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

Dangit, I forgot to keep track of how many pages I've read the last couple days. I think it's somewhere around 120 so far.

Holly wrote: "Ah, I've just made the link! Is this the same 'Unbroken' as the film coming out/already out? (I'm not sure when it's release date is)"

Yup. :)

Welcome, Nina!

If you could jump into any book and alter events to fit your view of how it should have ended, which book would you choose and what changes would you make?

Our first Genre Group Read of 2015 will be A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

Heck, you know I approve. ;)

Reading/discussion begins on January 1st. Please put any major spoilers behind spoiler cuts.

Our first World Literature Group Read of 2015 will be The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende.

This has been on my to-read list for years!

Reading/discussion begins on January 1st. Please put any major spoilers behind spoiler cuts.

Our first Classic Group Read of 2015 will be Persuasion, by Jane Austen.

Reading/discussion begins on January 1st. Please put any major spoilers behind spoiler cuts.

Our first Nonfiction Group Read of 2015 will be Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand.

Looking forward to this one!

Reading/discussion begins on January 1st. Please put any major spoilers behind spoiler cuts.

Our first YA Group Read of 2015 will be The Book Thief by Markus Zusak!

Oddly enough, this was also our first YA Group Read of 2014, but what with the hundreds of newbies this group has received since then, I'm sure there are plenty of us who haven't read and discussed it yet. It's an excellent book!

Reading/discussion begins on January 1st. Please put any major spoilers behind spoiler cuts.

I moved this thread to the "Personal Challenges - 2015" folder for you, Sandi. Good luck!

Welcome, Duane and Erica!

Yep, I'll be going through them in the order they were written.

Thanks, I will! :)

Thanks. :D

Wildcards:

1. Something Wicked This Way Comes (4 stars)
2. The Devil and Miss Prym (5 stars)
3. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (5 stars)
4. Jerusalem: The Biography (4 stars)
5. Dangerous World: Natural Disasters Manmade Catastrophes And Futr Of Humn Survival (4 stars)
6. A Bevy of Beasts (3 stars)
7. Apocalypse: A Natural History of Global Disasters (3 stars)
8. Nostradamus: Countdown to Apocalypse (3 stars)
9. The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes: And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients (5 stars)
10. Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo (5 stars)
11. Aerial Atlas of the Holy Land: Discover the Great Sites of History from the Air (4 stars)
12. Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (5 stars)
13. Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered (4 stars)
14. Nostradamus and the Apocalyptic War Between Islam & West (3 stars)
15. Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church (5 stars)
16. Infidel (5 stars)
17. The Isaiah Effect: Decoding the Lost Science of Prayer and Prophecy (4 stars)
18. The Knights Templar (4 stars)
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List of Dickens Novels (to be crossed off as I read them):

1. The Pickwick Papers
2. Oliver Twist
3. Nicholas Nickleby
4. The Old Curiosity Shop
5. Barnaby Rudge
6. A Christmas Carol
7. Martin Chuzzlewit
8. The Chimes
9. The Cricket on the Hearth
10. The Battle Of Life
11. Dombey and Son
12. The Haunted Man
13. David Copperfield
14. Bleak House
15. Hard Times
16. Little Dorrit
17. A Tale of Two Cities
18. Great Expectations
19. Our Mutual Friend
20. The Mystery of Edwin Drood

I tried to be organized for 2014 (so many books from this list, so many books in these languages, etc) and totally burned out on it after a few months.

For 2015, aka The Year I Will Complete My Novel, I'm keeping it simple - READ ALL OF DICKENS, because he's a good influence on my writing and also because there are no other books in this crazy old world that I would rather read. And I've read them all before, so it shouldn't tax my brain all that much.

Beyond that, I'm not going to pressure myself too much. I'm setting my challenge widget goal this year at 70 books - 20 will be Dickens, the other 50 are wildcards. Whatever strikes my fancy. Mostly I just need to WRITE.

Only 5 books behind now, and only 7 left to read before the end of the year! I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...

5 DAYS 'TIL CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome, Karolyn and Sophie!

Good luck with your novel, Sophie. :)