What are you reading on Mondays? - July 13

I had a very good week and am extremely pleased with my progress. My desire to read seems to have come back full force -- if it stays, I'll be able to make some real headway in my challenges.

Recent completions:

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

Middlemarch by George Eliot -- review

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

Reading this week:

Daughter of China: A True Story of Love and Betrayal by Meihong Xu and Larry Engelmann

Outline of English Architecture by A. H. Gardner

Up next:

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle

Challenge progress:

1% Well-Read: 6/10
18th and 19th Century Women Writers: 3/5
A to Z Challenge: 20/26
Baker Street Challenge: 0/4
Book Awards 3: 0/5
Chunkster: 1/3
Classics Challenge: 2/6
Decades '09: 7/9
Dewey Decimal: 9/10
Elizabeth Gaskell: 1/2
Fill in the Gaps 100 Books: 2/100
George Eliot: 1/2
Guardian's 1000 Best Novels: 2/10
Nonfiction 5: 3/5
Orbis Terrarum: 6/10
Summer Vacation Reading: 3/6
Support Your Local Library: 25/50
TBR Lite: 4/6
What's in a Name 2: 3/6

999 Challenge (overall): 47/81

999 Subcategories:

• 1001 Books: 5/9


• Booker/National Awards: 2/9


• Through the Decades: 7/9


• Dewey's Books: 6/9


• C.S. Lewis: 2/9


• Biographies: 5/9


• Travel: 7/9


• Catholicism: 5/9


• Dewey Decimal: 8/9
  

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