As mentioned before there are a few books I also want to get to for my own personal challenges or set goals. I am moving forward in the backlist of several authors in publication order so let's start with them. *Stephen King As it was not finished in August we have the previous month carrying over to this one Cujo published in 1981 this is the story of a good San Bernard family dog who goes crazy with rabies and the chaos that ensues because of that. I already begun reading it, and the only down side is that the vocabulary is a bit dated. Maybe I am not enjoying the translation style. I am reading it in Spanish as I mistook the version ordered so, not the best decision on my part. I'll go into details when I review the book. Published in 1982 The running man published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. This tale is about a dystopian world where poor people are no longer considered humans but pests. Ben Richards struggles with his situation, he is desperate seeing his daughte...

  As usual, the goal is to not have too many books in my initial TBR. Spoiler alert: I didn't make a small TBR. I have a few readalongs or reading groups that I have been following for quite a while now. So first let's mention those: *Literally Dead book club created and hosted by Keyla from Books and Lala for more information you can go to the GoodReads group here . August pick, I didn't get to so that one moves to the top of the list Home before Dark by Riley Sager. This is a mystery/thriller giving us the story of a young woman who grew up with the story that a house she lived in her infancy was haunted, but she does not believe it and goes back to the house to discover what really happened. This a recent release, June 30, 2020, and I have not been able to get it, so I gave up. I will get it from Amazon via Kindle and read it in digital format. I am actively trying to use my Kindle a bit more.  The book pick for September is Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas. A goth...

 I took a little break from posting, but not from reading entirely. Overall it was a very good month. I am still working from home, doing good. I am about to start a few more training sessions so I will probably need to invest some of my free time for that too, hope that does not cut my reading time short. I have changed a bit my plan for writing and posting in an effort to make it more manageable. Will I be able to carry it out? Can't make any promises, but I think I will at least update more regularly than last month, that's for sure! I was not feeling very motivated to do much of anything this last few weeks, it comes and goes so, an apology about the lack of content but I will try to do better and not disappear without warning like that again.  To the main event of the day! The stats for my reading in August: So I am actually doing pretty good in numbers. Strictly speaking, I failed in my TBR because I have 11 books that I didn't read from my original TBR and 1 other th...

 I ended up reading 23 books making it 154 books for this 2020 Challenge. I have 3 unfinished books and a single DNF. I have accomplished 68% of the challenge. Let's get into some stats  I tried to vary my readings but as usual, I ended up with the idea that I will need to do better. There was also a bit of variation of the authors, but again this month was very small but we will try to do better.

Book title: White like me: reflections on race from a privileged son  Author: Tim Wise Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir Original publication date : December 21, 2004 Book description:   In White Like Me , Tim Wise offers a highly personal examination of the ways in which racial privilege shapes the lives of most white Americans, overtly racist or not, to the detriment of people of color, themselves, and society. The book shows the breadth and depth of the phenomenon within institutions such as education, employment, housing, criminal justice, and healthcare. By critically assessing the magnitude of racial privilege and its enormous costs, Wise provides a rich memoir that will inspire activists, educators, or anyone interested in understanding the way that race continues to shape the experiences of people in the U.S. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a narrative that is at once readable and scholarly, analytical and accessible. Thoughts: It has been a while since...

Author: Ken Wytsma Genre:  Nonfiction Original publication date: 2017 Book description: Is privilege real or imagined? It's clear that issues of race and equality have come to the forefront in our nation's consciousness. Every week yet another incident involving racial tension splashes across headlines and dominates our news feeds. But it's not easy to unpack the origins of these tensions, and perhaps we wonder whether any of these issues really has anything to do with us. Ken Wytsma, founder of the Justice Conference, understands these questions. He has gone through his own journey of understanding the underpinnings of inequality and privilege. In this timely, insightful book Wytsma unpacks what we need to know to be grounded in conversations about today's race-related issues. And he helps us come to a deeper understanding of both the origins of these issues and the reconciling role we are called to play as witnesses of the gospel. Inequality and privilege are real. ...

I don't really remember how many times I have changed my reading goals for this year. There were several goals I completely gave up on, some were added, oh well let's begin. My overall goals can be found here  https://readaholic-anonymous.blogspot.com/2020/01/2020-reading-goals.html Change of plans: -The TBR game to pick my reads was a total failure, I can't really do it as I usually have too many other plans going on and then if I can't fit into the prompts then it simply does not work as a doable TBR. So I decided to stop using it and just pick books based on what I want to get done. -I had to finish a few books of short story collections those were Brother's Grim complete fairytales, Edgar Allan Poe and HP Lovecraft stories. I have not even attempted to do that, not sure if I will really try it now. I have yet to even start and already 6 months have gone by so I am probably not going to stick to this goal.  Specific Goals Series The series to get to 2020, you can...