What are you reading on Mondays? - August 24

I've decided to go ahead and throw in the towel on The Brothers Karamazov. Just couldn't get into it. Maybe I'll give it another shot in the future, but for now there's too many other books waiting to be read, so it's time to move on. I only finished two books this week, which is somewhat disappointing, but it did allow me to finish up the Summer Vacation Reading Challenge.

Recent completions:

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

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer -- review

Reading this week:

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley

Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration by Antonia Fraser

Up next:

The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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: 5/10
Nonfiction 5: 4/5
Orbis Terrarum: 7/10
Summer Vacation Reading: 6/6 ***COMPLETE
Support Your Local Library: 29/50
TBR Lite: 5/6
Well-Rounded Challenge: 2/5
What's in a Name 2: 4/6

999 Challenge (overall): 58/81

999 Subcategories:

• 1001 Books: 6/9


• Booker/National Awards: 2/9


• Through the Decades: 7/9


• Dewey's Books: 8/9


• 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.