Zaz’s Comments (group member since Dec 27, 2014)

Zaz’s comments from the 2015 Reading Challenge [Closed] group.

Ready Player One

It took me 3min2 upside-down, against 2min4 for my regular time on this book/tablet :)

We hope your books are good for the moment! We're headed into Hour 3, it's time to challenge yourself a little and read differently...



Challenge: read a page with the book upside-down and tell us how much time it took you.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Pratchett and Gaiman

Big Little Lies and Lumberjanes #2 (chapter 2)

Hi everybody, we hope your read-a-thon started well! We're headed into Hour 1, so it's time to show us what you're currently reading.

For this 1st hour, easy task, just post the cover of the book you are currently reading.
(if you're on a smartphone, skip the app and use your browser, you'll have the "add book/author" feature)

1. What books do you have in your "to be read" pile for the next 24 hours?
Big Little Lies (antonyms week), Fées, weed et guillotines (side-read) and Lumberjanes, Vol. 1 (graphic novel week maybe). I'll add more if I finish them :)

2. Which book is the most appealing in this list?
I started all of them and they are fun, so none is more appealing for the moment.

3. Do you have any goals for the read-a-thon (i.e. number of books, number of pages, number of hours, etc.)?
Sleep a little less than the last time :p And finish all the books.

4. Where will you be doing your reading? Do you have a special spot picked out or will you be roaming around?
Bed or couch, with the cats.

Ready for the 2nd read-a-thon? It seems we'll start it in 2 hours but feel free to dive in your books before that ;)

1. What books do you have in your "to be read" pile for the next 24 hours?

2. Which book is the most appealing in this list?

3. Do you have any goals for the read-a-thon (i.e. number of books, number of pages, number of hours, etc.)?

4. Where will you be doing your reading? Do you have a special spot picked out or will you be roaming around?

We'll try to do activities every hour (shorter than in the 1st read-a-thon), so have a look at the group to add your progress, take part in the games and do some challenges :)

We are discussing this with Laura, it's in 2h (CST) in some sites but 1h (CDT) in others (it's a winter/summer hour thing). Time zones are horrible!

My books are ready, I think I'll finish at least 2 of them, they are easy to read :)

I read and enjoyed the Silo trilogy (starting with Wool) from this author, even if it was a little slow paced. I liked what he did for a "confined future" and how each detail was well used to build the story and the atmosphere.
In Sand, he opted for an open world. I'm really curious to see how he dealt with it and I'm looking forward to discover the world building in this one.

Summary:
The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost.
Palmer wants to prove his worth, not only to his family, but to himself. And in the barren, dune-covered landscape of his home, there is only one way to earn respect: sand-diving. Plunging deep below the desert floor in search of relics and scraps of the old world. He is about to embark on the most dangerous dive of his young life, aiming to become the first to discover the rumoured city below.

I've to read this series, I think I'll double my trilogy or something like this :)

July 11: Today, we'll do our 2nd read-a-thon. Have fun with all your books.

I continue to add 1 or 2 folders for the new weeks on Saturday, so don't forget to add your books if you want to discuss them.

New poll: Do you browse through to the last pages in order to find out the ending? (thanks to Laura for the idea!).

Week 37: a book set in the future.
September 10 - September 16, 2015

This week, you'll travel in time, to see the future. Or one future, more accurately, because we don't know what will really happen and we can't be sure that robots/zombies will try to kill every humans, that aliens will invade us, that we'll live in other planets or that the society will be more crazy than the current one. If you choose an old book, it's possible to read about a future that had (never) happened, which can be interesting too.

How to Create a Topic:
1. Create a topic in the appropriate folder using your book's author and title (Title by Author, please). Link your book with the "This topic is about" feature.

2. In the body of your post, comment about why you chose this book. Have you read it before? What are your expectations?

3. Feel free to use the thread as a way to update the group on your progress. Also, when you are finished reading, add a small review and your thoughts about the week's challenge.

4. Comment on everyone else's posts as well! Participation and group involvement will make this challenge so much fun!

**If you chose the same book as another group member for the same week, do not create a duplicate thread.**

Book ideas
List of stories set in a future now past
10 Science Fiction Novels That Correctly Predicted The Future
The 15 Best Speculative Fiction Books of 2010
25 Best Far Future Science Fiction Books
Near-Future Science Fiction
Top 25 Best Novels About Dystopias
List of time travel science fiction
Listopias:
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

So far, I really like how the story is told, it's interesting to learn things about the characters and the suspense is well managed. Good choice for this week :)

Nicole, I understand it like you. It has the same problem as the "loved by your mother" topic this year, some people changed it for "parent/friend/child/lover" for this reason. I'll do it if the suggestion is in the 52.

I'll try Parallel for this week. I saw it on a plan here (not for this topic) and was interesting in the parallel worlds subject. It's something appealing and I haven't read books with similar parallel realities, so I'm curious to see how an author can deal with it. As I'm not fond of romance focused books, I hope I won't be lost in a love bermuda triangle forever.

Summary:
"Abby Barnes had a plan. The Plan. She'd go to Northwestern, major in journalism, and land a job at a national newspaper, all before she turned twenty-two. But one tiny choice—taking a drama class her senior year of high school—changed all that. Now, on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Abby is stuck on a Hollywood movie set, miles from where she wants to be, wishing she could rewind her life. The next morning, she's in a dorm room at Yale, with no memory of how she got there. Overnight, it's as if her past has been rewritten.
With the help of Caitlin, her science-savvy BFF, Abby discovers that this new reality is the result of a cosmic collision of parallel universes that has Abby living an alternate version of her life. "

My junk food books are (YA) dystopias, I can read one each weekend and find it pretty enjoyable, even if it's not well written, unusual or whatever. If you didn't read The Giver, it's an easy recommandation.

On the urban fantasy side, I'm a huge fan of the White Trash Zombie series. There's a kickass female lead with a good evolution, some unusual ideas with the zombie stuff, it's easy to read and fun. It's definitively not a series full of brain (well...) and not all the books are equal, but I enjoyed them all and I'm looking forward to the next one.

I finished the LoTR trilogy at 12 years old and I found the 1st book boring (the same at each re-read), so keeeeeeep going, you're a grown-up, you're braver :D

No problem for me with shortening the window if everybody votes in the 1st week :)