Holly’s Comments (group member since Nov 05, 2013)

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

Damn them. As the tshirt says that my parents got me 'Honestly, I'd rather be reading'. ;)

By my clock is started 19 hours and 52 minutes ago, and I've only read like 2 pages. I'm doing so well.

Merry Christmas to all!

I hope everyone has a wonderful day and is enjoying the holidays!

Camille, I felt like that at first. I'd recommend pushing through it, you get used to it after a while and I find it really makes the story. :)

Smaller Challenges

2015 Audiobook Challenge
Deadline: 31st Dec
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Identity Challemge
Deadline: 16th Aug
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Decades Challenge - Plan
I will star when I have read something

5/21

1800-1809 - Faust: First Part
1810-1819 - Pride and Prejudice
1820-1829 - Don Juan
1830-1839 - The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative (Uni) **
1840-1849 - Wuthering Heights (Uni, Womens) **
1850-1859 - North and South (Uni) **
1860-1869 - Goblin Market (Uni) **
1870-1879 - A Doll's House
1880-1889 - Life on the Mississippi
1890-1899 - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
1900-1909 - The Cherry Orchard
1910-1919 - My Ántonia
1920-1929 - A Room of One's Own (Uni) **
1930-1939 - Murder on the Orient Express
1940-1949 - I Capture the Castle (Womens)
1950-1959 - The Martian Chronicles
1960-1969 - One Hundred Years of Solitude
1970-1979 - The Driver's Seat (Uni) **
1980-1989 - The Color Purple (Uni, Womens) **
1990-1999 - Tuesdays with Morrie **
2000-2009 - Fingersmith

Dammit Renee, you're making me want to sign up for everything! I'm gonna do the Decade Challenge and the War and Peace read along because of you.

*glares*

We generally use the spoiler tags, < spoiler > spoiler > (without the spaces).

That way people can choose whether or not to see them :)

Be warned, Game of Thrones really hooks you. They're great, but they take forever :P

Ive actually stuck rather well to my list this month! Which I never do!

Would anyone else want to do another big LGBT buddy read like this next year? :)

I had to put this series on a break for a while, mainly because I was horrendously behind on my challenge and couldn't commit to another big chunkster.

I'm tempted to continue this on through next year, but I also have a lot planned next year. Argh, we'll see. :)

This is so so tempting. But so is the Dickens challenge and I already want to do the Bingos and am contemplating the Decades challenge...

I'd love to do this, but I'm also super scared I have enough on my plate already!

Aha, don't worry about it, we're happy to help :)

Becca, this happens when a thread isnt categorized into a folder, it creates its own folder, 'general'. I stupidly forgot to put a folder on the latest thread, and I'm on the app right now so I can't change it.

I'll change it at the next opportunity I get.

We all have them, those books that are just niggling away at you that you know you want to read next year.

Out of all of them books you want to read, what are the 5 books you want to get through most? Will you go for difficult chunksters? Long awaited releases? Those books that have sat on your bookshelf gathering dust for years?

5 books. 1 list. 1 year.

That's insane, Chase! A massive well done!

Up to 38 points, which isn't bad!

I'm going to go for 100 again in 2015, because it's a nice round number, and it's stretched me enough this year! :D

50 Books Mini Challenge

Completed: 32/50


[x] A book with more than 500 pages: Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
[x] A classic Romance: A Sicilian Romance
[x] A book that became a movie: Othello
[x] A book published this year: Pansy
[x] A book with a number in the title: Ready Player One
[] A book by someone under 30
[x] A book with nonhuman characters: Doctor Faustus
[] A funny book
[x] A book by a female author: A Room of One's Own
[x] A mystery or thriller: The Apprentice
[x] A book with a one-word title: Stoner
[] A book of short stories:
[x] A book set in a different country: The Driver's Seat
[x] A non-fiction book: In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
[x] A popular author's first book: The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
[x] A book from an author that you haven't read yet: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
[x] A book a friend recommended: The Thirty-Nine Steps
[x] A Pulitzer Prize winning book: The Color Purple
[x] A book based on a true story: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
[x] A book at the bottom of your to read list: The Lost World
[] A book your mom loves
[x] A book that scares you: A Modest Proposal
[x] A book more than 100 years old: Lyrical Ballads
[x] A book based entirely on its cover: Stop What You're Doing and Read This!
[] A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
[x] A memoir: When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
[x] A book you can finish in a day: The Rape of the Lock
[x] A book with antonyms in the title: North and South
[x] A book set somewhere you always wanted to visit
[] A book that came out the year you were born: The Spanish Tragedy (mainland spain)
[] A book with bad reviews
[] A trilogy
[] A book from your childhood:
[x] A book with a love triangle: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
[x] A book set in the future: The Martian
[x] A book set in high school: Armada
[x] A book with a color in the title: The Color Purple
[x] A book that made you cry: Tuesdays with Morrie
[] A book with magic
[] A graphic novel
[x] A book by an author you've never read before: The Rosie Project
[] A book you own but have never read
[] A book that takes place in your hometown
[] A book that was originally written in a different language
[] A book set during Christmas
[] A book written by an author with your same initials
[x] A play: The White Devil
[] A banned book
[x] A book based on or turned into a tv show: The Sinner
[x] A book you started but never finished: Wuthering Heights