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

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

Renee wrote: "Faye-

The encouraging, handwritten note that came with the rejection is golden. Publisher don't do that unless they think your writing merits the extra effort. Seriously. I know that the rejection..."

Thanks, Renee! :D

Melissa wrote: "With that count we have an average of 822.4 books per month. (That is if my math is right.)"

Not bad!

Holly wrote: "7 books behind schedule. Thank god that I have like 3 months off in Summer, and my University degree compromises of reading a hell load of books.

Hopefully I'll get back into reading this month."

It's amazing how quickly it happens, isn't it? Mine is still stuck at 2 books behind.

Holly wrote: "I'm so sorry that I haven't been around much! Life has been awfully hectic (exams are coming up), so reading has basically stopped for the last 2 months, and alas so has Goodreads.

I'm trying to g..."

Yay! It'll be so good to have you back, Holly!

Melissa wrote: "I'm in the midst of reading The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore and I thought with all the great reviews that it would be funny. Well for me this is a dis..."

Yeah, that's the problem with the humour genre - everybody's sense of humour is different!

The official count for March so far is 617.

Melissa wrote: "WOW! Very impressive everyone. This has been so much fun, but I have to remember to read to enjoy, and that I'm not competing against myself to see how many books I cram in every month. It got a b..."

LOL I'm the same! I try to cram so many in that I get sick of reading for a while. I'm trying to strike a better balance, but now it just feels like I'm not reading enough!

LOL I haven't given my own number yet...

I read 5 books in March.

After weeding out the multiple-posters and deleted users, the official count for February is in - 1103 books! Great job, everybody! That makes 1981 books for the year so far! :D

For the record, I've made a judgment call about latecomers to the party - if you're an active member of the group (meaning that you take part in discussions on the group's discussion board) but you joined later in the year, I'll consider counting your year-to-date number of books if you offer it the first time you participate in this challenge. Again, I stress that only active members will be excepted from this rule. The idea of this challenge is to see how many books we can read as a group, so if someone joins the group in December and wants to count every book they've read throughout the year, it's going to become a little bit crazy! But for now at least, I'll allow this one exception.

I keep forgetting to update this thread!

18. Far from the Madding Crowd
19. Catching Fire
20. Mockingjay
21. Thunderstruck
22. The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line
23. The Moon in Close-Up: A Next Generation Astronomer's Guide

Brenda wrote: "You all convinced me to look up Saki, and I just downloaded 2 books from Project Gutenberg. Beasts and Super-Beasts is a humorous short story collection. Not humor, but I also want to read [book:Wh..."

When William Came is still pretty funny, actually. It's one of my favourites!

YAY FOR NEW SAKI FANS!!! :D

Sandy wrote: "Did Arthur Conan Doyle write something other than Sherlock Holmes?

The Girl in Blue sounds good."

Yes, poor man, he wrote quite a lot of books that weren't Sherlock Holmes and are now pretty much forgotten. I found one at our used book store and thought I'd give it a try.

Everything by P.G. Wodehouse sounds (and is) good! :)

I don't think I would have enjoyed his work as a teenager either. Honestly, I think high school literature courses have a lot to answer for - they throw all the wrong books at kids and put many of them off reading certain authors for life!

Renee wrote: "Finished The Chronicles of Clovis, a collection of short stories by Saki (H.H. Munro). Loved it. Dark, witty, quirky, and snarky. All my favorite things. Saki doesn't need to try to be smart; he is smart..."

Well said, Renee!

Interesting! I hadn't even heard of half of these, but now I'm intrigued!

I haven't had much time to read so far this month, but I plan to change that, so... here's what I hope to read in the back half of April.

The Alienist, which I'm partway through and really enjoying
Dave Barry Talks Back, for genre of the month
The Girl in Blue, for genre of the month
The Jungle Book, because I never got around to it last month
and Micah Clarke, because it's been on my shelf forever.

Sandy wrote: "Faye wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Faye wrote: "Sandy wrote: "Hey, it's been really quiet around here for a few days. Where is everyone? Studying for exams? Doing spring shopping? Shovelling snow? Or just..."

I do sell a few things on Etsy - not much, because my turnover rate is higher at craft sales. I can PM you the link if you want?

Amber wrote: "btw do you guys like horror and fantasy stories? was just curious."

Those aren't among my favourite genres, no. Why?

Thanks, Sandy! Ugh, my hands are about ready to fall off, they're so exhausted! LOL

Amber wrote: "Awesome Faye! I write too but it was just for fun. I wish you good luck on getting published with your crafting. and thanks Brenda. I feel a little better."

Thanks, Amber. :)