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May Another Good Reading Month – Five books finished with a week to go!

At he end of April my projected reads for May were projected to be…..::

What Then Shall We Do?
Dance of Death
Bowl of Heaven
A Delicate Truth
The Technologist

As I moved into May, I finished reading What Then Shall We Do? and Dance of Death. At that point, I went to the library and then changed the books. I added: How to Read the Solar System,and The Smoke at Dawn by Jeff Sahaara from the library. Then I added Preston & Child’s Brimstone (the book prior to Dance of Death) and The Devil’s Punchbowl from Greg Isles both from my TBR pile. Additionally, I continued reading Bowl of Heaven from Gregory Benford and Larry Niven. A few days later, Inspector of the Dead by David Morrell, which I requested from the library became available. I zipped through that book and then did the same thing with Brimstone!!

Several days ago, I was looking through the books on my Kindle and I saw Watching You the latest release from Michael Robotham which I had bought a while back and then forgot about, so I started reading it at night before bed. Yesterday I really got caught up in the book and finished it!!

So in total, I have read five books so far in May. The books are shown on the following table.

May 2015 Reads
24	Watching You – Michael Robotham	Cloak & Dagger	Library
23	Brimstone _Preston & Child	Cloak & Dagger	TBR Pile
22	Inspector of the Dead	Cloak & Dagger	Library
21	Dance of Death – Preston & Child	Cloak & Dagger	TBR Pile
20	What Then Must We Do-Gar Alperowitz	Nonfiction	Library

So as we approach the end of May, I am still reading Bowl of Heaven, and How to Read the Solar System. In addition I started two other books. My current reading list looks like this…..

Currently Reading	Challenge	From	Page	Total	%complete
Bowl of Heaven – Benford and Niven	Science Fiction	Library	300	412	73%
How to Read the Solar System-North&Abel	Nonfiction	Library	130	304	43%
Who Buries the Dead – C.S. Harris	Cloak & Dagger	Library	52	334	16%
The Matarese Countdown – Robert Ludlum	Cloak & Dagger	TBR Pile	64	566	11%

I will update my status on the various reading challenges at the end of May and I will finalize my projected reads for June at the time, also.Oh, I will also be writing about Watching You soon!

Well my Mount To Be Read pile just grew this morning! On my way home from seeing my mother at the home, I was going to drop off some library books. I was surprised to see that the Used Book Sale that I thought was a few weeks away was actually today! So here’s what my ten bucks got me (actually $9.50 but I told them to keep the change! Big of me huh!)

Paperbacks

Storm Front – Jim Butcher – The first book in the Dresden File series. I’ve started this book several times only to find something else to read and then having to take the book back to the library unread!

The Traveler – John Twelve Hawks – I looked at this book a while ago at Borders when I was looking for Sci-fi books to read it looked interesting but I bought something else! (Old Man’s War I think which was very good!)

The Coil – Gayler Lynds – one of those authors whose name I always see and just haven’t read yet!

Blood Work – Michael Connelly – Since I’m currently reading The Narrows and enjoying it. I thought it would be good to read about some events that happened in this book that are referenced in The Narrows

The Codex – Douglas Preston – I’ve read a few of the books Preston has writen with Lincoln Child and enjoyed them and this one looks good!

Hardbacks

Don’t Look Twice – Andrew Gross – I read and enjoyed his book The Blue Zone so I am looking forward to this one!

Winter House – Carol O’Connell – a Mallory novel which is a favorite series, and the next book after Dead Famous which is already on my Mount to Be Read. Maybe knowing I have this book will motivate me to read Dead Famous!

Hell’s Bay – James W. Hall – A Thorn novel having read Red Sky at Night . I look forward to another visit to Thorn’s South Florida world!

DVD

A.M. & P.M. Yoga conditioning for weight loss – Giam – always looking for yoga videos to add new routines !

All in All a great visit to the Book Sale. Tomorrow is a half price sale so I may go back and see if a couple books that I was looking at but didn’t pick up are still there!!