WARNING! THIS IS MOST DEFINITELY NOT A JUNE TBR

So last month I made a post about being accountable for my reading and wrote a nice list and made a pretty stack of books that I wanted to read over the month. Did that happen? No. Out of the four books I set I read one. I loved the one I read but other than that I read whatever I wanted over the month in my normal wishy-washy fashion. In the original post I spoke about being accountable for my reading and now I’m wondering if I went about it the completely wrong way. 

Knowing that I had set myself certain books to read I was able to fob them off saying you don’t have to read that till the end for the month so why start now and does it really matter if you don’t. I think for most people having a set list to follow would make them follow it but for me, I love to procrastinate every thing, including stuff I set for myself.

Lisa is my list and Bart is my brain

My next planning that I’m going to try this month is to set myself a number of books to read not an actually list that is set in stone.  In May I read nine books over the course of the month which is a lot for me so for June I’m going to try and read eight as a minimum. Hopefully two books a week will be achievable and my experiment will work. I will be carrying on with my TBR Jar idea but lets be honest I think I failed this month. Do any of you follow a set list or do you just read what you like? Do you keep yourself accountable in any so you don’t slack off or is that not problem for you? 

Making a TBR Jar

Hello my name is Katie and I’m a chronic book hoarder. Recently I have come to the sad concussion that my bookcases are completely full. I have shuffled and shuffled but no more room ever going to appear! I even have the tell tale bend in my shelves that are just yelling at me to lighten their loads.

This lead me to the idea of creating a TBR Jar, I’ve seen a few people create this cool idea and I have so many books that have been brought for me or buy me that I have no intention of reading that need to go! A number of books I have hold little appeal to me due to the genre or the age that the book is meant for but  being a class A hoarder I can’t ever get rid of any thing including books without ridiculous amounts of thought and heart-ache. 

To make things easier, I’m setting myself some rules to accompany my TBR Jar; each month I’ll pull out a minimum of one slip of paper that will have a title of a book I haven’t read yet. Of course I will still be reading other books but this is just to try and clear some room. The getting rid of books part comes into play with the clause that if I don’t want to read a book and don’t have a decent reason, it’s destined for a new life with someone else. I know I’m going to come up with stupid excuses but I’m sure I have some even I can’t even think of a reason to keep.

Just for fun I took some photos as I created my Jar and here they are so 

you can see me suffer cutting out all the titles of my unread books 

I decided to hand write out all my title just for fun,

I also didn't feel like typing them out then trying to cut without any lines! 

A fun little fact about me is that I have terrible fine motor skills

 I can’t cut straight or even draw straight lines with the help of a ruler.

After some serious effort and lots of twitter breaks, here is the finished product!

 I had a small problem with the fact I picked a jar to small for my hand 

to fit in but I soon corrected that with an old lolly jar laying round the house!

Do you have a way to clear your TBR pile, can you give a hoarder some tips?

 Have you made a TBR Jar or are you planning to?