Christa's 2018 Reading Stuff Thread

[Christa, The Renewed]

I'm going to read 25 or more books. And do that Bingo thing.

[Christa, The Renewed]

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[Christa, The Renewed]

Reserved

[Christa, The Renewed]

Have at it.

[HomeInMyShoes]

First! :P

[HomeInMyShoes]

Nice to see you back. And I have to admit that ukulele is way more fun than I thought it would be.

[Christa, The Renewed]

Sadly, I haven't had time to play in... many months. I haven't been very good at prioritizing things lately, but I'm working on that. Hence my return. :) It's good to be back.

[DoodlePanda]

Forever second :(

[DoodlePanda]

But welcome back! Missed you <3

[Orlok]

Where the hell you been? :)

Missed you.

[Christa, The Renewed]

I missed you guys too. <3

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Resident Book Pusher]

Hey you!!! Good to see your face. ;-D

[Christa, The Renewed]

Helloooo! :D

Wow. Book 2 in the can and started a third. If I keep this up, I might actually get some reading done! LOL

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Resident Book Pusher]

Christa wrote: "Helloooo! :D

Wow. Book 2 in the can and started a third. If I keep this up, I might actually get some reading done! LOL"

LOL!

Too bad this isn't yesterday, we could look for a WSW read.

[Christa, The Renewed]

You know, there's another Wednesday coming up soon. We could maybe try it...

In completely unrelated news...

I recently "upgraded" from my Paperwhite to a Voyage. Even though it's the reason I did so, I'm still blown away by how much the lack of a inner bezel improves things for me. I'm no longer distracted by bits of dust and blanket fuzz (I read in bed, ya know) in the corners, because there are no corners for any of that to get trapped in! It's the little things.

My Voyage and Fire now have matching covers in this design, Galaxy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06...

And, last but not least... I always eschewed the fancy home page view on my Kindles, in favor of the book list. Then last night I turned it on out of curiosity and realized something. The section of the home page that has my Wishlist leads me to a book list of all the books I have on any Amazon wishlist - and the ones that are in Kindle Unlimited say so right in the list. I recently restarted KU because there are a lot of books in there I wanna read, and it all just got so much easier. I'm lazy, so this matters.

:D

To get to something actually important in this rambling update, I'm still reading nightly. Yay!

[DoodlePanda]

I'm so glad you're reading again! :D

And I dream of a Voyage, but I can't get myself to upgrade as long as the old one still works... :(

[Christa, The Renewed]

Well, it helped that (in the US, at least) Amazon has a no-interest installment plan available with 5 monthly payments. I had almost purchased a Voyage when I bought my Paperwhite two years ago, but I guess I was just delaying the inevitable.

I'm glad I'm reading again, too. I'm trying not to get hung up on numbers, and just READ. LOL I'm going to Florida next week (leave this Saturday) so I should get some good reading time in then too.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Resident Book Pusher]

Christa wrote: "Well, it helped that (in the US, at least) Amazon has a no-interest installment plan available with 5 monthly payments. I had almost purchased a Voyage when I bought my Paperwhite two years ago, bu..."

yaaaay!

I've been reading on my tablet. It's a terrible thing (backlighting) but so easy. My poor kobo is getting no love. And it has a purple cover!

[Christa, The Renewed]

I read on my Fire for a while, but I eventually found that I was reading in shorter sessions because of it. My eyes get all blinky and it distracts me. When I use my computer or tablet for various activities, I'm looking away often, whereas when I'm reading a book, my eyes are glued to it.

I envy those who don't have eye fatigue reading on tablets / phones. I do still read magazines and graphics-heavy stuff on the Fire, though.

[HomeInMyShoes]

I read on my phone, but that's because library lending on Kindle in Canada is useless. Plus the fact that Overdrive is about 1/10th of the electronic reading material I can get through my library. I use the eBooks as filler reading material and most of what i read is paper.

paper: 33
electronic: 13 -> Hoopla: 4, Cloud: 5, Kindle: 2, Overdrive: 1; audio: 1

So only 1/13 books is from Overdrive, although I'm reading one now, so 2/14

Overdrive doesn't overlap with my reading habits much which makes the whole eReader concept pretty useless unless it supports multiple vendors. Or I'm doing a bunch of work.

[Christa, The Renewed]

I finally finished the book I've been trying to read all week. :D I don't read a ton of non-fiction, but I'm glad I grabbed that one at the library. Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean

Was a great read, and especially appropriate to read while I'm in Florida. :)

Next up, I'm tackling one of my many in-progress series by starting book #2 in Wayward Pines.

[Orlok]

Yay! And have fun in Wayward Pines. I did :)

[DoodlePanda]

I've got Wayward Pines, maybe I should get around to reading it! :D

[Orlok]

DoodlePanda wrote: "I've got Wayward Pines, maybe I should get around to reading it! :D"

I think you might enjoy it. It's a real "what the hell is going on?", and I guarantee you won't guess the reveal (unless you've already seen the TV series).

[DoodlePanda]

I have not seen it, and the book sounds really interesting... I have a few books I want to read next, but I think this one will be high on the list now :D

[Orlok]

Cool. It's a quick read, too.

[Christa, The Renewed]

Yeah, I enjoyed it so much that I ended up finishing Wayward Pines #2 and going straight into #3. :D

[Orlok]

Christa wrote: "Yeah, I enjoyed it so much that I ended up finishing Wayward Pines #2 and going straight into #3. :D"

Be interested to hear what you think of #3.

[Christa, The Renewed]

So far I'm liking it! I like how he's tying certain people's past motivations into current events.

[DoodlePanda]

*the sound of Wayward pines slowly creeping up the to-be-read list*

[Christa, The Renewed]

DoodlePanda wrote: "*the sound of Wayward pines slowly creeping up the to-be-read list*"

LOL Do it!

[Christa, The Renewed]

Okay, so The Last Town certainly took an interesting turn. S'all I'm saying about that. LOL I really enjoyed it. It was almost 5 stars. Almost.

Because of the way it ended, I'm really hoping Crouch does more with this at some point.

[Orlok]

Agreed. It is a great series.

[Christa, The Renewed]

I allowed myself one DNF for Bingo (changed a Mega-Mix category to "DNFed it SO Hard") and I already used it this morning for Breed. LOL

I'm not shelving it as read so I'm not counting it toward my GR count.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Resident Book Pusher]

Christa wrote: "Okay, so The Last Town certainly took an interesting turn. S'all I'm saying about that. LOL I really enjoyed it. It was almost 5 stars. Almost.

Because of the way it ended, I'm re..."

*checks out blurb*

O_O


*runs*

Not for me, lol.

[Christa, The Renewed]

Updated, two more books read for a total of 8 so far. Not too bad for a month! :)

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Resident Book Pusher]

GOod Job!!

[Christa, The Renewed]

Thanks! :) I'm hoping to keep the momentum going.

[DoodlePanda]

Well done! I'm so happy for you that your back into reading! :D

[Christa, The Renewed]

Thank you! I'm very happy about it too. Means a bit more time management on my part, but it's working so far. :D

[Orlok]

About time you got some score on the Bingo spreadsheet :P

[Christa, The Renewed]

Orlok wrote: "About time you got some score on the Bingo spreadsheet :P"

Actually, I haven't yet. I've managed to have 100% rate on being able to use everything I've read so far, but nothing has made a bingo. Yet. Soon, maybe? LOL

[HomeInMyShoes]

I think 11-13 books is what it took modt people. Except Doodlepanda who got the first one in five books.

[Christa, The Renewed]

Finished The Collapsing Empire. I really wish I'd known the next book isn't out yet. Dammit. LOL

[DoodlePanda]

I hate when I start a series, and it turns out the other books arent out yet :(

[HomeInMyShoes]

^Yep. How about a series where there's eight books out, but only four have been translated? And those are numbers 1, 2, 3 and 7?

So weird. But I'm up to date as far as I'm concerned.

[DoodlePanda]

I had that problem with audible once, I started listening to a series and one random book in the middle didnt have whispersync audio... didnt make any sense to me

[Christa, The Renewed]

I remember that, Doodles. You and I were chatting while you were trying to get an answer from the customer service people. That was nuts.

[DoodlePanda]

Christa wrote: "I remember that, Doodles. You and I were chatting while you were trying to get an answer from the customer service people. That was nuts."

Oh yea thats right! I was so frustrated xD

[Christa, The Renewed]

Up to 12 read, working on the 13th. It was going to be Doctor Orient but I DNFd it and moved on to Redemption Song. May go back to it later.