Cindy's Reading Challenge 2015: 25 books

[Cindy]

I want to read at least two books per month. With my master thesis coming up, I think this should be doable.

Moreover, I want to read books from authors I haven't read anything before.
And last but not least I'd really like to read more classic and non-fiction literature.

01. Catching Fire: 472 pp. (01/06) ****
02. Mockingjay: 455 pp. (01/10) ****
03. Sense and Sensibility: 409 pp. (01/11) ****
04. The Mystery of the Blue Train: 317 pp. (01/19) ***
05. The Physician: 695 pp. (02/10) ****
06. Rubinrot: 343 pp. (02/12) ****
07. Saphirblau: 395 pp. (02/16) ****
08. Smaragdgrün: 487 pp. (02/20) ****
09. Erzähl es niemandem! Die Liebesgeschichte meiner Eltern: 285 pp. (02/23) ****
10. Momo: 304 pp. (03/08) *****
11. The World According to Garp: 605 pp. (03.18.) ***
12. The Rosie Project: 295 pp. (03/21) ***
13. Fall of Giants: 985 pp. (04/04) ****
14. Schutzpatron: 400 pp. (04/18) ***
15. The Life List: 368 pp. (04/22) ****
16. Der Steppenwolf: 278 pp. (04/25) ***
17. Winter der Welt: 1,022 pp. (06/07) ***
18. Paper Towns: 305 pp. (07/12) ***
19. The Goldfinch: 864 pp. (07/27) ****
20. The Thirteen Problems: 315 pp. (07/28) **
21. Der Lavendelgarten: 528 pp. (08/03) ***
22. Silber: Das erste Buch der Träume: 413 pp. (08/23) ***
23. Zum Glück Pauline: 411 pp. (08/24) ***

Let's turn pages challenge: 10,951/ 12,500

[Megan]

Those sound like great goals! Good luck!

[Cassandra]

What are you studying, Cindy?

Good luck with your reading challenge! Is there anything in particular you're looking forward to?

[Cindy]

Cassandra wrote: "What are you studying, Cindy?

Good luck with your reading challenge! Is there anything in particular you're looking forward to?"

Megan wrote: "Those sound like great goals! Good luck!"

Currently I am studying business informatics in my last year. What are you studying, Cassandra?

Hmm... not yet really. There are some books I wanted to read for ages (e.g. Wuthering Heights, The World According to Garp, 1Q84 and many more), so maybe I should have a look into the monthly and yearly reading challenges :-).

[Jodi]

I loved The World According to Garp. John Irving is one of my favourite authors.

Challenges are a really fun way to read. It is neat to see where your books fit into the different challenges and it encourages me to read different genres. Good luck.

[Cassandra]

1Q84 is on my priority list for books to make sure to read this year. If you want to read it as a buddy read or something, I'm sure it would make a great one!

I'm studying informatics as well, actually. It's my first year of a BS, though. What a coincidence!

[Alan]

I'm going for 25 books as well. I should probably have a look at some of the challenges

[Cindy]

Jodi wrote: "I loved The World According to Garp. John Irving is one of my favourite authors.



I've only read The Cider House Rules (which I really loved) and Hotel New Hampshire and they were both great. I think The World According to Garp will be one of my next books.

[Cindy]

Cassandra wrote: "1Q84 is on my priority list for books to make sure to read this year. If you want to read it as a buddy read or something, I'm sure it would make a great one!

I'm studying informat..."

That's a cool idea, the buddy reading. Maybe I will do that in order to make sure that I will finally read it ;-).

Cool! Do you like it? Well, I have to admit I chose business informatics because it's not quite as technical as informatics.

[Cindy]

Just finished the second book of the Edelstrein-Trilogie:
Saphirblau

[Cindy]

I finished the thirs part of the Edelstein-Trilogie Smaragdgrün last Friday.

[Cindy]

I finished Erzähl es niemandem! Die Liebesgeschichte meiner Eltern last night

[Cindy]

I finished the wonderul book Momo last weekend.

[Cindy]

I just finished The World According to Garp.

[Cindy]

Finished The Rosie Project, which was a quick and easy read. It reminded me a lot of Sheldon of Big Bang Theory... After all, it was ok for a quick read after it took me about 2 weeks to finish Garp.

[Cindy]

I finished Fall of Giants yesterday and I really liked it. For me it was very interesting and I enjoyed the read.

[Megan]

Cindy wrote: "I finished Fall of Giants yesterday and I really liked it. For me it was very interesting and I enjoyed the read."

I highly recommend the entire trilogy, but don't wait too long between books, because it took me awhile to remember where everything left off:)

[Cindy]

Megan wrote: "Cindy wrote: "I finished Fall of Giants yesterday and I really liked it. For me it was very interesting and I enjoyed the read."

I highly recommend the entire trilogy, but don't wai..."

Thanks for the tip! I'm about to start the second part tomorrow and I'm really curious about it. I really enjoyed the first part and gound it very intereseting.

[Cindy]

I finished Schutzpatron on the weekend and The Life List yesterday.

[Cindy]

I finished Der Steppenwolf which was a challenging read on Saturday. I think everyone can at some point identify with the main character Harry Haller, but in some parts it is just disturbing and weird...

[Cindy]

I finally finished Winter der Welt by Kenn Follett. Which was an interesting read but I didn't enjoy it as much as the first part of the trilogy.

[Cindy]

Wow, June and July do not seem to be good reading months. I finished Paper Towns on Monday. I liked it, but I think I expected more of it and in the end I rated it 3 stars.

[Cindy]

Yay, finally finished The Goldfinch, this sure was a hard piece of work, but in the end I really liked it.

[Cindy]

I recently finished Zum Glück Pauline and liked it.