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

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

I'll be reading Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent. :D

Nancy wrote: "From January to June, I have read fifty-five books that have a length of at least 150+ pages. I did not count novellas and short stories or books with less than 150 pages."

I'll put you down for 79, then. :)

Nancy wrote: "I haven't put in my totals for the other months though. If you want them, let me know."

Sure, I'll count your previous totals as well. :)

I read 8 in July.

Camille wrote: "I had planned to read more, but these past two weeks I was busy getting married and going on a little honeymoon break with my brand new husband! :-)"

That's a pretty good excuse, Camille! Congratulations. :)

Cool!

Thanks, Lindsay, I'll put you down as 11. :)

Heather wrote: "You're reading some great books this year Faye"

Yes, I've found some gems! :)

Nice work!

Yes, welcome back, Aitziber!

Thanks!

Kassandra wrote: "Faye, when I read the monthly tally threads it seems like people are doing really well. Maybe we are having less people respond with their totals than we did earlier in the year? I would have thoug..."

Yes, there are definitely fewer participants now than in the first month or two of the challenge. I'm going to send out a group-wide message tomorrow reminding people to post their numbers, so hopefully that will bring back some people who would otherwise have forgotten. :)

45. The Invisible Man (3/5 stars)
46. The Lovely Bones (4/5 stars)
47. We (2/5 stars, review)
48. The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within (4/5 stars, review)
49. A Passage to India (3/5 stars)
50. A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems (5/5 stars)
51. Lost Horizon (5/5 stars)
52. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (3/5 stars)
53. The Wombles Go Round the World (5/5 stars)

Sammi wrote: "I've got my July total all ready lol x"

The tally thread is open! :)

The June grand total is... 471. Making the year-to-date total... 4,143!

Ideally, we should have reached 5,000 by now, but we're not too far behind to reach the goal if we push hard enough!

So, how many books did you read in July?

(For our new members: We're trying to see if we as a group can read 10,000 books this year, so at the end of each month each member counts up how many books they've read, and they post that number to that month's tally thread. Every member is free to join in!)

I'm reading a biography of Theodore Roosevelt, and it suddenly occurred to me - he's the perfect example of an extroverted bookworm!

I'd go so far as to call him an EXTREME extrovert, and that applied to his reading habits, too - he would speed read at a million miles an hour, and went through thousands of massive books that way, still somehow managing to retain all the information. I wish I could do that!

Has a book ever changed the way you think about something? An event in history, a current issue, a culture, a religion? What books have influenced your thinking?

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist won our Nonfiction Group Read poll this month. Book discussion can begin on August 1st.

Love Letters to the Dead was the winner of our YA Group Read poll. Book discussion can begin on August 1st.