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

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

Jade, can you give us the next summary? :)

I never was a fan of paper books so it was easy to jump on the ebook train. However, I like collecting beautiful editions for the stories I love and I have a huge collection of children picture books :)
I just received The Annotated Peter Pan (The Centennial Edition) and spent some time just looking at the pages and the cover (thinking "my preciiiouuuuuus" :D).

I hope the Phantom will be better too :)

At 15%. First thing: I found me surprised the time travelling is a path to the future, as I always think about it in a "in the past" way.
I'm totally enjoying how the story is told, even if it's a little slow paced, and all the details put in it without long and boring descriptions. The characters, for now, are not ones I can rely on, but I'm interested in who they are and what will happen to them next.
One thing I totally like is all the books or movies references the author put on his hero's mind. It helps the story to feel real and to share something in common with Ellis (I'll have to add some books in my TR :p).

So far, the journey is great and I'm looking forward to read more, hopping it will continue like this :)

I like all your comments :D Good luck with the choices ;)

Lol, I like your recommendation for the book with bad reviews. I wandered to its Goodreads page some weeks ago (I like the cover :p) and found the summary... totally boring. The reviews helped me run away faster :D

Yes, it's now week 4! You'll find the week days in the Week Introduction topics (1st post) :)
There are lots of amazing books, it's not easy to discover them and something like this reading challenge is a nice way to do it. Of course, some of the 52 will be disappointing, but well, you can never know before reading a book if you'll enjoy it ;)

Yey :D It's totally an UFO in the graphic novel world, I was pretty surprised by the story and how they told it :)
I'm glad you liked it!

Welcome everybody :)

This is a difficult week for me, because I have to choose. Of course, I wanted to read lots of the Choice Award books and I couldn't fit 20 of them in this week (but I tried :p). I finished Lock In (liked it a lot) and I'll read too The Girl on the Train (for 2015).

Summary:

Ellis Rogers is an ordinary man who is about to embark on an extraordinary journey. All his life he has played it safe and done the right thing, but when faced with a terminal illness, he’s willing to take an insane gamble. He’s built a time machine in his garage, and if it works, he’ll face a world that challenges his understanding of what it means to be human, what it takes to love, and the cost of paradise. He could find more than a cure for his illness; he might find what everyone has been searching for since time began…but only if he can survive Hollow World.

I was intrigued by the title and later by the summary. It seems interesting and I didn't read time travelling books (or I don't remember...), so it could be nice to discover this type of story.
I started it today and so far enjoy the writing.
The main character has a difficult background history and the current one is not amazing, so I'm expecting some deepness and also good sci-fi.

This is a classic I never read and I don't really remember the movie, I'll add it in my to-read list.
Mary's umbrella could be useful with the current weather :D

Jasmine > Thanks. It's done ;)

Yes, Amazon remembers what you bought. It's not only on Kindle, it does it for all the articles ;)

Oh Parallel looks interesting (yey, parallel universes :D) and I've nothing for the triangle week. Thanks for the recommendation Maria :)

It looks interesting! Another addition to my to-read list :)

I'm looking forward to your opinion!

I agree with Tanya, the Popsugar challenge is not a weekly list, but there are 52 books in it, like in 52 weeks per year :)

I've no problem with this reading challenge because... I like reading :p
So, a list is just a way to read more and to discover new books/authors. Goodreads already helped me with this, so the challenge doesn't really change something. But I liked planning all the books, I added several books per week and I'm enjoying some side-reads.
I understand some people here could miss freedom, but I chose only books which interested me, so it's not a "duty" to read them :)

I read The Maze Runner out of order so I finished it before this week.

I haven't seen the movie but I'll try to watch it this year. So, the movie will come after (as for most of the books I read in this category).

I won't recommend the book to a friend because I found the characters really shallow and annoying. However, if someone liked a lot the movie, it's always nice to read the original story, so I could recommend the book for this reason.

Since november, I try to review all the books I read, it's a nice way to improve my english and I enjoy a lot reading reviews when I'm not sure about a book. So, yes.

No problem with the out of order, just try to join the discussions as much as you can when you have read one of the weekly books :)

I didn't read lots of Gaiman's books and most of them were translated (I only read Coraline in english), so I can't say how the writing style is. But Gaiman is a great world maker :)

It's nice you enjoyed Caroli Coraline. Tell us how different you'll find it when you watch the movie again ;)

For me half could be used as a number (0.5), so I'm okay with it ;)