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

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

This is the thread where you can nominate Nonfiction books for our July Group Read. To keep it fair and open for all, only one nomination per member, please.

NOTE: Please don't nominate YA books outside of the YA Group Read. Any YA books nominated will be added to the YA poll.

If possible, please use the "add book/author" feature when nominating a book so that people can click the link and see what the book is about.

This thread will close once we have a few nominations, and the poll will open for voting shortly after.

This is the thread where you can nominate YA books for our July Group Read. To keep it fair and open for all, only one nomination per member, please.

If possible, please use the "add book/author" feature when nominating a book so that people can click the link and see what the book is about.

This thread will close once we have a few nominations, and the poll will open for voting shortly after.

This is the thread where you can nominate Classic books for our July Group Read. To keep it fair and open for all, only one nomination per member, please.

NOTE: Please don't nominate YA books outside of the YA Group Read. Any YA books nominated will be added to the YA poll.

If possible, please use the "add book/author" feature when nominating a book so that people can click the link and see what the book is about.

This thread will close once we have a few nominations, and the poll will open for voting shortly after.

I've read 2 of my 5 - The Book Thief and Vanity Fair. :D

Still on the list - Ulysses, In Search of Lost Time, and The Grapes of Wrath.

Holly wrote: "I'm about 150 pages and I've just hit the whaling section. The writing is actually easier than I thought it would be, and I am rather enjoying it.

He weirdly placed a few pages in play format rand..."

I find that most "difficult" books turn out that way! I never listen anymore when people say that a book is "hard." In my world, that usually translates into "hard to put down." ;)

I didn't find Moby Dick difficult, but the detailed whale gutting scarred me for life. Save the whales, people! Save the whales!! :P

Same with Les Miserables... not a difficult book to read, and I absolutely loved it, but the Paris sewage chapter? One of those things that I wish I could erase from my mind, let's put it that way, heh!

Holly wrote: "Wow, Faye!

What did you think of Vanity Fair?"

It's excellent! Full of Victorian sarcasm, which I adore. :D

35. A Doll's House (4/5 stars)
36. Mary Poppins (4/5 stars)
37. Time and Again (5/5 stars, loved it!)
38. The Art of Fiction (4/5 stars, review)
39. Vanity Fair (5/5 stars)
40. The Warden (4/5 stars)

Sandy wrote: "Listened to Neil Gaiman reading Fortunately, the Milk today and laughed! In fact, I LOVED it!

I know that it's no longer "humour" month but, considering the diffi..."

Success at last! Yay!

Lindsay wrote: "Wow, four :)
Never added total before now, here's the backlog
2 April
1 March
4 February
2 January"

Thanks, Lindsay! According to my records you did post the 2 from January, but I'll count all the rest. :)

Holly wrote: "33 pages in and it's not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Then again, I haven't got to the whaling part yet...

Thanks for the good luck wishes. I'll definitely need them!"

Don't eat anything for at least an hour before the whale-gutting chapter... *shudder*

Holly wrote: "The world hates me!

Because I take forever picking books, and I want to be really strict with myself when it comes to reading my Summer List, I thought I'd number them all and use a random number ..."

Hee! Good luck with that. ;)

Love the new banner, Holly! That's a very ocean-ish colour. :D

Have you ever read a book that has haunted your mind long after you finished reading it?

Most recently, Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel have done that to me - there was such a haunting quality to the writing and a nothing-gets-completely-resolved-in-life-so-why-should-it-be-resolved-in-this-book kind of an ending to both of these novels that I couldn't stop thinking about them for days. The Book Thief haunted me for quite a while, too.

Nice! :D

Karen wrote: "I think I may have mentioned around here that I am an engineer by profession. One of the things we hear over and over is that the best designs are the ones that solve a problem the designer has. In..."

You've engineered a great game, Karen!

Renee wrote: "Contemporary is tough to define but noodling it out has pushed me to expand my thinking and include books I might otherwise put on the back burner of my tbr."

That's great, Renee!

Melissa wrote: "Hey Holly, Was wondering what happened to the thread: What are we reading in June? I was just looking for the list of books I had jotted down to make sure my pile was ready for my June Challenges...."

It's still there, it's just been buried a bit by other threads in the Book Chat folder. The main page only shows a handful of the most recently updated threads in each folder. Just click on the name of the folder, and you can view all the threads.

Gavin wrote: "Hopefully I'll contribute more when I'm on break next month... then I'll just be a burden when next semester starts *sigh*"

There are no burdens here, Gavin! Just poor unfortunate souls who don't get to read as much as they'd like to. Goodness knows, I'm one. :P

Roseanne wrote: "Since it was asked in the May Tally topic how everyone is reading so many books in a month I am just going to start things off by commenting here..."

Personally, I can't NOT read a lot, heh. I experience physical pain if I go too long without spending quality time with fictional characters. It's like restless leg syndrome, but with my brain. :P

Literature is my main passion in life. If my day is so busy that I don't have time to read, then my day is too busy and something has to go.

Ashley wrote: "I just need to ask: HOW THE HECK DO PEOPLE READ ALL THESE BOOKS IN A MONTH????? I read 1 measly book in May. This month I'm gonna try to read a lot. I NEED to read a lot if I want to catch up on my..."

Simple answer - we're book addicts! We read every chance we get. :)