Welcome to Down the TBR Hole #11-20. Head here to get more information on this meme that I am doing. As a reminder, here are the rules:
I am starting this week with 4,676 books on my To Be Read list.
1. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
This book is on every productivity recommendation list I have ever come across. I have the physical copy of this book and had started to read it but ended up putting it down. This was during the season where I couldn’t find joy in reading because of other things happening. I will eventually read it, so I’m keeping it.
2. Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life by Emily P. Freeman
Another book that I have a physical copy of. As someone who is recovering from being all about doing things and doing them right to please others, I bought this one when I was in Altar’d State out of town. I started another book by Emily P. Freeman recently, and it’s pretty good, so I think I will be keeping this one for now.
3. Sacred Influence: How God Uses Wives to Shape the Souls of Their Husbands by Gary L. Thomas
I will take all the books on marriage I can take. It is literally the hardest thing I have done. I am keeping this one.
4. Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs by 
Emerson Eggerichs
A friend let me borrow this book, and I fell in love with it. I took my time reading it, took a ton of notes, started to implement some of the recommendations, and then decided to order my own along with the workbook. Then I stopped reading it. I started again on my sabbatical but couldn’t get back into the flow I was in before. But this book is beyond amazing, and I will read it and soon. I’m keeping it.
5. I use to follow the FlyLady, and it did wonders for keeping and maintaining my house clean and organized. I still follow the essence of her advice as it has become routine for me, but I’m not strict with what she recommends. I also believe I can find everything in this book on her website. So although I own a kindle edition of this book, I am removing this one.
6. Boundaries in Marriage by Henry Cloud
I’ve had Dr. Cloud’s books recommended to me a million times. I felt like he was a legend at my previous home church, and everyone swore by his books like they were the Bible (which should have been my first clue). A friend let me borrow the audiobook. I bought the workbook. I think I downloaded the eBook. I could not get into this book. Or the regular Boundaries book. And you know what I am done trying. I’m removing it.
7. Lucky Suit by Lauren Blakely
This book was one of the books I picked from the free Audible Originals one month. It looks like it will be a quick romance to listen to so I am keeping it.
8. Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington
I love Arianna Huffington. She’s done and launched amazing things. Her story of burnout resonated with me from when I worked in Corporate America. I have already read one of her books and loved it. I own this one on Audible, so I am keeping it.
9. Win From Within: Finding Yourself by Facing Yourself by John Gray
I have been a fan of John Gray for a while and until recently would watch most of his sermons. He went through some criticism lately, and his response to that was to become an angry preacher, so I stopped watching him. But I do plan on reading his books, and maybe one day I’ll check back in on his messages. I own this one on Audible, so I’m keeping it.
10. Feeding the Dragon by Sharon Washington
Another book I received for free from Audible Originals. I love reading autobiographies from women of color, and her living on the top floor of a library made me want to add this to my collection. Plus her father being a custodian and her love for literature was something that made me relate to her as my father had a job as a building custodian at one of the apartments we lived in, in New Jersey. And I shouldn’t need to say how I relate to her love of literature…since you are on my book blog :). Needless to say, I am keeping it.
Final count: Removing 2; Keeping 8; TBR down to 4,674
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