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

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

Kim, both are awesome :D although, The Lord of the Rings trilogy I personally find better than The Hobbit, but it is a good starter with Tolkien's writing.

I really hope you enjoy The Book Thief. One of the best books I read in 2013!

Only 1 day to go! I'll definitely be spending my last day of 2013 reading. I want to start on a good note for 2014, and I haven't read at all for the last few days (unless fanfiction counts...)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has always gotten such good reviews. Hopefully I will read it this year!

I bought this recently, and I know it's like the considered one of the greatest books ever. What are people's views on it?

I know there is the general recommendation to read some Homer before. Do you think it's worth it?

I've been meaning to read some Homer for ages... This month might give me an excuse...

I got We for Christmas, and I definitely want to read it soon. It was surprisingly shorter than I expected!

I was battling between whether to buy Brothers, Ulysses, or War and Peace at a bookshop yesterday, although I did eventually pick Ulysses. Although I will definitely be buying the other two some time soon , or get them out the library...

I bought Ulysses yesterday at Waterstones. We should all do a readalong!

Welcome everyone to the group! We're so close to 2014!

I'd go for a short one. That way you can enjoy yourself without the pressure of finishing it before 2014

Roseanne, I wish I had your willpower. I just can't stop reading!

I really want to re-read The Book Thief! It's just too good!

I'm half way through Foundation, the first book in Asimov's The Foundation Trilogy. Very interesting so far, although I must admit I enjoy Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series more. Although, they are remarkably different. Can't wait to get through the next two books in the series. I love combined editions!

It's such a good book. Definitely the 2nd best book I've read this year. I had high expectations of it when I started it, and it still swept them over and was even better!

Although there was a tie between this and Divergent, the overall support of The Book Thief both in the YA thread and the Genre thread, and that it was leading most of the way, has meant it is this months YA Group Read. Divergent will automatically be placed into February's poll though!

I read this this year, and along with Rebecca in the Classics Group Read, it's one of my favourite books this year! I'll definitely be taking part in the discussion.

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller won January's Genre Group Read, the genre being Historical.

Can't wait to read this along with my other picks for this months genre!

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier won the January Classic Group Read poll. I must admit, I've read this recently and it's by far one of my favourites of 2014!

I can't wait for the discussions to begin!

Welcome everyone! It's so great to see you here!

I'm so excited. It's just frustrating that I'm reading a lot now, and it's not counting towards 2014!

Luckily, I don't go back to school until the 6th Jan, so I have a good 5 days of pure reading to kick-start 2014. That's if I can get all my work done in the next few days!

Me too, Chase!

Iasa, that's a very specific, and a very large number!

Good luck to you all!

I had a bit of a mad Christmas when it came to books this year.

I fantastically got my 16-book Dickens collection, which is beyond beautiful. Although I did have to re-arrange my 'classics' bookcase to fit them in. It's now spanning 4 shelves.

My mum surprisingly also got me the 'Great Loves' collection, also by the Book People. It's basically 20 less-known shorter novels/short stories/essays by well known authors. There's some Tolstoy, Chekov, Freud and Fitzgerald in there. I was super surprised when I got it!

I also got a few other books:
If On A Winters Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino - I may have read this already. Weird, but amazing book!
The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov - been wanting to get this for ages, and I've just started reading it.
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
We by (I don't know how to spell his name)

Hands down my best Christmas for books so far. It was literally all I got this Christmas, but I'm beyond happy with it. I blame the Book People for selling too cheap collections...

Geoff, each persons goal is relative. So don't worry about it :) Do how many you want to do.

Happily reading now that I've hit my 50 book target for this year. Might see if I can push to 60 for 2014!