Thursday, July 6, 2023

What Do You Do?


Okay, I have a question for you. When you download a new book, does it go to the bottom of your TBR pile? How do you decide what order you read your TBR pile in?

For me, it depends on the mood I'm in and that's how I'll pick the next one. With so many good books coming out, it has been so hard to choose lately!

So how do you manage your TBR pile?

2 comments:

NaDell said...

It's hard to move a new book I'm extra excited about to the bottom of the giant pile (or list if it's digital!) I just try to balance out the new books with the ones I have had sitting as much as I can.
This year I decided to not read any digital books until April and focus on my physical books to read and got through quite a few before I shifted to a lot (45!) of digital audiobooks (which I haven't done before) by one author to prepare for a book signing this year at the book store I work at. Slowly trying to balance in the physical books again.
Something else I do is to read seasonally. Like if a book is Christmas, I read it in December most of the time or if a book is set in summer I try to read those in summer. I also read based on what I'm studying about at church, so my non-fiction books go with the study for the year and often there's a historical fiction book I read along with those. I toss a biography in there as well for my study time (and because I have a goal to read 12 biographies this year).
I usually have 6+ books I'm reading: 3 non-fiction, 1 fiction to go with the non-fiction, 1 work book I read if there's any down-time, 1 physical book, 1 kindle book, and another for a book group-digital or physical borrowed from the library.
I kind of LOVE books and this makes my yearly goal of 200 books a bit more attainable. I'm already at 126 for the year!

Julie Coulter Bellon said...

Wow, NaDell! I love seeing your process. That's amazing!