My 2021 in Books

[Sharadha]

Going to create this thread while I'm still reading enough to adequately populate these things without embarrassing myself (as the previous ones have gone barren, a simple title should do the trick *please*).

This year is all about partaking in the Snakes and Ladders challenge, doing Netgalley reviews, and completing a few pre-planned BRs. Hoping that I'm somewhat successful in achieving these goals.

[Sharadha]

Snakes and Ladders Challenge:

Books Completed: 3
Position on Board: 1 --> 4 --> 8 --> 9
Prompt in Progress: African author
Book in Progress: We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[Sharadha]

Netgalley Reviews:

Books Read: 5
Books Reviewed on GR: 4
Average Rating: 2.5
Current Read: Love and Youth: Essential Stories by Ivan Turgenev (Pushkin Press)
Upcoming Reads: Who Is Vera Kelly?, The Dictionary of Lost Words, The Passenger

[Ahtims]

Going good , Shar

[Sharadha]

Planned BRs:

1. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh with Aka, Smi, Resh.
2. Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel with Deepika and Resh (recommendation by Girish)
3. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy with Aka

Tentative (with Aka):
1. The Dead School by Patrick McCabe
2. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

[Sharadha]

Em*bedded-in-books* wrote: "Going good , Shar"

Thanks, Doc :)

[Gorab, TheGunman]

all the best Shar!

[Sharadha]

[Akanksha]

Looking forward to the BRs, Sharadha!

[Gorab, TheGunman]

Sharadha wrote: ""

LOL! :D :D :D

[Kanarese]

Books completed 2, pending 48

Next read: The Glass Palace - Amitav Gosh

[Sharadha]

Akanksha wrote: "Looking forward to the BRs, Sharadha!"

Me too, amiga! :)

[Sharadha]

Gorab wrote: "Sharadha wrote: ""

LOL! :D :D :D"

Didn't mean to perplex you, Gor, but because the series is lit, the GIF becomes lit too xD

[Sharadha]

Arun wrote: "Books completed 2, pending 48

Next read: The Glass Palace - Amitav Gosh"

Hi Arun, this thread is for tracking personal reading progress, so you can create your own thread in this folder from here. Thanks for visiting! :)

[dely]

You have read already several books! This is a good start!

[Makrand]

Going good Shar!!
All the best for the rest of the year!
Happy Reading :D

[Sharadha]

dely wrote: "You have read already several books! This is a good start!"

Thanks Dely, just trying to reach a decent figure before the inevitable slump creeps in :) Good luck to you with your reading goals too!

[Sharadha]

Makrand wrote: "Going good Shar!!
All the best for the rest of the year!
Happy Reading :D"

Thanks, Mak! :)

[Sharadha]

Updates:

Have 3 books presently in my CR pipeline - Radiance of Tomorrow, Love and Youth: Essential Stories and Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United (non-fic).

Probably slowing down on the pace front trying to juggle between books but the last one has been on my mind for so long and no time would've been better than now to tackle it. This man is so full of knowledge that it astounds me even today (despite watching all his interviews, podcast insights, player stories, and the like).

Love and Youth is going a bit meh at the moment, classic Russian stories of love at first sight, scenery, working-class folks and the book has some not-so-great reviews endorsing it, so I'm a bit wary of it.

Radiance of Tomorrow is HEAVY in that the writing is so atmospheric (the choice of words and phrases) that I feel distressed reading too much at a time. This one is going to be slow, I can feel it from a distance (although there's always room to surprise myself).

At the moment, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm most excited about the non-fic book I'm reading because: Sir Alex! :)

[Sharadha]

Sadly, I've had to drop Radiance of Tomorrow because it became too heavy a subject to tackle at the moment for me. The writing is beautiful but also evokes in me visceral reactions for a subject as intense as war and refugees (I've read war fiction before, but I now realise that the writing in them is relatively superficial, Ishameal Beah actually writes in a way that I can see things unfold before my eyes -- he attributes it to his native tongue, Mende, that employs "... very expressive, very figurative [phrases], and when I write, I always struggle to find the English equivalent of things that I really want to say in Mende."). So I may return to this later when I've gotten warmed into my reading phase but for now, I'm going to read We Should all be Feminists for the S&L challenge prompt #9.