November Group Read: Check in the First

[glinda]

The first week of the challenge has reached an end. Time to share with the class your triumphs and tribulations. Finish a book? Make a start on something that you've been meaning to get round to for ages? Or finally accept that that one book everyone recommended you is just not your thing and you're never going to get past the second chapter?

New participants, what obstacles have you faced? (Other than the umm...elephant in the room that is current affairs...) Regular participants, what tips and tricks do you have to offer? Are you a break yourself in easy with a short book person? *raises hand* Or perhaps you prefer to start with something chunky while you're full of enthusiasm?

Successes and failures below the line please!

Comments

[peaceful_sands]

I've finished the two I was already reading last week 'The Outcasts' by John Flanagan and 'River God' by Wilbur Smith. I actually quite enjoyed the first but the second not so much.

I also finished 'The Monk who Sold His Ferrari' by Robin Sharma which I found more irritating than enlightening unfortunately. Very few new ideas in it and the presentation didn't work for me.

I'm now a little over half way through 'The Sealed Letter' by Emma Donoghue and just under a third of the way through 'Fractured' by Teri Terry. I hope to finish the first of these either tomorrow or Sunday but the latter will probably take me all week and that's if I get the time to concentrate on it.

'Artemis' by Andy Weir is likely to be the next on the list.

[glinda]

That’s excellent progress, though a shame some of them weren’t very enjoyable - but at least they’re done now!