What are you reading on Mondays? - August 17

You may have noticed that The Brothers Karamazov has been on my Reading This Week list for several weeks now. The book is a chunkster, so it's going to take me a bit. But it doesn't help that I didn't actually start reading it until two days ago. And I have to say that so far, I'm not impressed. I've previously read Crime and Punishment and didn't care for it either; maybe Dostoevsky just isn't for me. I'm going to keep plugging away at this one, though, and hope for the best.

Recent completions:

The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis -- review

Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik -- review

Reading this week:

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Up next:

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley

Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration by Antonia Fraser

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Challenge progress:

1% Well-Read: 7/10
18th and 19th Century Women Writers: 4/5
A to Z Challenge: 22/26
Baker Street Challenge: 1/4
Book Awards 3: 0/5
Chunkster: 2/3
Classics Challenge: 4/6
Decades '09: 7/9
Elizabeth Gaskell: 1/2
Fill in the Gaps 100 Books: 3/100
George Eliot: 1/2
Guardian's 1000 Best Novels: 4/10
Nonfiction 5: 4/5
Orbis Terrarum: 7/10
Summer Vacation Reading: 5/6
Support Your Local Library: 28/50
TBR Lite: 5/6
Well-Rounded Challenge: 2/5
What's in a Name 2: 4/6

999 Challenge (overall): 57/81

999 Subcategories:

• 1001 Books: 6/9


• Booker/National Awards: 2/9


• Through the Decades: 7/9


• Dewey's Books: 7/9


• C.S. Lewis: 4/9


• Biographies: 7/9


• Travel: 9/9 ***complete


• Catholicism: 7/9


• Dewey Decimal: 9/9 ***complete
  

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