#20booksofsummer20

(Of course, idea stolen from Reading In Bed, which, in turn, found it at 746 Books. This should come as no surprise that I am taking ideas from elsewhere, as I have been clear I have no new ideas.)

Can I read twenty books this summer? Let’s say no. Could I have read twenty books a few summers ago: yes. But, like everything else in my life, I am lagging with reading.

The books, chosen from shelves and piles left around my house.

1. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch, 502 pages
2. Selected Stories of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka, 328 pages
3. Warlight by Michael Ondaatje, 290 pages
4. Middle England by Jonathan Coe, 424 pages
5. Vox by Christina Dalcher 388 pages
6. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad, 214 pages
7. The Spirit of Science Fiction by Roberto Bolaño, 196 pages
8. I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle, 290 pages
9. Bec & Call by Jenna Lyn Albert, 94 pages
10. The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre, 364 pages
11. The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North, 453 pages
12. The Magicians by Lev Grossman, 402 pages
13. Swimming in the Congo by Margaret Meyers, 261 pages
14. The Madrigal by Dian Day, 370 pages
15. Floating City by Kerri Sakamoto, 246 pages
16. Heartbreaker by Claudia Dey, 260 pages
17. Memento by Christy Ann Conlin, 375 pages
18. Africville by Jeffrey Colvin, 371 pages
19. this is not my life by Diane Shoemperlen, 354 pages
20. ¡No Pasarán! Writings from the Spanish Civil War by Various, 393 pages

Now laugh, laugh laugh laugh at me considering I think I’ve read twelve pages in the past week, and also, that I am still making my way through Ducks, Newberryport, which I can only read in short bursts because it stresses me out too much.