I can’t work out whether I did well this week or not. Ok in numbers, the amount of books I read is not that big, but several of them were quite chunky books so I’ve actually done a lot of pages – over 2500 pages in fact. But is that good or not? I don’t usually add up pages, so I have no idea, and I don’t have the time (or inclination) to go back and add it up for a representative number of weeks. My Goodread stats average out at just over 2000 pages a week for this year so far, and just over 2100 a week for the whole of last year – but I know that there are always some books that I’ve read that don’t have a good reads page count so won’t have made it into the total. But hey, on that basis, I’ve done well – because the 2500+ figure doesn’t include the half of the Mary-Jo Putney that I read on the train on Sunday evening…
Read:
Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt
The Tumbling Turner Sisters by Juliette Fay
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Stormswept by Sabrina Jeffries writing as Deborah Martin
From Pasta to Pigfoot: Second Helpings by Frances Mensah Williams
Wedding Bells for Nurse Connie by Jean Fullerton
Started:
Once a Soldier by Mary-Jo Putney
Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins by James Runcie
Still reading:
The Long View by Elizabeth Jane Howard
I pre-ordered Eloisa James’s upcoming novella, but that’s it. I’m trying to be restrained…
Verity Reads Books (lots of them) 
I’ve seen Once a Soldier at the library and been hesitant in reading it, though Mary Jo is one of the many who rarely disappoint. Are you liking it, and is it worth reading?
I liked it – much more than I have done her books previously. As far as books set in little kingdoms you’ve never heard of before it’s pretty blooming good!
I may just check it out then, once I’ve read the fifteen other books that I just checked out. [My tiny library now lends out ebooks, and a lot of them are brand new books that I’ve been dying to read! (So excited!)]