Moving Mountains - 2015 Ed

[Sherri]

Catherine wrote:
12. Contemporary: The Complete Persepolis

Persepolis is awesome! The movie is good, too.

[D.G.]

Great list, Catherine!

I loved this three! The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, And Then There Were None, The Cuckoo's Calling

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Catherine wrote: "I've decided to read 12 books for this challenge. As I didn't participate in this challenge last year, so I'm just going to go with the last book I read in 2014, which was The Pact...h..."

D.G. wrote: "Great list, Catherine!

I loved this three! The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, And Then There Were None, The Cuckoo's Calling"

And Then There Were None is one of my faves of all time. Got me hooked on Agatha Christie! And my sister keeps telling me to read The Cuckoo's Calling, she says it is excellent. :)

[Catherine]

Sherri wrote: "Catherine wrote:
12. Contemporary: The Complete Persepolis

Persepolis is awesome! The movie is good, too."

I just finished reading it. Couldn't put it down! Such a fast read, and it really was amazing :)

D.G. wrote: "Great list, Catherine!

I loved this three! The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, And Then There Were None, The Cuckoo's Calling"

Can't wait to read them!

[Lauren]

I really enjoyed - very well written, more traditional who-dun-it in the vein of Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle.

[Bea]

Lauren wrote: "I really enjoyed - very well written, more traditional who-dun-it in the vein of Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle."

This book has been recommended to me. Perhaps it should be moved up on my TBR for a sooner read.

[Dee]

i was surprised how much I enjoyed it - it is very character driven, not event driven though - I had requested it from the library the same day her identity was leaked - so I ended up having to wait for it to come in

[Lahni]

Well, y'all just convinced me to add it to my to read list.

[Tien]

I loved it too! I was quite surprised because I didn't enjoy Casual Vacancy at all. I supposed this is quite different but I loved the characters here.

[Bea]

Read my first Moving Mountains book - #23 Books About Books - on my list: 84, Charing Cross Road. Turns out that this is a non-fiction book! It is an exchange of letters between a secondhand bookseller in London and a screenwriter in NYC. Loved it! Gave it 4*. Short book so quick read.

[Dee]

i think I have that book on my pile Bea - I never realized it was NF

[Bea]

Dee wrote: "i think I have that book on my pile Bea - I never realized it was NF"

Neither did I, Dee. However, it is delightful and more so knowing these were real people exchanging those letters.

[D.G.]

I've read 4 books from my list. So far there have been 3 books under 3 stars. Hope my average improves soon!

[Dee]

getting ready to start bk 2 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - picked up an audiobook because I needed something short to finish out the month before starting Feb challenge books

[D.G.]

I did the same, Dee. Yesterday, I listened to a couple of short stories. Now I'll put my energies to finishing those two books I've been reading since the start of the month!

[Dee]

i don't know if i'll finish up before Feb - but its suitably entertaining - stephen fry (who does the UK Harry Potter I think) - is hilarious!

how the heck have I never read/listened to this before!

[D.G.]

Yes, I listened to that one...it was pretty good!

[Dee]

i'm trying to make a concentrated effort on my classics challenge this year - this is bk 2 of the year (following 1984) - both of which I have to wonder why I avoided them earlier in my life

[Lahni]

Dee wrote: "i'm trying to make a concentrated effort on my classics challenge this year - this is bk 2 of the year (following 1984) - both of which I have to wonder why I avoided them earlier in my life"

Both are on my to read list and scare me for some reason so I avoid them. Maybe you will give me the courage to pick them up!

[Dee]

Honestly I grabbed Hitchhiker's because it was in stock at library and I needed a shorter (only 5cd's) to finish out month

[Ebony]

I finished reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, as well as a few others in the series. I'm uncertain about this one, I never read it as a child, so I don't have the nostalgia about it that a lot of people do. I just didn't love it. I felt no attachment to any of the characters. Good and bad was too simple, there was no complexity to any of the characters, and I felt that the religious undertones became stronger the more I read, and was kind of off-putting. I gave it 2 stars :/

[Dee]

all of the Chronicles of Narnia are heavily religious - I read as a child and enjoyed, re-reading as an adult, I realized they were all pretty much based on different biblical tales

[Dee]

finished up my second book with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - I liked the beginning and ending, but will admit that my mind wandered a bit in the middle - but I'll probably continue the series down the road

[Lauren]

Dee wrote: "all of the Chronicles of Narnia are heavily religious - I read as a child and enjoyed, re-reading as an adult, I realized they were all pretty much based on different biblical tales"

I loved The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as a child and only realized as an adult at university that the book was a biblical allegory. This may be explained by the fact that I'm Jewish and the allusions are New Testament rather than Old, which I am more familiar with.

[Lahni]

I've been crossing books off my list but forgetting to update here! So far I've finished:
Matched
The 13th Day of Christmas
With All My Soul
Anna and the French Kiss
and One for the Money

[Kim]

I am going to do this challenge, but I am just going to update my list as I go. And I am going to do two lists - one for audiobooks and one for ebooks.

Ebooks

Starting book - Landline

1.2014 - The Golden Lily
2. favorites -



Audiobooks

Starting book - The Jewel

1. young-adult -

[Amanda]

One book down, 23 to go !

I can't believe how many books some of you have read already!

[Bea]

Second Moving Mountain book completed.

Since I listed 24 for this year (2 per month), I am a bit behind. I do have two more already checked out of the library, so here is hoping I get them done this month to keep me on schedule.

[Amanda]

Bea wrote: "Second Moving Mountain book completed.

Since I listed 24 for this year (2 per month), I am a bit behind. I do have two more already checked out of the library, so here is hoping I get them done th..."

In exactly the same position, Bea. AND I haven't even started Lost! Now reading Station Eleven because everyone has raved about it, but then I hoe to get back onto challenge-track.

(8 hours at the cricket tomorrow should give me some reading time, don't you all think? ;) )

[Dee]

depends is it a 1 day match or a test match?

[Amanda]

Dee wrote: "depends is it a 1 day match or a test match?"

1 day, World Cup game between Australia and England. What a way to spend Valentine's Day! Boy, I love my family, LOL.

[Dee]

hmm, i like 1-day'ers...now if it were a test match, totally lots of reading

[Amanda]

Dee wrote: "hmm, i like 1-day'ers...now if it were a test match, totally lots of reading"

We were meant to go to a T20 game, but ran out of time. It will be my 8yo's first game, and she is very excited.

[Lahni]

I finished Lord of the Flies and The Bookseller of Kabul

[D.G.]

Finished another book on my list! https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Bea]

Finished another book. Still one behind as I am doing 24 this year.

[Charity]

Glad you posted Bea! I keep forgetting to update my list on this thread :-)

[Amanda]

Caught up to being on track, having read 3 books this month.

Had just started trying to get my first book to complete for Lost, only to realize that I have actually read it. Swapped it for another book, so am hoping to catch up on that one and have 2 books completed for Lost by the end of the week!

LOTS of MM books planned for the next 3 months!

[Bea]

Hey, Amanda, I am on track also. Four books completed!

[Amanda]

Bea wrote: "Hey, Amanda, I am on track also. Four books completed!"

Bea, you are doing 24 also ? I keep wondering if I should think about adding to the list if I get through it quickly, but then think of all the other challenges that there are and think "nah!" ;)

[D.G.]

Read my 8th book...another 4-star. :) https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I'm moving at a good clip in this challenge. I may add more books but for now, I'm feeling really good about my list. :)

[Amanda]

D.G. wrote: "Read my 8th book...another 4-star. :) https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I'm moving at a good clip in this challenge. I may add more books bu..."

Wow, that is moving quickly!

[Tien]

wow, awesome work, DG! LOST is usually the one I'd complete in the year, lol -for some reason, it never feels 'urgent' to me ;)

[Dee]

listening to my 3rd book now - The Rosie Project - I like it, but really feel like it has been over-hyped, its good, but not great - i think its the uniqueness of Don's character that sucks everyone in

[Dee]

I finished up my third book - The Rosie Project - IMHO, I think I should have waited for all the hype about the book to die down because while it was good, I didn't love it like other seemed to - honestly Don irked me (I know it was a character thing, but it just irked me)

[Amanda]

Finished book 4, Cloud Atlas, which I managed to get onto this list as well as Lost.

If you want to know what I thought of it, pop over to the Lost thread, I won't bore everyone by posting it twice ;)

[D.G.]

I didn't realized I hadn't updated this list in a month. Anyhow, I finished my 13th book, which sucked by the way. :)

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

As I originally had decided to read 17 books and I'm almost done (I'm reading two books from the list now) I decided to up it to 25. As an additional hurdle, I'm picking only books that have been on my TBR prior to 2015. Just for kicks, I'm keeping track of how many books I'm reading per year added. No surprisingly, 2014 is ahead!

Added 2012: 3
Added 2013: 3
Added 2014: 7

[Tien]

wow! great work, D.G.

I'm totally getting distracted by Readers Pursuit, lol... and I since I rolled so many romances & non-fiction, I can't seem to fit many of from this challenge :p

Good on you for upping the ante PLUS reading stuff added from previous years!

[D.G.]

Now I'm at 14 read: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Books Read per Year Added
2012: 3
2013: 4
2014: 7

I'm not participating in Readers's Pursuit so I'm having time to concentrate on this. Also, I've decided to take it somewhat easy and pick books that are calling out to me instead of those that I've been neglecting for whatever reason.

[Amogha]

Hi everyone,

I am quite late in taking up this challenge - blame it on personal commitments hindering my reading goals.
But now, I have decided to get back on the reading track. For this challenge, I am hoping to complete 14 books averaging on 2 books per month in the remaining 7 months of this year.

I haven't taken this challenge last year so I am going to start with the last book I read in 2014 which is The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman.

My list for this challenge is as below :
1. Fantasy : A wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K.Le Guin
2. Fiction : Life of Pi by Yann Martel - Read 02-04-2015
3. Favorites : The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
4. Classics : Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5. Russian : Pale Fire by Vladimar Nabokov
6. Literature : The Bell Jar by Sylvia Path - Read 24-03-2015
7. Own : Lord of Flies by William Golding - Read 27-05-2015
8. Dystopia : Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
9. Science-Fiction : Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut - Read 16-05-2015
10. War : Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
11. Africa: Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
12. Historical-Fiction : The colour Purple by Alice Walker
13. African-American : Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Read 05-04-2015
14. Book-club : We have always lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - Read 18-05-2015

Completed : 5/14
Last Edited : 19-05-2015