2015 Reading Challenge 41 books down 10 more to go!!
So as I have said many times October has been a busy month especially the last two weeks. But in those two weeks I have finished two books first Broken Promise from Linwood Barclay and most recently Silent Creed from Alex Kava. So where does that put me on my various reading challenges. Well, the addition of these two books have brought the total number of books I’ve read to 41 which is 80% of my goal total of 51 books. Since the goal of 51 books was very lofty, I’m really happy with where I am right now!! So right now I can achieve my goal with 2 more books this month and 4 in each of the following months. But with so much competing with my time over the next few month i.e Eagles football, Sixers basketball and Flyers hockey plus the World Series I don’t know if I’ll reach my goal!! Anyway, here’s a tabulation of my reads!!
| Reading Challenge | From TBR Pile | Buy/Library | Total | Goal | %complete |
| 2015 Nonfiction Reading Challenge | 0 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 45% |
| 2015 Cloak & Dagger Reading Challenge | 7 | 17 | 25 | 23 | 109% |
| 2015 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 60% |
| 2015 Science Fiction/Fantasy Challenge | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 58% |
| No Reading Challenge | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| Totals | 11 | 41 | 51 | 80% |
This afternoon I picked out several books to read, then I made the mistake of going to the library and now I have three different books to put into the mix!! So throughout the year I have tried to list five book per month that I planned to read. I know that right now I’m in the middle of the month, but here’ the current stack of five!!
I have been reading Jonathan Kozol‘s Amazing Grace and I will continue to read that book. The other night I picked up George Burn’s Gracie A Love Story and started reading and I love the books, it’s full of typical George Burns humor and a wonderful biography of their life together. Right now I’m about a third of the way through the book. They are just breaking into radio!! Both of these books count towards my nonfiction reading challenge.
The three books that I picked up at the library are ……
Signal – Patrick Lee’s second installment in his Sam Dryden series. I love Patrick Lee’s Breach trilogy and the first Dryden novel Runner so I can’t wait to get lost in this adventure!!
Through the 80s and 90s Tony Hillerman‘s books were another staple of my reading. I loved Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn so I was intrigued when I saw that his daughter Anne Hillerman had released a new Jim Chee – Joe Leaphorn mystery Spider Woman’s Daughter This afternoon I spotted Rock with Wings book 2 from Anne and picked it up. Tonight I thought that I should really read Spider Woman’s Daughter first so I requested that book from the library. Since there were no other holds it shouldn’t be long before I get the book. Overall that shouldn’t be a problem since I have lots of other books to read!!
The last book of the fab five is Secondhand Souls the new release from Christopher Moore. I’ve had a hard time getting into the last few books that Moore has written like Fool and The Serpent of Venice, but I loved his earlier book. Secondhand Souls is a sequel to one of them A Dirty Job! so Secondhand Souls should be a good one!!
