D.L.’s Comments (group member since Dec 24, 2015)

D.L.’s comments from the 2025 Reading Challenge group.

I also would love to discuss Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen :)

I am interested In doing a series read of the Alex Cross series by James Patterson (at least the first 3 books) and the Gossip Girl series by Cecily von Ziegesar. I am ready to start both whenever I have a buddy or 2 lined up.

Any takers??

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins -- it's about "games" of sorts. Only the strongest will last.

I'm in for 5 (1 Bingo!)

13 please!!

I will finish 1 series I have started before this year. (1 books)
1. Senior Kisses

I will start 7 series this year. (7 books)
1. The Clique
2. Emily of New Moon
3. Lust
4. Midnight Crossroad
5. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
6. Real Murders
7. Step on a Crack

I will read 5 number of books that are part of a series. (5 books)
1. The 5th Horseman
2. Betsy-Tacy and Tib
3. The Hidden Staircase
4. Jack & Jill
5. New Moon

My total number of books is 13.

11-20 books: More than a Vacation Reader

I was excited when scouring my overstuffed bookshelves today to discover I had this book already! Now I can read it with everyone- AFTER I finish my current read :)

I'm in for 20 books. :)

And here's my TBR Jar:



I made it about a year ago and it's a handy thing. I just need to fill it up which I will do today.

I love reading (obviously!) so here's the task I have in mind.

Read a book recommended by a friend or family member.

I saw the really old movie of this. It was pretty good though I wasn't sold on the lead actor. I am not interested in the new one at all cause it seems like they wanted to jam-pack it with stars instead of casting more accurately. Just my opinion though. I have read several Agatha Christie books, including Hercule Poirot ones :)

I will go for the full 26 please :)

A - America's First Daughter
B - Betsy-Tacy and Tib
C - The Clique
D - Detective Cross
E - Emily of New Moon
F - Frankly My Dear, I'm Dead
G - A Gentleman in Moscow
H - The Hidden Staircase
I - I See You
J - Jack & Jill
K - Kiss a Girl in the Rain
L - The Life We Bury
M - Midnight Crossroad
N - New Year's Eve Murder
O - One for the Money
P - The Promise
Q - The Quick and the Thread
R - Real Murders
S - Step on a Crack
T - Taking the Fall
U - Under the Dome
V - Valentine visitor
W - The Westing Game
X - X
Y - The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Z - Zoo

I'm in. Please put me down for 14,000 pages :)

I now have 8/10 books read. Update to message # 3. TY!

I'll go for 4 :)
0/4

--A book with over 500 pages.
The Eye of the World

--A book that has more than 5 words in the title.
Little House in the Big Woods

--A book that has been on your TBR list longer than a year
The Matchmaker
Bliss

I am going to nominate When Rabbit Howls by Truddi Chase. It purports to be a true story about a woman with many multiple personalities. It's brutal at times but so inspiring and the author appeared on Oprah a few times and touched my heart! Here's the official synopsis:

A woman diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder reveals her harrowing journey from abuse to recovery in this #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography written by her own multiple personalities.

Successful, happily married Truddi Chase began therapy hoping to find the reasons behind her extreme anxiety, mood swings, and periodic blackouts. What emerged from her sessions was terrifying: Truddi’s mind and body were inhabited by the Troops—ninety-two individual voices that emerged to shield her from her traumatizing childhood.

For years the Troops created a world where she could hide from the pain of the ritualized sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her own stepfather—abuse that began when she was only two years old. It was a past that Truddi didn’t even know existed, until she and her therapist took a journey to where the nightmare began...

Written by the Troops themselves, When Rabbit Howls is told by the very alter-egos who stayed with Truddi Chase, watched over her, and protected her. What they reveal is a spellbinding descent into a personal hell—and an ultimate, triumphant deliverance for the woman they became.

Please sign me up! I'd love to do this :)

Megan wrote: "I'd like to nominate The Longest Night by Andria Williams. The book is set in 1959 and centers on a young family who relocates to Idaho to work on the nation's first nuclear reactor."

This sounds good. I'll second it!

1. Christmas/Holiday, Cozy Mysteries, Classics
2. I think so. Maybe it's been 5 months though...

katie wrote: "I nominate The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston. It's the story of a Chinese-American family staying together across the centuries, generations and continents."

I second this book!

Lisa wrote: "Daph, Sheila, Susy, and Lindsay, want to pencil The Nightingale in for September then? :)"

Sounds great!

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7/20 completed so far

1 ebook
6 physical books