What are you going to read in the summer of 2020?

[Werner]

For the past couple of years, our group has offered a thread where those who want to can share their reading plans for the summer. So, I thought we ought to continue that tradition this year!

My reading plans are anchored, as it were, around three reading commitments, one for each month. This month, I'm taking part in a common read of Agatha Christie's Hercules Poirot mystery Death on the Nile in another group. One of my Goodreads friends and I are planning a buddy read of the Sherlock Holmes story collection His Last Bow for next month; and August will bring the annual group read in the Fans of British Writers group. That book isn't picked yet, but the discussion indicates it will be some classic work of British poetry.

Around these, I'm hoping to work in a read of Daughter of the Legend by Jesse Stuart. Appalachian fiction is a big draw for me, and having liked some of his short stories, I've been wanting to try his long fiction. (Easley Library's copy also has a plain yellow cover, so it will let me complete our ongoing challenge on this thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... , though I wouldn't have picked it only for that!) Also, I want to squeeze in as much as I can of my Goodreads friend G. K. Werner's The Clerk of Copmanhurst's Tales trilogy (about Robin Hood) --I have all three books sitting in one of my many TBR piles. I may or may not get a start, between other reads, on one of last year's thrift store purchases, Favorite Ghost Stories, edited by Aidan Chambers.

Barb and I are continuing to plug away on our read of the second book in Mary Connealy's Montana Marriages trilogy (it's a Christian Western series, and we're not reading it in order), The Husband Tree, which is our current "car book." But the pandemic has greatly cut down on the amount of driving we do, so our progress on it has been even slower than usual; and it's doubtful whether we'll be doing any road trip this summer. :-(