Six Books Finished for My Reading Challenges
So as we come to the end of May it’s time to check in and see how I’m doing on my various Reading Challenges. May was another great reading month. I finished six books that go towards my Reading Challenges and one that doesn’t. The one that doesn’t fall into any of the Reading Challenges is a free Kindle ebook that I read Payback and a Bottle of Merlot – Bria Marche. Hey it was free and worth every penny of it! Cough! Cough! So here are the books and the Reading Challenges that the book falls into…..
| May 2015 Reads | |||
| 26 | Bowl of Heaven – Benford & Niven | Science Fiction | Library |
| 25 | Payback and a Bottle of Merlot | None | Ebook |
| 24 | Watching You – Michael Robotham | Cloak & Dagger | Library |
| 23 | Brimstone _Preston & Child | Cloak & Dagger | TBR Pile |
| 22 | Inspector of the Dead – David Morrell | Cloak & Dagger | Library |
| 21 | Dance of Death – Preston & Child | Cloak & Dagger | TBR Pile |
| 20 | What Then Must We Do-Gar Alperowitz | Nonfiction | Library |
So after five months I am at almost 50% of the total books that I plan to read for the year! Go Me! It seems that I need to read more Nonfiction, Science Fiction books to try to catch up with my Cloak & Dagger reads! And maybe I need to read more from my TBR pile!
| From TBR Pile | Buy/Library | Total | Goal | %complete | |
| 2015 Nonfiction Reading Challenge | 0 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 36% |
| 2015 Cloak & Dagger Reading Challenge | 6 | 9 | 15 | 23 | 65% |
| 2015 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 40% |
| 2015 Science Fiction/Fantasy Challenge | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 33% |
| Totals | 9 | 16 | 25 | 51 | 49% |
| 2015 TBR Pile Challlenge | 9 | 25 | 36% |
Actually it looks like I’m doing that with the books that I am currently reading! There’s one science fiction book, two nonfiction books and a Historical Fiction book,but only one is from my TBR pile!. So far I am enjoying all the books that I’m reading this month!
I am enjoying the Neal Asher book Dark Intelligence a lot more than Bowl of Heaven and I don’t know how long it’s been since I read a Robert Ludlum book. Like David Morrell, Ludlum was a staple of my reading in the 80s. The Matarese Countdown is a sequel to The Matarese Circle, which I read way back in the 80s and I certainly only have vague memories of it. So far it’s vintage Ludlum and really good! Who Buries The Dead is book #10 in the Sebastian St. Cyr series and was released in 2015. And even though, the only other book in the series that I’ve read is book 2, I am still enjoying this one. But I certainly want to go back and see what happened prior to this book! I have many questions like how did Sebastian meet Hero his wife and what happened to the love of his life from When Gods Die??
As for the two nonfiction books I plan to read. I am still moving slowly along with How to Read the Solar System and have just begun the Chris Hedges book, I am not sure how much am going to like it, because it’s not really what I expected!
Anyone have any comments on any of the books I’m reading or have finished?? I’d be glad to hear what you think!!
| Currently Reading | Challenge | From | Page | Total | %complete |
| Dark Intelligence – Neal Asher | Science Fiction | Library | 94 | 402 | 23% |
| Wages of Rebellion -Chris Hedges | Nonfiction | Library | 26 | 226 | 12% |
| How to Read the Solar System-Nortth&Abel | Nonfiction | Library | 132 | 304 | 43% |
| Who Buries the Dead – C.S. Harris | Historical Fiction | Library | 70 | 334 | 21% |
| The Matarese Countdown – Robert Ludlum | Cloak & Dagger | TBR Pile | 152 | 566 | 27% |
