Sunday, July 6, 2008

The Sunday Salon: Mid-Year Review and Such

I like what several Salonists are doing for this week's Sunday Salon—evaluating their reading mid-year—and thought I'd do the same.

Books Read January-June (Total: 30)

My Favorite Book Ever (multi-reread)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

Top 5
Year of Wonders (Geraldine Brooks)
Broken for You (Stephanie Kallos)
Unaccustomed Earth (Jhumpa Lahiri)
Winter Wheat (Mildred Walker)
I Have Lived a Thousand Years (Livia Bitton-Jackson)

Challenges
My own Life Books Challenge
Books Around the World Challenge

Where I Play
Booking Through Thursday
Entrecard
Semicolon's Saturday Review of Books
Sunday Scribblings
The Sunday Salon
Weekly Geeks

Last year's total was 69, so I guess I need to pick up the pace in order to meet or surpass last year's list. Dr. H. and our oldest son were gone for the past week doing a week of service with Group Workcamp, and I could have gotten loads of reading done. But...I was so exhausted every evening that I could only read a few pages before falling asleep. Besides taking care of the younger kids and our normal life, at long last, I painted our kitchen. It is so lovely.




If only I had a couch in there, it would be a most perfect place in which to read!


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a darling kitchen! I loved it. Mine has a boring off-white paint job that I really need to change. And good job on actually getting it done - I always procrastinate that kind of thing. :-}

Hava
http://nonfictionlover.today.com

wisteria said...

Love your kitchen. I've wanted to read Winter Wheat...how was it on a scale of 1-5?
Also...how was the AVI book...curious.