Friday, 1 January 2021

Reading Updates - A Look Back at 2020 and Forward to 2021 continued

2021 has started off windy and rainy. But it's going to get better! I predict it! 'nuff said on that topic.

This is my last post looking at my reading lists of 2020. Yesterday, the last day of 2020 in case anyone missed it, I looked my the first six months of 2020 and my monthly focus challenge. I'll finish this off with the final six months of 2020.

1. July - Graham Greene (2 completed)

a. It's a Battlefield (4 stars).

b. England Made Me (4 stars).

2. August - Sci-Fi (3 completed).

a. Metro 2033 by Dmitri Glukhovsky (3.5 stars).

b. Downtime Shift by Robert Holding (3.5 stars).

c. Feed by M.T. Anderson (4 stars).

3. September - Alistair MacLean (completed 2).

a. Fear is the Key (4 stars).

b. Ice Station Zebra (4 stars).

4. October - Female Authors (completed 5).

a. Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf (4 stars).

b. Death of a Stray Cat by Jean Potts (5 stars).

c. The Nanny by Evelyn Piper (4.5 stars).

d. Bone House by Betsy Tobin (4 stars).

e. Dear Life by Alice Munro (4.5 stars).

5. November - Nevil Shute (completed 3).

a. Marazan (3.5 stars).

b. Lonely Road (4.5 stars).

c. What Happened to the Corbetts (5 stars).

6. December - Freebies (completed 4).

a. Dearly: Poems by Margaret Atwood (4 stars).

b. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (5 stars).

c. The Crimson in the Purple by Holly Roth (4.5 stars).

d. The G-String Murders by Gypsy Rose Lee (3.5 stars).

Individual 2021 Reading Challenge - Monthly Focus

1. July Focus Author - Clive Cussler.

(Author of the Dirk Pitt, Isaac Bell, NUMA, Fargo, etc adventure series.)

2. August Focus Author - Rex Stout.

(Creator of the Nero Wolfe mystery series.)

3. September Focus Author - Peter O'Donnell.

(Creator of the Modesty Blaise adventure series.)

4. October Focus Author - J.J. Marric.

(Wrote under many pseudonyms but this will focus on the Chief Inspector Gideon crime series.)

5. November Focus Author - Adam Hall.

(Creator of the Quiller spy series.)

6. December Focus Author - Colin Cotterill.

(Author of the Dr. Siri Paiboun and the Jimm Juree mystery series.

There you go folks. Enjoy your 2021 reading. I hope I've given you some reading ideas.


 


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