Recommend other groups on Goodreads

[Laure]

This is not a place for groups to advertise but more a thread to recommend any other groups you like on Goodreads. :)

[Laure]

I got particularly addicted these last few months to the Seasonal Reading Challenge.
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
This is a group dedicated to a three months reading challenge. The present one finishes on the 30th November, and the next one will be over December, January and February.
There are many categories to complete - each category gives you points. There is a dedicated team who compile members' points every day - amazingly! Your name and your points appear on a leaderboard, and like that you can check your progress over the course of the three months.

I have/had great fun fitting in the books I want to read to the challenge categories and making my reading plan.
Up to now, I have not done too badly but the two huge books I am reading right now are slowing me down.
Plus, I am not sure where Nabokov fits in there. Oh well :P

[Haaze]

Umm, I for one have never been hooked by the reading challenges. They seem too esoteric so I rather make my own little reading projects (like the McCaffery List or, hmm, Bloom's Western Canon *looking into the depths of the maelstrom*). However, they are very popular groups. I'm not sure why - perhaps they tickle the "puzzle/Excel" gene within some of us. ; -)

Nabokov made the challenges in the first place! :D

[Laure]

Haaze wrote: "Umm, I for one have never been hooked by the reading challenges. They seem too esoteric so I rather make my own little reading projects (like the McCaffery List or, hmm, Bloom's Western Canon *look..."

I think you're right - you either love them or hate them. To be honest this is my first reading challenge ever, but I have taken to it like a fish to water ... and I do like puzzles. :P

[Laure]

Manda wrote: "Laure wrote: "Haaze wrote: "Umm, I for one have never been hooked by the reading challenges. They seem too esoteric so I rather make my own little reading projects (like the McCaffery List or, hmm,..."

I saw the 52 books one - that look interesting, I might have a look at it for 2017. :)

[Haaze]

My brain thinking about reading challenges.... ;-)

[Haaze]

Manda wrote: "I also love researching the author and any background to novels. Fictional or based on historical fact? All of that slows me down....."

I'm just like you Manda. It is an easy way to get distracted, but very enjoyable at the same time as the works enhance each other. Fun!

Manda wrote: "But I like being pushed into reading books I wouldn't automatically think of picking up next and like reading challenges for doing that. "

I agree, but I like lists rather than the "reading challenges". For example our group's list that provides a set challenge. To me that is more interesting than trying to make books fit a pattern of a puzzle linked to points, geography, etc. List abound - some are weird while others are intriguing. Knock yourself out @
http://thegreatestbooks.org/

[Haaze]

Don't forget all the lists on the right side of the page *evil laughter*

; -)

[Haaze]

:D

[Laure]

You too, are not going to put me off my fun! Mwaaaa :D

What the list does for me:
- get me to read books I would not have read otherwise
- get me to read a lot more books than I would otherwise (and yes, quite a few are lighter reads - but I enjoy them if well paced. :P)
- provide endless fun fitting books I want to read within categories (lol)

[Haaze]

*nods happily*

Lists definitely allows one to survey the realm of literature, but they are deceptive as it is easy to take on too many of them. They are seductive in that sense. They make be a better reader in so many ways. Obviously, our group has its own list. It clearly worked as a siren luring me to my doom as a moderator.....

[Mark]

Haaze wrote: "*nods happily*

Lists definitely allows one to survey the realm of literature, but they are deceptive as it is easy to take on too many of them. They are seductive in that sense. They make be a bet..."
What a cool picture! There is a chapter in Ulysses named Sirens. :-)

[Haaze]

Mark,
I have a feeling of that Joyce's Ulysses shows up in your thoughts every day..... ; -)

[Mark]

Haaze wrote: "Mark,
I have a feeling of that Joyce's Ulysses shows up in your thoughts every day..... ; -)"
Yes, my fate does seem to be tied-up with Ulysses some how.
Or so I like to imagine. :-)

[Haaze]

It must be the urge for adventure in distant lands....

[Hugh]

Going back to the original question, the three groups I follow most closely here are The Mookse and the Gripes (a very literate group that concentrates on book prizes), 21st Century Literature (which does what it says on the tin) and Newest Literary Fiction (a private group dedicated to more recent books). I tend to be a bit wary of tick-lists, and there are no groups in which I always participate in everything.

[Laure]

Hugh wrote: "Going back to the original question, the three groups I follow most closely here are The Mookse and the Gripes (a very literate group that concentrates on book prizes), 21st Century Literature (whi..."

They sound great! I have not given time yet to book prizes, but I can see myself being drawn in to this. I think I am in the 21st Century Literature one. I'll check the others out.

[Mark]

Haaze wrote: "It must be the urge for adventure in distant lands...."
Yes. Adventure! :-)