2019 Reading Challenge discussion

Just wanted to start the check-in thread for March, since I'm really motivated seeing how everyone is doing!

Here's my most recent reads

81 Pride and Joy
82 Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow
83 Sanity & Tallulah
84 Gone With the Nerd
85 Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World
86 Girls of Paper and Fire
87 Evermore
88 Hunted
89 Slayer
90 The Flatshare

Elizabeth wrote: "Here's my most recent reads

81 Pride and Joy
82 Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow
83 Sanity & Tallulah
84 Gone With the Nerd
85 [..."


Great progress on your goal Elizabeth!

At the halfway point in March I have read:

19. Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
20. reread The Birds by Daphne du Maurier
21. Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank and Ernestine Gilbreth (brother and sister)
22. Candide by Voltaire
23. New Hampshire by Robert Frost

I also reread "To Build a Fire" by Jack London at school, but did not list it.

I finally got around to reading Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately and really enjoyed it (only a few months later than I was meant to) so thanks for that recommendation! Currently reading The Name of the Wind and loving that. February was a bit of a crazy month so I'm only at 29 books but hoping to make up some ground this week! Also super inspired by those who are doing amazing amounts of reading and especially some of the reading choices people are making!

With a pile of graphic novels, I passed 100. I'm trying to decide if I want to up my goal, or leave it...I went in thinking that 365 was going

91 Dear Mother: Poems on the Hot Mess of Motherhood
92 The Last Vampire
93 The Last Vampire: Book Two
94 The Disasters
95 The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried
96 Blossoms in Autumn
97 Goldie Vance Vol. 1
98 The Stonekeeper
99 Begone the Raggedy Witches
100 The Stonekeeper's Curse
101 The Cloud Searchers
102 The Last Council
103 Goldie Vance Vol. 2
104 A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares
105 The Proposal

Reading Eleanor Oliphant is absolutely fine and enjoying immensely!

Really enjoyed this book!

Books I’ve read 2019
Little fires Everywhere
Rush
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
The Flight Attendant
Breaking and entering
The only woman in the Room
Lethal White
The woman in the water

It is a sad but funny book in some ways I like books about people who buck the trend !

Hi all,

March is a busy month for me so my reading time is a bit cut short !

But I managed to read 6 novels (but 3 quite short !) and 16 graphic novels and comics (thanks to my graphic novel reading club that had its quaterly reunion this month !)

So I'm a bit behind my goal but it's still manageable and the challenge makes me read more :) Anyway, I haven't finished reading the book for February (but it's well on its way) and of course, I haven't started reading the one for March !

Lynn, I have Alas Babylon in my TBR and I saw you gave it 5 stars ... is it a quick read ?

Happy reading everyone :)

Sassenach wrote: "Hi all,

March is a busy month for me so my reading time is a bit cut short !

But I managed to read 6 novels (but 3 quite short !) and 16 graphic novels and comics (thanks to my graphic novel re..."

The question was is Alas, Babylon a quick read? I remember I first read it in the 1970s when I was a High School student. It probably took me a few days then. When I reread it this month it was because some Goodreads friends were discussing it and I had good memories of the book. This time I read it in one Saturday. It took the entire day - 6 or 8 hours with normal interruptions. Still it was worth it. I have seen some modern criticism (the standard racist criticism of older works). The main character is a white person living in a racist society. He breaks color barriers to be inclusive, but it still would not pass today's rigid standards of equality.

Thanks for your insight, Lynn. I understand that the standards of equality then weren't the same as nowadays and I don't think it will be a problem for me ... it was just a different time and a different way of thinking (not saying it was better though !).

I was more worried about the style of writing that can feel "old", especially for me, as English is not my mother tongue and that book isn't translated in French.

I think I will be able to fit this read sometimes during the summer holidays :)

24. Greenwitch by Susan Cooper
25. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
26. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
27. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Secret of Clouds by Alyson Richman
The Beautiful Strangers by Camille Di Maio

I'm just about to wrap up this month (maybe sneaking a couple extra in in the next few days) - I just finished up #buzzwordathon so there's a few with Who, What, When, Where, Why or How in the titles and Middle Grade March. One of my big, non-quantity goals is to have a variety of reads (and not just sci-fi and fantasy) - and I'm hovering right around 50% sci-fi/fantasy, so that's going well.

106 Invictus
107 My Sister’s Lies
108 Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World
109 When the Moon Was Ours
110 Where the Forest Meets the Stars
111 The Hookup Handbook
112 Comics Will Break Your Heart
113 To Make Monsters Out of Girls
114 The Invasion
115 Jack of Hearts
116 When Light Left Us
117 The Cruel Prince
118 Never Kiss a Rake
119 Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her
Monster
120 Inside Out & Back Again

28. Heidi (1880) by Johanna Spyri, translator Eileen Hall
29. Across Five Aprils (1964) by Irene Hunt