Welcome to my favorite part of the week: Clear the TBR Challenge, part eight. I’m on a book buying ban and trying to work my way through my physical TBR (which is somehow over 140 books). To keep myself from getting totally overwhelmed, I’ve narrowed my “priority/seasonal” options down to a cart so I’m not staring at a million spines and immediately getting decision fatigue. In this episode, I use a random number generator again because it’s simple and I don’t have to prep anything like a jar. I pulled number 25 first, which landed me on a super thick (like 500-page) billionaire romance, and I just wasn’t feeling it. Reading is supposed to be fun, so I gave myself one redo and regenerated. The new pick was number 21: Matt Haig’s How to Stop Time—my first book by him (even though I also own The Midnight Library). This one has been haunting me in the best way because a friend on TikTok said it changed her life, and I’m really excited for something more “human experience-y” that makes me feel.