Outread Aubrey! Challenge discussion
What are you reading?
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Nov 13, 2013 07:43AM
I'm reading Iron Man comics. Helping me catch up with Aubrey's extended manga-included goal. :) And when that's done I still have two non-fiction books and a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, and the rest of Merlin's Blade, and A School for Villains, and... * sigh *
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I need to re-read my own books again and take notes of all weather changes mentioned... I might need to do something to motivate me for that one! :p I've already read them this year - how many times?? :D
I finally finished "Red Rain" for the second time!
Good luck with that, Katie-dear. ;)
I'm reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as well as Jack Kirby's "Fourth World Omnibus, Volume 1" which can basically be considered the comic book equivalent of the first book in a high fantasy series. 300 some pages long, multiple viewpoints, massive conflict, and and so on.
I had a heyday with the Free side of Amazon's Kindle books... I now have 104 unread Kindle books in my library... XD
Whoa, that sounds good, Kaleb. *needs to read HP still*
*pats Theodora consolingly on the shoulder* It's okay, dear. All of us with Kindles have done that. ^_^
*pats Theodora consolingly on the shoulder* It's okay, dear. All of us with Kindles have done that. ^_^
Aubrey wrote:*pats Theodora consolingly on the shoulder* It's okay, dear. All of us with Kindles have done that. ^_^"
Yeah ... you should see my mom's list of 20,000+ list of unread books she's picked up on Amazon for free. Not that my list is anything to sneeze at either ...
I feel better now. XD I don't even have a Kindle; just a Kindle App on my computer. But yeah. XD
I've been tackling some tough books, Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting and Passport through Darkness. All I can say is wow and ouch. They're both challenging, thought provoking, and heart wrenching.
Sounds like I should read Orphan Justice, Leah. My given passion is adoption.
Aubrey wrote: "Sounds like I should read Orphan Justice, Leah. My given passion is adoption."Oh really?! #excitement Me too! Have you seen the website I just launched? Teens Interceding for Orphans.
Took a break for all my historical reading to read How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran. Ended up seriously disappointed -- it seemed to have a lot of promise, but by the end just annoyed me with its heteronormativity and downright generalisations. Oh, and just being WRONG about history, too. That always gets my back.Think I'll go back to the Mabinogion or start on Beowulf to reassure myself there's some sanity in the world.
Wow! That's a wonderful ministry, Leah!
Aubrey wrote: "Wow! That's a wonderful ministry, Leah!"Thank you. And, yes, you should definitely read Orphan Justice. It's really good.
I just added book #95 to my Outread Aubrey shelf!I know I haven't been keeping up here for quite a while...my latest read was Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart, which was absorbing enough to keep me from getting anything at all done this afternoon. Other recent reads were The Law at Randado by Elmore Leonard, Random Harvest by James Hilton, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, and books 5 and 6 in the Supervillain of the Day series.
Been debating reading Scared and Priceless by Tom Davis for a while. Scary topics! Just finished Scared. I was right, tough book to read. But it was also really good.My Review.
Finally went back to reading A Place Of Greater Safety after a really long gap. Couldn't remember what was going on, but I've caught up again now.
Keep it up, y'all! You've got one month to get your books read and recorded and rack up those totals! Which also means I have a month to get that prize organized and off of my bedroom floor!
I've been running on steam (or less) between Thanksgiving and Black Friday work hours, but I got a bit of reading done during downtime between family events.
I've been running on steam (or less) between Thanksgiving and Black Friday work hours, but I got a bit of reading done during downtime between family events.
I haven't popped in here for a while, but I finished Rooftoppers! It has a few flaws, but it was a great narrative. :) Quirky, and the "rooftoppers" aspect (trying not to spoil) was great.
Glad to hear you're reading again, Shadow! :D
I am making gentle progress on Harry Potter again. Using a snazzy HP bookmark Katie gifted me. ^_^
I am making gentle progress on Harry Potter again. Using a snazzy HP bookmark Katie gifted me. ^_^
Got plenty of reading done last week--five books-- even with working six days out of the week. Granted, three of them were read on Thanksgiving day alone! This week I have made a gentle beginning of one and a half books so far...it's going to be an over 75 hour week, though, so I might not get much done!
75 hours! What are you doing, dear, if I may ask? o.O I mean, I'm working two jobs, but I couldn't get that many hours if I wanted to.
Aubrey wrote: "75 hours! What are you doing, dear, if I may ask? o.O I mean, I'm working two jobs, but I couldn't get that many hours if I wanted to."Full time (40 hours), part time (25 hours) and teaching music (8 hours) plus commute in between for days I work double and for when I have to stay late. In addition I play in and practice for my church orchestra. However, I think I am going to lose some hours because of the ice storm coming in.
My goodness! That's all I'm going to say.
That and it's positively FRIGID out here. Everyone stay inside and read this weekend, okay? I'm hoping to draw those giveaways now that I'm finally home and starting to settle out after holiday insanity.
That and it's positively FRIGID out here. Everyone stay inside and read this weekend, okay? I'm hoping to draw those giveaways now that I'm finally home and starting to settle out after holiday insanity.
I took that seriously today! Got out of a sixteen hour day and read a book instead! The roads were bad (three inches of mostly sleet, falling too quickly for the sanding trucks to do much good) and I did not have to venture out. We might have a low of 6 on Monday night...not usual for the south!
How far south are you? They keep threatening ice storms here (Kentucky) but it's yet to happen. It's absolutely freezing, we're all scared to be after dark just in case, and the roads are thick with anticipatory salt... but once it got cold it stopped raining and we haven't seen precipitation since. That said, I'm reading the Flavia de Luce series, which is utterly brilliant and highly recommended. When I'm not swamped with work, writing, publishing, funding, music, and releasing this album. That after getting through a pretty big mountain of Science Fiction Romance from a new author I was interested in. Interesting stuff, SFR...
I'm in Little Rock, AR. I had to miss two days of work because of a solid sheet of ice on the street. Finally got out of the house and made it to work today! But I did see bunches of cars in the side of the road and saw a wreck on a slick bridge and watched a pickup slide a bit on the highway.
We had our first real snow of the winter here (SE Michigan) last night, but while it was enough to (from the radio reports) snarl up traffic this morning, it wasn't all that thick.Katie wrote: "I'm reading the Flavia de Luce series, which is utterly brilliant and highly recommended." If that's the series I think it is, my-aunt-the-museum-librarian (who's given me some absolutely wonderful books, including The Book Nobody Read, and our first exposure to the Harry Potter series) has given our family about three of those, but I haven't read them because they gave every appearance of being the sort of "literary" fiction I've never found the least appealing. Maybe I ought to dip into one to see whether I like it.
My dad brought home from the library The Alchemist's Apprentice, then its two sequels. I won't be adding the first one to my "Outread Aubrey" shelf, since he took it back before I could read much of it this time ... but anyone who's interested in historical fantasy might find the trilogy interesting. It's set in Renaissance Venice, and the protagonist is the title character of the first book, the apprentice of Nostradamus. The two caveats I should add, given the people I know in this group, are that the magic is a combination of alchemy and "occult" practices (like Tarot and medieval demonology, for example) and is treated briefly but in some detail as it comes up, and that there's a ... small but noticeable, I think ... level of sexual innuendo (the main character's ... girlfriend, we would say ... is a courtesan, and an important source of information for him), but nothing explicit, or even (I think) beyond the level we get in several of Shakespeare's plays.
I'm working my way through a Western history book I found on the library's "free" shelf, and after that I have a couple of collections of "classic" essays I also picked up there. The history book is proving a fertile source of idea for alternate-history settings (not necessarily for me to write about, since I have more ideas than I can use, really) and worldbuilding of my main setting.
It's not literary fiction at all, John. It's mystery/detective stuff. The MC is eleven years old and her great passion is poison. She lives in a sleepy English village and sticks her nose into everything
SFR? I'm not sure what I think about that... But I'd be interested to hear what you think about it, Katie!
Katie wrote: "It's not literary fiction at all, John. It's mystery/detective stuff."I don't mean "literary" as opposed to "genre," but ... a certain je ne sais quo that literature teachers and newspaper critics seem to like (having a trick ending in which it comes out that the narrator has been lying to the reader the whole time, for example) but always seems to get in the way of the story being any good. For example, To Say Nothing of the Dog is a SF (time travel) mystery, and one I had been hoping to get a chance to read because of all the people whose opinions about books I generally trust raving about it ... but I couldn't get past the first chapter or so.
Aubrey wrote: "SFR? I'm not sure what I think about that..."
The trouble with Science Fiction Romance is that the romance genre (as I, someone who has been on email lists on which its fans and writers who occasionally write in it discussed it sometimes, but who doesn't generally touch the stuff himself, understand it) the romance genre nowadays, except for roughly two narrow subgenres ("Christian romance" and "sweet romance") demands its authors go beyond mere innuendo and implication to include actual sex scenes (if not necessarily explicit descriptions, yet)---and non-Christian authors tend not to see any reason to object to this pattern. But still, it depends on the author and the book in question. And since short stories are less subject to this dismaying pattern than longer fiction, anyone interested in trying the Science Fiction Romance fusion-genre out, there's a quite varied (one story each by a number of authors) collection, Irresistible Forces, that might serve as a passable introduction.
Okay, I did a thing. I finished "A Place Of Greater Safety". Now, I know I started it in like September and got distracted reading ten other things in between, but I got to the end. It's taken me three months, but I FINISHED IT.I'm really proud of myself. So proud.
I read the first Flavia de Luce book early this year...I've been meaning to pick up the next one at some point. The humor can be a bit morbid at times, but it's neat to see somebody successfully making a fresh twist on the classic-style English mystery.Lately I've mostly been reading old Christmas stories. The Christmas Angel by Abbie Farwell Brown, The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin (I love her Christmas stories!), and now Jimsy, the Christmas Kid by Leona Dalrymple.
I'm proud of you too, Miriam. ^_^
All right, people! It's December--practically the middle of it already--which means it's time to get your ducks in a row. Be absolutely sure all the books you've read this year are added to your Outread Aubrey shelf, and make sure you've sent me the link. Joining the group is not enough; you have to send me the link to your Outread Aubrey shelf. Post on the thread, PM me, tweet me, whatever. Just make sure I have your shelf or I won't know to count it!
And when you're done with that, check your counts. If you're behind me, there's still time to change that in the next few weeks. I dare ya.
But no matter what your book count is, there will be prizes at stake for you at the end of the month. In addition to the grand and first prizes, I will have extra random giveaways of stuff that didn't fit in the box with the grand prize. (I will also update the list with the exact specs of the grand prize, for those wondering.) There's something for everyone, so keep reading and come back for the fun!
And when you're done with that, check your counts. If you're behind me, there's still time to change that in the next few weeks. I dare ya.
But no matter what your book count is, there will be prizes at stake for you at the end of the month. In addition to the grand and first prizes, I will have extra random giveaways of stuff that didn't fit in the box with the grand prize. (I will also update the list with the exact specs of the grand prize, for those wondering.) There's something for everyone, so keep reading and come back for the fun!
So. Way back in the year I set a goal of 170 books for complicated and dorky reasons I won't try to explain. While those complicated and dorky reasons are irrelevant now, I would still like to meet that goal, just to satisfy myself.
I currently need 29 more books to make that goal. For the purposes of this goal, I can count manga and stuff. Who thinks I can do it around two jobs, Christmas, a high-profile formatting job, a manga project due by Christmas, and the usual writing and life in general?
I currently need 29 more books to make that goal. For the purposes of this goal, I can count manga and stuff. Who thinks I can do it around two jobs, Christmas, a high-profile formatting job, a manga project due by Christmas, and the usual writing and life in general?
Shouldn't be difficult, Aubrey. My problem is that I want to beat your 170, and to do that I have to read 60 books in the next three weeks around a job and two careers and no manga. Prolly not going to happen.I also have a recommendation for the shelf thing--nobody knows whether you have a link to their shelf or not. They may have sent it and you missed it or something. Why don't you make a list of participants and tell everyone to double check that their name is on it, and if it's not, to send you that link get on it?
Boo. I have a whole stack of books that I need to finish out around a knitting project that's due next Tuesday... plus once I get internet I have several more manga series that I want to read online. <3 (Durarara!! being the major one. I think I'll get Soul Eater from the library...) I'm so sorry I'm not reading more real books. lol. But mangaaaaaaaa.
I just finished two books by Chautona Havig. I really need to read "A Christmas Carol" next for research. Someone tell me to just do it. I love that book, so I have no clue why I keep procrastinating...
GO READ YOUR BOOK, REBEKAH! THAT'S AN ORDER! There, was that good enough? ;)
Well, that's the point of the game, isn't it, Katie? ;) That's a good idea. I'll post an official confirmed member list before the end of the month.
You're so not subtle with your hinting, Jonathan. ;) I do have some junior movie novelization I've collected on my geeky shelf but not read, haha.
Well, that's the point of the game, isn't it, Katie? ;) That's a good idea. I'll post an official confirmed member list before the end of the month.
You're so not subtle with your hinting, Jonathan. ;) I do have some junior movie novelization I've collected on my geeky shelf but not read, haha.
For those of you going for numbers: the Christmas books on this link are short and delightful!https://archive.org/search.php?query=...
History books - nonfiction - take such a long time to read. I should rethink my TBR pile.
My goal for the last two weeks of this year: finish "The Fellowship of the Ring". I'm already through about 1/3 of it, so it shouldn't be too hard, right? If life would just slow down and stop giving me more things to do...like writing, work, writing, marketing, research, writing, marketing,Christmas things, writing, and marketing, I might just be able to finish it. :P
Eh heh eh heh. You're starting to sound too much like me, Faith. Stop it. ;)
Aubrey wrote: "Eh heh eh heh. You're starting to sound too much like me, Faith. Stop it. ;)"Is it a problem to sound too much like you? :P
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