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

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

Apologies for the delay in getting the newest badges up. I'll endeavor to get them up soon!

Apologies for not posting a lot here! Things have been manic!

The Kite Runner is perhaps one of the best known Middle Eastern books published in the recent years.

Discussion starts Feb 1st!

For our first YA read of the year, we're diving into Cinder by Marissa Meyer, the first book in a very popular series!

Discussion starts Feb 1st

For all the romantics in the group, and people wanting something a little different, we're reading Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell for February!

This has been a popular book over the last year, so I hope people like it!

Our first month is already drawing to a close, and we've had so much discussion happening all over the group!

What have been some of your favourite reads of the year so far? Any you'd recommend? Any you have particular strong opinions about?

The February group read polls are now up!

You can check them out here.

We've got loads of great nominations, so make sure you place your vote! Voting closes 25th Jan!

So far I have read:

1. When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning
2. Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
3. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
4. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

Finally completed The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith!

A wonderful novel (with definitely complex characters). It was interesting having seen the film before reading the book to explore how they adapted it, and what they changed. In case anyone hasn't seen Carol yet, definitely watch it. It's a beautiful film!

I'll definitely try and read more of Patricia Highsmith. I didn't realise she had done the Mr Ripley series, which I've seen on my parent's bookshelves for a long time. Though I've heard her novel Strangers on a Train is very good.

I finished this a few days ago and found it a really intriguing read.

I too was quite surprised, that there was honestly little about direct 'gratitude'. Instead, I think it was Sacks' way of highlighting the general gratitude you should have towards life, not so much a specific gratitude. He was generally grateful for his life, and his experiences and that really showed within the essays.

I have the pleasure of going to Stratford Upon Avon for the day tomorrow. So hopefully that will kick start my Shakespeare year nicely!

I'm really looking forward to Middlesex! It sounds like a fascinating book and I've heard so much about it!

Angela, I'd say if you have the copy that's got gold lettering, go for it!

Me too, Roseanne!

We will get through this!

Note to self: STOP BUYING SO MANY BOOKS.

Wandered round some charity shops and 'accidently' bought:

Middlesex
The Long Earth
H is for Hawk
The Danish Girl

plus I already have my next set of reads planned out...

I'm going to be starting this in the next few days!

I might try finish off the remaining Shakespeare plays I need to read... I made it a goal last year to read them all, but I failed kind of miserably. So I have a decent amount left to read:

All's Well That Ends Well
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Henry VIII
King John
Love Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merry Wives of WIndsor
Pericles
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressinda
The Winters Tale

No worries! Just to let you know, the whole linking in books/authors thing isnt yet available on the apps (both Apple and Android)

Hi Sonia,

Just above the comment box, to the right, you see a button saying 'add book/author'. Here you can type in a book/author and it will insert the link for you!

Finally gotten round to starting The Price of Salt. I watched the movie adaptation, Carol, earlier in the week and adored it! (I recommend everyone should watch it!)

So excited to see what the book is like.