K.M. Weiland's Read 100 Books in 2016 Challenge discussion

What's your favorite thing about the book you're currently reading?

I'm still working Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. For as long as it is (800 pages), the thing I appreciate most is the sprightly pacing.

Not sure yet. Just passed the inciting incident. Be back in a bit. Reading Cyberstorm by Matthew Mather.

My favorite thing about my current book is the unexpected levels of angst, sadness, and heartache I'm feeling towards the characters. Agh, it's too real!

In the Unlikely Event

The best part about this book so far is the statistics supporting what I already knew about the educational systems currently in place in our country. I am seeing why I never felt like I fit in incrementally from third grade on and felt like a total outcast by 10th grade. My kids never seemed to fit in either probably due to my parenting style which was a total mismatch for my kids in an industrial age authoritarian style learning environment.

Reading and absolutely LOVE Augustus (Gus). In the beginning I didn't like him much, but after the way he has treated Lorena like a queen, even going after her when she was kidnapped by Blue Duck, I have just really grown to appreciate him.

The plot, settings and subject matter are great so far in this book, but I wish the characters were a lot deeper. Definitely a plot driven book.

I'm reading a non-fiction book about Nicholas II and Imperial Russia. I knew a bit about him and I figured old Soviet propoganda about him would be wrong. I wanted to learn how his rule was so bad that it spurned the USSR. It's in-depth and I am learning that a lot of it has to do with his father, who didn't prepare him, his hemophiliac son and Rasputin (someone else who fascinates me).

CYBERSTORM by Matthew Mather.
I enjoyed the overall plot of the book and the journey they endured. The settings are critical to the story and provide some depth to the story's main conflict. What I took away from it all was the taste of the writers theme. Overcoming our fears, preconceptions, prejudices, and paranoia. It was well crafted overall providing rich details of suffering deprivation.

Hey there, all you book lovers.

I just finished a behemoth of book in A Song of Ice and Fire, by George R.R. Martin. This guy is definitely unique to say the least. I loved how he used the setting to deepen the plot, characters, theme and overall story. Superb. It simply draws you into the realm, to the point where you feel like you're there. All of the Characters were so complex, deep and intricately related to one another. Even so, it seemed that they resonated certain themes throughout the book. The attention to detail with great elaboration was simply astonishing.

Great indeed.

I'm halfway through the second one 'A Clash of Kings'. Loving it :)

Reading Jane's Fame, a biography on Jane Austen. A little dry at times, but still engaging enough for me as I love Austen. Learning so much I never knew.

The Mystery of Mortimore Strange (I just had to add the book to GR...I'll take a picture of the cover soon.)


I love how the main character is determined to live life to the fullest after being told he must die. He's asking hard questions about God and religion and living in a little cottage the locals think is haunted. But he thinks it's either smugglers or German spies! (It's written before WW1.)