Susy’s Comments (group member since Apr 21, 2017)

Susy’s comments from the The Reading Challenge Group group.

Roseanne wrote: "I googled for a character chart and stopped looking. Maybe I found the chart you are talking about. Way too much on it. I know it is helpful but I would wait to look at it in this case."

No, it’s actually only the main characters, with a colour to signal if it’s a friend or foe.

I’m right on track!

I found a chart with all the characters and their relationships, helped tremendously. Also each character has a little story but since I’m afraid there may be spoilers, I didn’t read those (yet).

I’m on chapter 15. Liking it but sometimes having a hard time figuring out what is going on and who’s on which side. I will try and look up the characters today, print that out, that might help. Like I believe it was chapters 6 and 11, I’m not sure, I was like, who are these people and what the heck are they talking about?
I’m also still trying to understand how Dante was set up. I mean I get the main points in the story, but am missing the details because of it being an audiobook and I have a hard time maintaining focused. Like who gave him that letter?

I have this week off from work so have listened quite a bit but I suspect my progress will slow down next week when I go back to work...

Finished my 1st book: A ​Sky Beyond the Storm ★★★★.5

Total books read: 1
Total owned books read: 0 (0%)

Penelope wrote: "I tried the computer sounding one too. Thank heavens for samples!"

Hahaha, indeed!

I have the free LibriVox version by David Clarke. So far so good...
Tried 2 other versions that were horrible! One lady sounded just like when the computer reads something out loud....

Well, I have tried out 3 LibriVox recordings and finally settled on one. I’ve listened to the first 5 chapters. As usual with audiobooks it’s quite hard for me to focus. Really looking forward to the discussion as undoubtedly there will be certain details that I have missed.

Happy reading to you too, Amber!

I found the audiobook… It scares the hell out of me lol. Will probably take me all year long to finish it 🤯

Interesting Valerie! For me it’s Dutch and Portuguese :)
Though I already read enough books in Dutch

Thank you Rosemarie!

My plan for 2021 was to not plan ahead... Failed already lol

PLANNING

May
Nachtlicht (Cold Skin)
Six of Crows
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue / A Tale of Two Cities
The Eight Mountains
Indigo / Emma wil leven: Een waargebeurd verhaal over de strijd tegen anorexia - Portugal (audio)
We - Russia (LibriVox/Gutenberg)
The Neverending Story (iBook) / Seat 7A - Germany (audio)
Three Wishes / The Hypnotist's Love Story / The Husband's Secret / Nine Perfect Strangers - Australia (audio)
Dear Edward (audio/ebook)
Crooked Kingdom
Rose Madder
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
The Winds of Dune

June
King of Scars
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
The Rig
Bag of Bones
Eat The Frog
The Butlerian Jihad

July
Rule of Wolves
Anna Karenina
Dune

August
Het mysterie van Sittaford
Dune


Total books read: 26
Total owned books read: 12 (46%)

Thank you Rosemarie!

Susy wrote: "Definitely joining in on this one!!
This is for those, who like me, have a huge mountain of books waiting to be read! Any books owned before January 1st 2020 count for this challenge!

Level 1 Base..."

Almost made it to the top! 38/50, not bad:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Would love to join but my library doesn’t have it 😢

I reread and watch A Christmas Carol every year too! 💜🎄

Of course I’ll be doing my annual read and watch of A Christmas Carol 💜

I’m hoping to finish The Complete Collection of Sherlock Holmes and I’m listening to Dracula.

Will definitely do!