A Challenge too Far? 23/10/25

I've blogged in the past about how I'm trying to do the 52 Book Club Challenge again this year.

Well this week I sat down and worked out what I needed to read before the end of the year:

Prompt 5 Plot includes a Heist - Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr currently reserved at the library.

Prompt 18 A Character who can fly - The Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar currently in transit to my library

Prompt 20 A Fairy Tale retelling - The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey currently in transit to my library

Prompt 27 Features a Magician - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern currently in transit to my library

Prompt 30 In the Public Domain - Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen I'm currently about half way through this

Prompt 31 Audiobook has multiple narrators - Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - I have the complete works so I'll be reading this one.

Prompt 31 Includes a Diary entry - Homecoming by Kate Morton I picked this up from the library yesterday.

6 and 1/2 books by the end of the year sounds doable right?

But there's also:

The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler and

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid 

to be read for the book clubs!  Wish me luck!

(And another library loan to pick up just for fun.)

I'm off to read a bit more of Sense and Sensibility.  I'd forgotten how flowery Austen's writing was.  And it's hard to read in bed as I have the complete works of Austen so it's a big heavy book and the print is small.