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

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

I was thrust into the whirlwind of literature after reading Crime and Punishment. Must admit, it's my favourite read of 2013, and hopefully I can explore a lot more Russian Lit in 2014!

What have your experiences been?

Crime and Punishment has been my only taste of Russian Lit, and it completely blew me away. It's up there as my 2nd favourite book.

A buddy read for a Russian book would be awesome!

Its basically an unofficial group read that a few people decide to do. Its also known as a buddy-read

It seems like Russian Lit is a big focus. We could do a readalong in January!

I read quite a few of Rick Riordan's first Percy Jackson series and really enjoyed it. Must get back into reading his!

January is when we kick off our reading for the year! I know I'll definitely be trying to kick-start and get a head, and that means roughly planning what I read.

Has anyone thought about what they're going to read in January?

My plan, ignoring possible books I may get for Christmas is:

The White Queen (for the Genre Challenge)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Notes from Underground
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Dracula

Hi everyone,

2014 is coming up fast, and the aim is to get this group functioning just before then to make sure it's ready to really go for it in 2014!

If anyone has any suggestions/wants to comment on anything, please post here or send me a message. I want to make this the best group I can, and I'm sure Faye does too!

I'm thinking of doing either The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales or Dracula in January.

Would anyone like to join me in reading either of them? Grimm's Fairy Tales seems like something that would be really great as a buddy read!

90 books is big! I can't wait to see what some of your picks are!

Okay, I'll edit it a bit and put it up in the challenge!

Reserved

January - Historical
February - Chick-Lit
March - Crime/Mystery
April - Humour
May - Non-Fiction
June - Contemporary
July - Fantasy/Science-Fiction
August - Young Adult
September - Classic/Literary
October - Horror
November - Adventure
December - Your favourite genre so far.

I've done a rough layout. Seeing as we are one short, I thought December would be nice to really expand on a genre individually we liked.

If this is liked, please say so, and I'll put it up within the challenge description.

Good luck, Ola! I'm massively jealous of your job!

I've just started on The White Queen, so I'll let you know how it goes! :D

Kitty, Classics are awesome! You may be interested in the upcoming group reads currently being planned. We're just sorting out the group read layouts, then we'll get ahead with nominations!

Lisa, I'm seeing increasing amount of people listening to books. I think it's wonderful!

Sorry, Lian. I changed my blog's name a while back.

I'm now at Bookians.

Michael, I'm sorry! I'll try get back into it!

I love the idea of merging the group read with the genre challenge. That would be really effective!

So, we could have:

Genre Group Read
Classic Group Read
Young Adult Group Read

Welcome Lisa! I get your tv issue. I always find it hard to read when I have TV shows to watch!

You'll have to recommend some historical fiction to me. I really need to read more!

Allison, I started that a while a go and loved it.

Have you seen the Netflix adaptation of it? I absolutely love it!

That's true. Nothing has to be set in stone.

Why don't we trying YA, Classic and General, and see how popular YA is? If it's not very popular, we'll trial run Contemporary at the same time and see which is most liked?