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

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

Contemporary fiction is a hard genre to figure out! I think the easiest way to explain it is - books that are set in the real world, and where the action takes place within the same decade that the book was written. So, books that are 100% relevant to the time and place in which they are written.

What contemporary fiction will you be reading in June?

May didn't quite turn out to be the reading-nonstop month I was hoping it would be, but June! June is going to be my month. Even if I have to lock myself away with only a stack of books for company.

What about you? What's on your reading list for June?

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley won our poll for June's Classic Group Read! The conversation can begin on June 1st.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman won our poll for June's YA Group Read! The conversation can begin on June 1st.

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi won our poll for June's Nonfiction Group Read! The conversation can begin on June 1st.

Paper Towns by John Green won our poll for June's Genre Group Read! The conversation can begin on June 1st.

Roseanne wrote: "this is going to sound crazy and I read it in the cafeteria at work but The Three Musketeers. I sat in the corner of the cafeteria and giggled the whole time. People kept asking me what I was readi..."

Yes! I remember laughing out loud at the part where they were having a picnic in the middle of a huge battle, hahaha!

A lot of books are funny, but I find that most of the time they merely make me smile or maybe chuckle quietly to myself. Very few books have ever made me laugh out loud, regardless of what is happening around me. Anything by P.G. Wodehouse and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are at the top of that short list!

What about you? What books have made you laugh out loud? Has it ever turned into an embarrassing moment for you on a bus or a train or in a waiting room?

30. Journey to the Center of the Earth
31. The House of the Dead
32. Children of Dune
33. My Cousin Rachel
34. Fairy Tales Of Hans Christian Andersen

I'm reading a Henry James collection of essays (most notably The Art of Fiction, which is AWESOME), and Vanity Fair.

Iasa wrote: "I increased my challenge total, now I'm 39 ahead of schedule."

LOL Only ahead by 39 now? You're making the rest of us look lazy here! :P

Thanks guys! Nominations are now closed. The polls will be up shortly.

Thanks guys! Nominations are now closed. The polls will be up shortly.

Thanks guys! Nominations are now closed. The polls will be up shortly.

Thanks guys! Nominations are now closed. The polls will be up shortly.

I think Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close would count, so I'm going to nominate it.

I'm going to nominate Reading Lolita in Tehran.

Laura wrote: "No more ideas here on this month from me then ..."

Sorry, Laura! It's a hard genre to figure out, that's for sure!

Laura wrote: "Sorry then Faye, how about Gilead by Marilynne Robinson,"

I've never read it, but the summary says it's set around the Civil War, and it was written just a few years ago. We're looking for books that are set in the same time as they are written, in a realistic setting.

Brenda wrote: "Faye, I know you weren't fond of American Gods, but I wanted to share this quote from it anyway:

“What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's..."

That is so true!