My overall reading goal for 2016 is to read at least a book a month. So far I have accomplished this task and some!
January: Mamrie Hart You Deserve A Drink
I swear everyone thinks they deserve a memoir now! Barnes & Noble is flooded with them. In my opinion many are stories not worth telling. Regardless of that sour remark, I am glad this lady wrote one. Mamrie's memoir made me laugh- hard. I didn't make any of the drinks yet but you don't need to be boozed up to get her humor.
February: An Event in Autumn By: Henning Mankell
I read the English translation of this novel, which I still can't decide whether I liked it or not. It was a very easy read. It was my first dip into adult mystery novels. I liked it enough.
March: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest By: Ken Kesey (Not Photographed)
This book, although a classic, was slow as fuck. It was wonderfully written but lacked the pace of a novel I prefer. The end I think would have came as more of a shock if the progression of the story evolved at a different rate.
April: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense By: Charles Bukowski,
Charles Bukowski is my favorite author and has been since I picked up Slouching Toward Nirvana some years back. His writing holds an honest tone through and through. As a reader you could never mistake his words for anything other than reality. This particular book contains the poem titled: how is your heart? with the famous last stanza"what matters most is how well you walk through the fire."
Twelve Angry Men By: Reginald Rose - It had been a long time since I read a play, I forgot how they visually instructed you along the way which narrowed my perspective greatly. It is interested to read this play now within the context of our current judicial system. What does this story mean now that things have changed, or that there is simply a perceived change but non at all?
Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls By: Lynn Weingarten - I actually have not finished this novel yet, but there is still time in the month of April. It is very good so far in terms of young adult literature.
In my Bullet Journal I had a list of reading challenges for the year 2016 that vary based on genre, titles, publishing, etc. Here is that list:
Reading Challenge 2016:
-A Play
-A Banned Book
-A Book Set in the Future
-A Book with Magic
-A Book You Own But Have Never Read
-A Memoir
-A Trilogy
-A Book You Can Finish in a Day
-A Funny Book
-A Mystery
-A Book Written By Someone Under 30
-A Classic Romance
-A Book with Bad Reviews
-A Book Wrote in 1993
-A Nonfiction Book
-A Book that Scares You
-A 100+ Year Old Book
-A Book a Friend Recommended
-A Pulitzer-Prize Winning Book
-A One-Word Title
-A Book Published This Year
-A Book With 500+ Pages
-A Political Memoir
-A Self-Improvement Book
-A Book You Were Supposed to Read in school But Did Not
-A Book With Non-Humans
-A Book From Your Childhood
-A Book With a # in the Title
-A Book Based on a True Story
-A Fairy Tale
-A Book Translated to English
-A NY Times Bestseller
-A Book From Oprah's Book Club
-A Science-Fiction Novel
-A Book By a Comedian
-A Dystonia Novel
-A Book Guaranteed to Bring You Joy
-A Book Set Somewhere You Want to Visit
-A Book You Started But Never Finished
-A Book From the Library
-A Book About a Road Trip
-An Autobiography
-A Satirical Novel
-A Poetry Book
-Audio book