Welcome back to the 2020 Monthly Motif Reading Challenge! Your challenge this month is to read a classic or a recently published book. Then link up to where you posted about it in the comments, on our Goodreads GXO Reading Challenge group or on Instagram using the hashtag #MonthlyMotifGXO. And don’t forget to update your 2020 Reading Challenges Tracker.
– Classics or Current –
“Read a book published before the year you were born (classic-ish) OR a book published between April 2019 and April 2020 (current.)”
Here’s my top book suggestion for this month:
The Whisper Man, Alex North (published August 2019)
In this dark, suspenseful thriller, Alex North weaves a multi-generational tale of a father and son caught in the crosshairs of an investigation to catch a serial killer preying on a small town.
HOW THE CHALLENGE WORKS
- Your task is to read at least 1 book for this theme
- Post about what you’ve read anywhere online – your blog, Goodreads and / or social media using the hashtag #MonthlyMotifGXO
- Come back to our check-in here in the comments leave a link and/or tell us which book(s) you read and what you thought.
… so what are you reading this month?!
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Sue Carey
I read a current book for April: The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, Erik Larson https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3145787735
Somdutta Sarkar
Happy to report that I finished The Overstory by Richard Powers, around mid-May. Mine was a 2019 Vintage publication copy, so a Current. It’s a Pulitzer Prize winner 625-pages tome, and a wonderful book about trees and people giving “a f*ck about trees”. The review took a while, but it’s now up at https://www.instagram.com/p/CAz6tvHHCSg/?igshid=vjtmx2txlxjo
Would appreciate feedback 🙂
Elizabeth Barrientos
I read “Highfire” by Eoin Colfer, published in January 2020. A super fun read! Here is the link to my review: https://suojurelife.home.blog/2020/05/04/highfire-by-eoin-colfer-a-review/
Kimberly Lynne
I still haven’t read an Eoin Colfer book. Can’t believe it!
Somdutta
So I am reading The Overstory by Richard Powers, published in April 2019. Thing is, it’s a heavy book, and it makes for beautiful but laborious reading… I am pretty sure I won’t finish it this month, so it may spill over into next month and act as my Author Intro May reading as well! Will keep y’all posted 🙂
Dorothy Dickerson
Finally read Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3252983133
Scarlett
I read Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte as my classic for this month! I love classics, but I mostly read current books so I figured this challenge was a good opportunity to read an old classic I’ve never read before. Here’s my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1384686831
Kimberly Lynne
@Scarlett Fantastic! I’m the same way so I love a little nudge to read more classics.
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