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

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

The winner of this month's Classic Group Read poll fits with the genre of the month, as well - A Study in Scarlet, one of the Sherlock Holmes short novels. Book discussion can begin on August 1st.

This month's genre is Crime/Mystery, and the winner of the Genre Group Read poll is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Book discussion can begin on August 1st.

Just finished this. Kafka certainly had an unusual and active imagination! I don't even know what to say about this. I enjoyed it, for the most part, although I thought the ending fizzled out a bit. It was just so... weeeeeird. I don't think I'm into surrealism, heh!

Apparently I'm an INTJ. Interesting...

Sandy wrote: "I am not comfortable with the term "social crutches" which, in my opinion, seems to have negative connotations and polarizes the whole extrovert/introvert question. Polarization is neither helpful nor productive."

Now that you've put it that way, I agree, but I interpreted Michael's comment to be in reference to extroverts who say that they "can't survive" if they're not socializing in every spare moment. Everything in moderation - introverts need a little socialization every now and then, or their reclusive behaviour becomes a crutch and a way to avoid life, just as extroverts need some quiet alone time every once in a while to do some self-reflection, or their socializing becomes a crutch and a way to avoid themselves. If that makes sense?

Michael wrote: "Could be extroverts are afraid of us. They don't understand people who do not need social crutches to live a fulfilled life."

Well said! It does seem that way.

I've discovered the problem with my widget - I'd forgotten to add one of my books to the shelf I created for this group's challenge, so the widget on my personal page showed a different result from the widget on the group's page! Oops!

I'm one book ahead. :D

Wow, this is interesting! I'm totally open to making this a challenge for next year. :)

Sandy wrote: "Faye wrote: "I'm reading Lost Horizon, which is where Shangri-La came from. Utopia? Dystopia? Can't wait to find out..."

Faye, I've always been curious about that book. Hope you enjoy ..."

Thanks, I enjoyed it very much! I would definitely recommend it. :)

Goodreads has a lot of "Best Books of [year]" lists, and it got me curious - how many of the "best books" from the year you were born have you read?

To find out, click on the little arrow at the top of the Goodreads page next to "Explore." A drop-down box should appear, and in the list of things to explore, click on Listopia. On the Listopia page, click on the "search lists" text box and type in "Best Books of [year you were born]". A list of lists will come up. Every year is represented, as far as I can tell, but it might not be the first one on the list, so just keep scrolling down until you find it.

Or an easier way - simply Google "Goodreads Best Books of [year you were born]", and let Google do all the hard work for you. ;)

I was born in 1979, and for that year there are 73 books listed. Out of those 73 books, I have read... 1. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. :P

I probably should have read a couple more of these by now, but most of them I haven't even heard of!

What about you? (You don't have to tell us your birth year if you don't want to!)

Welcome, Miriam and Valentina!

I'm reading Lost Horizon, which is where Shangri-La came from. Utopia? Dystopia? Can't wait to find out...

Thanks for your nominations, everyone! This thread is now closed, and the poll will be up soon.

Thanks for your nominations, everyone! This thread is now closed, and the poll will be up soon.

Thanks for your nominations, everyone! This thread is now closed, and the poll will be up soon.

Thanks for your nominations, everyone! This thread is now closed, and the poll will be up soon.

How well do you know the famous opening lines of literature? Here's a quiz to find out! - http://thebookquiz.com/multiple-choic...

I got 7/10.

Judy wrote: "Infinite Jest

I've tried to read this off and on over the years, but can never seem to finish it. Hopefully this time I'll make it."

Ohh, good luck! I love that book. :D

dely wrote: "Yes, I use them. My biggest bookshelf is "wishlist"!"

LOL That's a good one to have!

Do you use the Goodreads "bookshelf" feature, creating your own bookshelf tags to keep your books organized? Aside from "read" and "to-read", what is your biggest Goodreads bookshelf?

I use it, but I started out making my tags too general, and now instead of keeping me organized they're getting overly full and hard to search through. I need to do an overhaul at some point.

My biggest is british-literature, at 149 books. I seem to be somewhat addicted to the Brits!

Ruchi wrote: "Just started a 'Chunkster' - War and Peace!"

Yay! I love that book. :)