#20booksofsummer20 Challenge #Books @Cathy746Books Update 4

The 20 Books of Summer 2020 Challenge As we approach the end of August, the challenge is drawing to a close and this is the last time I will be taking stock of how the challenge has gone for me. The idea of this challenge is to read, and therefore remove, a given number of books from your reading list during the summer months.  The challenge runs from Monday 1 June to Tuesday 1 September, so, as you can see, we are days from the end. A big thank you goes out to Cathy of 746 Books, for setting up and running this challenge. This year I committed to 20 Books. In June I read 8 books July, 6 books, and in the final month of this challenge I have read 6 books. But of course I am also still adding books to my TBR pile! I have now read and am in the process of reviewing my twentieth book: The Dinner - Herman Koch Space Hopper - Helen Fisher Summer in Provence - Lucy Coleman Missing in Wales (republished 17/4/20 as Silent Cry) - Jenny O'Brien Piccalilly - Samantha Henthorn Darkest Night - Jenny O'Brien How to Write a Simple Book Review by Allyson R. Abbott  What We Did During Lockdown -  Samantha Henthorn, Alex Cavanagh, Leah Leanne Wood, Shaylah Wilkinson & Claire Kingsley Honeymoon For One - Lily Zante Warlight - Michael Ondaajte The Hive - Jane Holland  Gloria The Summer Fun Bus - Sue Wickstead Past Marriageable Age - Sudesna Ghosh The Two Lives of Maddie Meadows - Sharley Scott  Hunter's Blood - Val Penny (ARC) Meet me in London - Georgia Toffolo Silent Cry - Jenny O'Brien The Queen's Cat - David Rossmaur Flovely - Adventures on the Houseboat - Siegfried Freudenfels Urban Legends - Yawatta Hosby I have had to swap out a couple of titles and read some children's books to meet the 20 books target - there are no rules that say that each book must be a tome, thankfully.  So, I have successfully managed to reduce my TBR pile by 20 books, albeit not quite the ones I set out to read at the beginning of the challenge. And going into September, I still have a lot of books waiting to be read, and will be concentrating on these: A Degree of Uncertainty - Nicola K Smith A Christmas Hamster - Stephanie Dagg I Temporarily do - Ellie Cahill  Boot Camp Bride - Lizzie Lamb Fat Girl Slim - Marina Johnson Bewbush Playbus - Sue Wickstead Clara at Christmas - Lacey London Betrayal - Donna Siggers Saving Suzy - Stefanie Simpson The Holiday Swap - Zara Stoneley An Affair the Dismember - Elise Sax The Wedding Caper - Laura Briggs (ARC) Wartime with the Cornish Girls - Betty Walker The World Does Not Revolve Around Curmudgeon Avenue - Samantha Henthorn #SkinAndBlisters - Linh Le James  Christmas with the Ops Room Girls - Vicky Beeby As ever, you can check out other readers' progress on Twitter using the #20booksofsummer20 hashtag. Back to Top