Post by ChillyMcFreeze on Nov 16, 2012 9:13:36 GMT -5
I'm reading one of the freebies from the Kindle lending library, "The Bloodletter's Daughter." I like references to central Europe and the nods to Czech language since I lived there, but it's not great all things considered.
I'm reading Lover Awakened (BDB #3), and I'm loving it. I can't believe it took me so long to pick up these books. Total brain candy and just what I need right now.
I don't really have any reading goals. I'm just hoping to hit 50 books read for the year. I'm at 43 right now.
I'm reading (and loving) The Year of the Gadfly by Jennifer Miller. I'm probably not going to make my reading goal this year, but that's OK. Before the end of the year, I'm going to finish Emma, Jane Eyre and read Dead Reckoning.
I'm still reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I should finish it soon. It's so good!
Still listening to Atlas Shrugged.
My random numeric goal for the year was 100. I've read 95 so far, so 5 to go. My goals to not spend money and to read lots of classics haven't really panned out, though...
Post by 5kcandlesinthewind on Nov 16, 2012 10:24:36 GMT -5
I'm almost done with Days of Blood and Starlight. I have about 50 pages left, and I'm hoping to finish it up tonight. I'm also about 1/4 of the way through Eloisa James's Paris in Love, a memoir about the year she and her family lived in Paris. It's fun, and it makes me long to go back there.
Next up is City of Women by David Gillham, set in WWII Berlin. I've heard good things about it, so I'm looking forward to diving in.
I'm in the middle of Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior. It's her typical moderately preachy style, but I love her anyway.
I'm only two books away from my quantity goal for the year, which turned out to be not much of a challenge. It has been a good reading year for me. My new goal is to finish all my library books before I can't renew them anymore.
I'm reading Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of A Daughter and A Mother in the Gilded Age and having a lot of fun looking up pictures of all the Vanderbilt houses they talk about in the book.
No real book goals for the year, although I'm debating asking for ereader for Christmas.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. Mark Twain
I'm reading The Descendents by Kaui Hart Hemmings. A friend loaned it to me after enjoying it, and so far it's good.
I don't have any specific goals for the end of the year except to get enough books loaded onto my Kindle for holiday travel. But, this is the first year since childhood that I've been tracking my reading so that's been kind of fun. The average length book I've read so far this year is 486 pages.
Post by hoosierbradly on Nov 16, 2012 15:45:54 GMT -5
No plans tonight so I may pull out some light reading from my younger days, Mark Twain is always a fun get away from our current information overload of everyday life.
Post by secretlyevil on Nov 16, 2012 16:08:56 GMT -5
I am in the longest and biggest reading slump, everything I pick up I'm not a big fan of. Trying to get through Wally Lamb's Wishin' and Hopin'. Don't particularly care for it. Also need to read Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol. I have Anna Kariena downloaded.
Post by writingwithheld on Nov 16, 2012 16:14:27 GMT -5
I have really slowed down on the reading. I've been doing NaNoWriMo instead. I'm at about 40k already, which is really surprising to me. My goal was originally 25, but I upped it to 35 and am sitting at 34 currently. I've been skimming Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Disorders, a collection of articles/essays. Fun stuff!
I read a book or two last weekend, but other than that, I'm still on Days of Blood and Starlight. Which is good. I love it. Not as good as Daughter of Smoke and Bone, but I'm also busy at work, so I haven't been reading during lunch as much, and I've been busy at night too.
I'm at my in-laws all next week, so I hope to get a lot done!