I did fairly well with my 20 Books of Summer this year. I managed to read and review 29 books but I read a few more than that. I say fairly well because only 12 of those books were on my original list which turned out to be a work of fiction in itself. I was distracted by books that my brother gave me to read and books which were sent to me – and books that had been requested from the library, as well as the books that shouted at me while I was in the library picking those books up!
One thing that I am happy about is that I managed to read six non-fiction books, apart from that I read more historical fiction than I usually do I think. I got into a comfortable rut. The books that I read are:
The Small Army by Michael Marshall
Elizabeth I and her world by Susan Watkins
Metamorphosis by Penelope Lively
Dimsie Among the Prefects by Dorita Fairlie Bruce
A Year Unfolding by Angela Harding
Hannah Hauxwell by H Hauxwell and Barry Cockcroft
The Princess of the Chalet School by E.M. Brent-Dyer
October, October by Katya Balen
Comes the Blind Fury by Douglas Rutherford
Jeeves, Joy in the Morning by P.G Wodehouse
In Pursuit of Clarinda by Mabel Esther Allan
One Year’s Time by Angela Milne
The Serial Garden by Joan Aiken
Miss Boston, Miss Hargreaves by Rachel Malik
The Stronghold by Mollie Hunter
The Return of the Railway Children by Lou Kuenzler
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
The Thistle and the Rose by Jean Plaidy
Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease
A Use of Riches by J.I.M. Stewart
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Witch’s Brat by Rosemary Sutcliff
Friend and Foe by Shirley McKay
In Place of Fear by Catriona McPherson
The Feud in the Fifth Remove by E.M. Brent-Dyer
Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry
The books that I haven’t managed to review yet are:
Sing Me Who You Are by Elizabeth Berridge
Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett
The Girl in the Glass Tower by Elizabeth Fremantle
Thank you Cathy @ 746 Books for hosting 20 Books of Summer again.
Congratulations! I can never stick to a list, which is why I don’t formally take part. But as long as you enjoy lots of summer reading, I think that’s what matters!
Wow, that is an accomplishment. You have been reading lots of books and reviewing them, which I have a hard time keeping up with.
TracyK at Bitter Tea and Mystery
tracybham,
I’m blaming the weather. At the beginning of the summer it was far too hot to do anything but sit and read, then just about the whole of July it rained heavily. I had to just watch the garden as it grew more and more wild with all the rain!