Agnieszka’s Comments (group member since Dec 27, 2015)

Agnieszka’s comments from the 2025 Reading Challenge group.

Congratulations Alison, Jeanne & Rob!

Jeanne wrote: "...I’m swapping „Mitch Albom: The Next Person You Meet in Heaven“ for „Durian Sukegawa: Kirschblüten und rote Bohnen“, because the Mitch Albom isn’t here right now and I‘d like to finish before Saturday."

No worries about changing books. Too bad Amazon.de isn't supporting the Kindle-lend-option since I own it and would lend it to you if it were possible.
Where are you from? I noticed you have some books in German on your shelf and was wondering if you come from Germany as well.

Tania wrote: "Complete on message 43, 5/5"

Congratulations!

Jeanne wrote: "I loved it. I didn’t like Sense and Sensibility too much and wasn’t really blown away by Persuasion either, so I was a bit cautious about it, but I shouldn’t have been. I liked it much better than the other two combined and am now very much looking forward to reading Mansfield Park."

I admit my favorite is still Persuasion even if P&P is a close second. I'm not a fan of Mansfield Park, though after reading a really great review about it and realising it's really not a book about a couple and it's relationship (like most of Austen's) but about a house, it's inhabitants & visitors told from the POV of Fancy I decided to give it another try. I think when you don't expect another epic love story it's easier to understand it.

Sue wrote: "Update to message 38

4/4

Completed"

Congratulations!

Ruth wrote: "So- I forgot to sign up for this-
If it's not too late, I will do so now. If it is too late, I guess I won't update. :)

3/5

1. Gift (set in present): Poison Orchids - Sarah Denzil
2. Words of Af..."

No it's not too late. Feel free to use any book fitting you read in February before you joined the challenge.
Welcome!

La_mariane wrote: "...I remember knowing what happens in HP4 when nobody around me did. LOL. Glorious feeling!"

I know this feeling. I started reading books in English because the publisher let the readers know my very favorite series/author back then (almost ten years ago) won't be translated into German and that was something I wasn't willing to accept *grins* so I got the entire spin-off series & the subsequent three (all but the last book) in English and instead of waiting six month for each book to continue I went through them all in about three month plus got myself the first five books in English as well and read it all once again. Though that was all before I discoverd ebooks and the price differences (between German and English books as well as paper & ebooks).

Allie wrote: "Update to message #20.

5/5 completed.

I had fun with this. :) Thank you!"

You're welcome and congratulations!

Congratulations Jessica & Rachel!

Lucie Renee wrote: "I just updated Message #41

I still have only 3 prompts completed but have read a second book under Acts of Affirmation..."

If I understand it correctly and you used the two books for different options of the task 100 Days of Sunlight a book where someone does something nice for someone else & Tweet Cute about someone in a service trade I'd accept it as book #4 since you read four books.

Nancy Ann wrote: "Updated message 19
2/2. Completed"

Congratulations!

Congratulations Ashley, Crystal & Greg!

Regina wrote: "I really liked them both. Drive Your Plow is an early contender to be one of my favorites of the year. It’s quirky and often funny, but also contains some interesting philosophical elements. I list..."

Thank you! Looks like both could be winners for me.

Regina wrote: "
...✅1. Gifts - Read a book about a holiday where gifts are exchanged, read a book set in the "present", or read a book you received as a gift. The Great Passage...
✅3. Acts of Service - Read a book about someone in a service trade, such as restaurant waitstaff, beauticians, store clerks, customer service, etc. or read a book where someone does something nice for someone else. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead"

How did you like these two? I looked into your books because the one for task #3 had a great title and discovered it's by a Polish author who won quite a number of prizes and was wondering why I never heard of her until I contacted my father and asked him to bring this one and the book she got the Nobel Prize for from Poland and he's not very happy about because they are rather difficult - still I want to give it a try.
After seeing you have two books by Polish authors I looked closer at all 5 and like the one from task #1 The Great Passage as well (which is part of KU) and I could read it during my trial memebership.

Regina wrote: "Update to message 26

Progress: 5/5 - Completed

Thank you for leading this fun challenge, Agnieszka!

✅1. Gifts - Read a book about a holiday where gifts are exchanged, read a book set in the "pre..."

Congratulations!

SarahKat wrote: "Message 21: 5/3


1. Gifts - Read a book about a holiday where gifts are exchanged, read a book set in the "present", or read a book you received as a gift. - All the Missing Girls ..."

Congratulations!

Andrew wrote: "Updated message 66:

Completed.
5/5"

Congratulations!

Tasha☺ wrote: "Completed - 2/2

5. Physical Touch - The Kiss Quotient"

Congratulations!

oshizu wrote: "Update to msg #5

2. Words of Affirmation - Read a book with a lot of words. The Old Drift (576 pages)

Progress: 5/5 Challenge completed!
Thank you so much, Agneszka, for leading this very busy challenge!
😊"

Congratulations!
You're welcome and it's fun from time to time.

La_mariane wrote: "Agnieszka wrote: "La_mariane wrote: "Agnieszka wrote: "Congratulations Carmen & La_mariane!"

Thanks! I really thought I would give up on "Whte Lies", but I pushed through to finish this challenge ..."

I understand you so well on all points. Until I discovered English Kindle ebooks are so often free or on a huge sale and started reading in Egnlish and shortly afterwards joined GR and discovered so many great books I wasn't able to abandon a book (I've done it perhaps once or twice in all the years) now it's up to 20 books a year (at least those I recorded, which means I read at least 10 pages).

I learned French for four years in school (ages ago) and realised shortly I forgot almost everything I ever learned :-( so when I discovered an 17-page-Obama interview in German & French on Amazon for free I got both and hope to find back into French with time (reading one paragraph in each edition until I understand the French well enough to go to the next one) but it's going very slow. Now I decided to give it another try (especially since we have family in France and only the two daughter of my late great-great-...-aunt understand and speak some Polish and one of the cousins speaks some German and another two some English so if I want to contact them I need to re-learn French.