ll get more focused on this one soon!
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I’m halfway through #6, but I have yet to review #5 — I’ve got a bit of a backlog just now and am more worried about getting to the end of the semester than anything else! #6 is really good though 🙂
And I have three of the LONG titles on my 20 Books of Summer pile.
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