This week, I've hopped from book to book - sampling a few pages here and there and then abandoning them all because it was too slow or too boring or too dry or too character-oriented or too-plot-oriented or... You get the drift. Life We had another one of those sick-kids-and-Covid-tests week. My daughter came home from school one day with a runny nose that quickly became chills and tiredness. She had no issues with smell or taste, nevertheless we took her for a test as neither she nor my son would be able to get back to school without a negative test. Thankfully, the test results came negative. This time around, we were all ready for what needed to be done, unlike the first time a month ago. Other than that, my week has been very quiet. My parents and my father-in-law got their first shots of the Covid vaccine in India, so we are finally trying to confirm my parents' travel plans to the US - a year later than originally planned. It's quite exciting to realize we will soon
- What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (3 cocktails)
- Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman (5 cocktails : WOW!)
- The Lumby Lines by Gail Fraser (4 cocktails)
- Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi (5 cocktails)
- Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman (4 cocktails)
- Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli (3 cocktails)
- The Arrival by Shaun Tan (5 cocktails)
- The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara (3 cocktails)
- Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart (4 cocktails)
Discussion
- Ergh! I didn't like this book!
- Adieus, LOST! I will miss you...
- Rise of the online book club member
- The Blogger and the Microblogger
- Books from far, far away
- How to keep an active buzzing blog
Challenge Progress
Challenges completed: 0/12
- 100+ Reading Challenge: 43/100
- Awesome Author Challenge: 1/10
- Support your Local Library Challenge: 25/50
- Flashback Reading Challenge: 5/9
- 451 Challenge: 1/7
- Women Unbound Challenge: 3/5
- A to Z Challenge: 35/52
- Original TBR Challenge: 4/12
- Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge: 3/10
- POC Challenge: 5/10
- World Party Reading Challenge: 0/12
- Orange Prize Project: 0
May Stats
Number of books: 9
Number of pages read: 2259
Number of Audio Books: 0
Hours listened to (completed audio books only): 0
Re-reads: 0
New-to-me authors: 8
Male authors: 3
Female authors: 6
Book cleared from my physical shelf: 2
Books added to my physical shelf: 8
Number of books added anew to my TBR this month: 153 {sigh, this is never going to reduce}

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Juju, Me too.. I saw a Sawyer lookalike today and couldn't help but miss Lost all over again!