Moving Mountains - 2015 Ed

[Tien]

Hi Amogha, welcome to the challenge! I hope you achieve your goal. I see you have some tough ones on your list, especially Crime & Punishment, good luck with that one!

[Amogha]

Tien wrote: "Hi Amogha, welcome to the challenge! I hope you achieve your goal. I see you have some tough ones on your list, especially Crime & Punishment, good luck with that one!"

Thank you so much Tien. Yes, I really need to strike that one off my list. It has been sitting on my shelf for many months now . I am counting on this challenge to finally give me the nudge to finish reading the book.

[Amanda]

Tien wrote: "Hi Amogha, welcome to the challenge! I hope you achieve your goal. I see you have some tough ones on your list, especially Crime & Punishment, good luck with that one!"

Haha! I was going to say, I've read about half that list (I think the other half are pretty much on my TBR list) and they are mostly some really good reads! If it was me I'd read the first 3, skip to the last one, back up to 12. From there, I can't say because there are too many in there that I haven't read yet!

Hi Amogha ;)

[D.G.]

Read #15...https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

2012 & 2013 are catching up!

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

[Amogha]

Amanda wrote: "Tien wrote: "Hi Amogha, welcome to the challenge! I hope you achieve your goal. I see you have some tough ones on your list, especially Crime & Punishment, good luck with that one!"

Haha! I was ..."

Hello Tien and Amanda,

I chose the ones I have been wanting to read for a long time now with the exception of a couple of them. I ticked off The Bell Jar first.
I was able place an order for a particular edition of the book that I was eyeing for eight long months and there was no way I could wait a minute more :D

The sequence you have suggested seems to be a good way to go about it . But, I am actually trying to space out the various genres so that I give time between the books that belong to similar genre.
Also, I have to compel myself to first read the books from the list that are gathering dust in my shelf back home. Tsundoku horrors I tell you !
Let me see how my mood guides me around it. :)

P.S I am going to take a look at your list of books as soon as I am done posting this comment:D

[Dee]

book 4 (Dance Upon the Air) done - old skool Nora Roberts - very underwhelming; and book 5 (Thirteen Reasons Why) in progress

[Dee]

Tien - question - I'm going to add a few more to my list - do I pick up my last shelf where it is now? i.e. contemp was 11th when I originally picked, now its 6th (that's what i'm figuring)

[Tien]

Dee wrote: "Tien - question - I'm going to add a few more to my list - do I pick up my last shelf where it is now? i.e. contemp was 11th when I originally picked, now its 6th (that's what i'm figuring)"

oh geez, I had to re-read the rules a few times, lol, kinda forgotten all about it now ha ha ha

um, I don't think I'd configure a rule for adding more books when the shelf has changed spots! So, whatever you've done is fine :)

You've still got new shelves on your list so it's all good.

[Dee]

i just picked up at 11 - since that was where it would have been before...lol!

[Bea]

I only posted the first 24 books when this began but had continued to roll. I ended up quitting at 65 as I got tired of rolling. I kept a separate list on Excel with all the rolls and books. My goal is to finish the 24 by the end of the year and so far I have read 7/24. So with one more, I will be right on track.

However, of the other 41, I have also read 7. They just happened to be on other challenges. I wasn't trying to read them for Moving Mountains. I mean, with 65 books, some have to cross over, right?

[Dee]

lol!

I keep finding the same books on shelves, so I was purposely trying to pick more random ones to try and get different books/shelves

[D.G.]

Finished book #16: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

2004 is still in the lead and gaining. :)

Books Read per Year Added
2012: 4
2013: 4
2014: 8

[Susan]

I've finished 3 more since I last posted here:
World Without End - finished 4/10
Sharp Objects - finished 4/14
2012: Bitterblue - finished 4/22

That means 8 out of 30 so far.

[D.G.]

Finished book 18! https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

2014 is still in the lead but finally read a book from 2011! Woohoo!

Books Read per Year Added
2011: 1
2012: 4
2013: 4
2014: 9

[D.G.]

Finished book 23! https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Wow, I didn't realize I made such a stride in a month! I read 5 books for this challenge iand all of them were from 2012 & 2013! Yay me!

Books Read per Year Added
2011: 1
2012: 7
2013: 6
2014: 9

I'm going to increase my total to 30 and I'm going to see if I can end up with 3 books from 2011 & 9 from 2012, 2013 & 2014.

[Tien]

wow, D.G., must be feeling sooo good that you've knocked down so many tbrs!

[D.G.]

Tien wrote: "wow, D.G., must be feeling sooo good that you've knocked down so many tbrs!"

Yes, it's a good feeling. A lot of them have been good books too so I'm happy about that.

[D.G.]

Finished book 26! https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Books Read per Year Added
2011: 3
2012: 7
2013: 7
2014: 9

[Susan]

I forget how long ago I've updated this. But I just finished I'll Give You the Sun, which means I've done 10 of 24. It sounded good to me, but the widget says I'm 2 books behind schedule. Oh, well.

[D.G.]

Finished book 37! https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

2014 is still ahead but I've read lots of books from earlier years. 2012 is in the double digits and 2010 made the cut!

I'm not putting a limit for this challenge and just seeing how far I can go. I've been reading a lot of interesting shelves too. :)

Books Read per Year Added
2010: 1
2011: 4
2012: 10
2013: 8
2014: 14

[Tien]

Wow, D.G., I'm glad someone is getting a really good clean of their TBRs :)

[D.G.]

Tien wrote: "Wow, D.G., I'm glad someone is getting a really good clean of their TBRs :)"

I'm doing great if I say so myself, LOL! Pretty much every book I've chosen in the last few months has been with this challenge in mind so I've read lots of good things off the TBR. Right now at I'm at 37 so I'm thinking I'll probably make 60 or 70 if I keep it up. The only thing is that I'll be reading a lot of obscure shelves! Right now I've had to go more than halfway through the first column of shelves as I'm trying not to do different spellings of the same shelf, i.e. if I've read Young Adult, I skip YA, etc.

[Tien]

Double Wow! I love how you've gone and added extra bits of challenges -i really like the sound of 'obscure shelves'

[D.G.]

Right now I'm reading a book for the "space opera" shelf (from 2011!) but I'm not sure exactly what that means (a drama set in space maybe?) I'll have to Google it, LOL!

[Tien]

ooh, Lahni asked the same question for Readers Pursuit... & Dee posted this from wiki ;)

[D.G.]

Tien wrote: "ooh, Lahni asked the same question for Readers Pursuit... & Dee posted this from wiki ;)"

LOL, thanks!

[Dee]

yay for wiki and google-fu!

[Susan]

D.G. wrote: "Right now I'm reading a book for the "space opera" shelf (from 2011!) but I'm not sure exactly what that means (a drama set in space maybe?) I'll have to Google it, LOL!"

DG, If you look on my science fiction shelf, you'll find lots of books that qualify as "space opera," though I don't use that shelf myself. It's basically science fiction that takes place in space, often with wars going on. Sort of a sweeping story, not focused on a small planet or people like Ursula LeGuin's usually are. Many of Orson Scott Card's would count, for example, and I highly recommend the Ender's Game series. And yes, I admire OSC as an author even though his homophobia makes me sick as a person.

[Oops. Posted this before I saw someone else had already answered in another thread. Nevertheless, feel free to browse my scifi shelf if my ratings might help you choose a book to read.]

[D.G.]

Oh thanks, Susan! But I already found a book. It always surprises me what I have on my TBR, hahaha!

[Susan]

I read Among Others Jo Walton, which turned out to belong on this month's shelf. That makes 11/24 down, but one of the remaining books is Ulysses. Not sure whether that'll happen this year.

[Tien]

Susan wrote: "I read Among Others Jo Walton, which turned out to belong on this month's shelf. That makes 11/24 down, but one of the remaining books is Ulysses. Not sure whether th..."

oh wow, well done, Susan!
That will take some Serious Commitment though so feel free to change it to another book, if you want, and maybe tackle Ulysses first thing next year or something like a New Year's Resolution ;)

[Susan]

Tien wrote: "That [Ulysses] will take some Serious Commitment though so feel free to change it to another book, if you want, and maybe tackle Ulysses first thing next year or something like a New Year's Resolution ;) "

I thought of trying the audio book, since I'm so bad at reading accents. It takes 29 hours. That would be a little over an hour a week between now and the end of the year. That might be do-able.

[Tien]

wow, 29 hours!!

I've a feeling though since it's such a hard book, if it was me, I'd probably need to read along with the audio to get anything out of it. Let me know how you go :)

[Amanda]

"Susan wrote: "I read Among Others Jo Walton, which turned out to belong on this month's shelf. That makes 11/24 down, but one of the remaining books is Ulysses,

I have read Ulysses and, apart from the last chapter, ( I hate stream of consciousness, so may be biased ), it's not THAT bad or difficult. I would never be game enough to try Finnegans Wake, and still find Virginia Woolf terrifying, but I am trying to read Mrs. Dalloway at the moment. I am finding it just doesn't really grab me, more than being difficult ( so instead I am reading The Hunger Games which I have on several shelves, to keep me going! )

[Charity]

I finished Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. I honestly had some problems with this book because I believe some of the association studies done could have other conclusions (not based on personality, but based on social status, culture, etc...). However, the last chapter or so really confirmed what I've been feeling and how I've been treating my introverted, withdrawn son. It described his social interactions to a T! It gets really frustrating when "society" wants to label a different personality as one that needs to be diagnosed and fixed and it's refreshing to see confirmation that it's ok to be different and to have different strategies to deal with life situations and I'm clearly an extrovert. (Ranting over)I gave it an overall 3 stars to even out the parts I didn't agree with.

[Amanda]

I've managed to catch up 2 books in the last week, The Hunger Games and Murder on the Orient Express and enjoyed both very much. Still waaaaaaaay behind!

[Susan]

Charity wrote: "I finished Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. I honestly had some problems with this book because I believe some of the association studies done could..."

Charity, I'm glad to see this review. I picked the book up at my daughter's house and began reading it there. Have been wondering whether I should get it from the library to finish it. It sounds like at least the last chapter is worth it.

[Megan L]

Okay I am late to the game but I am signing up!

Moving MT-2015
1/100 books

Last book read in 2014: Axel

1. favorites: Scarlet/Marissa Meyer - ★★★★☆ - 8/8/15
2. young adult: Hex Hall/Rachel Hawkins
3. favorites: Days of Blood & Starlight/Laini Taylor
4. young adult: My Life Next Door/Huntley Fitzpatrick
5. ya: Pushing the Limits/Katie McGarry
6. young adult: Sloppy Firsts/Megan McCafferty
7. contemporary: Losing It/Cora Carmack

[LynnB]

I still have 9 of 30 to go. Guess I had better find ways to get these into some of the many challenges I somehow ☺ have managed to get myself into.

[Dee]

wow Megan - 100 books!

[D.G.]

Finished book 46! https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Books Read per Year Added
2010: 4
2011: 5
2012: 11
2013: 10
2014: 15

In the last month, I've read 3 books from 2010.

[D.G.]

Finished book 49...

Books Read per Year Added
2010: 4
2011: 6
2012: 13
2013: 11
2014: 15

[Lahni]

I finished my LAST moving mts book!! Bitterblue.

I thought this was a really fun way of choosing books and tackling my ever growing and never shrinking to read list. I would love to play again if we do it next year.

[Tien]

Lahni wrote: "I finished my LAST moving mts book!! Bitterblue.

I thought this was a really fun way of choosing books and tackling my ever growing and never shrinking to read list. I would lo..."

Congrats, Lahni! Well done on finishing... so far, I've never finished this ;p

We will have a different variation next year ;)

You can do another chain now? Just use the last book you read, Bitterblue, as your first

[D.G.]

Lahni wrote: "I finished my LAST moving mts book!! Bitterblue. "

Congrats, Lahni!

[Dee]

i need to get back to this, i keep getting distracted...lol

[Charity]

Congrats Lahni!!! :-)

[Susan]

I finished The Twelve. According to the widget, I'm still behind (9 out of 24 still to go). But I still have hopes of finishing before the year is out.

[LynnB]

I have 6 of 30 to go. I'm hoping to get most of those read. We'll see. Maybe.

[Matt]

I finally jumped back on board! I just started back to school recently so my reading time has taken a hit. I just finished "IT" by Stephen King. I listened to the audio version...all 44 hours of it!!