Mount TBR Reading Challenge: 2nd Quarter Summary

For the second year, I am participating in the Mount TBR Reading Challenge. I have more unread books than I will ever read, and this challenge motivates me to work away at the older books in my stacks, boxes, and bookshelves. The host, Bev at My Reader's Block, is calling for the second quarterly check-in post. Check out other summary posts here.

This quarter I have read 13 books that count toward the Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2013. Combined with the 15 I read in the first quarter, I have read a total of 28 books toward my goal of 36 books. So, I am on target.



The books I have read in April, May, June are: 

1. The Stately Home Murder by Catherine Aird
2. The Ransom Game by Howard Engel
3. Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
4. Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
5. A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
6. Ten Second Staircase by Christopher Fowler
7. Silence of the Rain by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
8. Fell Purpose by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
9. Kaleidoscope by J. Robert Janes
10. Death Wore White by Jim Kelly
11. Daemons Are Forever by Simon R. Green
12. The Mugger by Ed McBain
13. The Pusher by Ed McBain

My favorite character in this set of books was Inspector Espinosa of the First Precinct in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who appears in Silence of the Rain by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza. He is a book lover and a philosopher.

I purchased Silence of the Rain in late 2009, so I have had that book about 3 and a half years. The book I have had longest in this set is Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie. I purchased that book at the Planned Parenthood book sale in September 2005 (the event I wait for each year). I have been collecting copies of Agatha Christie books that long and have just in the last year begun my project of re-reading most of her books.