What are you reading on Mondays? - May 18

I'm one book away from finishing up two challenges, and a good thing too because I added three more challenges to my list over the weekend. But two of the three are mini-challenges, so it's not really so bad.

Recent completions:

Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1750-1832 by Stella Tillyard -- review here

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild -- completed 5/16/09; review here

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris -- review here

Reading this week:

The Catholic Woman: Difficult Choices in a Modern World by Jeanne Pieper

Josephine: A Life of the Empress by Carolly Erickson

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

Up next:

Everyday Life in Imperial Japan by Charles J. Dunn

Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson

The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis

Challenge progress:

1% Well-Read: 5/10
18th and 19th Century Women Writers: 1/5
A to Z Challenge: 16/26
Baker Street Challenge: 0/4
Chunkster: 0/3
Classics Challenge: 2/6
Decades '09: 6/9
Dewey Decimal: 6/10
Elizabeth Gaskell mini-challenge: 0/2 ***NEW
George Eliot mini-challenge: 0/2 ***NEW
Guardian's 1000 Best Novels: 1/10
It's Good to Be Queen: 2/3
Nonfiction 5: 0/5
Orbis Terrarum: 6/10
Spring Reading Thing: 8/9
Summer Vacation Reading: 0/6 ***begins May 22
Support Your Local Library: 16/50 ***NEW
TBR Lite: 4/6
What's in a Name 2: 3/6
World Citizen Challenge: 4/7

999 Challenge (overall): 32/81

999 Subcategories:

• 1001 Books: 4/9
• Booker/National Awards: 2/9
• Through the Decades: 6/9
• Dewey's Books: 5/9
• C.S. Lewis: 1/9
• Biographies: 2/9
• Travel: 3/9
• Catholicism: 3/9
• Dewey Decimal: 6/9
  

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