Wrap-up #20BooksOfSummer 2017
- 20 Books of Summer is hosted by Cathy at 746books.com!
- The challenge is to read 20 books off your TBR list.
- June 01 – September 03
- Hashtag: #20BooksOfSummer
- My original plan was to read 20 books on
- Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels.
- I managed to read 16…then I was sick of classics!
- I find if you DON’T make a list
- ….reading will be more fun.
- Just choose the book according to your mood.
- Pleased with my results: 44 books
My list: 16/20 from Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels :
- The Postman Always Rings Twice – J.M. Cain READ 4.0
- The Death of the Heart by E. Bowen – – READ – 2.0
- The Ginger Man – J.P.Donleavy – DNF …. abandon after 100 pgs. (bah)
- An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser – READ 3.0
- Scoop by Evelyn Waugh – READ – 4.0
- Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow – READ 3.0
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh – READ 5.0
- Go Tell It On The Mountain by J. Baldwin – READ 5.0
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner – READ – 5.0
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov – READ 5.0
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner – READ 2.0
- The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler – READ – 3.0
- Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence – READ 5.0
- Loving by Henry Green – READ 4.0
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves – READ 4.0
- Under the Net – I. Murdoch – READ – 5.0
- NON-FICTION:
- The Bloody Mary Book – E. Brown – READ 3.0
- Walking the Nile – L. Wood – READ 4.0
- Running Hare – J. Lewis-Stempel – READ 5.0
- Dear Ijeawele – C.N. Adichie – READ 5.0
- Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America – J. Leovy – READ – 5.0
- Coming Up Trumps – J. Trumpington – READ 3.0
- Kennedy and King – S. Levingston – READ 5.0
- Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon – 5.0
- FRENCH:
- Un Vie – S. Veil – READ – 4.0
- Rue des Boutiques Obscures – P. Modiano – READ 5.0
- Retour à Killybegs – S. Chalandon – READ – 4.0
- Une femme à Berlin – M. Hillers – READ – 4.0 – French
- Seul Dans Berlin – H. Fallada – READ 3.0
- CRIME FICTION:
- Open and Shut – D. Rosenfelt – READ 5.0
- First Degree – D. Rosenfelt – READ 5.0
- SF – Fantasy:
- Doomsday Book – C. Willis – READ 3.0
- The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien – READ 3.0
- Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien – READ – 3.0
- Vaster Than Empires and More Slow – U. Le Guin – READ 5.0
- Principles of Angels – J. Fenn – DNF – 1.0 – Bah!
- The Martian – A. Weir – READ – 5.0
- Fiction:
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen – READ 4.0
- Short Stories – Dear Life by A. Munro (Nobel Prize 2013) – READ 3.0
- Short Stories – Shatterday & Other Stories – H. Ellison – READ 11/11
- Seven Plays – S. Shepard – READ – 5.0
- The Persians – Aeschylus – READ 3.0
- The African Queen – C.S. Forester – READ 5.0
- Lincoln in the Bardo – G. Saunders – READ – 1.0
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I only read 7 of my 20 (& a half & abandoned one). But I now find that most of the fun to be had with these challenges is the making of the lists 😂
Dubble fun…..make lists and change them along the way!
Now I have to figure out what to aim for during the Fall and Winter….of course your Spring and Summer!
Wow, you had a successful reading summer! Mine was rather pitiful, but I was doing more active things. I have high hopes for September that I’ll get back to reading more regularly. Your Modern Library ratings were pretty much what I expected, except for Angel of Repose and All The Ways of the Flesh. I liked Angel of Repose, but I did have to put myself in a different headspace to read it. Glad to see Forester and Le Guin got 5 stars. The Lord of the Rings ….??? Well, we won’t even talk about that …. 😉 Hope your summer was extra wonderful! 🙂
Thanks so much for you comments…..
I was glad to get some classics read this year and #20BooksOfSummer and Modern Library’s list was the way to do it. Yes, Le Guin ( I like the way she thinks….) and ‘The African Queen’ were excellent. Poor Wallace Stegner and I …just don’t get along. JRR Tolkien…he is done and dusted! The most surprising classic was ‘As I Lay Dying’. I never read Faulkner and thought I would not like his work. I did! Now it is time to settle into the Fall and early Winter reading.
I have no idea which way the winds will take me!
Wow is right. Lots of books and challenging ones too. I am purchasing the first D. Rosenfelt mystery today, and then I will look for later copies at the book sale.
I started June with only classics…I was ‘chomping at the bit to get started.
Wise decision ….after 16 I was ready for a change of pace (D. Rosenfelt, and some great non-fiction). I am just enjoying the end of summer reading….and have no idea what to ‘sink my teeth into next ‘….over the next 4 months. We shall see!
Thanks for you comments, Tracy!