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

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

Happy New Year!!!

I DID IT!! I DID IT!! 2014 GOAL OF 90 BOOKS REACHED!!! :D

The Fall of Jerusalem - 22 pages (completed)
The Miserable Mill - 100 pages (completed)
Perelandra - 55 pages (completed)

Today's total - 177 pages

Readathon total - 1039 pages

Woot!

Keep forgetting to update this...

Monday -

(so naturally the "add book/author" feature decides not to work right now...)
The Wide Window - 54 pages (completed)
Fall of Jerusalem - 25 pages
The Miserable Mill - 40 pages
Perelandra - 47 pages

Total - 166 pages

Tuesday -

Fall of Jerusalem - 55 pages
The Miserable Mill - 50 pages
Perelandra - 32 pages

Total - 137 pages

Week-to-date total - 862 pages

I need to finish 3 as well, but I've started all 3 and I'm almost there - I've got about 150 pages to go!

Welcome, Steve!

That's awful, Becca! Are you okay with it once you've taken the dust jacket off?

Well, the year is almost over! Only one month left to tally up, but I'm afraid it looks like we won't quite reach 10,000. But hey, considering the original goal was 5,000, we've done extremely well!

The official tally for November is - 471
Which makes our Jan-Nov tally - 6816

Not too shabby! Thanks to everyone who participated in this challenge! I promised you a prize at the end if we reached the goal, but what the heck, you all deserve something special for your participation anyway. Thanks to Holly's mad crazy designing skills, that's just what you're going to get.

For everyone who participated in this challenge, please feel free to save and/or print off this bookmark for your personal use and for posterity's sake -



Thanks, everyone! This year has been a blast!

So many good reading years! Yay! :D

Nice, Amber!

Nice going, Kassandra!

I got lots of reading done yesterday, since that's basically all I could stand to do.

95 pages of As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
160 pages of The Wide Window
24 pages of Perelandra

Which brings my total to... 559 pages.

Well, it's upon us - the very last one of our 50 Questions! (And to think I started to panic at around the 20th that I was running out of things to ask, haha!)

My last question to you of 2014 is this - How would you sum up your reading year?

Was it a good year for you? Did you make any new and awesome literary discoveries? Did you add new books to your Fave Books Ever list? Was it a mediocre year for you? Did nothing you read quite satisfy? Was it an awful year for you? Did you have trouble finding anything at all decent to read?

I need to add As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride to my list. So much fun to read!

LOL I hope that's not the only thing she gave you for Christmas, Holly! Although they do work wonders. :)

Thanks, Kiwi!

Welcome, Julie and Monique!

Holly wrote: "And doesn't people always say you should 'feed a cold'? But as Renee said, both of you keep wrapped up inside (there's snow here), and keep eating and drinking! "

Yes, "feed a cold, starve a fever." I don't seem to have a fever (yet?), and thankfully I do have an appetite. Though maybe not for my Christmas goodies. :(

I hope you manage to avoid joining us, Holly!

Thanks, Renee! Sipping water as I type, and I just had a juicy apple, which oddly enough seems to have helped my throat a bit.

I hope it doesn't take a month to work itself out, though! Ouch, that must have been rough, Renee!

Wow, so much contentment with the way books end! I'm impressed. ;)

I would change the ending of Jamaica Inn. I would have given that book 5 stars if it hadn't been for the ending leaving me cold. I wasn't expecting a perfectly "happy ending" but still... (view spoiler)[running off with that guy, Mary could only hope for a life of misery (hide spoiler)] so I was left feeling kind of depressed and annoyed. Why couldn't she have just (view spoiler)[stayed single? (hide spoiler)]

Amber wrote: "I'm sick too Faye still. Don't know what I got but hope to feel better soon."

That sucks. I hate being sick over Christmas! :(

I'm siiiiiick! :(

*throws pity party, invites everyone*

Yesterday I read 120 pages of As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride, and what evens out to about 40 pages of The Speckled Band, so my total so far is approximately 280 pages.