My Weekly Book

Time for some fingers to be pulled out around here. I have actually read as far as book 50 - but am suffering a hopeless block when it comes to writing the blog post for each one. Here’s a list of recent reading, in hopes that it might pop the cork:

• Book 41: Sleeper - Paul Adam
• Book 42: The Sandman: The Dream Hunters - Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano
• Book 43: Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
• Book 44: Love Over Scotland - Alexander McCall Smith
• Book 45: Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
• Book 46: Love and War in the Apennines - Eric Newby
• Book 47: E is for Evidence - Sue Grafton
• Book 48: Two-and-a-Half Pillars of Wisdom
• Book 49: F is for Fugitive - Sue Grafton
• Book 50: G is for Gumshoe - Sue Grafton

Two more to go to meet the challenge! I’ve been meaning to fill in the gaps in my Jane Austen reading and I came across a copy of Sense and Sensibility in a long-unopened box of books recently that had just come out of storage. So it would be nice if that was one of them. And I guess Mervyn Peake’s Titus Alone is another logical choice. There’s a copy of Annie Proulx’ The Shipping News lying about also - another recent re-surfacer from the book storage box, plucked from the heap after I read Close Range and was astounded. And I’ve just been sent Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation as part of a Bookcrossing book ring.

Or maybe something else entirely will come along. Last year’s total was 63 books and it’s my perception that I’ve read a little less this year. Also NaNoWriMo is coming up, which always drives a coach and horses through reading time. We’ll just have to see what occurs…

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