March 2016 Reading Challenge Reads and My Proposed April Reads…..
March Reads
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To meet my 2016 Reading Challenge of 60 books, I need to average five books per month. I fell one book short of that this month reading only four books. Overall though, I am two off the pace needed to reach my 60 book goal. Three of the four books that I read were either mysteries or thrillers,and were written by a favorite author. The fourth book was a mini-memoir. The three books written by favorites were: Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter,The Forgotten Room from Lincoln Child and Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger.
What these three books have in common, aside from fact that they were written by a favorite author of mine, is that they are not from the author’s series that I regularly read! Typically, I am reading about Will Trent and Sarah Litton, when I am reading a Karin Slaughter book, and Cork O’Connor when reading William Kent Krueger and Lincoln Child is usually teamed with Douglas Preston and either writing about Pendergrast or Gideon. Oh the other thing is that they were all terrific!
So now here is where is stand on all my Reading Challenges….
| The Renaissance Granddad Reading Challenge | TBR | Library | Total | Goal | %complete |
| 2016 Literature Reading Challenge | |||||
| General Fiction | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 17% |
| Classics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
0% |
| NYTimes Bestseller List | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0% |
| Award-Winners | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 33% |
| 2016 Mystery Reading Challenge | |||||
| Rgranddad’s Mysteries | 1 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 60% |
| Women Mystery Book Authors | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 20% |
| 2016 Nonfiction Reading Challenge | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 20% |
| 2016 Science Fiction/Fantasy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0% |
| 0 | |||||
| Totals | 5 | 9 | 13 | 60 | 22% |
| 2016 TBR Pile Challenge | 5 | 25 | 20% | ||
My proposed reads for April include the following
| Currently Reading | Challenge | From |
| The Sword of Shannara-Terry | 2016 Science Fiction | Ebook |
| The 6th Extinction James Rollins | Rgrannddad;s Mysteries | Library |
| The Stranger – Camilla Lackberg | Women Mystery Authors | Library |
| Dark Invasion 1915 – Howard Blum | Nonfiction | Ebook |
| Off the Grid – C J Box | Rgrannddad;s Mysteries | Library |
So I will continue to read The Sword of Shannara and The 6th Extinction from James Rollins, and Dark Invasion from Howard Blum. I just started the Blum book yesterday and I am finding it extremely interesting, so I hope this book will be a fairly quick read!
I am also adding The Stranger from Camilla Lackberg. I have not read any books from this Swedish author and I look forward to getting into her series featuring Patrick Hedstrom.
Finally, I just received a notice tonight that the new C.J.Box Joe Pickett novel Off the Grid is being held for me! So a trip to the Cinnaminson Library tomorrow! I know this one will move to the top of my list of reads!
Once again wish me luck!!!
