Today is the last day of my school year. This means no more substitute teaching until August and time to start thinking about Summer. Specifically summer vacations. summer jobs and summer reading. Before I get too far involved in that it's probably a good time to recount the last 5 books I read.
Last 5 Books
Hondo by Louis L'Amour
Why I chose this book: Having gone 56 years without reading a single Louis L'Amour book, Hondo is the 4th I've read this year. I had recently watched the filn version of this book and wanted to see how it stacked up
Type: Book (read myself)
How Obtained: Borrowed from local library
Rating: Loved
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Children's Classics
Why I chose this book: I chose this book because I like to read at least one Jane Austen book a year. It turns out I accidentally chose the children's version and did not realize it until I was halfway through it.
Type: Audio Book through my phone
How Obtained: I borrowed this book from my library using the Hoopla app. This is how it took me awhile to figure out I was "reading" an abridged children's version.
Rating:Liked only becuase it was a shortened version of this amazing book.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Why I chose this book: After mistakenly listening to the children's version. I wanted to listen to the unabridged version
Type: Audio Book though my phone
How Obtained: I borrowed this book from my library using the Hoopla App
Rating: Loved
For The Love of Mike - Mike Royko
Why I chose this book: I saw this book on the shelves at my local library and remembered with fondness all the newspaper columns I had read of Royko's. So I decided to read this second anthology of his best columns that were published after his death in 1997
Type: Book (read myself)
How Obtained: Borrowed from local library
Rating: Between liked and loved.
Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
Why I chose this book: One of the blogs on my blogroll, Andy Unedited had a post called The Fruit-Tree Structure that used the book Just Mercy as an example of that way of organizing a non-fiction book. As I read that post I remembered that I gave that book to my wife for Christmas in 2019 shortly after we had seen the film adaptation of it.
Type: Book (read myself)
How Obtained: Previously purchased for wife as a Christmas present.
Rating: Loved.
2021 Book Stats as of 5/25/21
When I read 5 books in 72 days I tried to put it off as a little deceptive. Unfortunately I followed that with 5 books read in 73 days which is almost exactly the same. If this keep us I will only complete 25.43 books by the end of the year. Summer is when my reading usually picks up in the summer so when I finish 5 more books I will hopefully have a more optimistic report.
10 Books I'm Reading or Planning to Read Soon
In my inaugural next 10 list I mentioned that the list would fluctuate beyond just crossing out the books I had read previously. It turns out I was right. I finished 3 books from the list although I did "read" one twice. Looking at those that remain only a few will be on my current list.
Farmer Boy - Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Unaborted Socrates - Peter Kreeft
41 A Portait of My Father - George W. Bush
News of The World - Paulette Jiles
The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
World of Wonders- Aimee Nezhukumatathil
In The Year of The Boar and Jackie Robinson - Bette Bao Lord
The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
Schulz and Peanuts - David Michaelis
Concise Theology - JI Packer
