Muriel's 24: springboard to a bigger challenge?

[Muriel B]

After a few fallow years, I have set 24 as my Return to Reading target for 2021. However, given the books I have read so far, this might need to be upgraded later in the year. I generally read non-fiction books during the day and leave the fiction for my reading session in the evening/at bedtime.

I have read five books so far:
1. Arnaldur Indridason - The shadow district
2. Naomi Klein - This changes everything
3. Yrsa Sigurdardottir - The silence of the sea
4. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We should all be feminists
5. Simone de Beauvoir - Extracts from The Second Sex

and I am currently reading:
6. Arnaldur Indridason - The shadow killer
7. Alan Rusbridger - Breaking news: the remaking in journalism and why it matters now.

[Ilona]

You are off to a great start! Best of luck, Muriel :)

[Muriel B]

Muriel BThe shadow killer by Indridason and Breaking news by Rusbridger now both finished. Moving on to:

8. Mary Robinson - Climate justice. Hope, resilience and the fight for a sustainable future
9. Maggie O'Farrell - The vanishing act of Esme Lennox

I also took delivery today of "A nation of enemies: Chile under Pinochet", but I will wait until I receive "Allende's Chile and the Inter-American Cold War (The New Cold War History)", which I will read first. Meanwhile, my pile of to read books on the shelf still has quite a few works to enjoy!

[Muriel B]

Finished reading Mary Robinson's Climate justice and Maggie O'Farrell's The vanishing act of Esme Lennox.

[Muriel B]

Books 10 and 11 will be:
10. Yrsa Sigurdardottir - Why did you lie?
11. Betty Friedan - The female mystique

Keep on reading! :)

[Lisa]

You're off to a great start, Muriel :)
Unless you already own Adichie's book, I'd recommend watching her Ted-talk. It's basically the same thing she discusses, albeit the printed version is obviously a tiny bit more developed, just not by much.

I watched the ted-talk first and then bought the book hoping she would discuss her thoughts much more in depth, and was sort of let down when I found out it wasn't the case.

It definitely is worth the read/listen though, and I hope you enjoy it :)

[Muriel B]

Update - a few more books were read after finishing nos. 10 (Yrsa Sigurdardottir - Why did you lie?) and 11 (Betty Friedan - The female mystique):
12. John Charles Chasteen - Born in blood & fire. A concise history of Latin America
13. Ernesto Che Guevara - The Motorcycle Diaries
14. Daniel Levitin - A field guide to lies and statistics
15. Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent
16. Imogen Clark - Postcards from a Stranger
17. Harriet Dyer - Little book of feminism.

My current non-fiction book is Allende’s Chile & the Inter-American War by Tanya Harmer.
From the fiction pile: The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardottir.

[Muriel B]

Time has flown again and I reached my 2021 target on 5 August:
18. Tanya Harmer - Allende's Chile & the Inter-American War
19. Yrsa Sigurdardottir - The Reckoning
20. Fiona Valpy - The Dressmaker's Gift
21. Gloria Steinem - Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
22. Yrsa Sigurdardottir - The Absolution
23. JK Rowling - The Casual Vacancy
24. Pamela Constable and Arturo Valenzuela - A Nation of Enemies: Chile under Pinochet
TIME FOR A NEW TARGET! 30 BOOKS BY THE END OF THE YEAR.
25. Helen Gordon - Notes from deep time
26. Yrsa Sigurdardottir - Gallows Rock
27. Stanley Tucci - Taste. My Life Through Food

Currently reading:
28. Nancy Campbell - Fifty words for snow
29. Sara Wheeler - Terra Incognita. Travels in Antarctica.
All about snow and ice - preparing for a literary winter. :)