Heena’s Comments (group member since Oct 13, 2014)

Heena’s comments from the RMFAO (Reading My Frigging A** Off) group.

#11 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life - 3/5
My first non-fiction (self-help) audiobook. I loved the narration but the content was mostly repetitive. I enjoyed it for the first couple of hours but then the things were being repeated so often that I zoned out more than a dozen times skimming over some narration in the latter part. The concepts were good (and the author came up with really creative names for most of them) but I guess if you read (or listen) to the first 6 chapters, it'll cover more than 90% of the entire book's contents.

Forgot to update this earlier:

#10 The Winner - 3/5 - Started out really good but towards the end, it became a bit of a drag. Though, overall it was a nice read (lengthy, but pleasant.)

Thanks for this. Will definitely check it out :)

Thankfully I have one for this month! Origin by Dan Brown. I'm presently reading it and so far it's pretty good!!

Thanks for setting this up, Dagny. I'll broadcast a message to all the members today itself.

I'm yet to receive my book (will get it probably in the first week of December) so I'll have to wait. I'm looking forward to reading this book but I hope it doesn't turn out to be as dull as the last two books for buddy read (I still can't believe books by Stephen King, Owen King and Joe Hill could be so disappointing. I think the King family should up their game!!)
Anyway, I hope this one's as good as some of the reviews suggest.

Hello Tearshiani, Youmna and Matt. I hope you guys will find the reading challenges we have here useful and interesting. We all love interacting so feel free to drop by on any thread and post about your TBR-lists, reviews and recommendations with everyone else. We'd love to hear from you all!
We also have a buddy read coming up next month so keep an eye out for that too.
Have fun reading :)

If you have a Book Blog - a blog related, in any way, to literature, please share the links here.

Just followed you all :)

I totally forgot to get this one going. Thanks, Bialey, Errin and SorryForThe for sharing!
My personal Instagram is @crazycatwriter and my bookstagram is @thereadingbud

Errin wrote: "I am so very sorry! I have deleted my comment and will go to the location you graciously indicated. :-)"

No worries. Thanks for understanding!

Hi Errin, sorry to be the party pooper but this is not the right place to share your books and links. This is strictly for requesting recommendations from the group members and not meant for promotion.
Kindly post your book links on the appropriate thread that is created for authors specifically. You can create a new thread in this discussion board: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

Errin wrote: "Hiya, everyone! I'm a rabid reader (duh), also a writer. Love every genre except horror because it gives me nightmares. :-/"

Hey Errin, welcome to RMFAO! I'm a writer too, but I write dark fiction including horror, lol.
I hope you'll enjoy taking part in the reading challenges and the buddy reads. See you around.

Bonnie wrote: "I'm new here but I did finish Ghost Riders by Sharyn McCrumb which was a novel, but well researched and included real civil war NC characters. Excellent novel."

Hey, Bonnie, welcome to RMFAO :)
Is this Ghost Riders in any way related to the Nicholas Cage movies? Or do they just share the name? I'm pretty sure the movie was not historical but is there some connection (I'm very curious to know)?

Jacqui wrote: "I have managed to finish Frankenstein, the first of my two books for November. Although I have read many historical novels in my time, I was very struck by how different the use of language is when..."

I've heard of this name a lot - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, so looking forward to your thoughts on this one!
As English is my second language, I was not exposed to a lot of classic fiction in my early years, so maybe it's because of that that I feel weary very fast when it comes to long descriptive narratives. I'm also a very impatient person, so maybe that has got something to do with it, but I prefer a bit fast-paced and less descriptive works (one of the reasons why I prefer reading Manga Classics over most of the classic books.) So I can relate when you said that you skipped some parts, as I tend to do that a lot in literary and classic fiction.

Samah wrote: "Hello
I am samah, a high school student
I love reading and try to do that as much as possible but school life is hard!!
Fantasy,mystery,thriller and historical fiction are some of my favourite ge..."

Hey Samah, welcome to RMFAO. Student life is hard indeed - I used to read Jeffrey Archer's books during lectures and got caught too many times to even count ;)
Do have a look around at our challenges and buddy reads threads and feel free to participate in the ones you like. We're all here if you need any suggestions or recommendations.
Looking forward to seeing you around!

I guess I'm going to skip this month as I'm participating in NaNo for the rest of the month. Happy Reading, everyone!

Bailey wrote: "Hello! I'm an undergrad finishing up my degree in earth science with a focus on geology. That basically means I spend a lot of time looking at rocks, thinking about rocks, talking about rocks, hi..."

Hello Bailey, welcome to the group. I am a writer as well, though I mostly write dark fiction (psychological and horror stuff.)
I'm sure you'll enjoy the Fantasy challenge that Dagny mentioned.

Natalie wrote: "Hey! My name is Natalie and I'm currently a senior in high school so I don't really know how much I'm going to be able to be active, but I love reading so hopefully I'll find some time to participa..."

Welcome, Natalie. Hope you'll discover more genres here that you'll like.

Hello, Mirielen, Asqa, Ashley, Erin, Natasha and Cristiana!

So glad to have all of you on board! We have a lot of exciting challenges and buddy reads to keep the reading spirits of all the members up all year round, so don't forget to drop by and them all out.

Happy reading :)

The thread for November's challenge (Historical or Steampunk) is here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...