It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? a place to meet up and share what you have been, and are about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organise yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment and er… add to your groaning TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn here at The Book Date.
Jen Vincent, Teach Mentor Texts, and Kellee of Unleashing Readers decided to give It’s Monday! a kidlit focus. If you read and review books in children’s literature – picture books, chapter books, middle grade novels, young adult novels or anything in those genres – join them.
Welcome in one and all. Hope you are now all getting your 2019 reading groove sorted. As part of the new year I went on Goodreads and got realistic about that TBR list! I brought it down from over 1600 to 241. And… maybe I’ll even cut that back a little more.
What I read last week:
I loved the Marilla book – so well written and researched. Just captured her perfectly. Finished Cowboy Seal Homecoming on audio and The Victory Garden is one for review.
What I am reading now:
So I was able to pick one up off my own TBR shelf this time. I see I got it in 2017 from a book fair. Published way back in 2002
I am about to start listening to
Up next:
A review book
The Book Date 
As usual you have some great reads that have been added to my WTR list at Goodreads! Thank you for such a great post and party!
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Whoa that’s a good sized purge! I need to do that again. It’s been 2 years since I did one on there.
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I’m so glad you love Marilla! I really enjoyed it and it has made me want to reread all the Anne books. I think it’ll provide some new insight to Marilla as a character.
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Didn’t Sarah McCoy do a wonderful job.
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OMG. Great job on your Goodreads TBR! That was quite an accomplishment.
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Wowza, that is a TRB cut! Mostly my TBR maintenance on Goodreads amounts to me closing my eyes, putting my hands over my ears, and singing “La la la la…” 😉
Have a great reading week!
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Thanks Katherine you made me laugh.
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Oh, I’d love to read the Marilla book! I am newish to Anne of Green Gables but definitely a fan. So impressed by your whittling down your TBR list. Mine is on a spreadsheet rather than on Goodreads, but I think it is close to (maybe over!) 1000. It’s a list I’ve kept up for over 15 years, so I’m sure I could reduce it a BIT.
Enjoy your books this week – and thanks for hosting!
Sue
Book By Book
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We aren’t going to read all the books so I guess its like doing a Marie Kondo on them before we read!
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Looks like a good week Kathryn. Right now I’m almost finished with Nora Roberts Of Blood and Bone book two in The One trilogy
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Hope you are enjoying it Debbie. I skipped that trilogy of hers even though usually I do read them.
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Ack the Marilla one, I kept on hoping even though I knew
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Amazing on the cut back!! 🙂
THE BEACH HOUSE looks good.
ENJOY your books and your week, and thanks for stopping by my blog.
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These all look so lovely. I love sneaking in a book from my TBR pile. I used to feel really guilty if I read an “ older “ book. I am trying to get over that.
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Usually the book is still good even though its older!! If its not then no qualms about tossing it!
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Good idea to cut back on the TBR list. I have over 800 on mine and need to trim it down.Thanks for hosting. Have a great week!
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I love Sonja’s books. I hope you enjoy True Places. Have a great week!
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I think I will Susan, I actually have her debut book on my Kindle which I never read – yet!
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I love Mary Alice Monroe’s books. I hear she has a new one publishing this year!
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Yes Mary I saw that on Instagram and marked it down to read.
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I have to catch up on Nicole Helm’s books. I enjoyed the first one in her series. The Rhys Bowen book looks good. Hope you have a great week!
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Wow that’s an awesome TBR reduction! And I was happy to see your review of Here and Now and then since I’ve been eyeing that one after seeing another review. Sometimes time travel works for me and sometimes it doesn’t! 🙂
Have a great week!
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Glad to hear you enjoyed Marilla. I am still working on review books, but then I am diving into it. Cowboy books are always fun. Hope you have a great week.
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Amazing list. Happy Monday, I’m starting my day with cup of coffee and ICU written by Pooja Agarwal
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I’m curious about Bowen’s book. I don’t use GR to track my TBR list but I still need to update my GR account, that’s for sure. Enjoy your reading week.
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I don’t put TBRs on Goodreads anymore but I have waaay too many on my kindle shelf and plenty paperbacks and audio too.
All of your books look like good reading/listening. Have a good week!
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Wow, congrats on cutting your TBR down so much. My list is around 500 books. That’s more than I’ll ever be able to read. Have a great week!
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I have True Places on my Kindle…I should read it soon.
Enjoy your week, and I must confess that my Goodreads TBR is all about books I might read some day, and I seldom pay attention to the list. Until I actually get the books to match those titles.
Thanks for sharing and hosting.
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That’s a smart idea, to go through your TBR and knock out what you’re not interested in anymore. I’m going to do that!
I’ll work on my post tomorrow so I’ll link up then.
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I got my Goodreads TBR list down to 0. It is kinda nice, but not a true picture! LOL. The Beach House was a good read.
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