Time for the final Mount TBR post.  Bev asks: 

1. Tell us how many miles you made it up your mountain (# of books read). If you’ve planted your flag on the peak, then tell us and celebrate (and wave!).  

I was aiming to reach Mount Ararat (48 books from my own bookshelves), but I didn’t get there. I read 34, just two books short of Mt Vancouver, which is 8 more TBRs than I read last year, so an improvement!

These are the books I read:

1. The Case of the Curious Bride by Erle Stanley Gardner
2. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
3. Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
4. Small Kindnesses by Fiona Robyn
5. The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
6. The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
7. Daughters of Fire by Barbara Erskine
8. Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo by Julia Stuart
9. The Lewis Man by Peter May
10. The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris
11. The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland
12. Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter by Ruth Rendell
13. Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
14. Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
15. Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh
16. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
17. The Case of the Howling Dog by Erle Stanley Gardner
18. The Red Coffin by Sam Eastland
19. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
20. Third Girl (Poirot) by Agatha Christie
21. Agatha Christie at Home by Hilary Macaskill
22. The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge
23. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
24. The Death Maze by Ariana Franklin
25. Relics of the Dead by Ariana Franklin
26. Not the End of the World by Christopher Brookmyre
27. A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
28. Mrs Harris Goes to Moscow by Paul Gallico
29. Julius by Daphne du Maurier
30. N or M? by Agatha Christie
31. St Mawr by D H Lawrence
32. The Rendezvous and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
33. Stowaway to Mars by John Wyndham
34. On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin

2. My Life According to Mount TBR: Using the titles of the books you read this year, please associate each statement with a book read on your journey up the Mountain. 

This was quite difficult – I couldn’t fit titles to all the questions from the books I read!

Are you male or female?:  Third Girl
Describe yourself: I’m one of The Daughters of Fire
Describe where you currently live:  On the Black Hill
If you could go anywhere where would you go?: to see Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo
Your favorite form of transportation: Stowaway to Mars (not really!!)
What’s the weather like?:  
Favorite time of day?: The Distant Hours
Your relationships: Cat among the Pigeons (no, not at all!!)
You fear:  The Owl Killers
What is the best advice you have to give?:  it’s Not the End of the World
If you could change your name, you would change it to: I wouldn’t want to change it to any of the names in the book titles
My soul’s present condition: 

Thanks, Bev for hosting and for your encouragement this year to climb mountains – I’m looking forward to climbing more mountains next year.