Play Book Tag discussion

Challenges (Keeping It Simple)

l. Play Book Tag
2. Trim the TBR
3. Expand our Horizons (cultures)
4. Historical Books (Fiction and Non-fiction)
5. Other Books

Play Book Tag

January-Action/Adventure: 1. Origin by Dan Brown; 2. Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
Other Books
February-Life-1. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
March-Debut: 1. Rules of Civility
April-History: 1. A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
May-Beautiful: 1. Once Upon A River by Diane Satterfield
June
July-21st century: The Children of Men
August
September
October The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
November
December

Trim the TBR

l. Moloka'i
2. Lost City of the Monkey God
3. Remarkable Creatures
4. Destiny of the Republic
5. Radium Girls
6. Bedlam
7. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
8.Mans Search for Meaning
9. In the Garden of Beasts
10.Peaches for Father Francis
11.The Portable Dorthy Parker
12.I Capture the Castle
13.The Bookseller's Tale
14.The Truffle Underground
15.Silver Linings Playbook
16.The Children of Men
17.Anne of Green Gables*February TTTBR/Cross-posted to
February Monthly Tag-Life
18.Bel Canto
19.
20. Commonwealth
21.In the Skin of a Lion
22.Hero of the Empire-Winston Churchill
23.The Woman Who Smashed Codes
24.Once Upon a River-May Read (Beautiful)
25.Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert
26.The Seven Ages of Paris
27.Beekeeper:Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
28.The Little French Bistro
29.The Shadow Land
30.Major Pettegrew's Last Stand
31.Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee
32.Rules of Civility
33.A Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass
34.Tomorrow*March TBR
35.The Rainwatcher
36.Calypso

Expand Our PBT Horizons

January-Iraq
February-Portugal
March-South Korea-A Single Shard
April-Italy
May-Brazil-Brazil by John Updike
June-Greece
July-Syria
August-Australia
September-Egypt
October
November
December

Historical Books (Fiction and Nonfiction)

January-A.D. 922 Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
February-1900's Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
March-A.D. 1000 A Single Shard
April-A.D. 14th century France A Distant Mirror
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Looks great, Diane - that’s such a good Trim the TBR list. I have several on my own generic TBR too, like Bel Canto which I keep meaning to get to.

I like the idea of ‘keeping it simple’ - much more sensible than my over-ambitious group of things, which will probably end up feeling like the proverbial millstone ...