Summer Reading Challenge

Perhaps it's the fuzzy warm feeling from TBF this past weekend* or perhaps it's just where I'm at in life, but I decided I'm going to challenge myself this summer with my reading. By challenge, I mean that I would like to read at least 25 books over the next 13 weeks. I'm doing this in context of Summer Book Bingo. You can find the Bingo Board here if you want to play along.

Also, I plan to incorporate "Books that I Should Have Read Long Ago and Just Sort of Skipped Over". There is quite a few of those. My friend, Jim, set up a challenge for himself last year of "classics that he should have read but didn't". This is my inspiration for this phase of my challenge.

I will blog about the books and the progress of my challenge.

And now for book one of the challenge:

Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed

I completed this book in less than 24 hours because I couldn't put it down. In fact, I stayed up late on Tuesday to plow through as much as I could. Written in the Stars is about Naila, a soon-to-be high school graduate who is forced by her parents into an unwanted marriage. I'm usually not a fan of realistic fiction, but this book was so interesting. Naila is a compelling character. The minor characters were interesting and well-developed. I highly recommend this book.

*I realized as I was writing this that I should do a recap of TBF. It was epic and wonderful!