We're two months into Summer Book Bingo (I'm playing by Mary's May 23 through September 7 rules), and it's time for me to give myself a progress report. It feels like I'm making reading progress, so I hope I don't feel differently once I've written it all down here.
What I'm Currently Reading:
- With a number in the title - How to Bake Pi
- With an animal as a key character - Frightful's Mountain
- That your parents wouldn't have let you read as a kid - Stoned: A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana
- With time travel - The Memory Painter
- An Academic/Campus Novel - The Square Root of Murder
- With a protagonist/narrator over the age of 50 - Our Souls at Night
- Borrowed from the Library - Missoula
- Western - Across the Great Barrier
- Young Adult Novel - On the Far Side of the Mountain
- With an animal on the cover - The Wild Inside
- Has an animal in the title - An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World
- 10 Short Stories - Tenth of December
- About a disease - The Perfect Son
- With food as the theme - Dying for Chocolate
- Biography or Memoir - Do No Harm
- Revolves around a holiday - Thanksgiving
- Published the year you were born - 4:50 from Paddington
- An audiobook - A Man Called Ove
- At least 800 pages - Centennial
- Found in a used bookstore
- Graphic novel
- Currently on the bestseller list [I am really surprised by how many crappy (imho) books are on the NYT fiction bestseller list. I don't think I'll be reading Grey!]
- That you chose because of the cover
- Cozy mystery
How's your summer reading? I hope everyone finds some time for a good book or two, enjoyed on the beach, front porch, or relaxing spot of your choosing, no matter whether you're participating in Book Bingo or not!
You're making excellent progress, Bonny! :-)
ReplyDeleteSounds like you've got it all under control. For the bestseller read I recommend Judy Blume's new book In The Unlikely Event. I just finished it and it's quite good.
ReplyDeleteYou're making good progress! Glad I didn't join the Bingo as I just haven't had a chance to read that many books this summer.
ReplyDeleteI am so impressed! I'm hoping for a Bingo at least. We'll see. I wasted 3 weeks trying to get into The Shipping News and finally put it down and read a book in two days!
ReplyDeletemy favorite thing is that your "number book" has Pi in it... it's perfect - and I'm so glad you found a book (which hopefully you're enjoying!) - of course you still have plenty of time to read the rest.. assuming you figure out those blank squares and don't get bogged down in the first 50 pages of Centennial (as I am wont to do with Michener...) I swapped out my 800 page read last night - instead of Outlander #4, I'm going to tackle 11/23/63. Which my sister is lending me (and lots of folks have loved...fingers crossed it goes fast!)
ReplyDeleteI gave up on my book bingo when I realized there was no way I could match up the books on my shelf with the squares. So once again I have a pile of TBR from the library. Oh, woe is me (not).
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