Bout of Books has rolled around again. This is the final version of 2022 and the 35th iteration of the readalong.

The Bout of Books readathon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It’s a weeklong readathon that begins 12:01 a.m. Monday, August 15, and runs through Sunday, August 21, in YOUR time zone. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are reading sprints, Twitter chats, and exclusive Instagram challenges, but they’re all completely optional. For all Bout of Books 35 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. – From the Bout of Books team

During the readathon, I’d like to finish a couple books I have on the go so I can return them to the library. Today I read several chapters in Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas and listened to a chapter in All the Queen’s Men by S.J. Bennett.

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from That Artsy Reader Girl asks us to share ten books we love that are more than a decade old. No problem! Here are mine, in no particular order:

1. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (1962)
2. The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (1985)
3. A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (1989)
4. Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (1936)
5. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (2001)
6. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (1908)
7. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (2011)
8. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (2008)
9. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (2007)
10. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (1998)

On a side note, looking at this in Goodreads, I discovered the only years during the 20th century are:

1901, 1907, 1910 (although I may have read Kilmeny of the Orchard as a tween), 1914, 1916, 1924, and 1942 (although I think I read all the Moffats books as a kid). Just seven books could make the century complete, and included in those years are Baum, Wodehouse, and Christie publications. Hmmm…