Down the TBR Hole is a feature created by Lost in a Story (although the blog seems to be down).
I've seen it on a few other blogs and thought I would try it out
myself! It seems like a really good way to cull your TBR of those books
you're no longer interested in. So, how does it work?
- Go to your Goodreads to-read shelf.
- Order on ascending date added.
- Take the first 5 (or 10 (or even more!) if you’re feeling adventurous) books. Of course, if you do this weekly, you start where you left off the last time.
- Read the synopses of the books
- Decide: keep it or should it go?
Here are the books I'm looking at this time:
An author having an affair with a married man becomes obsessed with him and his wife, blurring the lines of reality. Not the most original of premises - pass!
This book is about a Norwegian village where the men have perished and the women are facing the threat of a witch hunt from an outside force, in the 1600s. It's based on real events and sounds really interesting - keep!
In the near future, the human race faces another ice age. NASA launches a mission to explore an object in space that may be somehow causing the climate change. I really enjoy sci-fi stories, especially ones that have a space component - keep!
A nonfiction book about two female doctors who treated soldiers in France during WWI and later opened a hospital in London. I'm always on the lookout for interesting nonfiction - keep!
A small Texas town is poised for a boom when oil is discovered, but prosperity is not the only thing that finds this town. This sounds a little too dark and heavy for me right now - pass!
A woman in a fugue state loses two days of her life, and she must piece together what happened during those days and how a trauma from her childhood may be resurfacing. This premise is kind of intriguing, but I'm just not fully into it - pass!
Have you read any of these?
The Mercies sound like just my kinda read. I love that it's based on real events!
ReplyDeleteMe, too!
DeleteI can be of no help, as I have read zero of these books. The premise of The Mercies is the most intriguing to me though
ReplyDeleteHaha, thanks, Sam!
DeleteI haven't read any of these, but Winter World sounds super interesting!
ReplyDeleteAgreed!
DeleteI've not read any of these, but I did dump Valentine from my TBR during the pandemic for the same reason. It just sounded way too heavy of a read.
ReplyDeleteExactly!
DeleteI read Have You Seen Me? a while back. I remember liking it OK, but remember almost nothing of the story. Guess that says something. LOL
ReplyDeleteHaha, so true!
DeleteI haven't read any of these titles, but I think The Mercies sounds fascinating! I hope that you enjoy the ones that you have chosen to keep. :)
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