Anne’s Comments (group member since Dec 08, 2021)

Anne’s comments from the On The Same Page group.

Alondra wrote: "You can do this!! Dresden has a decent pacing and its fun. 💪🏽💪🏽."

You are correct. I did read first, but now I am reading . I started it Wednesday, and I'm already halfway through. I'm hoping to finish it either later today or tomorrow morning. That will get me to my 12.

Statistics

Gender:
male - 48
female - 62
Committee - 3

Genre:
science fiction - 6
fantasy - 26
mystery/thriller - 33
classic - 10
non-fiction - 11
horror - 8
humor - 6
graphic novel - 2
anthology - 1
misc. - 11

Length:
401-600 - 13
601-800 - 1
801-1000 - 2
1000+ - 2

Pages:
January - 2,460 (79.4/day)
February - 1,546 (55.2/day)
March - 2,881 (92.9/day)
April - 3,154 (105.1/day)
May - 1,593 (51.39/day)
June - 2,654 (88.47/day)
July - 2,580 (83.23/day)
August - 3,365 (108.55/day)
September - 5,358 (178.6/day)
October - 1,671 (53.90/day
November - 1,809 (60.30/day)
December - 3,849 (124.16/day)

My mom is coming to visit for the weekend, so I will update this now. I still plan to finish 1 or 2 more books, so I'll come back and adjust as necessary.

(Almost) End of December Summary:
1. 101/100 books COMPLETE
2. 50/40 series books COMPLETE
3. 12/10 nonfiction COMPLETE
4. 10/10 classic novels or plays COMPLETE
5. 12/12 Reading group challenge COMPLETE
6. 0/10 past reading group books Abandoned
7. 2/10 new countries and 4/10 new states Continuing in 2023
8. 26/25 Motley challenge COMPLETE
9. 30/30, 6/5 Pop Sugar challenge COMPLETE
10. 20/19 SFFBC TBR Cleanup Challenge COMPLETE
11. 15/15 books owned as of December 31, 2021 COMPLETE
12. 1/8 BOTM or buddy reads Abandoned

Linette wrote: "Congrats on passing your exam, Anne!"

Thanks.

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Congrats on passing your exam Anne, glad you'll get a pay rise too"

Thanks. Me too. I need to get new siding for my house, so it will certainly help my budget.

Alondra wrote: "Sweet beans on the raise!! Congratulations on passing, I know it was rough.."

Thanks! It was rough, but I'm really happy about it now. It's hard to describe the joy of opening that letter and finding out I had passed.

Jackie wrote: "Congratulations!!!!"

Thanks!

Bill wrote: "Good luck with your final month."
Thanks, Bill

Alondra wrote: "You have COMPLETED next to 4 challenges; which is much better than I am doing. As long as you read and then enjoy what you are reading; you know that is all that matters."

You are right. I am honestly happy with how I have done, especially since my free time was seriously compromised by spending over 500 hours this year studying for my exam. All that study time was worth it, too; I got the results in the mail yesterday, and I passed! Once the paperwork goes through, I am officially licensed as an SE. It comes with a nice pay raise, too.

I finished

1. A book you received as a gift. 25 Years of Pickles
2. A book that takes place in New York, New Mexico, New Jersey, New Hampshire. The City We Became
3. A book about: book clubs, book stores, libraries Inkheart
4. A book from Moderator Recommends The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding: a Hercule Poirot Short Story
5. A new release. Noor
6. A lesser known book written by any author. Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow
7. A book with a two word title. Raven's Gate
8. A book with a different culture than yours. Chilling Effect
9. A book about someone who is dead. Peter Pan
10. A book from a genre you don’t usually read. The Complete Maus (nonfiction graphic novel)
11. Read two books by one author, name author. Nnedi Okorafor: Akata Witch, Noor
12. Book set in a fictional town. Mallory Pike, #1 Fan
13. A light hearted or fun book. Kristy and the Vampires
14. A book about betrayal. The Priory of the Orange Tree
15. A book written by an author who uses initials for his/her name. ie: J.K. Rowling Desolation Canyon
16. A book you own but haven’t read yet. ASCE 7
17. A book from the bottom of your tbr list. Puzzled Indemnity
18. A highly anticipated book. On the Come Up
19. A book you picked up at the library. A Line To Kill
20. A book you bought/borrowed with out reading the inside blurb. Stacey's Book
21. A book that starts with the letter W, X,Y, or Z* White Trash Zombie Gone Wild
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22. A book from a series. Crush the King
23. A book with a number in the title. Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight
24. Read a book set in a state with a direction in its name: North, South, East, or West. (N.C, N.D, S.C, S.D, W.V)The Recovery Agent
25. A book written by someone from The U.K. (N. Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales) Just Another Judgement Day
26. A book with an Orange cover. Borderline

Linette wrote: "Yes, it is doable!
Awesome reading two books in one week."

It helps when you are enjoying the books. The latter book was over 500 pages, and I read it in 2 days. They aren't great literature, and they aren't the types of books I normally read, but I've loved all her books for some reason.

I finished the 2 Anne Bishop books in the last week, so now I'm at 10 completed. My plan is to read the 2 Dresden Files books before the end of the year, thus completing my 12. I'll be busy with work and other things, but it is doable.

I've only read A Wrinkle in Time, which is one of my all-time favorites from childhood. I don't even know how many times I've read it; 10 might be too low.

Happy reading!

I liked this challenge so much, I borrowed it for my list. I did tweak a couple categories, though.

Happy reading!

I have read and enjoyed A Streetcar Named Desire, Night, Candide, A Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies, And Then There Were None, and The Joy Luck Club. Okay, "enjoyed" might not be the right word, for some of them, but they were all well-written. You'll understand when you read them.

I read and loved the NIMH books as a child, but I don't really remember them. I should read them again some day. The only other 2023 books I've completed are Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (slow, but fascinating) and The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty (good book).

I did have two DNF from your list: Dead Until Dark and To the Lighthouse, but maybe you'll have better luck than me. The former was just not right for me. For the latter, I found the structure too annoying to continue. I certainly shouldn't have tried it as an audiobook.

Alondra wrote: "Veronica wrote: "What is a good fantasy series to start with?"

Did you ever start The Gentleman Bastard series yet?? Starting with The Lies of Locke Lamora. The first 2 are really go..."

What Alondra said. These books are amazing.

I like the mix of books on your list. Variety is always a good thing.

Lea wrote: "This looks like a great list. I think we already discussed how much we both love Douglas Adams on your 12+4; one of these years I'm going to read the Hitchhiker's Guide again straight through. I'm ..."

Instead of reading a ton of Shakespeare in one year, I've been slowly making my way through them all. A few I have read multiple times. The ones listed above are the ones I haven't gotten to yet, which are almost entirely history plays. I finished the comedies years ago.

I was planning to read The Man in the Iron Mask this year, and I never got to it. I even brought it with me when I went to Europe, but I read other books instead in my rare spare time. Oh, well.

Alondra wrote: "You will love A Plague of Giants. It's excellent; at least I think so. I love the 7 kennings....

Also; I had been thinking of Fitz and Fool for a while now, and think I should get back into that world. Thanks for the inspo.... LOL

Good luck on these challenges. I shall return."

You can't go wrong with reading more Robin Hobb :)

On The Same Page Monthly Reading Challenge DECEMBER 2022
Start Date: 12/01/2022
End Date: 12/31/2022

Total Pages Read: 3,849
Bonus Points: 100

Books Read:
1. The Queen's Bargain 12/3, last 329, +10 (read this year)
2. The Queen's Weapons 12/5, 531, +10 (read this year)
3. Zits: Undivided Inattention 12/7, 207
4. Going Rogue 12/10, 325
5. The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side 12/10, 351
6. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding: a Hercule Poirot Short Story 12/10, 35
7. The Misanthrope 12/11, 53
8. Le Sicilien ou L'Amour Peintre: Comédie = The Sicilian or Love Makes a Painter: A Comedy 12/13, 20
9. The Doctor in Spite of Himself / The Bourgeois Gentleman 12/15, 35
10. Letter from a Birmingham Jail 12/18, 24
11. The Thursday Murder Club 12/21, 382
12. Paper & Blood 12/24, 291, +10 (read this year)
13. Dashing Through the Snowbirds 12/28, 298, +35 (winter, holiday)
14. The Awkward Squad 12/30, last 171
15. The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories 12/30, 288, +25 (short stories)
16. Peace Talks 12/31, 340, +10 (read this year,
17. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance 31
18. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 58
19. Claudia Kishi, Live From WSTO! 27
20. Do the Work!: An Antiracist Activity Book 53

1968.Blood Price
1969.Soul Taken
1970.Round Up the Usual Peacocks
1971.Claudia and the Recipe for Danger
1972.Dawn and the School Spirit War
1973. The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny
1974. White Trash Zombie Gone Wild

1956.Kristy and the Missing Fortune
1957.TMS 402/602 Building Code Requirements and Specification for Masonry Structures, 2016
1958.Jessi and the Troublemaker
1959.To Fetch a Thief
1960.Seismic Design Manual
1961. Steel Design Manual
1962.Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower
1963.PPI PE Structural Reference Manual, 10th Edition – Complete Review for the NCEES PE Structural Engineering (SE) Exam
1964.Amongst Our Weapons
1965.Jim Butcher's Dresden Files: Bigfoot
1966.Stacey vs. the BSC
1967.Babysitters' Haunted House

1944. Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, ASCE 7-10, Book/CD
1945. Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
1946.2015 Wood Design Package (3 volume set: National Design Specification for Wood Construction with Commentary(2015), NDS Supplement: Design Values for Wood Construction
1947.2018 National Design Specification for Wood Construction with Commentary
1948.Special Design Provisions for Wind & Seismic (SDPWS) 2015 Edition
1949.Howl’s Moving Castle
1950.Black Water Sister
1951.Dawn and the Halloween Mystery
1952.Concrete Rose
1953.Stacey and the Mystery at the Empty House
1954.Kristy and Mr. Mom
1955.The House at Sea's End