Me & My Bookshelf !

The birthday month was totally jazzed up with a book buying spree. almost 60 books from Bookchor.com and I totally loved each purchase. Some of these books were bought for the beautiful covers, some because they are hardbound books, some for the titles, some to fit in the prompts for the various reading challenges and some for the kids. I have moved on to reading more biographies instead of non fiction and that's why you can see so many of those in the list. I'm in love with each and every book that I purchased even though I am officially broke!

 These are the books that I have selected for the Monthly Motif Reading Challenge  . Here are the prompts... JAN - The upside down king [Mythology] FEB - Jewel [Historical Romance] MARCH - Tram 83 [Africa] APRIL - Shared Tables MAY - The Globaltrotters [8-12 year read] JUNE - Secret Garden JULY - Songs of a coward [ short book of poetry] AUGUST - Magic of the lost temple [Magic] SEPTEMBER - The Ayurvedic Diet [ Educate yourself] OCTOBER - Gone girl [ Black Cover] NOVEMBER - The street Lawyer DECEMBER - Padmini [ Historical event]

 I've made a list of books for the Alphabet Soup Challenge  . Some of these books cross over to other challenges and some are new. A - The Ayurvedic Diet B - Boy in Striped Pajamas C - The chocolate Log D - Devil wears Prada E - Emma F - False Impression G - Girls Only! H - The Help I - Idlis to Ipads J - Jewels K - The Kingfisher secret L - Loves Lost by Sourabh Mukherjee M - Malgudi Days N - Northanger abbey O - One part woman P - Plain tales from the Raj Q - Re q ulem in Raga Janki R - Running from safety S - Solo in Singapore T - Train to India U - An unusual Honeymoon by Mamta Kashyap  V - Vendor of sweets W -  Wuthering Heights X - New songs of Survivors [ The E x odus if Indians] Y - Yes, my accent is real Z - Zuzu's petals

 This is what I have planned for the 52 club Book reading challenge Twilight - Stephanie Meyer The street Lawyer - John Grisham Keepers of Kala Chakra - Ashwin Sanghi A sensitive case - Eric Wright Karthikeya - Usha Narayanan Siddharta - Hermann Hess Idlis to Ipads - Nirmala Ramasamy Prison days - Vijayalakshmi Pandit The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Inferno - Dan Brown Turn the Tables- Priya Kumar Dinner with Buddha  -Roland Murello Jungle book - Rudyard Kipling The upside down king - Sudha Murthy Wuthering Height - Emily Bronte The vizard mask - Diana Mask Dealing with Dragons - Patricia Werde The chocolate Log - Cheryl Kumar Templeton Jewels- Danielle Steel Malgudi days- R.K. Narayan Angel Falls- Kristin Hannah Godfather - Mario Puzo Boy in stripped Pyjamas - John Boyne Girls only - Victoria Parker Gone girl - Gillian Flynn Tram 83 - Fiston Mwanza Mujila Wicked women of the Raj -Anita Delgado Padmavati - Sutapa Basu My favorite nature stories - Ruskin Bond Dealing with the dragons - Pat

 Here is another interesting reading challenge that I am signing up for. The  -  2021 Monthly Motif Reading Challenge A theme / Motif for each month is given and we have to read against those. The titles have been picked up and I am reading for this challenge. I will be posting the updates on my  bookstagram -   Me and my bookshelf . Do follow the Instagram account to see what other challenges I will be taking part in. Stay tuned!!!

 The Mount TBR Challenge 2021 is another way to knock off some titles from the TBR list. There are several challenge levels and I am signing up for the Mt. Kilomanjaro - Read 60 books from the TBR List.  If I am able to read more than that, then I would consider myself lucky! I will be posting the updates on my  bookstagram -   Me and my bookshelf . Do follow the Instagram account to see what other challenges I will be taking part in. Stay tuned!!!

I am so excited to join the 52 club's 2021 book reading challenge where we have to read through 52 prompts! The moment I read the prompts I was sure to sign up! The best part of this challenge is its flexibility and love the FB group interactions. Here are prompts for this challenge... The books for the prompts are all set and I can't wait to start! I will be posting the updates here and on my Instagram page -  Me and my bookshelf . Do follow the Instagram account to see what other challenges I will be taking part in. Stay tuned!!!

 Here I am after a long gap! I couldn't read much in 2020 but those I read made it to the  other blog  ,Instagram and goodreads. For 2021, I plan to read at least 50 books and review them here too. For this I have joined a few book reading challenges and here is  The Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge For this challenge, we have to read one book from each alphabet and through any genre.  I will be posting the updates on my  bookstagram -   Me and my bookshelf . Do follow the Instagram account to see what other challenges I will be taking part in. Stay tuned!!!