OCT2024 Hour 11:

[Cynda]

As the end of the year approaches, we start to evaluate what we have read this year. Have you found or made time this year to read a book on a long-time list or bucket list of yours? Tell us title and maybe a quick something special about the book(s).

[Taya]

I joined a group on here called Cleaning Out the TBR Closet and ultimately you have a read it or unhaul it - you select the books on your shelf to play in the game.

I am working on rebuilding my reading habit and have found that the last two months of me using this method, I am reading more frequently to avoid having to separate myself from books i actually want to read

[Cynda]

From my bucket list, I have read

I am doing a short study of Jules Verne. I began with the longest of his works that I will read this/any year 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and other Classic Novels. Oh how I wish long ago I had read this book to my technologically-minded son. We would have enjoyed it so much together.

Finally I have read Les Misérables. For secondary work, I read The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables by David Bellos. Group members of my classic group have also suggested two other secondary reads. What a great and complex novel!

[Cynda]

I have seen that group listed Taya. So many books, groups, delights. What is a reader to do? Read on. And dream of books.

[Ann A]

This year I finally finished Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady, which took me over a year to read. What's fascinating about this book is that it's apparently the longest one published in the English language. (The Penguin Classics paperback version says 1,534 pages, but it felt longer than that on Kindle!)
I can't say I loved it or that it's "great" literature, but I'm not sorry I read it. Richardson's command of the English language is impressive in how he could describe similar events and conversations over and over (and over) again, but nuanced in different ways.

[Cynda]

Accomplishment!

[Vicki Willis]

I have been keeping up with my reading goal of number of total books.
I have also been keeping up with trying to read a number of older books off my TBR. I am in the group that has Clean Out Your TBR which is fun.
I am also trying to read a number of the GR choice award winners and nominees.

[Cathy]

I would love to write that I read a lot of books from my owned-TBR pile and that something stood out, but I didn‘t. 🤷

[Cynda]

Thank you Ann, Vickie, and Cathy for stopping by on a thread or two or more. I am busier this time with co-moderating. If you three Dewey co-travellers want to--drop me a note on my thread telling me what questions you find interesting. Ideas, p!ease.

[Lamilla]

This reading year was excellent for me! Some 5-star reads I'd recommend are Blindtunnel by Tove Alsterdal (historical fiction mystery) and Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande - excellent reflection on end-of-life care and decisions.