Inspired by book blogger Davida, at The Chocolate Lady’s Book Review Blog, herself inspired by a couple of other bloggers (see here for instance). I plan to post about it on Saturdays, except the 1st Sat of the month, when I usually feature another meme.

The rules are simple:

Sort your Goodreads TBR shelf from oldest to new
Pick the first 5 or 10 (or whatever number you choose, depending on how large your list is) books you see
Decide whether to keep them or get rid of them.

RESULTS FOR PREVIOUS READ OR SKIP

16, 17, 20: skip
21: maybe read
Read the others for sure.

READ OR SKIP #6

#readorskip

Let’s try again 8 titles today. And again, I’m super grateful for your input.

19) A History of the World in 100 Objects

“Neil MacGregor’s A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them.”
Sounds like a great way of revisiting History.
READ

20) How to Travel with a Salmon

Eco’s essays are fantastic!
BUT I’m wandering if they would be too much like in Chronicles of a Liquid Society, even possibly some essays exactly the same. The titles of the essays look different, but the content may be the same.
READ?

21) How Proust Can Change Your Life

I love Proust and read the whole of In Search of Lost Time, so I thought it might be a good way of revisiting it.
BUT: what book is that really? Is that really literary criticism? Or too much on the light side, closer to self-help.
READ?

22) The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee

Not sure why, but I’ve always been fascinated by John Dee and would like to read a biography.
BUT is it the best biography on him??
READ

23) The Paris Enigma

Another Paris World Fair mystery, I think I’ll pass. I enjoyed this one a lot.
SKIP

24) Bird Sense

As an avid birder, I have lots of books about birds on my TBR, and I can’t read them all. Should I keep this one? I does sound excellent.
Birders, I need your input!
READ

25) The Story of English in 100 Words

And I have a lot of books on my TBR on the English language!!
A reader writes: “Entertaining and light history of the English language in a listicle format.” Is it too light??
READ

26) 2666

Oh, how funny 2666 ends up being #26 here!!
It’s a HUGE book, but I have heard so much about Roberto Bolaño, I absolutely want to read it one day!
Any shorter book by him you recommend I read?
READ

Hmm, do you notice a word SKIP shows up only once today!
What do YOU think? Should I also skip 20 and 21? Or any other? If yu had to skip one, which one would it be?

HAVE YOU READ THESE?
READ OR SKIP?
I ALSO WELCOME SUGGESTIONS
FOR GOOD BOOKS ON SIMILAR THEMES