My Reading Year So Far…

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Every year I set a Goodreads  challenge & I seem to either achieve it or be over my target but this year has been very different. There are many positive reasons why such as getting married, relocating and setting up our first martial home but also the negative things happening right now make it very difficult for me to be in the right head space to sit down and enjoy a good book. I have set my target to 70 and 8 months in I am nowhere near it and that does get me down a little.

I am now slowly starting to find the gusto to start writing regular blogs but the monthly reviews have almost fallen by the wayside so I must rectify this for the remaining months of the year.

 

Here is what I read so far this year

*Disclaimer* The ratings I have given are my own ratings on Goodreads and are not their overall ratings on the site.

 

January

Under the Almond Tree by Laura Mcveigh

Goodreads Rating 4 out of 5 Stars

 

Shelter  by Jung Yun

Goodreads Rating 3 out 5 Stars

 

The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage

Goodreads Rating 2 out of 5 Stars

 

Homegoing  by Yaa Gyasi

Goodreads Rating 3 out 5 Stars

 

Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg

Goodreads Rating 4 out of 5 Stars

 

UBO by Steve Rasnic Tem

Goodreads Rating 2 out of 5 Stars

 

T2 Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Goodreads Rating 3 out 5 Stars

 

My Own Dear Brother by Holly Muller

Goodreads Rating 5 out 5 Stars

 

February 

Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada Translated by Susan Burnofsky

Goodreads Rating 3 out 5 Stars

 

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Goodreads Rating 3 out 5 Stars

 

Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

Goodreads Rating 3 out 5 Stars

 

The Doll Funeral by Kate Hamer

Goodreads Rating 4 out of 5 Stars

 

March

The Outcasts of Time by Ian Mortimer

Goodreads Rating 3 out 5 Stars

 

The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard by Ivan Chistyakov Translated by Arch Tait

Goodreads Rating 3 out 5 Stars

 

The Boy Who Escaped Paradise by J.M.Lee Translated by Chi-Young Kim

Goodreads Rating 3 out 5 Stars

 

Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors by Carla Valentine

Goodreads Rating 5 out 5 Stars (there were not enough stars for this I would put many more)

 

The Night is Watching by Lucy Cameron

Goodreads Rating 3 out 5 Stars

 

Out by Natsuo Kirino Translated by Stephen Snyder

Goodreads Rating 2 out 5 Stars

 

June

 

Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami Translated by Philip Gabriel & Ted Goossen

Goodreads Rating 5 out 5 Stars

 

The Traitor’s Niche by Ishmail Kadare Translated by John Hodgson

Goodreads Rating 3 out 5 Stars

 

A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman Translated by Jessica Cohen

Goodreads Rating 3 out 5 Stars

 

Desire by Haruki Murakami Translated by Philip Gabriel, Ted Goossen & Jay Rubin

Goodreads Rating 5 out 5 Stars

 

Language by Xiaolu Guo

Goodreads Rating 5 out 5 Stars

 

Home by Salman Rushdie

Goodreads Rating 3 out 5 Stars

 

July

 

The Golden House by Salman Rushdie

Goodreads Rating 3 out 5 Stars

 

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 20th Anniversary Slytherin House Edition by J.K.Rowling

Goodreads Rating 3 out 5 Stars

 

Top 5 of 2017 So Far (in no particular order)

 

Past Mortems

Language

My Own Dear Brother

The Doll Funeral

Desire

 

Have you read any from this list ?

What are you currently reading ?

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