In my last post "The Year that was 2019" I've mentioned my reading challenge for the year was 50. However, while reading my last year's post I've realized that I had set my reading goal for 2019 as 60 books. This is what happens when I neglect my writing space. Over the period I had forgotten what object I had set for myself and started believing in another number. What remains is I had missed my target miserably. I'm not the one to be bogged down by the failures. With full gusto and energy I have taken up the challenge to read 50 books in the year 2020, that is 4 books per month on an average. I console myself saying I had picked two books in 'Game of Throne' series which are astonishingly of huge volume. I've been largely partial to few authors, that made me to pick their work in a row. In 2020 I intend to bring diversity in terms of genres and authors. Without much ado here goes my list;
January
1. Catching Fire-Susanne Collins
2. Betrayal-Danielle Steel
3. Mocking Jay-Susanne Collins
4. Into the Water-Paula Hawkins
February
1. Apporva Paschima-Shivaram Karanth
2. A Great Alone-Kristin Hannah
3. Nightingale-Kristin Hannah
March
1. Last Anniversary-Lianne Moriatry
2. Hero-Samantha Young
3. Nine Perfect Strangers-Lianne Moriatry
April
1. Everything I Never Told You About-Celeste NG
2. Home For Christmas-Nora Roberts
3. The Wife Between Us-Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
May
1. An Anonymous Girl-Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
2. In a Dark, Dark Woods-Ruth Ware
3. Clash of Kings-George R.R. Martin
June
1. My Lovely Wife-Samantha Downing
2. The Girl Before
July
1. Big Girl-Danielle Steel
2. Family Ties-Danielle Steel
3. Bitter Sweet-Danielle Steel
4. Angels Fall-Nora Roberts
August
1. Montana Sky-Nora Roberts
2. First to Die-James Patterson
3. Normal Things-Sally Rodney
September
1. The Silent Patient-Alex Michaelides
October
1. Dead to You-Lisa McMann
2. Dating Game-Danielle Steel
3. Before Anna-Alex Lake
4. Comfort and Joy-Kristin Hannah
November
1. Between Sisters-Kristin Hannah
2. Storm of Swords-George R.R.Martin
3. Purple Hibiscus-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4. To Kill a Mocking Bird-Harper Lee
5. Digging In-Loretta Nyhan
December
1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society-Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
2. Chikkadoddavaru-Shivarama Karanth
3. Summer Island-Kristin Hannah
4. Home Again-Kristin Hannah
5. Wedding Night-Sophie Kinsella
All of us need motivation in life to keep going. I have read somewhere life will be vibrant and colourful if we keep painting it with different splash of colours, i.e., experiences and moments. I'm not a person who could be described as ambitious. I'm a happy person most my life with little things, that I turn into magical memories. The purpose that drives me everyday to wake up in the morning is couple of things that I enjoy immensely and the quench is insatiable. To get a better perspective of life I'm trying to jot down few things that motivates me.
To Travel the World: I haven't done any traveling per se until I met Hubby (then boyfriend). We had many things in common like love for the history, art and architecture, nature, wild life. I was happy reading about them in the big fat books. It was he who greatly inspired me look beyond books and experience things for real. And I was hooked and now travel is a drug of choice for both of us. There are 195 countries in the world. I know it is an unattainable dream, but a woman can dream, right? Diamond isn't my best friend neither any jewelry. I don't fancy big cars. I don't want to own a house or property. I don't yearn for branded gadgets or vintage stuff. I don't desire any worldly procession, but for what is necessary for basic comfortable life. I know the basic comfortable varies from people to people, but I'm a very low maintenance. I want to travel until the day I die. To keep a journal of our travel trails hubby and I started a travel blog www.milesandtrails.com.
To Read Books: If you read my earlier posts you must be well aware that I read at least 4 to 5 books every month. I have been an avid reader all my life. That is why maybe I'm jostling between 2 to 3 books at a time. There are millions books out there and given an option I will do nothing but read. I wish I have more time to read. I would love to quote George RR Martin here "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only one". How aptly he puts the significance of reading in one sentence. Because while reading the reader is in the story, he/she follows the different characters, go where they go, see what they see, hear what they hear, feel what they feel, experience all the emotions they go through. As books are my constant companions I never get lonely and need daily doses of reading to keep me going.
To Be Continued........
