November Group Read: Let's Go!

[kalloway]

As I'm in one of the later time zones and have a plumber coming early on the first, I'm putting this up a tad early. You know when to start reading~

Check-ins will probably be on Sundays or Mondays, aside from the final one. Promote this however or wherever you'd like. There's no penalties for missing check-ins or not meeting your goal or anything. This is all for fun and is hopefully the lowest of pressure.

If you'd like to leave your reading plans in the comments, whether a vague statement or a detailed list, go ahead!

Thanks for reading along and enjoy~!

Comments

[rmc28]

For once, I have no preorders due this month (November). I do have

• one overdue library book (with 8 people waiting for it, oh the guilt!)
• two more library books which I will collect Monday 1 Nov
• eight ebooks waiting to be loaded onto my reader (2 novels, 2 anthologies, 4 magazine issues)

I would really like to finish / mark as DNF all of these during November. As a stretch goal, I also have 3 part-read books bought earlier this year, which it would be good to either finish or DNF.

The priority this coming week has to be the overdue library book (which for Reasons I can only read at home and not on trains): She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

[peaceful_sands]

Good luck with your goals. It's a relief to see someone else who's currently tackling books to finish or DNF and not adding stress to the reading by trying to finish things that aren't working. Helps me balance my guilt when I know I'm not the only one.

[rmc28]

I can't remember how long ago I decided it was better to decide not to finish books if they weren't working for me, but it's definitely improved things. Life is too short, and there are so many more books I could read than time to read them, there's no point spending time if I'm getting nothing out of them.

Bonus discovery this morning: She Who Became The Sun is 99p on Kindle today. So I only need to read the first chapter of the library book - which I can do at lunchtime today - and then if I want to keep reading I can buy the ebook, and either way I can return the library book this evening, and the next person waiting for it can have it. (The library book is a hardback, which my hands have difficulty holding and so I can only read it in certain places in my home. I'm trying in general to spend less with Amazon and get more books from the library, but I do need to take more care to check the format before placing a reservation.)

[kalloway]

I hope you've been able to get some reading done~ (I get motion sick if I read in a moving anything, alas, so my reading is always done while stationary and often flat.)

[rmc28]

I can read on trains but not cars or buses, and I have a regular long return train journey on Fridays (and this week I also have Saturday and Sunday!).

I have been able to read some evenings this week but more out of being too tired to do anything else ...