The Reading Tally - Midyear

I began the year with  goal of reading at least 80 books.

At midpoint in the year, I've already read 53 books. That projects to 106 books for the year.

My goals included at least 12 Shakespeare plays - I'm up to 8 - and 12 mysteries - the total so far is 16.

By way of comparison, last year I read 55 books for the entire year.

Here's the 2021 list so far:

Haiku: A Poet’s Guide by Lee Gurga

Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance - collected, with original poems, by Nikki Grimes

Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Verses

The Essence of Modern Haiku: 300 Poems by Seishi Yamaguchi

Adelaide Crapsey by Mary Elizabeth Osborn

Times Three by Phyllis McGinley

Haiku Inspirations by Tom Lowenstein

The Complete Nonsense Books of Edward Lear

Love Poems for the Very Married by Lois Wyse

New Hampshire by Robert Frost

Mountain Interval by Robert Frost

Outlaws of Ravenhurst by Sister M Imelda Wallace, S.L.

The Amulet of Power (Will Wilder #3) by Raymond Arroyo

Assisi: Three Guided Itineraries to the Town by Adriano Cioci and Rizia Guarnieri

Laudato Si by Pope Francis

Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton

The Soul’s Journey into God by Saint Bonaventure

Everyday Epiphanies: Seeing the Sacred in Every Thing by Sister Melannie Svoboda, SND

Lord of the World by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson

The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Two Towers by J.R.R Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Cracked Spine by Paige Shelton

The Ghost Walker by Margaret Coel

The Incredulity of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton

Trent’s Last Case by E. C. Bentley

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (Elizabeth MacKintosh)

The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman

Skeleton Man by Tony Hillerman

The Sinister Pig by Tony Hillerman

The Wailing Wind  by Tony Hillerman

Hunting Badger by Tony Hillerman

The First Eagle by Tony Hillerman

Before She Dies by Steven F. Havill

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Curtain by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World by Lila Rose

Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America by David Horowitz
Our Only Home by the Dalai Lama and Franz Alt

40 Days for Life by David Bereit and Shawn Carney
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare

Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
Henry IV Part II by William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

The Life and Death of King John by William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Richard II by William Shakespeare

The Happily Ever After by Avi Steinberg

Onward!

Pax et bonum