UFO Challenge

My Friend Jane reads a LOT. So much she has a blog specifically for her reading.
I read a lot, every day. But I'm pretty sure I won't ever have a special blog for books. Well, maybe when there aren't little kids in my lap and writing in my books. Maybe.



Anyway, Jane posts reading challenges every year. Last year I attempted to manage her Friends challenge. While not a complete failure, I only read 4 of the books on my admittedly longish list. So, I've posted the list again, and took those four books off. So this year my list is shorter (but still too long?). We'll see.  Part of the problem is Jane's list was for books you hadn't started before 2013.

That's my problem. I've always got 5 or 10 books going and I bounce around them so badly sometimes it takes years to finish them. SO, this year I'm going to do like I do with my sewing projects every so often. I'm making a list of my UFOs. UnFinished Objects (in this case books). I'll write all the books I'm currently part way into. And see if I can't get some of them over into the finished pile! I'll give a little report here when I finish each of them (I'm living large - going to assume that I'll finish some!). My goal for the year is to finish 80% of the ones I list here.

If You too have a pile of UFO books feel free to post your list and link back to me and comment here. Notice I'm posting this in January, you can count anything you finished after midnight on New Years Eve (I was sleeping, not reading!).

1    The Struggle for Egypt - Stephen A. Cook
2    Eat for Heat - Matt Stone - read this in May. Interesting ideas, trying to keep my temp up now
3    Diet Recovery - Matt Stone
4    A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Buroughs
5    Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
6    Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - YAY Finished it! It is, of course, a classic, and I enjoyed it, finally I can say I've read something Dickens (after owning most of his books for 20 years) other than Christmas Carol!
7    The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Finished this as well. I think I'll read it again.
8    Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
9    War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
10  The Sumerians - Noah Samuel Kramer
11  Commentary on Galatians - Martin Luther
12  Reading the Psalms with Luther - Pub: CPH
13  Whatever Happened to Justice - Richard J. Maybury
14  With Lee in Virginia - G. A. Henty
15  The Cat of the Bubastes - G. A. Henty
16  Cuneiform: Reading the Past - C. B. F. Walker
17  The Turks in World History - Carter Vaughn Findley
18  The Large Catechism - Martin Luther
19  The Book of Concord - Various
20  A Fine Balance - Rohanton Mistry
21  Sweet Dates in Basra -  Jessica Jiji
22  At Home in the House of my Fathers - Matt Harrison
23 City of God - Saint Augustine
24 Common Sense - Thomas Paine
25 Glenn Beck's Common Sense - Glenn Beck
26 Don Quixote - Miguel Cervantes

There's more, I know, but my library is a mess and this is enough to be getting on with.