Down the TBR Rabbit Hole #3

Down The TBR Hole is a meme from Lost in a Story that revolves around cleansing your TBR of all those books you’re never going to read and sort through it all to know what’s actually on there.

How it works:
– Go to your Goodreads to be read shelf
– Order on ascending date added
– Take the first 5 (or 10 if you’re feeling adventurous) books
– Read the synopses of the books
– Decide: keep it or should it go

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Book cover for The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Goodreads Synopsis:

A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker’s epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love.

✔️ Keep

I wanted to read this in high school, but we read something else (I can’t think of the book now) instead. And since then, this book has been on my TBR.

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Book cover for Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Goodreads Synopsis:

In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers’ final union in death seems almost inevitable. And yet, this play set in an extraordinary world has become the quintessential story of young love. In part because of its exquisite language, it is easy to respond as if it were about all young lovers.

✔️ Keep

Once again, a lot of my friends read this in high school but my class read Hamlet, or Macbeth instead. I even own a copy of this play. Maybe in 2022 I’ll get around to it.

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Book cover for Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Goodreads Synospis:

The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children’s voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden’s voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.

✔️ Keep

I feel cheated from my high school reading experience. I did read some great books, but I also felt like I should have read this book too.

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Book cover for Anna Karenina

Goodreads Synopsis:

Acclaimed by many as the world’s greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in all of literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature – with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author’s own views and convictions.

Throughout, Tolstoy points no moral, merely inviting us not to judge but to watch. As Rosemary Edmonds comments, ‘He leaves the shifting patterns of the kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title, ‘Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.

✖️ Remove

I was very ambitious when I added this to my TBR back in… 2013? But I realized I’m probably never going to read it. So it’s gone!

A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens

Book cover for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Goodreads Synopsis:

‘If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!’

To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it’s too late.

✔️ Keep

I’ve already added this to my December TBR. It’s staying, and I’m reading it next month.


Out of the 5, I got rid of 1… Considering I have over 1,000 books on my TBR… Oh dear. Let’s see how many books I can get rid of on the next Rabbit Hole post!

If you have done this meme then please leave a link in the comments I would love to read them. See you in the next post.

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