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

Agnieszka’s comments from the 2025 Reading Challenge group.

Here is my review (Polish edition) the last time I read it a year ago: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Ellen Rory wrote: "Thanks for the author rec, I've never heard of her, will definitely look her up.
I hope they translate the French book, my French is very very basic, no way I would be able to get through a novel...."

There are other of his novels translated and from the reviews most of them appear to be very good. I got this one only because I needed an audiobook for a challege and this one sounded best from what my library had at that point available and it was a real winner - even better than the Agatha Christie I had preordered and got two days later but could use for a different challenge :-)

I reached my original goal of 75 sometime in the first qauarter - though as soon as I reached 50 I raised it to 100 and than a second time to 200 a few weeks ago.

This year I shelved another three books so far to my favorites:
(no English translation yet, original French) genre-mix drama, suspense, romance
erotica
romantic comedy (book 2 in series)

Last year I was also desperately looking for an autor beginnin with X and got Diana Xarissa recommended. She writes cozy mysteries her first series is the Isle of Man cozy mystery series (Aunt Bessie) and the both spin-offs the Markham Sisters and the Isle of Man romance series.

Last year I was just browsing the lists of other participants (also from previous years to find out what they read with this letter, but most let it be)

Since I have only one title beginning with the letter X and read it for last year's challenge that the one I'm stuggling more with :-)

Emily wrote: "I'm excited--this will be my first time to participate in the group discussion!

I went home to visit my parents for Mother's day and picked up my copies of Pride and Prejudice and [boo..."

Cool, it's also my first participation in this group BOTM and dicussion though I participated in some other groups discussions and read-alongs already.

If you are interested in a book pal for Persuation just give me a shout. Since it's my favorite of Austen's books I'm always looking for a reason to re-read it and get different views of this great story :-)

updated message 39 => Finished: 14/30 books & 3,766/5,000 pages

The pages won't be an issue - but I should have gone with the first for books I wanted to commit (25) 30 will be really tight

I love this book. Since I've read it twice within the last year I'm not sure I'll read it again, even if I got this new edition I'm really looking forward to check out :
I'll join the discussion as often as I can for sure :-)

Anna wrote: "I'm cutting my goal from 10 to 5 books. Since I found a new job *finally* I really need to focus on that, instead of stressing out about the number of pages I read in a day. And finishing 2 more bo..."

Congratulations Anna :-)

Iris wrote: "Agnieszka wrote: "Done :-)

Comment fields are often helpful (either one for entire survey form or for particular qauestions - if you think there could be some additional information / clarificatio..."

You welcome - my first and only survey was also a mess - so I learned something from it :-)

Done :-)

Comment fields are often helpful (either one for entire survey form or for particular qauestions - if you think there could be some additional information / clarification needed or valuable) but they make the work for you much more difficult - especially the evaluation.

updated message 3 => finished 34 books and with the goal I set for May alone I'll over-achieve once again :-)

updated message 39 => Finished: 10/30 books & 2,772/5,000 pages

updated message 39 =>
Finished: 3/30 books & 851/5,000 pages

Pages in brakets are page numbers :-)

#1: = (609) #2: (196) #3: (73) #4: (50) #5: (320) #6: (440) #7: (238) #8: (7) #9: (289) #10: = (577) #11: see (82) #12: (320) #13: #14: = (529) #15: (German only - 176) #16: Mörderspiele = see = (141) #17: (353) #18: (100) #19: Dripping Wet - book 7 of (~37) #20: (59) #21: (1,504) #22-26: (328) #27: (612)
#28: (198) #29: (228) #30: (240) #31: (69) #32: (388) #33: = (656) #34: =

Read: 34/30 books & 9,398/5,000 pages

updated message 3 => finished 23 books :-)

updated message 3: finished 21 of 45 books :-)

Updated message 3: finished 17 out of 45 books

Persuasion is my favorite of Austen's novels so I second that :-)

Updated message 162 => finished 5/15 books

Bobbi wrote: "Welcome Tania. :)

Agnieszka wrote: "Is there a page restriction for the books - some challenges have? If I can include all the small stuff too (small stuff for me are: fiction less than 80 pages a..."

Thank you => I updated message 1 and raised my goal to 45+ for now :-)

Is there a page restriction for the books - some challenges have? If I can include all the small stuff too (small stuff for me are: fiction less than 80 pages and non-fiction less than 50 pages) I need to raise my goal significantly. I'm reading many shorter stories when I can't concentrate or need something different in-between ;-)