Leni’s Comments (group member since Jul 01, 2018)

Leni’s comments from the Seasons of Reading Readathons group.

Yes, that sounds familiar, Diana. :-/

Mid-Event Check-In:

I can't seem to get out of 2018. I'm still finishing up books and challenges for last year. I figure I'll stay in Limbo for all of January and start my 2019 reading with the Chinese new year on the 5th of February.

So! During #wintersrespite I have so far read:

two Christmas related books I meant to read in December:
- Ok, but nothing special, might have appreciated it more in December but I didn't connect with any of the characters.
- great opening line, the rest of the book was a disappointment.

I have finished a book I started last year:
- Very good. I enjoyed the TV-adaptation and this is not just better but has significant differences.

I've also finished this box set that I started last year, I think I read 3 1/2 volumes this year:
- My son makes me read them, but after the first couple of volumes he hasn't had to twist my arm.

My daughter asked me to read this book several months ago, and I finally did it:
- Predictable, but fun. (My daughter didn't find it predictable, and she's more in the target audience. She says the second book is better, in fact positively great, so I'm moving on to that one next.)

And I have read this book that came out in December but we didn't buy it until a couple of days ago:
- This series is a great favourite with 3/4 of my family. The 4th is too young to be allowed to read it. Dystopian horror manga about a group of highly capable children in an orphanage who decide to escape after they discover the gruesome truth of what happens to those who leave for adoption.

I am currently reading:
- excellent, but largely neglected 19th Century novel that criticises the small minded morality of the Victorian middle class and the limitations put on women.

And listening to:
- Great fun, good narrator.


Not too much reading so far, but I aim to do better the rest of the month! I have three other books that I started last year and need to finish, and a couple of books to read for reading challenges that need to be read this month. Oh, and a couple of library books that are becoming urgent! Better get to it!

Hi, I am Leni and have, like Elyse, come over from the Facebook group.

I'm a Norwegian living in Wales with an Englishman and two kids, all of us readers but I am probably the most voracious one.

I especially love reading SFF and other speculative/weird/dark fiction and Classics - especially British 19th Century, but I enjoy ranging further afield too. I'm always juggling way too many reading challenges in the mutually antagonistic attempt to both expand my literary horizons and get through the books I already own. Books are the one and only thing I love shopping for, so I am living in a perpetual state of Tsundoku.