I am now entering year three of Tackling the TBR. Slowly but surely I have made big strides in getting by TBR under control. When I first started in 2019, my TBR was topping out at over 5,000 books. I don't know that I will ever get below 500, but a #BookDragon can dream!
I will be posting on the 7th, 14th, 21st, and the last day of the month. Feel free to join in if you'd like!
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Announcement: I have added a linky to this post and will do so for future Tackling the TBRs as well. A few people expressed interest in this in one of my 'goals' posts so I thought this would be an easy way for us to all connect. I post weekly, but feel free to do whatever works for you - weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, whatever!
The link will be open the entire week.
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Previous Week's TBR Total: 2,939
Currently Reading
Books Removed from TBR: 0
Books Read
Books DNF-ed: 0
Duplicates Removed: 0
New TBR Total: 2,940
Any of these catch your eye? Have you already read any? Let me know!
Happy Reading!
Sarah
We take our progress whenever and however we can get it. Congratulations on yours.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I hope to make even more progress this weekend when Eleanor has to go to her dad's.
Delete"Omaha Black History" and "English Resistance" sound like they would be my first pick.
ReplyDeleteHappy Reading!
Omaha Black History was an author gift that I am excited to read because it is a history I know so little about, and Omaha is still very much segregated even today.
DeleteYes, it's unbelievable how this can still happen in this day and age ...
DeleteIt's so obvious when you see specifically how Omaha is laid out. The fact that the last of the deadly riots occurred here in the 70s, and long stretches of city blocks in predominantly Black and African-American neighborhoods are STILL vacant is a major problem.
DeletePeople have a long memory when they can accuse others of something, even if they didn't do it specifically. Story of my life.
DeleteI feel like this definitely relates to what we talked about on a different post about calloings Nazis, Nazis. I'm sorry.
DeleteYes, same story everywhere. I was always against racism but having it experienced myself in some sort of way makes me even more emphatic. At least I could move away, even if only after 20 years.
DeleteWow, that typo of mine was awful. It bugs me that we can't edit replies on blogger!
DeleteI think Germany has done a good job reconciling its past and present, and actively disavowing any kind of words and ways of thinking that lead to the Holocaust in the first place. I mean, there's a reason there are no statues to any Nazis, they committed terrible crimes and that is the only way they should be remembered. Yet here we still have statues to men who were traitors to our country and actively fought against our country in order to keep slaves, and continue those terrible atrocities. I can't understand it at all.
I hate that, too. And even if I delete a comment, it shows "comment was deleted" which seems even worse.
DeleteWe had a lot of help, especially from the Americans. In the last couple of years, people almost forgot what we owed them but I think with a new president, the relations will be getting better again.
And yes, we couldn't put up any statues for anyone only remotely related to the Nazis, that doesn't mean there aren't people there who still put them on am imaginary pedestal. It's a constant battle to educate people to know better.
I've been reading a fantastic book called The Nine about a group of women who were in the French Resistance and wound up together at Ravensbruck. They escaped during the final death march and there were times I had to skip sections because I could not handle the torture that so many endured in their fight to survive.
DeleteThose imaginary pedestals are much harder to smash, but we can do it!