Since life is getting in the way of my reading and since we are at the end of July, I thought that I would write a post about where I stand with the nine reading challenges that I signed up for earlier in the year.
For the Read it Again, Sam Challenge 4 books are required to be read. I have read 2: Siddartha and Winesburg, Ohio. The other 2 are just sitting on the bookshelf waiting to be read but I am just not interested in them anymore. I thought that I would want to reread some of the old classics I had read in high school but they are no longer calling my name.
I have not even begun the Memoir Reading Challenge or the Series Challenge although three graphic novels could have met the requirements for the Series Challenge. They were all written and drawn by Dan Daughterty and from his Beardo series: Til Debt Do Us Part, Self-Employee of the Month and The Miracle of Creation. I was expecting to read Laura Joh Rowland's Sano Ichiro Novels for this challenge but haven't started any of them yet.
I have met the requirements for the Library Love Challenge. 12 books were required and I have read 19:
The Creativity Reading Challenge had no set requirements concerning the number of books to be read. I have read and reviewed 6 books: Drawing Comics, Painting Light in Colored Pencil, The Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook, Botanical Portraits with Colored Pencil, Drawing Birds with Colored Pencil, and Treasury of Crazy Quilt Stitches. I am considering this challenge to be met.
In the My Kind of Mystery Reading Challenge there was no required number of books to read either. However, I have read and reviewed 9 books to date:
Broken Bone China
The Malta Exchange
Harvest of Secrets
A Plain Vanilla Murder
The Satapur Moonstone
The Bengal Identity
A Body in Barcelona
The Persian Always Meows Twice
I have met the requirements of the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge but plan on reading more books for the challenge. While 10 books were required to be read, I have read and reviewed 13. Many of them overlap with other challenges:
Mememto Mori
The Sisters of Versailles
The Splendor Before the Dark
The Gown
The Rivals of Versailles
The Enemies of Versailles
Murder by Misrule
Tombland
The Island of Sea Women
The Satapur Moonstone
The Queen's Promise
I have been rather slow in meeting the requirements of the 12th Annual Graphic Novel and Manga Challenge. 12 books are required for the level that I signed up for and I have only read 6. The problem is that my favorite authors put out books every 2 or 3 years and last year was the year that most of them published a book. The books that I read and reviewed are:
Til Debt Do Us Part
Self Employee of the Month
The Miracle of Creation
Kid Gloves
Finally, for the Christian Reading Challenge 12 books are required to be read. I knew when I signed up for this challenge that I would not meet it. However, I thought that I would do better than the three books that I have currently read so far. In fact, there are 4 books that I have already bought that I just don't want to read anymore. I have read Irresistible, 7 Days that Divide the World and Leading Lives that Matter.
So, what comes next? I feel that my interest in reading is waning again as it did about three years ago. I don't know if it is just because life is getting hard this month and the interest will quickly return or whether I will go back into a lengthy slump. Only time will tell but in the meantime, I need to return my 5 library books back to the public library because I am not going to read them any time soon.
