2016 Reading Challenges: April Update

I promise I’m not going to be complaining about how fast time has been passing me by in this one, I promise!
(Even if that’s only just because I really haven’t got the time to actually write all that out!)
Then again, I do have an update on my reading challenges, so at least there’s that, right?

So let’s just get straight into it: how am I doing on my reading challenges this month?

1. Goodreads Challenge

This month, I only managed to read 11 books, but at least all but one of them counted for my Goodreads challenge – and with that I’ve read 45 of my 100 books, and I have good hopes of being able to up it to 150 books again!

• Beauty and the Beast, Jenni James: 1/5 (only because I couldn’t give it 0 out of 5 – really did not enjoy this one)
• Persuasion, Jane Austen: 5/5 (this one is the re-read!)
• What She Wants, Cathy Kelly: 4/5
• Volkswagen Blues, Jacques Poulin: 4/5
• Little Women, Louisa May Alcott: 3/5
• La Princesse de Clèves, Madame de Lafayette: 3/5
• Phèdre, Racine: 3/5
• Mythologies Américaines, Dany Laferrière: 3/5
• Cette Grenade dans la main du jeune ngre est-elle une arme ou un fruit?, Dany Laferrière: 3/5
• Dom Carlos, Saint-Réal: 3/5
• Parcours Littéraire du Moyen Âge aux Lumières, Kris Peeters: 3/5

2. Read Around the World

Literally the only reason I’m okay with how much reading I have to do for school is that it’s helping me get my Goodreads Reading Goal and that it gets this challenge moving along – quite a bit,, even, I managed to add 2 more countries ànd I have only 7 letters to go fro the A to Z challenge!

Now let’s be efficient about the next couple of challenges:

3. Moderns Mrs Darcy

• A book published this year: Mythologies Américaines, Dany Laferrière
• A book you previously abandoned: La Princesse de Clèves, Madame de Lafayette
• A book that intimidates you: Cette Grenade dans la main du jeune nègre est-elle un fruit ou une armée?, Dany Laferrière

4. Popsugar

• A book based on a fairy tale: Beauty and the Beast, Jenni James
• A book that is published in 2016: Mythologies Américaines, Dany Laferrière
• A book about a road trip: Volkswagen Blues, Jacques Poulin
• A book about a culture you’re unfamiliar with: Cette Grenade dans la main du jeune nègre est-elle un fruit ou une armée, Dany Laferrière
• A satirical book: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Molière

5. stxrybooks

• A book by an unfamiliar author: Volkswagen Blues, Jacques Poulin
• A book that has been published in 2016: Mythologies Américaines, Dany Laferrière
• A book you started but never finished: What She Wants, Cathy Kelly