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Reading--At the Moment

Prompt: What books are on your summer reading list?

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I don’t have a summer reading list. I don’t know why summer is set aside for reading, in the first place; however, I read a lot, so I’m going to mention my current reading projects here.

In WdC, I am reading and reviewing with other WdC members in "CLOSED!The Monthly Reading Challenge"  and also through GoodReads. Each month, I pick several books, from varied genres and types. Usually, I have novels, non-fiction, personal experience, and poetry books. I am partial to the literary, historical, spy, World War II, and psychological mystery books. I try to read at least one classic, possibly by Dickens or Daphne du Maurier. I also try to read at least one contemporary author from a Non-English-speaking country.

For June, so far, I have Malagash by Joey Comeau, Chemistry by Weike Wang, the Paris Package by A.W.Hartoin, The Korean War Trivia Book by Bill O’Neill, Gray Shadows by Julia Gousseva. The rest I’ll figure out when I finish these.

For later, I’ll be reading Daphne Du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn and I also just bought Brain Rules by John Medina, which is really a textbook, but about a subject I am keen to explore. I don’t know what else will come, but at the rate that I read, there’ll be several other books for the summer.

I don’t write reviews for every book I read, but "CLOSED!The Monthly Reading Challenge"  expects good lengthy reviews, so I do what I can for the books I have pledged to read for that forum, each month.

It used to be writing was my first love. Now, it is reading, possibly because I can take a book or a Kindle with me wherever I go, and my writing needs a quiet place and a laptop or pen and paper. Also, writing in public gets people’s attention and I am usually asked why or what I am writing, which bothers me, but with reading, with everyone’s nose in their cellphones, no one takes notice.