What are you reading on Mondays? - June 22

I finished a challenge this week, woohoo!! And I can see progress for several others. I had started feeling like my reading was becoming a chore, but I have a number of books on my list that I've wanted to read for years, so I should be able to pull myself out of the pity pit fairly easily.

Recent completions:

The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier -- review

Gestures: The Do's and Taboos of Body Language Around the World by Roger E. Axtell -- review

Reading this week:

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert

Middlemarch by George Eliot (this is a chunkster, so it'll be on my list for several more weeks)

Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III by Flora Fraser

Up next:

Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman

The Truth of Catholicism: Inside the Essential Teachings and Controversies of the Church Today by George Weigel

Challenge progress:

1% Well-Read: 6/10
18th and 19th Century Women Writers: 2/5
A to Z Challenge: 20/26
Baker Street Challenge: 0/4
Chunkster: 0/3
Classics Challenge: 2/6
Decades '09: 7/9
Dewey Decimal: 8/10
Elizabeth Gaskell: 1/2
Fill in the Gaps 100 Books: 1/100
George Eliot: 0/2
Guardian's 1000 Best Novels: 2/10
Nonfiction 5: 2/5
Orbis Terrarum: 6/10
Summer Vacation Reading: 2/6
Support Your Local Library: 24/50
TBR Lite: 4/6
What's in a Name 2: 3/6
World Citizen Challenge: COMPLETE

999 Challenge (overall): 42/81

999 Subcategories:

• 1001 Books: 4/9


• Booker/National Awards: 2/9


• Through the Decades: 7/9


• Dewey's Books: 6/9


• C.S. Lewis: 2/9


• Biographies: 3/9


• Travel: 6/9


• Catholicism: 4/9


• Dewey Decimal: 8/9
  

It's Monday! What are you reading this week? is a weekly event hosted by J Kaye's Book Blog.