All About Books discussion

Do you have any plans for May?

I am sure that I have more books planned than I can think of at the moment but here is my list for now:

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
Death of a Dude by Rex Stout
The Jacob Street Mystery by R. Austin Freeman
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

so far, I have:
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie reread
The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
The Sandman Companion
Chocolat reread

What Zi am planning has nothing to do with books- I hope to get out of this house!!! I imagine many others have similar ideas.

I am a mood reader and seldom plan my books to read. Since we have been cooped up except for seeing our grandchildren and daughter through a window, I have consoled myself with buying books for my kindle. At least now, they don’t take up too much room. LOL.

Leslie I have often thought about reading Lonesome Dove but I never got past the first 10 pages. But I think if I did read it, I would miss telling people I never could get through a John Irving book and only read one book by Joyce Carol Oates and I never read Lonesome Dove either. Let me know how you enjoyed reading this book.

These my probable first books:
Joanne Harris Il giardino delle pesche e delle rose
Dante Alichieri La Divina Commedia III. Paradiso
Pierre Boileau e Thomas Narcejac I diabolici
Javier Cercas Soldati di Salamina
Vercos Il silenzio del mare

Sara Jio Il diario di velluto cremisi
Nicole Krauss The History of Love
Audur Ava Olafsdottir Miss Islanda
Kate Quinn Fiori dalla cenere
Linn Ullman Prima che tu dorma
Sandro Veronesi Il colibrì
Giulio Xhaet I sogni di Martino Sterio

Leslie - I'm glad to see that you plan on reading Lonesome Dove. I read it a few years ago and loved it! It's long but an easy read.

I hope to finish the books I already have started:
Five-Carat Soul by James McBride (audiobook)
Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (audiobook)

After finishing them, I plan to start:
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Severance by Ling Ma (providing my library ebook hold comes in)
The Stand by Stephen King (This would be a reread but I have wanted to reread it for many years to remember why I liked it so much.)

Nancy from NJ wrote: "Leslie I have often thought about reading Lonesome Dove but I never got past the first 10 pages. But I think if I did read it, I would miss telling people I never could get through a John Irving bo..."

LOL! I have Lonesome Dove on audio so hopefully that will help ;)

I felt that way about John Irving for a long time after Hotel New Hampshire but over the past decade I have read (and enjoyed) a couple of his books. But I still have only read one Joyce Carol Oates book...

Pam wrote: "Leslie - I'm glad to see that you plan on reading Lonesome Dove. I read it a few years ago and loved it! It's long but an easy read.

I hope to finish the books I already have started..."

Long but easy sounds wonderful to me!

Never really thought to plan my reading too much in advance apart from ensuring library books get back on time! - but no need to worry about that at present as all books here (Derbyshire, UK) have been renewed until 30 June 2020. Yet I've got that many Challenges going that I thought I should do a list to make sure I don't 'fail' any of the Challenges.
So my target reading for the month is:-

Currently reading (to finish):-
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection - Alexander McCall Smith - FINISHED 01/05/20 - 4* (9/10)
The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction - Gene Wolfe

Library books to read (5):-
Only Human - Sylvain Neuvel - FINISHED 02/05/20 - 4* (9/10)
Sweet Thursday - John Steinbeck
Confessions of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell
Perfidious Albion - Sam Byers
The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue - Edna O'Brien

Owned books to read (6):-
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Sweetpea - C.J. Skuse
Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Thinking Out Loud: Love, Grief and Being Mum and Dad - Rio Ferdinand
Velocity - Dean Koontz
The Heather Blazing - Colm Tóibín

Kindle books to read (7):-
Silver - Chris Hammer
catchymonkey - Robert Salvin
Close Your Eyes - Darren O'Sullivan - CURRENTLY READING
A Drop in the Ocean - Jenni Ogden
The End of Winter - T.D. Griggs
Unwelcome Guests - Anna Willett
One Last Child - Anni Taylor

That should keep me going for the month!!

Completed books:-

My plans for May:
Foucault's Pendulum
Endymion
The Sandman: Overture
Insomnia
QB VII
Wolf & Parchment, Vol. 1: New Theory Spice & Wolf