Read:
Doppelganger – Naomi Klein (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2023)
Kingdom, Grace, Judgement – Robert Farrar Capon (Eerdmans, 2002)
Held – Anne Michaels (McClelland & Stewart, 2023)
Last Woman – Carleigh Baker (McClelland & Stewart, 2024)
The Book of Goose – Yiyun Li (Macmillan Audio, 2022)
Present Over Perfect – Shauna Niequist (Zondervan, 2016)
The Damages – Genevieve Scott (Random House Canada, 2023)
I Cheerfully Refuse – Leif Enger (Grove Press, 2024)
Woven – Meredith Miller (Worthy Publishing, 2023)
Currently Reading:
Our Crumbling Foundation – Gregor Craigie
First Nations Ministry – Cheryl Bear-Barnetson
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton
Santa Evita – Tomas Eloy Martinez
2024 Reading Goals:
Goliath Challenge: 8,456 pages read/30, 000 (2,857 in May)
Goliath Books Read: 1 (1 abandoned, 1 crossed off the list unread) (Kingdom, Grace, Judgement read in May)
Translated Works: 3/15 (none in May)
Books I Already Own: 3/20 (Woven in May)
Pre-2023 TBR: 1/25 (none in May)
Current TBR: 214 (previously 215)
Thoughts:
I read quite a lot in May – 9 books in total. Doppelganger and Kingdom, Grace, Judgement were both quite large books (416 pages and 522 pages respectively) I’d been working on for a while so it was satisfying to finish them off at the beginning of the month. Audio definitely helped add to my total and I particularly enjoyed The Damages. I was a bit disappointed by The Book of Goose which seemed a bit pointless and the narrator seemed to be putting on a fake French accent.
What’s Next:
The 20 Books of Summer Challenge! I’ll be posting my list early next week!
I’m excited to see your list. I know a lot of people try to include their other or personal challenges into the 20 books, I’m assuming we’ll see titles from your own collection, some translated works, etc.