I read for fun. I love the escapism reading brings but I also love how you can learn from all types of books, not just non-fiction. I don’t think that reading challenges are serious, they just allow me to track books I’ve read and perhaps think a little more about what I am going to read.
I’m also interested in reading a variety of books so I want to make sure that I’m not just concentrating on one genre.
In addition I thought it may be fun to try to read my way around the world and try to read a book for each letter of the alphabet. With this in mind I’ve decided to keep a list of the countries the books I read are based in. I’ll up date this as and when I have a new country or book to add.
I’m aiming to read 70 books this year, though I may struggle so I’ve decided to include some of the children’s books I have to read over the year (sadly I can only count them once, not the many, many times I have to read them – and that’s just on one particular night)
So far I’ve read 52/70 books.
Those books have covered the following parts of the globe.
England:
The Language of Dying
Persuasion – three times
Purged
Six Stories
The Dark Circle
Lost for Words
Quieter Than Killing
The Madwoman Upstairs
A Secret Garden
Let the Dead Speak
Tin Man
An Act of Silence
Death in the Tunnel
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Innocence
Death of a Nobody
Agnes Grey
The House
True Love at the Lonely Hearts Bookshop
France
You, Me, Everything
Iceland
Rupture
Ireland
Siren
The Language of Coats
Italy
Hell’s Gate
Earthly Remains
Only in Naples
The Netherlands
The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old
Norway
Cursed
Russia
The Last Summer
Scotland
The Wages of Sin
A Summer at Sea
The Little Shop of Happy Ever After
Sweden
Block 46
USA:
Deep Down Dead
Echoes in Death
The Marsh King’s Daughter
The Roanoke Girls
Heartbreak Hotel
Killer Look
See What I Have Done
American Housewife
Before Everything
Around the world cruise:
A Deadly Crossing