
Now here is a challenge that was made for me! So much flexibility: I love it. There are many individual ways of participating in Cathy’s Annual 20 Books of Summer Winter .
To start with, here in the Antipodes, it is a winter challenge. All that cold weather will make it that much easier to read (at least) twenty books between June and August. At least I hope so.
So, which twenty books will I read?
Well, my starting list looks like this:
- Maurice by E.M. Forster
- Wake by Shelley Burr
- Queen Anne by Anne Somerset
- Homecoming by Kate Morton
- The Tilt by Chris Hammer
- Day’s End by Garry Disher
- Holyman’s of Bass Strait by Frank Johnston and Julian Burgess
- Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (okay, a reread)
- The Desert Prince by Peter V Brett
- Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover
- Discovering Devonport Tasmania by Faye Gardam
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- Sixty-Seven Days by Yvonne Weldon
- The Colony by Audrey Magee
- Blue Hotel by Chad Taylor
- Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
- Typhoon Kingdom by Matthew Hooton
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- HAGS by Victoria Smith
Wish me luck!
A good mix there! I’m always reluctant to create my whole list – I usually leave some spaces free for my book group reading – but in the process of creating my starting list now.
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You, Kate, are a sensible person. Me, I grabbed 20 books of my closest ‘must read soon’ piles and decided to try a little discipline. We’ll see how that goes 😉
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That would be my approach too, except that I hover over the shelves and can’t decide!
(What works best for me is to finish a book late at night, and head for the library for a replacement in my nightie. There’s nothing like being cold to force me into decisiveness!)
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Great list! I loved Birnam Wood and The Colony and I’m really keen to read Hags. Enjoy!
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Birnum Wood is on my list too – I keep hearing very good things about it.
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I hope we both enjoy it. It’s tempting me right now, but I have other books to finish first.
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