It's halfway through the year, and I thought this was the perfect time to post an update on what my reading journal looks like at this point. My goal was to read fifty books this year and I'm definitely going to reach that goal - I've already read more than forty books. Find out how my other goals are doing and how I've used my reading journal (*Amazon affiliate link) from the video below.
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Jane Austen July TBR
Jane Austen July is a month long readathon all about Jane Austen, her works, and her time period. I’ve wanted to join the challenge for years, but I’ve always had other books on my TBR that I’ve wanted to read first. But now that I finally have my TBR under control, I decided it was time to join the readathon.
There are
seven challenges in this readathon: five books and two screen adaptations. There
are also readalongs associated with the challenge. This year’s books are Sense
and Sensibility, Sanditon, and The Watsons. I won’t be
participating in the readalongs because I had already decided what I wanted to
read before the readalong books were announced. You can find more about the
challenge from the Youtube videos posted by the hosts of the challenge (Katie
from Books and Things, Marissa from Blatantly Bookish, and Claudia from Spinster’s Library). There’s a Goodreads group where you can discuss about the challenge with other readers.
Anyway, without further ado, here are my choices for this year’s readathon and my reasons for picking them. (Links with * are Amazon affiliate links.)
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| Some of my favorite ancient classics |
As my ancient texts project draws to a close, it’s time to present my ancient classics recommendations! Here are some favorites from different genres of ancient Greek and Latin texts. These are all works of fiction. I have a lot of nonfiction recommendations as well, but those will have to wait for another blog post.
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| May Reads |
Wow, I read a lot of pages! Partly that was because the one non-fiction book I read had a hundred pages of endnotes, but I really did read a lot. I finished seven books in May. Two of them were contemporary novels. I read my first graphic novel, Maus by Art Spiegelman (5/5 stars), and I loved it! The story was moving, and the pictures added another layer to the story. Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (4/5 stars), on the other hand, was good but not as great as I had hoped. There were a few too many YA clichés in the book for me to fully enjoy it.
I read one non-fiction book, Naiset pyhyyden tulkkeina, which a collection of Finnish translations of texts written by women in the antiquity and Middle Ages.
