We have another challenge up in the GR MobileRead Group!
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...tion-challenge
TBR Mountain Decimation Challenge
Decimate
1: to select by lot and kill every tenth man of
2: to exact a tax of 10 percent from [poor as a decimated Cavalier — John Dryden]
3a : to reduce drastically especially in number [cholera decimated the population]
3b : to cause great destruction or harm to [firebombs decimated the city] [an industry decimated by recession]
It has become apparent that there are those of us who have a small addiction…to books. Our "To Be Read" lists have become so mind boggling, life expectancy defying-ly huge that we have ceased to call them lists and have dubbed them mountains. We haven’t yet met a library we didn’t like while simultaneously spending every free dime on books.
Take
me for example:
TBR Owned: 125
TBR: 223
Total: 348
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a problem.
Thus I suggest to you the TBR Mountain Decimation Challenge. There two parts to this challenge.
The first challenge is to read at least
1 out of every
10 books on your TBR Mountain. If you have library books, you have to read those first.
The second (and possibly hardest) part of the challenge is to
not buy any books if you don’t read X number of books first. You choose the number, but in order to be sporting it really should be more than a 2:1 ratio.
For example, I will purchase
1 book for every
6 books I read.
So, who’s interested in trying to decimate some of those TBR Mountains?!