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

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

Renee, you're making me really want to read it, but. I don't have at time right now to read! Damn you!

That's some amazing reading, Iasa!

I've been meaning to read Master and Commander for ages. I absolutely adore the film. I've started it once before, but the nautical terms got to me. That was a while back though, might try it again later this month!

I'm currently re-reading my set texts for my English course. Which means re-reading Brideshead Revisited again. Hoping to actually enjoy it this time round.

Picked this up at the library yesterday, and I'm about 50 pages in. It's alright, haven't really got into the story yet.

Hopefully June will go better for you, Kassandra!

Laura, I think it definitely speeds up during the last 2 parts.

If anything, I think it speeds up too quickly in the last part, but that's just my opinion.

I hope you're enjoying it!

Let me know what you think of that, Gavin!

Attempting to finally read Red Dragon!

Amy, good luck with your theory test! I finally passed mine after 4 attempts! Damn hazard perception!

And well done, Gavin!

My reading has well and truly died over the last few weeks. I did start out really strong though, so I've read a decent amount this month...

This sounds fascinating! Hoping to get round to it!

I'll definitely be reading this! Although probably won't be able to until the latter half of the month'

Reading (and Goodreads subsequently) has taken a massive downturn for the latter half of this month. I blame revision and being unable to find a book I can sink my teeth into!

I'm definitely avoiding making a plan for June. Exams in the first half of the month means I doubt I'll get a lot of reading done.

June 19th onwards, however, means ULTIMATE READING TIME. Exams are finished, I have a stupid amount of free time which is going to bore me like hell. So I'm planning on filling all that time with reading. (Need to convince my mum to take me to big library in town so I can rave in there and pick loads of books). So, I'll probably make a list, but won't start it properly til June 19th.

Really tempted to read this!

Okay, so I've gone a bit overboard on my planning, but I really want to make the most out of this summer! Which means getting a variety of reading done, mostly by the key authors.

Read: 0/40

1 Austen: Emma
1 Bronte: Wuthering Heights
2 Dickens: Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
1 Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground
1 Hardy: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
1 Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls
1 Gaskell: Cranford
3 Shakespeares: Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale
1 Tolstoy: War and Peace
1 Woolf: The Voyage Out

10 Books I've Been Meaning To Read for Ages:
Dracula
Gulliver's Travels
The Odyssey
The Kite Runner
The Pilgrim's Progress
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
The Phantom of the Opera
Master and Commander
The Catcher in the Rye
A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

1 Book I Never Finished:
Les Misérables

3 Collections of Poetry:
Selected Poems of Byron
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Shelley: Poems

2 Plays:
Medea
Waiting for Godot

1 Short Story Collection:
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

3 Group Reads:

8 Genre Challenge Reads:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night -Time (June - Contemporary)
A Week in December (June - Contemporary)
A Clockwork Orange (July - Dystopian/Utopian)
Under the Dome (July - Dystopian/Utopian)
The Giver (July - Dystopian/Utopian)
The Silence of the Lambs (August - Crime/Mystery)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - (August - Crime/Mystery)
Murder at the Vicarage - (August - Crime/Mystery)

Everyone seems to love reading in summer. It speeds us on, the combination of sunshine and a good book. We often put off the books we really want to read so we can enjoy them in the summer.

I thought it would be a good idea to have people post a list of books they really want to read over the summer months? Ones that we can really dig in to!

I have like 3 and a half months off school, before I go to university, so I have an insane amount of time to read!

What books do you want to read this Summer?

Well done for getting through Les Mis! I got through about 70% of it and I really wish I'd continued it.

Victor Hugo is definitely one to go off on one about sewage systems or something. There's a whole section on the Battle of Waterloo, like 50 pages, and only the last line has something to do with the story. Congrats for reading it though! I'm hoping to get through some of the massive books over the summer!

That's amazing Karen, well done!

I'm attempting to stop watching tv show until my exams are over, so I'm filling all that spare time with reading!

Dune was really good! Ender's Game is still my favourite sci-fi book, but it definitely comes second! Just the sheer depth of political drama merged with sci-fi and intrigue really works. I'm not sure if I will pick up the second book any time soon, I still have A Song of Ice and Fire to finish, after all. But hopefully one day, I'll continue with the series!

Marc, I hope you enjoy them, they're great books!