Mandy’s Comments (group member since Nov 26, 2015)

Mandy’s comments from the 2016 Choose Your Own Challenge Challenge group.

Interesting you chose Little Women Tara. I'm actually trying (and failing) to finish that book as part of my 2015 Reading Challenge. I'm struggling through it. I love the works by E.B. White and I also think of Roald Dahl for childhood classics. I will try reading The Little Prince for this prompt.

Never heard of either of the books you mentioned Jill, going to look them up.

I have never read anything by Isaac Asimov. Considering I live with someone with owns the entire collection of his books I think I'm going to give him a try and choose one of his short stories before I tackle one of his more well known science fiction novels. This isn't a prompt I chose originally but I think I might have to change my prompt list to include it.

Hi Jill,

I read that book and I really enjoyed it. Great pick in my humble opinion :)
I plan to read his new one in the coming year "Dead Awake" so I might choose this prompt after all.

I went through the list last night and decided to go with "Freedom" by Jonathan Frazen. I was surprised by how many books on that list I already read so I had to go back in time a little to find one that appealed to me.

I'm curious about that book by Kunal Charline. I hope you post what you thought and whether you recommend it or not.

I downloaded a few books on my Kobo last night and one of them was "One More Thing. Stories and other Stories" by B.J. Novak. I loved the Office and he was one of the main writers and stars of that show. Also a friend recommended this book to me and said it was quite funny.

I think this challenge will much more enjoyable :)
Looking forward to getting to know everyone better too and seeing what books people choose.

Hi Jill,

I felt the same way about the 2015 challenge, I was reading a trilogy that I hated but felt like I couldn't give it up because I needed to finish all the prompts. I ended up taking almost two months to read all three books because I started to avoid them. That is just silly and I hope to avoid that in 2016. So I guess one of my rules for myself would be "it's ok not to finish a book you aren't enjoying".

I'm also going to do twenty with having no overlaps and I'm going to try to finish each one of my twenty books within a week of starting it.

I chose:

1. a NYT bestseller
2. a book that's becoming a movie this year
3. a book written by a celebrity
4. a political memoir
5. a book from Oprah's Book Club
6. a book published this year
7. a book of poetry
8. an autobiography
9. a book about a culture you're unfamiliar with
10. a book you meant to read in 2015 and didn't
11. a Goodreads Choice Awards 2015 winner or nominee
12. a book about an author you feel you have read by now but haven't.
13. a book from the Rory Gilmore Challenge
14. a childhood classic
15. a book with one the 5 w's
16. a book from your goodreads recommendations
17. a book everyone is talking about
18. a book about mental illness
19. a book that you've seen the movie but haven't read
20. a book you are embarrassed to read in public

I'm Mandy and I'm from Calgary. I met Tara when I joined the book club she was moderating when she lived here. I also did the 2015 Reading Challenge but won't be able to finish. I felt like I was reading too many books that didn't capture my attention and my interest in reading kinda plummeted. I am moving to Sydney for six months in a couple of weeks (my fiance got transferred for work) and think I will have a fair bit of time to get into reading again and love the idea of challenging myself.