This is my third Challenge update, and I haven’t read any new books towards my Local Heroes target of 6. In fact I didn’t do much reading this month – until my holiday – except of the manuscript of my Dad’s memoirs, White Water Landings, which I’ve been preparing for paperback, hardback and ebook release on 11th May.
So I’m still only 2 books into my challenge, but that is one-third of the way through, and we’re only at the end of the first quarter of 2015, so I think I can be forgiven.
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This month I’ve read (that should be re-read) Moonfleet by John Meade Falkner, wich I enjoyed even more than when I was a kid, Homecoming by Sue Ann Bowling, which I’ll be reviewing on Saturday, Your Eight O’clock is Dead by Kat Jorgensen, and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, another re-read, which is my bookclub book for the month.
According to Goodreads I’m two books behind schedule, but my excuse is I’ve read one of a collection of three books in one volume, and also a beta-read of a really good cosy mystery. So I’m currently counting 13 towards my Goodreads target of 60, reviewed 11 for my Mad Reviewer Challenge, and included 2 for the Oddity Odyssey (Never Let Me Go and The Uncommon Reader).
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Did you bring your books (Kindle) to Svalbard?
I took Homecoming, so I could concentrate on it (It’s quite big), and my Kindle, which was great as I didn’t know how many books I’d have time for. I finished Homecoming in Svalbard, read the Kat Jorgensen on the planes back, and started Distant Seas on the train on the way home!
I clearly was over-ambitious, as I have yet to read even one for the challenge! Still haven’t found any but local-history, which I do want to read but keep shuffling to the back of the queue.
Seeing your recent bike ride – have you read Murder in Half Moon Bay? I’m a bit vague on your exact location, but you can widen it a lot, I suspect! The Jinx Schwarz books seem to pass by the same coast.
Hey, my last one merely visited Norfolk!