Reading Challenges Three Books Finished in September – Thirty-Eight for 2015!
This afternoon I finished John Scalzi’s The Last Colony It is the third book that I have read in September and the 38th book finished in 2015. The other two books finished this month are Better Than Before from Gretchen Rubin and Robert Ludlum‘s The Matarese Circle.
I had planned to read both The Last Colony and Better Than Before. The two other books that I had planned to read for my reading challenges were Mayhem a historical fiction read and The Lost Triumph a nonfiction read about the Battle of Gettysburg. While I started both books, neither caught my attention strongly enough to keep reading either of the books. I have been reading two other books though. The Shining Girls from Lauren Beukes and Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol. Both of these books have been really good and I hope that I can finish either one or both of them before the end of the month!
Tonight I checked on the two books I have requested from the library, Alex Kava‘s Silent Creed and Broken Promise from Linwood Barclay, Silent Creed is ready for pickup and I am now third in the que for Broken Promise! So I will go and pick up the Kava book tomorrow and who knows how quickly I can read that one!!
Here is an update on my various reading challenges….
| Reading Challenge | From TBR Pile | Buy/Library | Total | Goal | %complete |
| 2015 Nonfiction Reading Challenge | 0 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 45% |
| 2015 Cloak & Dagger Reading Challenge | 7 | 15 | 22 | 23 | 96% |
| 2015 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 60% |
| 2015 Science Fiction/Fantasy Challenge | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 58% |
| No Reading Challenge | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| Totals | 11 | 38 | 51 | 75% |
While I have read 38 books in 2015 only 37 of them count toward my reading challenges. As a result I need to read 14 more books to reach my goal of 51 books read. Six of those final books need to be nonfiction. one a cloak and dagger book, two historical fictions and five science fiction books. All of the books need to be from my TBR shelves to meet the TBR challenge total of 25 books!!
So for the remainder of the month I will continue to read The Shining Girls and Amazing Grace and start Silent Creed In the meantime I will look over my TBR shelves for some nonfiction, historical fiction and sci-fi! Hum, The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War looks interesting!!!
Wish Me Luck!!