Reading Challenge Alart

One must always be careful of books and what's inside them, for words have the power to change us. - Cassandra Clare

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2019 Reading Challenge: 35 books out of 52 (67%)

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Life carries on with the regular inconsistancies of bar work. Changes happen, rotas differ from week to week, and people come and go like the tides. For me, the greatest consistancy in my life is the fact that I will always have a book to read. There are books on my shelves that I haven't read yet and in a way I'm saving them for that rainy day when I've run out of space and things to read on my Kindle, or simply because I wanted a change from reading an ebook. I grew up in an era where we didn't have technology like we do today; I grew up in a country that is classed as developing. We didn't have access to the same resources that we would have had if we'd grown up in the developed world. I spent my allowance on books and devoured what we had at home. It got to a point where, in my late teens, I got banned from buying books, whenever we came to the UK, because I spent all my clothes money on books instead of replacements for the sorry state of my wardrobe. My parents had a point. After one summer when I went back to Uganda with a suitcase of books rather than good qualities clothes. Now that I have a Kindle, a lot of my reading is done by ebook, though I have bought several books over the years, but because of the lack of storage space (I don't have a lot of shelves) I haven't done as much as I have done in the past.

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Current Read (*May Contain Spoilers*)

I'm currently reading a book about Jane Austin's famous Pride & Prejudice, which looks at the lives of the servants who worked silencely behind the scenes of Longbourn House, where the Bennetts lived. We all know of Mrs. Hill who would often listen to Mrs. Bennet's rants about how Mr. Bennet wouldn't call upon Mr. Bingly when he first arrived in the area. We know nothing from Jane Austin's book about who else worked to keep Loungbourn running like a well oiled machine. So Jo Baker does an amazing job of allowing us a glimpse into the underworld of the poor serving people who lived and worked behind the scense to keep these stately houses running so smoothly. I've only just started the book but I'm enjoying it greatly, though I would recommend reading Pride & Prejudice before you read Longbourn, or even take the time to watch all six parts of the BBC production of the book, as it has many references to things that happened in the book, so you won't be out of your depth if you decided to read it without having some prior knowledge.

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Continued Progress with My 2019 Reading Challenge

I'm currently ahead of schedule with my GoodReads Reading Challenge by ten books. This is kinda surprising as I didn't think I'd be getting so far ahead given I've been reading a lot of easier reads over the last few months. I may have to change my reading challenge later on in the year, but at the moment, I'm not going to do this just yet. If you want to help me with keeping on top of my reading challenge this year, feel free to buy me one of the books on my reading list (the link is http://amzn.eu/7GM9Xqc).