Recommended By Reading Challengers - 2014

[Merja]

Yay!

So here's the list of books I read :)

[Candiss]

I finished my fifth book:

The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman (08/16/14)

Read: 5/6

[Dana]

Finished The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith- up to 7 of 8 now

[Adriana]

Updated everyone!

Pretty picks Merja <3

[Ashley]

Ok, lets see. I have completed 5 books in my goal of 10.

Books I have completed so far:
The Fault in Our Stars (5 stars)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (5 stars)
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (4.5 stars)
Gone Girl (5 stars)
Between Shades of Gray(4 stars)

Still to be completed:
And the Mountains Echoed
Eleanor & Park
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Dark Places
Looking for Alaska

Potential added on Books:
The Storyteller
The Girl Who Chased the Moon
Me Before You
The Paris Wife
Cloud Atlas

[Adriana]

Yay! You are halfway there Ashley (:
Good luck on reading the rest of your books.

[Marina]

I'm now at 7/10, as I've finished reading Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. It was really good :-)

[Londa]

Finished this challenge! I will probably add a couple more by the end of the year, but for now .....

11/10

The Catcher in the Rye
Flowers for Algernon
The Golem and the Jinni
1984
Unwind
Animal Farm
Middlesex
The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
The Help
Room
The Snow Child

I really loved all of them except for Middlesex and Room. They were my only 3 ***

[Adriana]

Congrats on completing your challenge Londa (:

[Brianna Andreda]

I've finished my 10th book. 10/13 completed.

Finished: August 31, 2014

[Felicia]

Aaaand Looking for Alaska is done after a day without Internet, and so far it's my favorite John Green novel.
Two books to go.
6/8

[Tessa]

Tessa: 3/4- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

[Lorelei]

Please update me to 5/7 Adriana. I read The Fault in Our Stars. What a good read.

[Ari]

Finished one more. Please update 8/16

The Awakening 9/13/14

[Tessa]

Tessa- 3/4 Lolita by Nabokov

[Deborah]

8/7

1 Frankenstein
2 Eleanor & Park
3 Code Name Verity
4 This Song Will Save Your Life
5 Firefly Lane
6 The Catcher in the Rye
7 The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
8 Looking for Alaska

[Ari]

Finished Looking for Alaska Update 9/16
Great Book.

[Tessa]

Tessa- 4/4 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Challenge Complete!

[Sarah]

I'm not going to make my goal, so I'd like to change it from a goal of 5 to 3 instead, then I only have 1 book to read. I'm under Sarah Lou. Thanks.

[Jayne]

8/12
Me Before You - 26/9/14

[Adriana]

Congrats Tessa!
No problem Sarah (:

[Adriana]

Congrats Deborah!

[Sharon]

I've been a slacker on this challenge ... this is what I've read so far.



I don't think I'm going to make my goal of 12! I've already read a lot on the list.

[Chloé]

Sharon wrote: "I've been a slacker on this challenge ... this is what I've read so far.

[bookcover:The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America|21..."

What did you think of "1984"? I finally read it last year, and that after many years of procrastination. I don't know, I think I was intimidated by this novel. The renown of the book among cultivated and politicalized people probably made me think it would be really difficult to read. However, it's quite an easy read. I mean, there's a lot of thinking to do, but the writing isn't pompous.

[Ari]

The Darkest Minds 10/5/14

Finished 1 more

10/16

[Karina]

8/8

1. Catch-22
2. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
3. The Name of the Wind
4. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
5. The Shadow of the Torturer
6. The Golem and the Jinni
7. Never Let Me Go
8. Half a King

[Deborah]

10/7

Finished
Lolita and
Divergent

[Cassandra]

What did you think of Divergent, Deborah?

[Meimei]

❀ 10/10 ❀ message 398 ❀
And I'm DONE! I've read A Game of Thrones, Wonder, The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Kite Runner.


It was an amazing challenge, I'll be definitely participating next year. Good luck everybody :)

[Deborah]

Cassandra wrote: "What did you think of Divergent, Deborah?"

It was alright. I'm partial to The Hunger Games trilogy, but I see why this is popular as well. Very happy to see more strong heroines in YA.

[Adriana]

Congratulations Karina and Meimei.

@Cassandra- I actually just read Divergent for the second time. It's really good. It's only the end I have trouble with liking. Her romantic relationship was very nice - he was respectful towards although he is in a higher position so you may or may not like those implications.

[Adriana]

2/8 complete

I want to have this challenge complete by the end of October. Let's see if I can do it!

[Alison]

I havent been on here forever. I have 6/7 now! from what Ive counted!

[Candiss]

I'm finished! I read my 6th book: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell **** (10/21/14)

Read: 6/6

[Megan]

Just completed my 12th selection - Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia. Let's talk about the good things with this book first: I appreciated the interesting world that the author created, I enjoyed the diverse characters, and as a southern woman I appreciated her portrayal of the crazy south. Other than that, the book fell flat for me and felt like it was a witch version of Twilight. There was so much teen angst and drama it made my head hurt! Entire pages of conversation were repeated throughout the book as the 16 yo characters declared their undying love for each other. Not an awful read but I'm not going to read the next book. 2.5 stars

12/10

[Lorelei]

I read The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America. Such a great book!

6/7

[Felicia]

The Perks of Being a Wallflower done! Only one left now! :D (Howl's Moving Castle)

7/8

[Dana]

Finished my last one a few days ago- #165 on the list Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan- amazing book! I really enjoyed this one!

8/8

[Kathryn]

I have finished my challenge with Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah which I greatly enjoyed.

This was my final list (18/18):

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini - 5 stars
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown - 3 stars
It Takes A Village by Christine Stinson - 4 stars
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - 4.5 stars
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes - 5 stars
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green - 4 stars
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - 4.5 stars
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah - 4.5 stars
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - 1.5 stars
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón - 2.5 stars
Joyland by Stephen King - 3.5 stars
The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris by Jenny Colgan - 3.5 stars
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty - 4.5 stars
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce - 3.5 stars
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith - 3.5 stars
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen - 3 stars
The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson - 3.5 stars
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain - 2.5 stars

Most were very enjoyable reads - just a few that were quite ordinary - and maybe they just weren't the right book at the right time for me...

[Adriana]

Congratulations on completing your goal Kathryn, Dana, and Candiss!

[Lorelei]

I've completed this challenge with Firefly Lane.
7/7

[Deedee]

Completed so far:

Completed 3 out of 12


Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna #1) (2011) by Kendare Blake (01/14/14)
#130 on list as of January 14, 2014


Longbourn (2013) by Jo Baker (Hardcover, 352 pages)
Finished: 01/27/14
#181 on January 27, 2014


The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard #1) (2006) by Scott Lynch(Goodreads Author) (Mass Market Paperback, 722 pages)
Finished: 11/22/14
#261 on list as of November 22,2014

[Marina]

8/10 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

[Eggp]

Recommended By Reading Challengers
Completed: 10/10

01. Unwind (Unwind Dystology, #1) by Neal Shusterman - 08 Jun 2014, 2/5
02. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn - 06 Aug 2014, 4/5
03. The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison - 20 Apr 2014, 3/5
04. The Princess Bride by William Goldman - 22 Apr 2014, 4/5
05. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - 08 Mar 2014, 5/5
06. It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini - 27 Jan 2014, 3/5
07. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness - 10 Jul 2014, 3/5
08. 11 22 1963 by Stephen King - 25 Oct 2014, 4/5
09. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman - 23 Nov 2014, 3/5
10. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - 13 Jan 2014, 3/5

[Brianna Andreda]

I have finished this challenge 13 out 13 books read. I updated message 397

[Cassandra]

I completed this challenge without even realizing!

Here are the books I've read since I last reported:

The Fault in Our Stars
The Hunger Games
The Night Circus
Fahrenheit 451
The Hobbit
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Color Purple

10/10

All great books! The Ocean at the End of the Lane was my favorite.

[Adriana]

Congrats on completing your goals Lorelei, Eggp, Brianna, and Cassandra!

[Marina]

Almost there! 9/10 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.

[Adriana]

You can do it Marina!

[Charlotte]

Finished Thirteen Reasons Why today. Found it quite a heavy book, but it was a page turner!

4/8...