Roof Beam Reader
Adam Burgess
March Checkpoint! #TBR2022RBR
Hello, TBR Pile Challengers!
Welcome to our third checkpoint for this year’s TBR Pile Challenge! We already have more than 70 reviews/checkpoints linked up on our Mr. Linky, which is excellent! Well done to all of you. I hope you continue to read and share and discuss all your favorites (or least favorites) from this challenge.
As for me, I’ve made more progress since last month, which is that I actually managed to read and write down thoughts for two more challenge books!
Progress: 4 of 12 Completed
I think this is the best pace I’ve had in any reading challenge since I started this one way back in 2011. (Yes, 2011!) I’m also about two-thirds of the way into my fifth selection from this list, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. I’m pleased to report that, so far, I’ve had a 4 or 5-star experience with all of these, and it’s been a nice diversity of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. I do think my next selection from the list will have to be a poetry collection, because I’ve got five more of those on my challenge list for the year.
Books read:
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
- When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
- A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
How are you doing?
Below, you’re going to find the infamous Mr. Linky widget. If you read and review any challenge books this month, please link-up on the widget below. This Mr. Linky will be re-posted every month so that we can compile a large list of all that we’re reading and reviewing together this year. Each review that is linked-up on this widget throughout the year may also earn you entries into future related giveaways, so don’t forget to keep this updated!
Roof Beam Reader 
I’ve just started my 4th as well so so far so good! Well done us!!
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I’ve also finished four, I just need to write up a post about my latest read for this challenge. Still waffling about my next book from the pile but I should start it in the next day or two.
And The Warmth of Other Suns is just wonderful! For such a long book I sped through it, it didn’t feel long at all. Thanks again for hosting this challenge again, it’s really inspired me to read more of my own books. If I finish up quickly I might start a second round!
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I’ve read 9 of my original 12–zoomed right along through those and have come to a bit of stand-still. I keep trying to read The Golden Man by Frances & Richard Lockridge and not getting very far with it–it’s one of theirs that I’ve never read (I’d read a large number of their books about 20 years ago). But this one is one of their thriller/stand-alones and I tend not to like those as well.
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I’ve read 5 and reviewed 3 of those so far. I finally read 84, Charing Cross Road which was lovely — and one I’ve wanted to read for a long time, so the challenge has done what it’s meant to.
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That’s great to hear!
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I’ve read three and am nearly finished a fourth. Really pleased with my progress so far.
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