It's been a schizophrenic book week here. On the plus side, I finished a good biography and wrapped up two challenges. On the other hand, I'm finding two of the books that I started a real snore. One I've decided to give up on, the other I'm soldiering through but will be quite happy when I'm finished. Plus, in addition to being a chore in themselves, those two restricted me to only finishing one book this past week. I hate it when I get bogged down.Recent completions:
Josephine: A Life of the Empress by Carolly Erickson -- review here
Reading this week:
The Catholic Woman: Difficult Choices in a Modern World by Jeanne Pieper
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Up next:
Everyday Life in Imperial Japan by Charles J. Dunn
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope by Shirin Ebadi
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope by Shirin Ebadi
Challenge progress:
1% Well-Read: 5/10
18th and 19th Century Women Writers: 1/5
A to Z Challenge: 18/26
Baker Street Challenge: 0/4
Chunkster: 0/3
Classics Challenge: 2/6
Decades '09: 6/9
Dewey Decimal: 6/10
Elizabeth Gaskell: 0/2
Fill in the Gaps 100 Books: 1/100
George Eliot: 0/2
Guardian's 1000 Best Novels: 1/10
It's Good to Be Queen: 3/3 *** COMPLETE
Nonfiction 5: 2/5
Orbis Terrarum: 6/10
Spring Reading Thing: 9/9 *** COMPLETE
Summer Vacation Reading: 0/6
Support Your Local Library: 17/50
TBR Lite: 4/6
What's in a Name 2: 3/6
World Citizen Challenge: 3/7
999 Challenge (overall): 33/81
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: 3/9
- Travel: 3/9
- Catholicism: 3/9
- Dewey Decimal: 6/9
1 comments:
Good luck with MIddlemarch. It's supposed to be wonderful, but I'm too scared to read it.
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