June Read-A-Thon

[Karen]

Welcome to our June read-a-thon. This read-a-thon runs from June 1, 2020 - June 30, 2020. Add your post, keep track of your reading, and if you want, let us know how your reading is going. You may use the following template or create your own. Relax and enjoy!

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Links to reader posts:
Ebb
Erin
Janessa
Jo-Anne
Kareemah
Karen
Kat
Leane
Leticia
Lois
Marisela
Massiel
Melanie
Nancy from NJ
Reading Reindeer
Sam
Stacey
Susan
Taya
Vera
Vivian

[— Massiel]

6/1: 11% 245/784 35% 100% 203/357
6/2: 233/357 49% 16%
6/3: 357/357 40%
6/4: 52% 21%
6/5: 43% 65%
6/6: NO READ
6/7: 100% 13%
6/8: NO READ
6/9: NO READ
6/10: 100% 51%
6/11: 10%
6/12: 18% 100%
6/13: 32% 30%
6/14: 65%
6/15: 100% 45% 3%
6/16: NO READ
6/17: NO READ
6/18: 49%
6/19: NO READ
6/20: 66%
6/21: NO READ
6/22: NO READ
6/23: NO READ
6/24: NO READ
6/25: 30%
6/26: 100%
6/27: NO READ
6/28: NO READ
6/29: 21%
6/30: 43%

Total pages read: 2,756

Books finished:

[Leane]

TBR:

01: A Summer Affair - 175 pages
02: A Summer Affair - 73 pages
03: A Summer Affair - 77 pages
04: A Summer Affair - 70 pages
05: A Summer Affair - 43 pages
***Met my GoodReads goal for the year & have read every Elin Hilderbrand book***
06: Hideaway - 273 pages
07: Hideaway - 102 pages
08: Hideaway - 89 pages
09: no reading
10: Dim Sum of All Fears - 60 pages
11: Dim Sum of All Fears - 29 pages
12: Dim Sum of All Fears - 154 pages
13: Dim Sum of All Fears - 77 pages
14: no reading
15: no reading
16: no reading
17: no reading
18: no reading
19: Hello Summer - 8 pages
20: Hello Summer - 108 pages
21: no reading
22: no reading
23: Hello Summer - 91 pages
24: Hello Summer - 47 pages
25: Hello Summer - 65 pages
26: Hello Summer - 17 pages
27: no reading
28: Hello Summer - 39 pages
29: Hello Summer - 39 pages
30: Hello Summer - 18 pages

Pages Read: 1652

Books Finished:

Final Notes: Pretty disappointed in the small amount I read this month. I didn't even get to 2000 pages. For July I will try to remember to spend the "lazy summer days" reading (instead of playing online poker).

[Vera]

I'm going to try!

TBRMurder at Icicle Lodge,
A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries, and Recluses,
The Gnostic Discoveries: The Impact of the Nag Hammadi Library
Tangled Web
The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture
Harpy Thyme
The Body on the Beach
Following Fish: Travels Around the Indian Coast
Horizon


6/1 68 pages
6/2 22 "
6/3 60 "
6/4 85 "
6/5 83 "
6/6 55 "
6/7 61 "
6/8 47 "
6/9 115 "
6/10 182 "
6/11 62 "
6/12 88 "
6/13 78 "
6/14 108 "
6/15 67 "
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[Nancy from NJ]

Looking forward to the June read a thon. I’m in!

[Stacy]

Count me in!

What I am currently reading:
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6/1: The Children's Game, 150 pgs; Beyond the Higher Ground, 30%
6/2: Daughter visiting from out of town
6/3: finished The Children's Game, 130 pages; Beyond the Higher Ground, 20%
6/4: Started Million Dollar Cowboy
6/5: finished Beyond the Higher Ground, 297 pgs; Million Dollar Cowboy, 33 pgs
6/6: started Dictionaries Out of Order; pg 133 in Million Dollar Cowboy
6/7: Million Dollar Cowboy, 92 pgs
6/9: Million Dollar Cowboy finished; started Beyond This Place
6/10: Beyond This Place, 82 pgs.
6/11; Beyond This Place, 63 pgs.
6/12: Beyond This Place, finished 6/12/2020, 258 pgs total; started One by One
6/13: Granddaughter staying with me
6/14: ""
6/15: ""
6/16: ""
6/17: ""
6/18: finished Dictionaries Out of Order 6/18/2020, 212 pages
6/19: One by One, page 92
6/20: One by One, page 198
6/21: visiting relatives
6/22: One by One, finished 6/22/2020, 352 pages
6/23: Grandkids staying over
6/24: ""
6/25: ""
6/26: finished The flaming horses: Collection of poetry, 108 pages
6/27: Grandkids still here
6/28: Started reading The Stone Bull
6/29: Visiting relatives
6/30: ""

Total Pages Read To Date: 1909 pgs

Books Finished To Date: 6

[Susan]

Count me in. I'm going to put this in my bullet journal so it's beside my bed. I already update it nightly so maybe I will finally be able to keep up with this read-a-thon 😊

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[Melanie]

TBR: , , , , , , , ,

6/1: 66pgs of
6/2: none
6/3: none
6/4: 165pgs of (FINISHED)
6/5: 7pgs of
6/6: none
6/7: 117 pgs of
6/8: 15pgs of
6/9: 33pgs of ; 34pgs of ; 1pg of
6/10: none
6/11: 6pgs of
6/12: none
6/13: none
6/14: 96pgs of
6/15: 52pgs of ; 0:33:03 of
6/16: 12pgs of ; 1:06:43 of
6/17: 1:22:48 of 1:06:43 of
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[Sam]

TBR:

6/1: Prey- 39pg
6/2: Prey- 80pg Fourth Down- 36pg
6/3: Nothing
6/4: Nothing
6/5: The Dumb House-
6/6: Little Heaven- 25
6/7: Little Heaven- 13pg
6/8: Nothing
6/9: Nothing
6/10: Little Heaven- 52pg
6/11: Nothing
6/12: Nothing
6/13- 6/21: Little Heaven- 23p
6/19: The Perfect Wife-211pg (Audiobook)
6/22: Nothing
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[Kat]

TBR: A beta reader which isn’t on good reads

1st - 65 pages
2nd - 132 pages
3rd - 78 pages
4th - 76 pages
5th - 29 pages
6th - 40 pages
7th - 90 pages
8th - 109 pages
9th - 79 pages
10th - 151 pages
11th - 65 pages
12th - 68 pages
13th - 18 pages
14th - 70 pages
15th - 33 pages
16th - 42 pages
17th - 84 pages
18th - 41 pages
19th - 61 pages
20th - 109 pages
21st - 90 pages
22nd - 74 pages
23rd - 120 pages
24th - 90 pages
25th - 242 pages
26th - 51 pages
27th - 69 pages
28th - 20 pages
29th - 22 pages
30th - 193 pages

Finished: Beta read not on here yet

[Karen]

Currently reading:

6/1: The Final Reckoning, 161 pages
6/2: The Final Reckoning, 255 pages
6/3:David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, 67 and Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean, 60 pages
6/4: The Fire Next Time, 107 pages
6/5: How to Be an Antiracist, 85 pages
6/6: How to Be an Antiracist,136 pages
6/7: How to Be an Antiracist, 84 pages, finished
6/8: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, 209 pages, finished
6/9: Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean, 24 pages and Your Perfect Year, 117 pages
6/10: Your Perfect Year, 318 pages, finished
6/11: Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean, 70 pages
6/12: Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean, 50 pages
6/13: Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean, 140 pages, finished
6/14: The Memory Police, 102 pages
6/15: The Memory Police, 174 pages, finished
6/16: Artemis Fowl, 104 pages
6/17: Artemis Fowl, 292 pages and Seven Icelandic Short Stories, 80 pages
6/18: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, 101 pages
6/19: Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, 84 pages
6/20: Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, 31 pages
6/21: Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, 53 pages, finished
6/22: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, 134 pages
6/23: 0 pages
6/24: Malice, 158 pages
6/25:Invisible Cities, 165 pages
6/26:Too Loud a Solitude, 110 pages and Year of the Monkey, 171 pages
6/27: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream 119 pages, finished
6/28:Malice, 86 pages
6/29:The Ravishing of Lol Stein, 94 pages
6/30: The Ravishing of Lol Stein, 90 pages, finished

Total pages read: 4,024

Books finished:

[Leticia]

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6/30: Brave(ish) by Margaret Davis Ghielmetti

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[[deleted user]]

I'm in!

Currently reading:


6/1: -15 pages
6/2: -12 pages
6/3: -44 pages
6/4: -45 pages -32 pages -30 pages
6/5: -7 pages -86 pages
6/6: 0 pages
6/7: -7 pages -53 pages -23 pages
6/8: -33 pages (FINISHED) -50 pages
6/9: -14 pages
6/10: -34 pages -13 pages -18 pages
6/11: -18 pages -43 pages
6/12: -33 pages -37 pages
6/13: -169 pages (FINISHED) -20 pages -25 pages
6/14: -43 pages -14 pages
6/15: 0 pages
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6/17: -72 pages -6 pages
6/18: -173 pages (FINISHED) -67 pages
6/19: -15 pages -20 pages
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6/21: -15 pages
6/22: -23 pages -41 pages -16 pages
6/23: -39 pages
6/24: -21 pages
6/25: -6 pages
6/26: -9 pages -76 pages
6/27: -52 pages
6/28: 0 pages
6/29: -23 pages
6/30: -24 pages

Total pages read: 1,644

Books finished:

[Jo-Anne]

6/1: Storm Rising 136 pages
6/2: Storm Rising 42 pages, Perfect Match 24 pages
6/3: Perfect Match 72 pages
6/4: Perfect Match 77 pages
6/5: Perfect Match 51 pages
6/6: Perfect Match 122 pages
6/7: The Dream Groom 145 pages
6/8: The Dream Groom 74 pages
6/9: Hunting Hour 68 pages
6/10: Hunting Hour 59 pages
6/11: Hunting Hour 103 pages
6/12: Hunting Hour 106 pages
6/13: The Chance 184 pages
6/14: The Chance 49 pages
6/15: The Chance 135 pages
6/16: Undercover Bromance 157 pages
6/17: Undercover Bromance 99 pages
6/18: Undercover Bromance 64 pages, Written in the Stars 61 pages
6/19: Written in the Stars 145 pages
6/20: Craving Heat 102 pages
6/21: Craving Heat 154 pages
6/22: Craving Heat 104 pages
6/23: Baby 132 pages
6/24: Baby 43 pages
6/25: Baby 154 pages
6/26: The Duchess Deal 53 pages
6/27: The Duchess Deal 117 pages
6/28: The Duchess Deal 219 pages
6/29:
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Total pages read: 3,140 pages

Books finished:

[Vivian]

TBR: *whatever I'm in the mood for*

Currently reading:


6/1: I read another 10% on Ghosts of Greenglass House and up to page 130 on The Kiss of Deception. I also read 15% of Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 2.
6/2: I read up to page 160 of The Kiss of Deception and another 10% of Ghosts of Greenglass House.
6/3: I got up to 50% read on Ghosts of Greenglass House and up to page 190 on The Kiss of Deception. I also read up to 35% of Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 2.
6/4-5: I read up to 70% of Ghosts of Greenglass House and up to page 245 on The Kiss of Deception.
6/6: I read up to 80% of Ghosts of Greenglass House and up to page 265 on The Kiss of Deception.
6/7: I listened to the first 15% of The Turn of the Key and I read a little more of Ghosts of Greenglass House.
6/8: I finished Ghosts of Greenglass House.
6/9: So far, I listened to another 10% of The Turn of the Key and read up to 50% of Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 2.
6/10: I finished Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 2. I also DNFed Not That Kind of Guy and made progress on The Kiss of Deception.
6/11: I read up to page 361 of The Kiss of Deception.
6/12: I started Heartstopper, Vol. 1 I also read up to page 390 of The Kiss of Deception.
6/13: I finished Heartstopper, Vol. 1 and listened up to 70% of The Turn of the Key.
6/14: I finished The Kiss of Deception.
6/15: I read Heartstopper: Volume Two.
6/16: I finished The Turn of the Key.
6/17: I started Mooncakes.
6/18: I read up to 50% of The Dark Days Club and started Between the World and Me.
6/19-20: I finished Mooncakes and listened to Between the World and Me.
6/21: Made some more progress on The Dark Days Club.
6/22-23: I got up to 75% of The Dark Days Club. I think this book is putting me in a slump. Nothing freaking happens here... and when it does, I just don't care.
6/24-25: I read up to 20% of The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone.
6/26-30: I read a bunch, but I didn't finish anything.

Total pages read: 2,385

Books finished: (464) (240) (278) (490) (320) (337) (256) (152)

[Marisela]

According to Goodreads, I'm 13 books behind for my goal this year so I'm going to try to catch up.
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[Erin]

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6/1: 16 p. Honey Don't List // 32 p. Kiss Me Not // = 48 p.
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[Icy-Cobwebs-Crossing-SpaceTime]

A whole lot of Science Fiction in June and July:
June is SciFi Summer at Seasons of Reading Readathons,
July is SF at Devour Your TBR GR Group.

6/1: read The Creature from Cleveland Depths and Other Tales.
Night Moves
Reading: Shatterday: Stories and Bad Parts: A Supernatural Thriller [continuing from 48%]
6/2:
Bad Parts: A Supernatural Thriller
6/03: Singapore Killer
6/03-6/05: The Wedding Guest
Heartbreak Hotel
6/04-6/05: The Big Time. SF, Reread
6/06: Kill Code, Short Horror Stories volume 21 (Scare Street), Victims



Books Read in June:
The Creature from Cleveland Depths and Other Tales
Night Moves
Bad Parts: A Supernatural Thriller
Singapore Killer
The Wedding Guest
Heartbreak Hotel
The Big Time
Kill Code
Short Horror Stories volume 21 Scare Street
Victims
The Museum of Desire
A Measure of Darkness
The Dirty South
Motive
Haunted
The Night of the Long Knives
Scary Lizzy
Hangman
Changeling
The Unready Queen
What Unbreakable Looks Like
The Dark Land
Tree of Souls: A Collection of Dark Tales
Short Horror Stories Vol. 23: Scary Ghosts, Monsters, Demons, and Hauntings
Vicious Circle
Death Falls
Death Night
Anger's Ruin: Supernatural Horror with Scary Ghosts & Haunted HousesAnger's Ruin: Supernatural Horror with Scary Ghosts & Haunted Houses
The Nightingale House
In the Role of Brie Hutchens...
The Darwin Affair
The Reflecting Pool
The Lightest Object in the Universe
No One Saw
Dark Hollows
What Must Be Done
Dark Sacred Night
The Night Fire
Fair Warning
324 Abercorn

[Lois]

I’m in!
6/1: [book:The Stand—275 pages
6/2: The Stand—218 pages
6/3: The Stand—223 pages
6/4: The Stand—300 pages
6/5: The Stand—332 pages
6/6 ; Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman—205 pages
6/7: Thorn—170 pages
6/8: Thorn—137 pages
6/9: Thorn—197 pages
6/10: Nottingham—103 pages
6/11: Nottingham—154 pages
6/12: Nottingham—149 Pages
6/13: Rebellion at Longbourn: A Pride and Prejudice Variation—100 pages
6/14: Rebellion at Longbourn: A Pride and Prejudice Variation—156 pages
6/15: The Secrets of Darcy and Elizabeth: A Pride and Prejudice Variation—208 pages
6/16: The Secrets of Darcy and Elizabeth: A Pride and Prejudice Variation—208 pages ; Mr. Darcy to the Rescue: A Pride and Prejudice Variation—183 pages
6/17: When Mary Met the Colonel: A Pride and Prejudice Novella;The Secret Garden—384 pages
6/18: The Lost Heir: A Darcy and Elizabeth Pride and Prejudice Variation—358 pages
6/19: The Lost Heir: A Darcy and Elizabeth Pride and Prejudice Variation—53 pages ; Fair Stands the Wind: A Pride and Prejudice Variation—134 pages
6/20: Mr. Darcy's Cipher: A Pride and Prejudice Variation—75 pages
6/21: Mr. Darcy's Cipher: A Pride and Prejudice Variation—100 pages
6/22: Mr. Darcy's Cipher: A Pride and Prejudice Variation—73 pages
6/23: Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom—134 pages
6/24: Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom—134 pages
6/25: Mockingjay—67 pages
Total pages : 4783

Books finished: . Variation|53469485] :

[Ebb]

June Readathon

[Taya]

TBR: (audio) (audio) (audio)

6/1: 115 214 43 min
6/2: 29 49 min
6/3: 16 49 min
6/4: 149 1 hr 41 min
6/5: 101
6/6: 120 19 min 1 hr 18 min 31
6/7: 3 hr 6 min 6
6/8: 29 min 69
6/9: 1 hr 4 min 32
6/10: 21 min
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[Karen]

How's everyone doing? These have truly been unprecedented months in the world, and I am finding myself really distracted, and it has been difficult to focus on my reading. Instead, I keep checking the news, reading everything I can on the protests, the voting issues (I knew that my polling place would be closed for now, so I had to vote by mail) and COVID.

[Leane]

Karen wrote: "How's everyone doing? These have truly been unprecedented months in the world, and I am finding myself really distracted, and it has been difficult to focus on my reading. Instead, I keep checking ..."

Everything has really been messing with my mind, my thoughts, distracting me enough I've been finding if difficult to get to sleep. I've put a timer on my Instagram (what I thought to be my only social media) but I see stuff on here as well as a coloring app I use. Ironically, the coloring is supposed to be relaxing but now I just find it stressful. It's really difficult (especially being a reader) not to look at the comments, or read an article, etc. I've recently deleted some people I follow, not because of what they post but because they are posting CONSTANTLY. It's overload and it's too much for me.

I'm trying to focus more on doing a breathing meditation, a daily walk and listening to fun audiobooks. It seems to help over trying to read an actual book. Normally I'm mad at myself if I'm not reading, just listening, but we are in crazy times and if an audiobook is going to help me keep my sanity and entertain/distract me, that's what I'm going to do!

I hope everyone is well and things are going good!

[Karen]

Leane wrote: "Karen wrote: "How's everyone doing? These have truly been unprecedented months in the world, and I am finding myself really distracted, and it has been difficult to focus on my reading. Instead, I ..."

Wow, do you have that right. It's at the overload level. I had a family member that posted on Facebook 15 - 20 times a day, I finally had to unfriend that person, it was too stressful.

[Jo-Anne]

Karen wrote: "How's everyone doing? These have truly been unprecedented months in the world, and I am finding myself really distracted, and it has been difficult to focus on my reading. Instead, I keep checking ..."

I'm really having a hard time coping with just about everything! I'm afraid to even walk out the door. So I'm staying busy - cleaning (yuk), baking, watching TV, reading. Even though I'm reading more than usual I'm not reading as many books. I've gone through my TBR list and the books I've picked are over 400 pages. I usually read shorter books. So I'm even getting stressed over not reading as many books as usual. But other than driving myself crazy, I'm good.

Honestly, I'm scared of what the new normal will look like.

[Leticia]

Karen wrote: "How's everyone doing? These have truly been unprecedented months in the world, and I am finding myself really distracted, and it has been difficult to focus on my reading. Instead, I keep checking ..."

It has been indeed difficult to concentrate since the Covid lockdown started.... I'm reading mainly shorter or very entertaining books.

[Leticia]

It has been ages since I really looked at my Facebook/Twitter feed and I went out of Instagram, too much stuff indeed. I am using the internet mainly for booktube and Goodreads.

And I consider Audiobooks as reading too.

[Karen]

Jo-Anne, I am with you. This seems to be never ending, I too wonder what the new normal will be.

Leticia, I need to stop looking at social media. I really started watching the news feeds when the protests began, and trying to keep up with the issues. I think need to back off, and limit my time.

[Karen]

Hi Everyone, we have about 1 week left in the June read-a-thon. So, I was wondering. Is there a book that you read this month that disappointed you, or really didn't like?

[Kat]

Must admit to not reading papers, or social media, or watching the news at all. I never used to, and that isn’t going to change, I told someone I chatted with and they blocked me. my friend has anxiety so I’m just trying to help her through it all.

I’m reading more than usual. I tend to give up on books that disappoint me I guess the most disappointing thing with one of my books was the ending, it was a slow burn then just rushed the romance. It was not realistic and it was a shame as I really enjoyed it otherwise

[Jo-Anne]

I started reading Virgin River (Virgin River #1) by Robyn Carr but got about a quarter of the way in and just stopped. I really like her books so I was surprised I didn't like this one. All there was up to that point was the set-up of the characters and town. I must admit, it's an old book and the first in the series but nothing happened!

I'm pretty anxious right now and not very tolerant so I don't have the patience for books that can't hold my attention. I'm reading a lot and want to be transported in that world. If a book can't do that for me, it's a DNF.

[Vivian]

Karen wrote: "Hi Everyone, we have about 1 week left in the June read-a-thon. So, I was wondering. Is there a book that you read this month that disappointed you, or really didn't like?"

The one I'm reading now (The Dark Days Club) is a let down so far. Nothing freaking happens. You know 2nd book syndrome? But imagine it happening on Book 1!!!!
Unless the ending is spectacular, I don't think I'll continue with the series.

[Sam]

Karen wrote: "Hi Everyone, we have about 1 week left in the June read-a-thon. So, I was wondering. Is there a book that you read this month that disappointed you, or really didn't like?"

I started House of Leaves this month and just couldnt get into it, so I put it down. I had heard lots of good things about it and I was super excited about it and it just didnt live up to what I expected it to be.

[Karen]

I had a disappointing experience with Artemis Fowl. I just didn't like Artemis. I don't know if it's as Jo-Anne said, about impatience with books that don't grab my attention right now, I don't know. I can be a mood reader. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for the book. I was hoping to love the book, and want to see the movie, oh well, that's not going to happen.

[Leane]

I haven't been able to get into Positively Unstoppable: The Art of Owning It, which is a disappointment. This book came so highly recommended and I'm dragging. And I'm not even that far into it!

Karen, my husband and I just watched the trailer for Artemis Fowl and were debating on watching it.

[Karen]

Maybe I will watch the Artemis Fowl movie. I might just be in the mood for the movie.

[Leane]

Karen wrote: "Maybe I will watch the Artemis Fowl movie. I might just be in the mood for the movie."

It's definitely all about being in the mood.
Sometimes I just want to watch a movie instead of reading the book.
Sometimes, meaning a lot, I tell my husband I don't want to sit for a two hour movie and then wind up watching 5 hours of a tv series.

[Vivian]

Karen wrote: "Maybe I will watch the Artemis Fowl movie. I might just be in the mood for the movie."
I watched it last weekend! I was expecting a bomb of a movie, with only a ghost of the original story in it (which I haven't read, to be honest).
And even though I was expecting crap, I was still disappointed by it. It's that bad!

[Karen]

I had heard that it wasn't good. Thanks Vivian, I won't even bother then. I always watch movies with a feeling of, I'd rather be reading.

[Karen]

Thanks Vivian for the heads up! I think I will wait for Hamilton to watch something.

Leane, I struggle with movies on Netflix, I end up taking 3 or 4 sessions to watch an entire movie. I hate wasting my time, when I could be reading!

[Leticia]

Everybody I ask about says that Netflix isn't that great, do you like it?

[Leane]

I think I'm going to skip Artemis Fowl too. We weren't dying to watch it, it was more like, are we really on keeping Disney + for Mandalorian?

I like Netflix. I don't watch a lot of tv at all but when I do, I like to binge watch. I don't like waiting each week for a show to come out.

[Leticia]

Which shows do you like there? I am a bit difficult on tv showns since I mostly like sci-fi and it should not have too much violence too.

[Leticia]

Vivian wrote: "Karen wrote: "Maybe I will watch the Artemis Fowl movie. I might just be in the mood for the movie."
I watched it last weekend! I was expecting a bomb of a movie, with only a ghost of the original ..."

I read Artemis Fowl and it wasn't bad, only that I rarely read a middle grade series, so I didn't go on with the series. Is it bad because they made the story too much for younger children or is just badly done?

[Leane]

Leticia wrote: "Which shows do you like there? I am a bit difficult on tv showns since I mostly like sci-fi and it should not have too much violence too."

LOL. I cannot recommend anything because I like violence in my shows.

[Karen]

I have to admit that I am not a fan of Netflix either. Mainly because I don't watch TV. I do know people that love it because they can watch entire seasons of a series.

What I've been doing with Netflix is enroll, watch a few things then cancel, because I can go for several months and not really use it. Then I hear about something that sounds interesting, and I'll enroll again, just for that.

[Vivian]

Leticia wrote: "I read Artemis Fowl and it wasn't bad, only that I rarely read a middle grade series, so I didn't go on with the series. Is it bad because they made the story too much for younger children or is just badly done?"

Leticia, it honestly feels like the people behind the camera all turned to each other and said "plot? what is plot? We don't need that! Let's just make this fun... for the kids! Like a treasure hunt... but with magic!" and they just went with that.
To call it a hot mess just doesn't convey how boring and senseless this movie was! It's just a series of boring cliches used in the most brain-dead way possible.

I haven't read the book, but my heart goes out to the fans of this series!

[Kat]

With our Netflix movies we are going to use the app spin wheel and it helps with choosing as it decides for u

[Leane]

I'm kind of annoyed with myself that I haven't been reading as much as I want. Too much playing on a poker app and not enough turning on an audiobook! :)

[Karen]

Leane wrote: "I'm kind of annoyed with myself that I haven't been reading as much as I want. Too much playing on a poker app and not enough turning on an audiobook! :)"

I am finding that my attention span has not been very good this month. I read for 15 minutes, but then I find I want to do something else. I'm reading, but I am not sure how much I am absorbing.