The Towering TBR

[asphaltcowgrrl]

I’d said a week or two ago that I’m going to try and focus on the books languishing on my Goodreads ‘currently reading’ shelf. Some that have been sitting on there since 2007. Yeah. I’m not very good at finishing things, am I?

On the bright side, I did manage to knock one off the list this morning. Finally finished The Silent Patient after starting it sometime last year. On the down side, I had a book come in from the library, so now I’m reading The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. You win some, you lose some. Haha.

The towering list:

Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night - various authors
Break No Bones - Kathy Reichs (Temperance Brennan #9)
Promise of the Witch-King - R. A. Salvatore (Sellswords #2)
Chainfire - Terry Goodkind (The Sword of Truth #9)
Mental Floss Presents: Forbidden Knowledge: A Wickedly Smart Guide to History’s Naughtiest Bits - Will Pearson
Hades’ Daughter - Sara Douglass (The Troy Game #1)
My Evil Valentine - Various authors
Raven Black - Ann Cleeves (Vera Stanhope #1)
Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World - Anne Jamison
And I Darken - Kiersten White (The Conqueror’s Saga #1)
In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond - Robert D. Kaplan
Heir of the Dog - Hailey Edwards (Black Dog #2)
The Kind Worth Killing - Peter Swanson
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer - Michelle McNamara
How to Marry a Cowboy/Reckless in Texas - Carolyn Brown/Kari Lynn Dell (Cowboy & Brides #4/Texas Rodeo #1)
A King of Infinite Space - Tyler Dilts (Long Beach Homicide #1)
Corralled - Lorelei James (Blacktop Cowboys #1)
Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus’ Crimes, Lifestyles, and Corruption – Ion Mihai Pacepa
Dodging and Burning - John Copenhaver
The Au Pair - Emma Rous
The Night Olivia Fell - Christina McDonald
Beyond the Pale - Clare O’Donohue (A World of Spies Mystery #1)
Preludes & Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman (The Sandman #1)
Year One - Nora Roberts (Chronicles of The One #1)
Sword of Destiny - Andrzej Sapkowski (The Witcher #0.75)
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime - Judith Flanders
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires - Grady Hendrix
The Vanishing - Jayn Ann Krentz (Fogg Lake #1)
Lost - John Patterson (Tom Moon #1)
A Plain Vanilla Murder - Susan Wittig Albert (China Bayles #27)
Silver in the Wood - Emily Tesh
Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump - Glenn Simpson
The Last Enemy - Pauline Baird Jones (Lonesome Lawmen #1)
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games #0.5)

Yeah, so that’s 35 books that I’m supposedly currently reading. Hahaha. In my defense, seven of them were library books that I wasn’t able to finish before they went back. One is a very long audio that I’m going to start back on now that I’m done with the other. The rest? There’s no excuse. I’m just… bad… about getting distracted.

Chainfire might have to wait a bit. The Sword of Truth books were one of Troy’s favorite series and I might cry going back to reading them before I’m ready. Also the one about the Ceausecus’ and the one about Trump both got to be too much (both at different times because HOO DOGGIES was Romania a mess of corruption, but damn if the US isn’t getting there at the moment), so I’ll go back to them both when I’m in a better state of mind.

So, if something sparks your interest, let me know. I might see if I can wedge it out of its spot and read it next. Also, if you feel the need to point out the fact that I obviously have a problem, then whatever. I know it, I’ve known it for a long time. There’s no help for me, but I’m trying, okay?

I guess at least I'm eclectic in my choices, eh?