Welcome to another year of challenges with Chuckles! This year I've changed things up for the challenges to allow for all mood reading and less targets to avoid stress, while still getting stuff done. What I'll be doing is putting up the categories and themes that I want to target and I'll then fill in the books as I finish or DNF them, rather than pick out a ton of books in a list. That way when I change my mind, I don't have to start deleting stuff and filling in gaps!
Update 1-a good start to the month with two huge political memoirs, two average sized books and a few short fun reads. A good opening month. The rest of this month will be about fiction.
NON FICTION-POLITICS
1) John Major-The Autobiography (5 star)
2) Michael Heseltine-Life In The Jungle (3 star)
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NON FICTION-EXPEDITIONS
1) Jonathan Waterman-In The Shadow Of Denali (1 star)
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NON FICTION DISASTERS
1) Paul Firth-Four Minutes To Hell (4 star)
NON FICTION HUMOUR
1) Jen Campbell-Weird Things Customers Say In Bookstores (4 star)
2) Jen Campbell-More Weird Things Customers Say In Bookstores (4 star)
3) Alex Graham-Fred Bassett 2020 (4 star)
4) Tim Benson-Best Political cartoons 2019 (3 star)
Great job!
ReplyDeleteI think I'd call it a good recovery at the end of the month after sliding to a halt in the middle! Still, back on track and getting the pile reduced again!
DeleteI'm not big on Non-fiction but I'm always down for humor. Looks like they were MOSTLY good reads. Good luck on your challenge!
ReplyDeleteAsh @ JennReneeRead
Only that one disappointing read but the rest were at least entertaining!
DeleteLooks like you've enjoyed most of what you read for the most part.
ReplyDeleteI'm certainly happy with the overall standard of the books so far this year. I'm hoping for a few more zombies and apocalypses and maybe a bit of horror coming up next month!
DeleteYay for a good start!
ReplyDeleteI'm fairly happy with the way things are going. Now I can get really stuck in to reducing the pile!
Delete*high five* Good job!!
ReplyDeleteKaren @ For What It's worth
Thanks Karen! I'm slowly getting back on track with the reading again even though they are mostly short stories!
DeleteThat is a really good start to the month.
ReplyDeleteThat John Major book was a monster read which makes up for all the short stuff!
DeleteI'm happy to see you are off to a great start!
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased with the number of books in this challenge as they are proper sized books. It should be another good year for non fiction!
Deletelooks like you are off to a great start and anything that makes reading less stressful, which we put on ourselves, is good
ReplyDeletesherry @ fundinmental
I'm happy with the way this challenge is going, especially dealing with the pesky political memoirs which are pretty big books!
DeleteYour ratings seem a little higher with your non-fiction than your fiction. But you're doing great so far!
ReplyDeleteKaren @ For What It's worth
I'm trying a few new self published authors with the fiction choices which has dragged down the ratings a bit. You know how hit and miss they can be. I'm hoping for better ratings this month!
DeleteMostly good star ratings here which is encouraging for nonfiction books. The bookstore quotes books do look fun!
ReplyDeleteYeah better reads in this challenge. I think we can choose better to get books to suit us with non fiction, though of course there are no guarantees!
DeleteYou have already read more non-fiction that I probably will for the whole year. That's awesome!
ReplyDeleteI've certainly been in the mood for the non fiction recently! There are a few more I'm interested in adding to my collection but I'm trying to show restraint this month!
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