Do you have a TBR pile? I hope you do. TBR stands for To Be Read.
We’ve talked many times in class about needing to know what book we’re reading next. Brent Peterson calls it a Book on Deck–pretty clever for a Red Sox fan. Readers often have MANY books on deck–hence, a pile. I have encouraged my students to keep a TBR list in the back of their agendas/planners–a place to which they can quickly and easily refer when they are ready for a new book.
Today we celebrate TBR piles.
The Nerdy Book Club (a “club” for anyone who considers him or herself a reader) asked for its members to send in pictures of our TBR piles. They put together this video compilation:
Here is my TBR “pile”, which has taken a digital form in my public library queue, and shows up in the above video at the 46-second mark:
(I’m glad to say that The Fault in our Stars has since come in and is in my BR (Being Read???) pile.
I’m pleased that this TBR piling has been passed down to my children. Here is a picture I snuck of my daughter’s TBR pile:
In fact, my wife just told me that she counted seven+ books that we are currently reading on our living room end tables. Check this:
Some of those we are reading individually; A Wrinkle in Time and A Monster Calls are read-alouds–the former for my kids, the latter for my wife. (See the Monster Calls post here.)
So… what is in YOUR TBR pile? We’d love to know. We’d also like to see it if you can find a way to link to a picture in your comments.
Now… get reading!
{Eat the Book} 