Summer Reading 2023

Welcome, my friends, to another installment of my yearly Summer Reading Challenge!  For the rest of this post, please listen to the following video at a low volume.  Thanks!

Now, I'm sure that those of you who actually still read this blog have noticed the decided absence of a certain type of post over the past few months...namely, the one focusing on my yearly reading challenge.  I'll admit, I posted my intentions in a fit of enthusiasm, which quickly fizzled out.  You see, my drafts were getting burdensome, since I read a lot.  In fact, I've read 100+ books already, and we're just into May.  It was too hard to keep up with the pace.

So, I'm abandoning that plan and moving on with this one.  Starting on Memorial Day (May 29th) and ending on Labor Day (Sept. 4th), I'll be working on my new Summer Reading Challenge for the year: Read Like An Egyptian (aka, books about mummies!)

I've been planning this for a few months now and I'm starting to really get excited, so I'll start dropping a few preview titles (think of it as a warm-up) into the blog, but we'll really consider Summer Reading started on Memorial Day.

There are so many classic books featuring mummies, and I'm excited to read as many as I can get my hands on!  We'll be evaluating each mummy for how scary or interesting it is, and each story for its creativity.

I hope you'll all join me.  If you read along, feel free to drop the titles of mummy stories you've read and loved in the comments of any of the upcoming posts.  I look forward to taking a look!