Read:
Our Crumbling Foundation – Gregor Craigie (Random House Canada, 2024)
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton (Tantor Media, 2018)
Brotherless Night – V.V. Ganeshananthan (Random House, 2023)
Clear – Carys Davies (Scribner, 2024)
Introduction to First Nations Ministry – Cheryl Bear-Barnetson (Cherohala Press, 2013)
Slow Dance – Rainbow Rowell (William Morrow Books, 2024)
Currently Reading:
Santa Evita – Tomas Eloy Martinez
The Little Friend – Donna Tartt
God in the Dock – C.S. Lewis
The Whalebone Theatre – Joanna Quinn
2024 Reading Goals:
Goliath Challenge: 10, 278 pages read/30,000 (1,822 in June)
Goliath Books Read: 1 (none in June)
Translated Works: 3/15 (none in June)
Books I Already Own: 4/15
Pre-2023 TBR: 1/25 (none in June
Current TBR: 210 (previously 214)
Thoughts:
6 books in June. Pretty good, I think, given what a full month it was. Definite highlight was Brotherless Night which was so beautiful and powerful and I haven’t fully been able to gather my thoughts together to write about. I was delighted when it went the Women’s Fiction Prize. Our Crumbling Foundation was a surprise favourite of the month too. I picked it up because Craigie will be one of the authors at our local Writers Festival this summer and I thought I’d flip through it but ended up finding it very absorbing.
And how are my 20 Books of Summer going? Well, as predicted, I am reading the right number of books, I’m just not reading the ones I had picked out in May.
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- As For Me and My House – Sinclair Ross
- The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
- Beowulf (trans. by Seamus Heaney)
- God in the Dock – C.S. Lewis
- Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander – Thomas Merton
- Why I Write – George Orwell
- The Journals of Sylvia Plath
- Sleeping Giants – Rene Denfeld
- The Cursed Friend – Salvioni
- The Coast Road – Murrin’
- River East, River West – Aube Rey Lescure
- The Capital of Dreams – Heather O’Neill
- The Golem and the Jinni – Helene Wecker
- The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith – Peter Carey
- The Back of the Turtle – Thomas King
- Far to Go – Alison Pick
- White Boy Shuffle – Paul Beatty
- The Hand that First Held Mine – Maggie O’Farrell
- The Little Friend – Donna Tartt
The bolded titles are ones I’m currently reading so I’ve got that going for me at least!
Karissa Reads Books 
How did you find Evelyn Hardcastle? I have it on my shelf but somehow never seem to be in the right mood for it.
I liked it mostly. It’s a very unique idea but I do feel like it could have been shorter. I also listened to it on audio which I don’t necessarily think was the ideal format for it.
Heh, I am having the same 20 Books of Summer problem. Reading, just not the right books. To be fair, I joined a new book club hosted and a brewery only to learn they do book bingo, as well.
I’ve come to think of the 20 books more like ones I can choose from when I need something to read, rather than books I absolutely have to read!
There’s where my mind has shifted this year. Next year I’ll know the local brewery has a book bingo and probably stick with that.