Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2019

[gilda_elise]

Challenge Levels:

Pike's Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s
Mount Blanc: Read 24 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Vancouver: Read 36 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Ararat: Read 48 books from your TBR piles/s
Mt. Kilimanjaro: Read 60 books from your TBR pile/s
El Toro: Read 75 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Everest: Read 100 books from your TBR pile/s
Mount Olympus (Mars): Read 150+ books from your TBR pile/s

I looked over the challenge levels and decided to return to Mt. Ararat (48 books.) I just made it this year, so I think the next level, Mt. Kilimanjaro (60 books,) is probably beyond me. But you never know, I can always switch up!

Comments

[catalenamara.livejournal.com]

There are a couple of used bookstores a few miles away. I may check them out. If they do buy used tooks they'd have to have close by parking as I can't walk for any distances anymore, and I wouldn't be able to stand for any length of time (i.e., much longer than a minute) in case they need me to be present while they look through my books. For the same reason, I don't do any kind of shopping which requires me to "browse", which is the reason I don't know anything about these stores. Basically, I go to supermarkets and stores like Target that have mobility scooters and avoid all other stores. (Isn't it ironic the initial injuries to my right foot came from high school P.E. class?)

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Most used books stores I've been in have places for people to sit. Hopefully the ones near you have seating, too.

You've had so much trouble with your foot over the years. I guess I always thought that eventually they'd be able to fix it up proper. It's too bad the scooters are so big. I know you'd have to get a much bigger car in order to take one of your own wherever you went.

[catalenamara.livejournal.com]

Hope so! I'll check those out later this spring. I have a lot more books to look through and see what I want to winnow out.

I am thinking of getting one of those motorized chairs at some point. Easier to deal with than a chair. I need to find out how much they weigh. The days of me being able to carry around 40 pound zine boxes is long gon.

I don't think there's any possibility of fixing my feet.Back in 2008, when I got a second opinion on my left ankle, the posdiatrist asked me when I'd had the ankle fusion surgery done. I told him, never. He said that the fusion between the ankle bones was so complete there was no longer any line to even indicate they had once been separate bones. Ditto for the mid-foot bones in my right foot - they are no longer separe bones; they are one thing. The only surgery I had done was joint removal surgery in my right big toe. At last year's podiatrist exam I brought up the idea of surgery again, and my podiatrist told me that he would only perform surgery as an absolute last resort, because the high likelihood of nerve damage would result in my losing use of the foot, and the likelihood of damage to blood vessels means I could lose the foot. (My left foot is almost as bad.)

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

I don't know if they've been able to lower the weight on the chairs, but the one my dad had weighed a ton. Well, maybe not a ton, but a lot!

That's so bad about your feet. Surgery definitely sounds like the option of last resort!