I'm working my way through #VirtualMountTBR. Here's my current To-Be-Read List, and here's the list of titles I have read this year.
In February 2023
Books read: 11
Books I decided NOT to finish: 4
Touchstone, it turns out, is not one of the Mary Russell series that I'm trying to complete. It's the first of a different series about a WWI soldier experiencing intrigue on an English estate several years after the war. Off the list!
Also, I accidentally read Room to Dream (#3 in the Front Desk Series) before getting #2. So I decided not to read Three Keys at all.
I think Julie Andrews's biography Home renewed 5 times before I decided I was just never going to get to it, and I was all right with that.
Same for Something Wild -- I'd put it on the list to fill a category in the 2022 Reading Challenge, and I don't actually find it interesting. Returned unread.
Books left on the TBR List: 127
Best book of the month: Dreamcatcher
This was a re-read, but it's been a couple decades and I enjoyed the cross between the dark doings of Derry and close encounters of the third kind. (TMI warning: Just as Psycho made millions nervous about the other side of the shower curtain, you may be reminded of this story when you next visit the bathroom.)
Worst book of the month: Liberation Day
This collection of short stories by George Saunders did not hit with me, despite coming recommended by some librarian colleagues. Some intriguing thoughts on identity and agency through a lens faceted by politics and technology, but a little too thinky for me right now.
