The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion
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im currently reading fifty shades freed. i have to coz i started the first two books. and i just can't wait to finish the third one. i challenged myself to read at least 20 books this year. nothing much happened with my reading last year. i hope i can keep up this time.
procrastination is the thief of time. :D
Still listening to audio of Kane and Abel and really enjoying it! On my Kobo for 2 different challenges The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great and it is also very good. My goal is to make a dent in my real books so I think I will start Allegiant for a genre change!!!
Reading The Sixth Man and it's really good. Everyone who I think is a suspect is getting killed...a real whodunnit!
Good evening,I'm currently reading Chronicles of the Black Company an omnibus consisting of *The Black Company* (pages 7-219), *Shadows Linger* (pages 219-449), and *The White Rose* (pages 449-704). Good so far.
Jim
Still working on We Are Water. In addition, I've decided to challenge myself to reading a classic every season, so also started on The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I.
I'm about 1/4 into West of Here. I live near the Olympic Peninsula, so like the descriptions and the history, but am waiting for the characters to really gel for me.
Finished The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great and really enjoyed it. on to On the Road to finish a task
I'm currently reading
by Nicholas Sparks. Has a slow, but good enough start. Also reading
by Ashwin Sanghi. Looks interesting:P And I'm also on
by Markus Zusak which is simply brilliant!! Enjoying it a lot:):)
The Art of War and The Bean Trees - sitting around. Need to get to these soon.Currently reading - The Boy in the Suitcase, Les Miserables, Unaccustomed Earth and Swimming with the Dead.
Just finished reading Sex in the Title by Zack Love!!! loved, loved, loved it!!! i cannot recommend it highly enough!
In an effort to read many of the classics that I never read in high school or college, I am now reading Lord of the Flies.
Jim wrote: "In an effort to read many of the classics that I never read in high school or college, I am now reading Lord of the Flies."I'm challenging myself to read one classic per season, so four total. I'm working my way through The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I right now.
Jim wrote: "In an effort to read many of the classics that I never read in high school or college, I am now reading Lord of the Flies."What a great goal to have! I always have some on the list of possibilities but always seem to put them off.
Still reading
, which is a three-book omnibus consisting of the first three novels of Glen Cook's Black Company series (
,
, and
).
Currently reading: Les Miserables and The Bean Trees. Finished: The Boy in the Suitcase, Swimming with the Dead and Unaccustomed Earth.
Started: Good Blood and Walk Two Moons.
Finished up We Are Water: A Novel, still working on The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I and starting Insurgent
Currently readingWill finish today:
In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey RatnerThis week's plans:
Finish my 2nd Chunkster for 2014:
Within a Budding Grove by Marcel ProustStart my 3rd Chunkster for 2014:
The Gulag Archipelago, Volume l: The Prison Industry and Perpetual Motion by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynRead for various challenges:
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Just finished
City Solipsism: A Short Storyand
Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYCNow readingPatriot Games
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Insurgent was great! Starting Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell now. And of course, still trudging my way through Sherlock Holmes.
Right now I am reading Don't Want to Miss a Thing by Jill Mansell. It is my 6th book for the month, which also brings me much closer to my goal of 40 books to read for 2014.
Currently reading: Les Miserables, The Bean Trees, Good Blood and Walk Two Moons. Started: The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy
Carla wrote: "Right now I am reading Don't Want to Miss a Thing by Jill Mansell. It is my 6th book for the month, which also brings me much closer to my goal of 40 books to read for 2014."I have a bunch of Manell's books on my Nook! Bn.com always has them on sale for like $2.99. Would you believe I haven't read any of them yet though?!?
I am on vacation this week (a use it or lose it vacation). I am going to try to readLibrary:
And if my Kindle holds up, which seems to by dying (fun phone call to make this week)
I'm still trying to get through Jill Mansell's Don't Want to Miss a Thing. Its a really great book, my heart really goes out to Dex. If all goes well, I should be done later this morning or afternoon.
working on Shards of Honour - last book for the 50 point task...its been recommended to me sooo many times, I figured I should finally read it
Started reading The River of No Return last night. I love the concept!!!!! And, I feel scared for Nick, even though I'm only 54 pages in.
Currently reading: Les Miserables and Walk Two Moons. Finished: The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy and The Bean Trees.
Started: Beloved, Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance: A Mystery and The World Is Bigger Now: An American Journalist's Release from Captivity in North Korea . . . A Remarkable Story of Faith, Family, and Forgiveness
I have read a lot of short stories in January. February I am reading or am going to try for all romance. But I am not super fond of romance. I picked The Rosie Project because I have seen it all over. I started it it is good so far. I put some books to the side because I also am reading Friendship Cemetery, Untouchable (Everwinter) and Peaceful Genocide. All great books so far. I posted this somewhere else but I can use some suggestions for my own challenge. A-Z list I made two. One is all my choices and some friends. The other is my blog readers, authors, and friends choices totally. So if anyone has something I would love to add it. I will be putting the finished list on my blog. http://Mismatchedbbookends.Blogspot.com. Thanks!
Just finished reading The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway......LOVE it!!! Now I'm reading The Vanishing by Wendy Webb and Straight Talking by Jane Green.
Currently reading: Beloved Finished: Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance: A Mystery and Walk Two Moons.
Started: Flowers for Algernon, Dragonflight and American Gods
Languishing on my table: Les Miserables and The World Is Bigger Now: An American Journalist's Release from Captivity in North Korea . . . A Remarkable Story of Faith, Family, and Forgiveness
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The Art of War - sitting around, I haven't picked this one up for weeks!
The Bean Trees - also languishing by bedside.
Finished Click Here For Murder.
Currently reading The Boy in the Suitcase.