Cathy at Cathy746 has a yearly challenge to read twenty books over the summer months starting on 1 June 2015 and running until 4 September 2015, and this year I’ve decided to join her. I had already rationed myself from requesting quite so many review copies so the choices I make will be in addition to those that I have obligations to read and review.
As I’m competitive I’m signing up for the full twenty. My personal challenge is to read these twenty books from my bookshelf that I already own with at least half being physical books. Funnily enough I have plenty to choose from…
The only drawback with this challenge is I want to experience choosing a book that fits my mood so I have decided to begin by choosing a spread of genre to list the first ten books for my summer reading.
The links below will take you to the Goodreads description
The Night Watch – Sarah Waters
The Anatomy of Death – Felicity Young
Letters to the Lost – Iona Grey
The Maul and the Pear Tree – P.D. James & T.A. Critchley
The Disappearance of Emily Marr – Louise Candlish
Every Secret Thing – Emma Cole
Dancing for the Hangman – Martin Edwards
Rutherford Park – Elizabeth Cooke
Under World – Reginald Hill
The Whicharts – Noel Streatfeild
I will be joining Cathy by tweeting my way through the challenge using the hastag #20booksofsummer and I will provide (a yet to be decided logo) to demonstrate when one of my reads is part of this challenge!
There’s still time to join in and Cathy has also provided a 10 Books of Summer image for those of you who feel aiming for 20 is quite frankly ridiculous. Visit Cathy to get the full details here
So what do you think to my choices? Do you have any suggestions on where I should start or perhaps you think some of these need to be put back on the shelf and forgotten about? All comments welcomed!