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Hello everyone and welcome back to the blog! How are you all? I hope good.

I am back with a Down the TBR post. So let’s see how I did these past few days.

The Down the TBR meme was created by Lia (Lost in a Story).

You’re probably wondering how this works but it’s actually pretty easy:

  • Go to your Goodreads to-read shelf.
  • Order on ascending date added.
  • Take the first 5 or 10 books (or even more if you’re feeling motivated enough). And of course, if you’re doing this weekly you’ll start where you left off the week before. 
  • Read the synopses of the books.
  • Decide: keep it or toss it! 

And now without further ado, let’s do this!

Last time on my shelf – 1552
This time on my shelf – 1565

I should stop adding new books to the wishlist. Send help *sobbing*

#1 –Night Owls by Jenn Bennett – Link to Goodreads

I have doubts on this one, so I will have to let go and delete it.

Decision – GO

#2 – Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith – Link to Goodreads

Same as above.

Decision – GO

#3 – Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris – Link to Goodreads

It’s the 4th one in a series so bye!

Decision – GO

#4 – Mean Streak by Sandra Brown – Link to Goodreads

I seriously don’t think that I’m going to read it soon. There are still so many books on my shelf and I just need to decide.

Decision – GO

#5 – One for the Money by Janet Evanovich – Link to Goodreads

I’ve always wanted to read this series and I have one of these books on my physical TBR so I guess it can stay.

Decision – KEEP

#6 – Red Dragon by Thomas Harris – Link to Goodreads

Hannibal Lecter is also a series I wanted to read in the past. So I guess it will stay a little while longer.

Decision – KEEP

#7 – Shroud for a Nightingale by P.D. James – Link to Goodreads

It’s the fourth book in a series. SO it goes.

Decision – GO

#8 –Tell No One by Harlan Coben – Link to Goodreads

Harlan Coben is an author I definitely want to read, so it stays.

Decision – KEEP

#9 – The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver – Link to Goodreads

This sounds like a great thriller. It stays.

Decision – KEEP

#10 – The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino – Link to Goodreads

Third book in a series. It has to go.

Decision – GO

#11 – The Innocent by Harlan Coben – Link to Goodreads

It’s a Harlan Coben novel. It stays.

Decision – KEEP

#12 – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie – Link to Goodreads

I want to restart reading the Agatha Christie novels in the right order. So this one has to leave for now.

Decision – GO

#13 – The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon – Link to Goodreads

I want to read books by this author and I think now is the right time. So it stays.

Decision – KEEP

#14 – When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman – Link to Goodreads

It will have to go. I’ve no interest at all in this one.

Decision – GO

#15 – I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak – Link to Goodreads

I Need To Read This One!

Decision – KEEP

#16 – A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro – Link to Goodreads

Same as above.

Decision – KEEP

#17 – The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch – Link to Goodreads

Nope.

Decision – GO

#18 – Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng – Link to Goodreads

I will read it. I promise!

Decision – KEEP

#19 – The Field Guide by Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black – Link to Goodreads

I heard great things, so I might give this series a try again.

Decision – KEEP

#20 – Release by Patrick Ness – Link to Goodreads

Also, one of the books I absolutely want to read. So it stays as well.

Decision – KEEP

Total number of books kept – 11
Total number of books that had to go – 9
Total number on my to-read shelf – 1556

I will do better next time. Or not, guess we’ll see next week *facepalm emoji insert*