Roof Beam Reader
Adam Burgess
October Checkpoint #TBRYear10
Happy Autumn, TBR Pile Challengers!
Well, it’s autumn here in the United States, but I suppose it is spring elsewhere. Anyhow, those are the two best seasons, aren’t they? So, happiness all-around!
I wonder if you might take a moment to leave a comment this month and share your favorite book from this year’s challenge? If you’ve completed your list or made a lot of progress, share that too! We’d love to cheer you on and feel motivated too, especially those of us who have been stuck for a little bit.
My Progress: 10 of 12 Completed
I’m pretty happy with my current status in this year’s challenge. I’ve finished ten of my books and have posted reviews for nine of them. I think I’m still on a track to completing at least the twelve main selections, and possibly both alternates! That said, I’ve been reading horror and thriller novels this month for Halloween and Readers Imbibing Peril, and of course I didn’t put any of those on my TBR Pile Challenge list, so I’m on a slight detour. I’ll be back to the challenge in November and December!
Books Read:
- The Poppy War (2018) by R.F. Kuang (Chinese Historical Fantasy) (Completed 1/10/23)
- Pachinko (2017) by Min Jin Lee (Korean-American Lit Fic) (Completed 2/12/23)
- Look (2016) by Solmaz Sharif (Poetry/Iranian-American) (Completed 3/10/23)
- Steppenwolf (1927) by Hermann Hesse (Philosophical Novel) (Completed 4/22/23)
- North and South (1854) by Elizabeth Gaskell (British Lit Fic) (Completed 6/19/23)
- The Power of Now (1997) by Ekhart Tolle (NonFiction/Spirituality) (Completed 6/30/23)
- Why I Write (1946) by George Orwell (Craft/Memoir) (Completed 7/21/23)
- Patron Saints of Nothing (2019) by Randy Ribay (YA/Filipino-American) (Completed 07/28/23)
- Sons and Lovers (1913) by D.H. Lawrence (Classics/British Fiction) (Completed 08/11/23)
- Going to Meet the Man (1965) by James Baldwin (American Short Stories) (Completed 09/21/23)
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! LINK UP YOUR REVIEWS!
Roof Beam Reader 
Sorry I missed this on the 15th – you’re doing well! I’m on my last read Cannery Row which is wonderful but I’ve got a few reviews outstanding (nothing new there!)
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I love Steinbeck!
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I’ve read 11 so far. I’m about halfway through Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis. My favourite reads have been The Golem and the Djinn by Helene Wecker and The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes.
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Oh, I loved The Golem and the Djinn!
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I am finished with the challenge–well, at least as finished as I’m going to be. I planned on reading all 14 books (original 12 plus both alternates). I’ve completed 13–11 from the original list and both alternates. I tried to read The War Come Home, but it wasn’t headed quite where I thought it would go and I threw in the towel.
My favorite from the list was Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper. It was a delightful children’s fantasy novel filled with mystery and adventure and a good old battle between the forces of good and evil. I cannot believe that I never discovered and read it when I was growing up. I would have loved and appreciated it so much more if I had. Reading it in my fifties was fun–but not nearly as much fun as it would have been if I had still been in my single digits.
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I absolutely love The Dark is Rising series! I’m so glad you found it and enjoyed it.
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10 out of 12 is a good place to be in early November, that is depending on the length of the remaining two. I consciously decided not to do challenges this year apart from the Big Book Summer, but I do mostly read from my TBR shelf when new books don’t distract me. I loved A Gentleman in Moscow, which I finally got around to this year, and the non-fiction Around the World in 80 Plants, which my sister gave me a few years ago, was fantastic. My TBR shelf is groaning, so I may actually sign up for the challenge next year, but I do like the freedom of following my interests down various rabbit holes.
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Around the World in 80 Plants sounds interesting!
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I finished the challenge!! I read all 12 of my originally chosen titles. Didn’t read the alternates. Here’s the link back to my booklist, now updated with review links.
https://inthebookcase.blogspot.com/2023/01/2023-book-reading-challenges.html
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