52 Books in 52 Weeks.....Interrupted.....

I thought it would be easier to accomplish this goal in 2011 than it was in 2010, since I started 6 weeks late last year.  Well...think again, girl.  I'm further behind now than I was at this point last year.  


Back in February, some family challenges began to crop up that interrupted reading.  Ok, not all reading. It just crowded out a lot of my reading for pleasure, and caused me to temporarily put aside the goal of reading one book a week, and posting reviews, which is the hardest part of this challenge for me.  I really never thought it would take this long to get back to it.


A couple of weeks ago, I was just about ready to "get back on track", when a persistent pain in my lower right side kept me awake all night.  A doctor's appointment that next morning resulted in a trip to the hospital in order to have my appendix removed!  After that, I had two weeks of recovery and mandated rest, which gave me lots of reading time - finally!


So now, I have a stack of 10 books - several that I read over the last few months, and the rest that I read while I was recuperating, that I have read but have not reviewed.  Later today I intend to do very brief 1-2 sentence reviews of most of them in one post.  I have neither the time or inclination to do more than that.  But the most recent two that I read I will review more fully because I remember more about them.  


I'm currently reading Grisham's "The Confession", and I can tell this one won't take me long. The review  -in which I will get up on my soapbox about capital punishment and the current state of our justice system - might take longer to write than actually reading the book!


So, that should get me up to about 15 books by that time - I think?  I'll still be 10 books behind the goal, but with a 10 day trip back to the family farm in the wings, I may just get a few more out of the way.


But, sadly, the Well-Read Mind Challenge and 10 Classics challenge may just go by the wayside. I read "A Mid-Summer Night's Dream", and that's about it so far.  Maybe I can pick them back up in the fall. We'll see. Classics don't lend themselves to fast-paced reading or listening to an audio version while working around the house.


Look for a long post with pretty pictures of books, but few words, coming soon...


Sojourner