Getting my TBR under control...

I am a bit of a Youtube junkie when it comes to TBR challenges. I love watching other people get their TBR under control and The Closet Unhaul series on BooksandLala's channel was some of my favorite content last year. Basically she had an entire closet full of books she had bought when she first started doing Youtube and hadn't gotten around to reading yet. So she would watch her hauls from the same month 2 years earlier and any books she hadn't read she would have to read or get rid of. Sadly she isn't really doing that anymore but I have found another creator who does something similar - Drinking By My Shelf does Balancing the Books and is all about balancing the books she brings onto her TBR and the books she removes from it (by reading or unhauling).

Anyway...I love watching that type of video (if you have any recommendations please let me know) and I thought I would try something similar myself. I'm starting out slow because I'm super lazy and don't have a lot of time on my hands, so I don't want to make it too complicated. Basically I have a look at my TBR shelf on Goodreads at the start of the month and whatever the number is I need to get it down by 5 by the end of the month. So at the start of June it was 290 and I have to get it down to 285 by the end of the month.

I do this according to my Goodreads rather than my physical TBR because as well as being super lazy I'm super cheap, and rarely buy books I haven't read yet. So I get most of my books from the library and that does sometimes affect the books I can access in a certain month. So I'm going by number and saying I need to remove 5 books from my TBR rather than naming 5 specific titles in a given month as I might not be able to get those specific books from the library in time. Does that make sense?

Wish me luck! This is the Lazy TBR Challenge! Join me if you'd like :)



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