#Wrap-up 20BooksOfSummer 2022

• Summer drinks are ready
• ….now the hard part:
• Make a list for… #20BooksOfSummer
• hosted yearly @Cathy746 Books
• Monthly reading plan
• #20BooksOfSummer22

QUICK SCAN:  UPDATE: 31 August 2022

1. READ:  13 of the original list of 20 (65%)
2. COMPLETED:  total: 24 books (01 June – 31 August)
3. ADDED:  12 books during the summer (see: last minute)
4. DNF: 2
5. REJECTED: 1 play
6. LEFT-OVERS:  3 books moved to TBR September
7. FRENCH: read 4 books in French (#ParisInJuly)

DNF:

1. Atom and Ashes: I started it but was not impressed.
2. It is just a re-hash of the history of nuclear reactor castastrophes.
3. I thought the writing would save it but no…it was just too depressing.

DNF:

1. Hooked…I couldn’t get past the first chapter!!
2. The book felt confused, slapdash, inconsistent in sum….a dog’s breakfast.
3. NOT wasting my reading time on this! #Bah

REJECTED:

1. Mojo play by Jez Butterworth. Having read some reviews
2. …I decided the book was not worth reading.

LEFT-OVERS:

1. Perfume, The Age of Phillis and Bonnard are still on my TBR for September…
2. I just could not manage to squeeze them in this summer.

FRENCH:

1. I lost my “French reading mojo” after completing #Paris in July
2. and did not complete Ma vie antérieure…or the thriller by Frank Thilliex.
3. I’ll save them  for another day.

Last minute, spur-of-the moment.

I did add a few books …after reading some reviews this summer:

1. Thank You For Your Servitude  (2022)- M. Leibovich (NF) – REVIEW
2. Devil in the Blue Dress – W. Mosley (CF) – REVIEW
3. Portrait of an Unknown Woman – Daniel Silva (CF) – REVIEW
   
4. All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep – A. Henry (NF) – REVIEW
5. Living By the Word – Alice Walker (USA) (essays) – REVIEW
6. The Crown Ain’t Worth Much – (50 poems) Hanif Abdurraqib – REVIEW
7. Stages of Struggle: Modern Playwrights – J. DiGaetani (NF) – REVIEW
8. Invisible Storm – Jason Kander (memoir) – REVIEW
9. Stony the Road  – H.L. Gates jr.  (NF) – REVIEW
10. When Harlem Was In Vogue – D. Lewis (NF) – REVIEW
11. Gordo – J. Cortez (12 stories) – REVIEW
12. Lungs – Duncan MacMillian (2011) play – REVIEW

Complete Reading list:

1. Thank You For Your Servitude  (2022)- M. Leibovich (NF) – REVIEW
2. Devil in the Blue Dress – W. Mosley (CF) – REVIEW
3. Portrait of an Unknown Woman – Daniel Silva – REVIEW
4. Le Dernier Jour d’un Condamné   – Victor Hugo – REVIEW
5. All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep – A. Henry – REVIEW
6. Le Dieu de Dostoïevski – Marguerite Souchon (France)- REVIEW
7. La Cousin Bette – Balzac – REVIEW
8. Flyboy in the Buttermilk – Greg Tate (USA) – REVIEW
9. Unfollow Me – J. Busby – REVIEW
10. Living By the Word – Alice Walker (USA) – REVIEW
11. The Crown Ain’t Worth Much – (50 poems) Hanif Abdurraqib – REVIEW
12. Stages of Struggle: Modern Playwrights – J. DiGaetani – REVIEW
13. The Periodic Table – Primo Levi (Italy) – REVIEW
14. Invisible Storm – Jason Kander (memoir) – REVIEW
15. Stony the Road (NF) – H.L. Gates jr. (USA) – REVIEW
16. Mildred Pierce – James M. Cain (USA) – REVIEW
17. Profession du père – Sorj Chalandon (France) – REVIEW
18. Hooked: Art and Attachment – Rita Felski (USA) – REVIEW
19. Beachmasters – Thea Ashley (Australia) – REVIEW
20. When Harlem Was In Vogue – D. Lewis (USA) – REVIEW
21. Everything Flows – Vasily Grossman – REVIEW
22. Gordo – J. Cortez (12 stories) – REVIEW
23. Lungs – Duncan MacMillian (2011) play – REVIEW
24. The Impossible Exile – G. Prochnik (NF) – FINISHED…review in September