Renee’s Comments (group member since Feb 03, 2014)

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

July 5- Rolled a 12- Library Fine
Genre: Sci-Fi/Dystopian
Choices...
2001 (Arthur Clarke)
The Dispossessed (Ursula Le Guin)
The Doomsday Book (Connie Willis)
Kindred (Octavia Butler)
Memory (Lois McMaster Bujold)

I'm having trouble making up my mind. They all look so good. :D
(And my head is still stuck in my last book.)
Any suggestions?

Holy Crap! I just finished Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold and it blew me away. I literally can't decide what to read next because my brain is still so completely in that world. :o

Sonia-
Yes, I'm actually interested. I remember having pretty distinctive thoughts on the epilogues. Just wondering how they struck another reader.

Sending anti-migraine vibes.

I peeked at your Bookopoly shelf and everything that seemed potential was actually set in future Earth. Which I think is true of The Maze Runner series as well. The Princess Bride is set on present day Earth, but flips to the kingdoms of Florin and Gilder, which don't exist so I think that would seem to be your best possibility.

July 3- Rolled a 7. Which puts me on Yellow: Theme: Good vs. Evil
I'm interpreting this to be Good Guys vs. Bad Guys so I can read Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold which is up next in the Vorkosigan Saga that I've been reading this year. These are always terrific, so I'm quite excited. :D

I'm sorry to hear about Smoke. The concept does look very interesting. :(

I've finished with The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian. It was a reread (listened, this time) so it went very quickly.

Not sure what's up next. Either Harry Potter or another Vorkosigan.

Ooo! I just loved Agnes and the Hitman! Jennifer Crusie just cracks me up. If you decide you enjoyed this one enough to read more, I recommend Bet Me, Welcome to Temptation, and Faking It.

Goodreads has a list of books published so far in 2016 which might help narrow the field.

July 2- I finished Crime and Punishment.
Then rolled a 6, landing on Genre: Historical Fiction. I was thinking about Gone with the Wind, but I don't want to spend the whole readathon on one book. So I'm going with The Fortune of War which is next in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. So it's off to sea for me!

Holly-
I really enjoyed it this time around. I found it very rich and filled with things to think about. I managed to pick up an Audible with Anthony Heald as the reader. He was terrific! It made such a difference and helped me to understand the individual characters better.

Great! So glad you found some steamy lit, Ladies!

I finished the final section of Crime and Punishment to start off my readathon. Hooray!

Haha! Yeah, well, I hurt my back at the end of May, so I spent a lot of time in June with ice packs, meds, and audiobooks. :P I did nothing without those 3 companions.

P. S. Extra kudos if you find a hot book with dog in it. :D

P. P. S. Lol!
Hot Diggity Dog: the History of the Hot Dog

This challenge will run between very specific dates: July 3-August 11. Considered a period of the hottest summer temperatures. There are some interesting historical details which can be read via the address below...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Days

This is a one book challenge. Read a book with the hottest title you can find. ;-)
Anything related to heat will do.

For example:

Heat Wave
Catching Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Burning Bright
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Love in the Time of Global Warming
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

June was my best month so far. I read finished 25 books. Hurrah!

My favorites were...
Emma
The Warden
Brothers in Arms
Desolation Island
The Looking Glass War
The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

I was pleasantly surprised by...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma**
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants**

I also loved the genre (Minority Studies) books I managed to get in...
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen**
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Bad Feminist
The Price of Salt

Finally, these books made me wince. I finished both but they were miserable...
The Beach House
Who Moved My Blackberry?

Overall, it was an awesome month of reading!

War and Travel suggestion... The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West. It's short and beautifully written.

Interesting. I wasn't going to do this one, but now I think I'll see if there's a copy available at my library.

I'm at 38 now. I really thought I'd be further along by now. If guess I need to focus more.