20 Books of Summer 2015 is hosted by Cathy at 746 Books. It began June 1 and runs until September 4, just over thirteen weeks.
Does anything ever go precisely as planned? Why do we even have expectations? Things change, unexpected events occur, books get chosen as group reads and there goes the original list of 20 books to read this summer.
Hooray! Cathy at 746 Books said we could revise our list without feeling guilty. Thank you, Cathy!
At this point I have read twelve from my original list:
1. Among the Tibetans by Isabella L. Bird
2. Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum #18) by Janet Evanovich
3. Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse #12) by Charlaine Harris
4. George Washington’s Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger
5. Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness #1) by Rhys Bowen
6. The Assassin in the Marais (Victor Legris #4) by Claude Izner
7. The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoi
8. Fever Season (Benjamin January #2) by Barbara Hambly
9. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
10. Rameau’s Nephew by Denis Diderot
11. The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
12. The Overlook (Harry Bosch #13) by Michael Connelly
I am now adding five books which I have also completed (and why they shoved their way to the front of the queue):
13. Afloat by Guy de Maupassant (proofread for Free Literature and Project Gutenberg)
14. Frozen (Heart of Dread #1) by Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston (read for July Dystopian/Apocalyptic Genre Challenge at RMFAO)
15. The Magician by Somerset Maugham (group read at the 19th Century Literature group)
16. The Nemesis of Fire by Algernon Blackwood (group read at the Nutshell Cubbyhole)
17. Fifteen Hundred Miles an Hour by Charles Dixon (proofread for Free Literature and Project Gutenberg)
Two unexpected additions which are currently in progress:
Ourika by Claire de Duras (current group read at the French Literature group)
The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard (current group read at the 19th Century Literature group)
And finally, at long last, another book from the original list of 20 which I am currently reading:
U is for Undertow (Kinsey Milhone #21) by Sue Grafton
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How has your summer/winter been going? If you are participating in the 20 Books of Summer 2015 Challenge, are you on track?
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14 down, 6 to go! I reckon I might finish a few days late but I’m hoping Cathy won’t confiscate my chocolate…
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Chocolate power!
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My goodness your list is impressive! 😊
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Thanks! When I prepared it, I tried for a nice mix. What I forgot was to allow for contingencies. Not sure why I forgot there would be group reads voted in. There was another non-fiction on the list and I’m actually reading it, but who knows when I’ll finish it as the fiction books keep jumping into my hand.
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I know how you feel Dagny. Is there such a thing as drowning in books?
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If there is, what a way to go!
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Too true!😊
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I’ve totally gone off track of my original list but I have definitely read over 20 books this summer so far so I don’t mind so much. I’m a mood reader so it’s hard for me to make a TBR list and stick to it.
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I know what you mean. Aside from group reads, I don’t really plan in advance. I have a short stack of TBRs, but still, the book will often not even be one of those.
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