Q4 - Anything Goes

[Sunny]

Of the books you've read since the beginning of this quarter (October 1st) is there one you will read again?

A Tale for the Time Being is one I'll be reading again.

[Pinja]

update to message #194

so i finally finished 13 Secrets ! I also randomly ended up reading the poet x but idk how it affects this thread cause I didn't have in the original message and it doesn't really affect any of my goals D:

[Carol]

update to #12:

46/92 finished

I am half-way finished.

[Rebecca]

update message #9: 23/40

Read: Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow. Wish there was a fourth book in this series ready for me to dive into.

[Karin]

update to message #8

72/94 books read
5/7 challenges complete

[Rebecca]

Update to Message #9: 24/40

Read An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. Realizing just how much I have to learn and how hard that learning is.

[Agnieszka]

Update message #37: 35/50

[Rebecca]

Update message #9: 25/40

Buddy read Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls with my nine-year-old

[Rebecca]

Update message #9: 26/40

Read Haunted Histories: Creepy Castles, Dark Dungeons, and Powerful Palaces with my thirteen-year-old. We were hoping for juicy ghost stories and tales of murder, and instead this was a pretty standard introduction to life in the middle ages. We were a little disappointed.

Sunshine, we really enjoyed Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls as well. We're reading some of the Babysitters Club books together and she's reading the graphic novels on our own. Since she's read the graphic novels (and I've read the whole series before), we're not reading in any particular order, so we started The Ghost At Dawn's House last night.

[Rachael]

Updated message 4: 22/30

[Sunny]

Rebecca wrote: "update message #9: 23/40

Read: Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow. Wish there was a fourth book in this series ready for me to dive into."

This looks like an interesting series. Marked it for future reading.

[Sunny]

Carol wrote: "update to #12:

46/92 finished

I am half-way finished."

Yay! Carol! Go go go!

[Sunny]

Karin wrote: "update to message #8

72/94 books read
5/7 challenges complete"

You don't have many to go! :)

[Sunny]

Rachael wrote: "Updated message 4: 22/30"

8 more to go! Can you read them in 8 days? :D

[Sunny]

Updated thru Msg 220.

📖43 Days Left to Reach Your Goal📖

We have 21 of 38 readers turning pages.
365 books of 1,033 have been read.
2 Readers have reached "The End".

Next update will be Sat Nov 21st.

Hope everyone is having a good week!

[[deleted user]]

Message 53
2/10 completed

[Carmen]

Sunny wrote: "Carmen wrote: "Update to message #10

PROGRESS: 23/30 📚"

7 more books to go! Can you have them done in 7 days? :D"

If only...😊

[Carmen]

Update to message #10

PROGRESS: 24/30 📚

[Agnieszka]

Update message #37: 37/50

[Lisanne]

Update to msg #14: 10/10

12. Read a book I bought this year
✔️ Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures - 4.5 ★ (rounded down)

[Sunny]

Lisanne wrote: "Update to msg #14: 10/10

12. Read a book I bought this year
✔️ Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures - 4.5 ★ (rounded down)"

Woohoo! Lisanne! 🏆Congratulations!🏆 on reaching your goal! Good job!

[Carmen]

Update to message #10

PROGRESS: 25/30 📚

[Mikaela]

I know! It feels surreal that I am only two books away- I am very excited! For me, "The Once and Future Witches" was a super engaging read. I really enjoyed the way she embedded a variety of themes into this novel (ranging from the suffragist movement to gender, womanhood, and sexuality)

Sunny wrote: "Mikaela wrote: "Update msg #18

10/12 completed

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

HIGHLY recommend this book."

Oh my! What a lovely cover! What did..."

[Mikaela]

I would definitely read Pupcakes again. It was a nice feel good seasonal read for me

Sunny wrote: "Of the books you've read since the beginning of this quarter (October 1st) is there one you will read again?

A Tale for the Time Being is one I'll be reading again."

[Sunny]

Isn't it nice when the inside matches the outside? :)

I've marked it as To Read. My list just keeps growing!


Mikaela wrote: "I know! It feels surreal that I am only two books away- I am very excited! For me, "The Once and Future Witches" was a super engaging read. I really enjoyed the way she embedded a variety of themes..."

[Sunny]

Awwww! How cute!!! I've marked this one TBR, too :)

Mikaela wrote: "I would definitely read Pupcakes again. It was a nice feel good seasonal read for me

Sunny wrote: "Of the books you've read since the beginning of this quarter (October 1st) is th..."

[Sunny]

Updated thru Msg 234.

📖40 Days Left to Reach Your Goal📖

We have 21 of 38 readers turning pages.
371 books of 1,033 have been read.
3 Readers have reached "The End".

Next update will be Weds Nov 21st.

Hope everyone has a good weekend!

[Agnieszka]

Update message #37: 41/50

[Rebecca]

Update message #9: 27/40

I read What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era. Loved this because it was a book about various books. Of course, now I have a whole list of books that I "need" to read.

[Mikaela]

Update msg #18

11/12 completed

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

Read this as an "anything goes" book for this challenge and for a book club with my friends. It was just okay. I found the first half of the book very slow.

[Mikaela]

Yes it is! And I know EXACTLY what you mean. This challenge in particular this year has made my personal TBR very long haha :)

Sunny wrote: "Isn't it nice when the inside matches the outside? :)

I've marked it as To Read. My list just keeps growing!


Mikaela wrote: "I know! It feels surreal that I am only two books away- I am very exc..."

[Rebecca]

Update message #9: 28/40

Read Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI as a buddy read, and it was great.

[Carmen]

Update to message #10

PROGRESS: 27/30 📚

[Rebecca]

Update Message #9: 29/40

[[deleted user]]

Message 53
6/10 completed

[Carmen]

Update to message #10

PROGRESS: 28/30 📚

[Rebecca]

Update Message #9: 31/40

Yay for a day that I finished two books!!

[Carmen]

Update to message #10

PROGRESS: 29/30 📚

[Pinja]

update to msg 194

the helmet reading challenge:
prompt 8 - a book someone else chooses for you The Only Good Indians (currently reading)
prompt 23 - the book has been published in plain finnish Yösyöttö √
prompt 30 - a book where a character gets saved 13 Secrets √

my december tbr (i'll probs read other stuff too if I have time)
group read - A Man Called Ove
buddy read - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
library books I'll have to eventually return - Baby Jane, The Bat & Kärleken (currently reading all of these lol)

[Sunny]

Irene wrote: "update to msg 194

the helmet reading challenge:
prompt 8 - a book someone else chooses for you The Only Good Indians (currently reading)
prompt 23 - the book has been published in ..."

Irene when you post your progress would you please give me a count telling me how many books you've read?

For example: 2 of 8

Thank you :)

[Marleen]

Update to message #5: progress 2/5.

2: Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All

[Agnieszka]

Update message #37: 42/50

[Sunny]

Updated thru Msg 255.

📖36 Days Left to Reach Your Goal📖

We have 21 of 38 readers turning pages.
392 books of 1,033 have been read.
3 Readers have reached "The End".

Next update will be Sat Nov 28th.

Hope everyone is having a good week!

[Sunny]

Marleen wrote: "Update to message #5: progress 2/5.

2: Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All"

What did you think of this book?

[Sunny]

Carmen wrote: "Update to message #10

PROGRESS: 29/30 📚"

1 more to go!!!

[Sunny]

Mikaela wrote: "Update msg #18

11/12 completed

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

Read this as an "anything goes" book for this challenge and for a book club with my friends. It was ..."

One to go!!!

[Carmen]

Update to message #10

PROGRESS: 30/40 📚

Sunny, I added 10 books to my goal 😉

[Mikaela]

Update msg #18

12/12 completed!! I have ADORED this challenge and will definitely continue reading more books towards it.

5) A book that takes place in the winter
The Christmas Letters by Lee Smith

This was an okay read. I enjoyed the concept of learning about their lives through letters they wrote every winter around Christmas but found the whole narrative to feel a little fragmented. The ending was also quite abrupt

[Greg]

Lord of the Silent

9/23

[Marleen]

Sunny wrote: "Marleen wrote: "Update to message #5: progress 2/5.

2: Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All"

What did you think of this book?"

It was okay but didn’t meet my expectations from really liking the previous book I read by this author (The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared). I like the writing but didn’t really like the main characters.