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Do you have a reading goal?
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No  57%  [ 25 ]
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 Post subject: Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jan 19th, '19, 01:06    


Sanssouci

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Thanks!

I started re-reading The Glass Magician, but I haven't gotten very far.

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 Post subject: Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jan 19th, '19, 11:24    


LittleJulez

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Ah I feel you. My reading is on hold again as well..

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 Post subject: Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jan 19th, '19, 11:44    


Akili Li

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I've been reading a fair bit, actually, but not the things I said I wanted to do for the challenge, so I haven't been reporting it.

(Someone recommended Trisha Ashley as a romance writer with a better-than-average class of heroines, but they turn out to be first person. I grudgingly finished the first one, and if I didn't cavil at first person PoV so much it would have been a very fun read, but as it was I just was relieved to actually finish. I read "Adirondack Mendel's Aufruf: Welcome to Chelm's Pond" and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Then went back to more straightforward romance and read Kathryne Kennedy's "The Fire-Lord's Lover" which I think would have been better if I hadn't seen so many of those plot elements used so many times previously (there's a term for that, when you are too familiar with a genre, but blessed if I can come up with that term or phrase or word just now). But I read it in snips and bits between chores, and it lent itself well to that because it really didn't require any thought, so it was a very nice choice for that purpose.

And now I've started "Minn of the Mississippi" which has gorgeous illustrations and I think the terms and science are not too advanced to pass it along to my nieces....

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 Post subject: Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jan 19th, '19, 15:36    


LittleJulez

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Aw but you can still list those books :)

Sounds like a nice choice for an easy read :)

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 Post subject: Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jan 19th, '19, 18:01    


AliceON

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@Sanssouci: hope you're better now!


I've been looking to read some books with other people in February and found two to read 'the Bear and the Nightingale' with. but no one wants to read 'Spinning Silver' and 'Moscow 2042' with me. and with the latter the chances are not very high that I'll read it without peer pressure. which is a shame because it sounds like a good book

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 Post subject: Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jan 19th, '19, 21:05    


bombus

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My goal is 52 books this year and my other goal is to actually keep tract all year. I was doing so good last year and then I just forgot to keep a record of what I read.

so far I have finished two books and I am currently reading two books which I should be done with this weekend

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 Post subject: Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jan 19th, '19, 22:40    


Sanssouci

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I haven't been reading Wideacre lately (the one about the girl and her brother...) because I couldn't find it. But I just found it; it had fallen between the couch and an end table!

I'm almost better; I just can't fully breathe out of my nose yet!

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 Post subject: Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jan 19th, '19, 23:51    


Akili Li

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I have "Spinning Silver" on my to-read list but who knows when I'll get a chance at it. I'm waiting until either the library gets down the hold list to my name (there are still seven people ahead of me) or it shows up at a used book store at a low enough price I can justify buying it unread.

But I haven't heard of "Moscow 2042", tell me about that one?

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 Post subject: Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jan 20th, '19, 00:25    


AliceON

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@Akili: It's a dystopian satire set in 1982 about a Russian writer living in Germany who gets a chance to travel to 2042 Moscow and ends up in a mix of adventures and bureaucracy. I got a recommendation from my father maybe half a year ago and it sounds like it'll be a good laugh. but there are so many other books that are more my kind of story that I just know I'll grab those first

@Sanssouci: the book had a little adventure, it seems

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 Post subject: Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jan 20th, '19, 00:32    


Akili Li

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Huh. Our library actually has it available.
I need to finish my January stuff first though!

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I want to buy or trade for these knuffels:
Earth Gen 18, Light Gen 19, Fire Gen 21, Air/Light/Water Gen 22, Light Gen 23, Earth/Light Gen 25, Darkness Gen 26.
Please PM me if you can help!

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