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readingtogetherAnd apologies, I managed to post this yesterday to my personal journal not the community, so embarrassing, thank you to fred_mouse for pointing that out.
How did we do this weekend?
(Next weekend I intend to run a 24-hour challenge and then the following two weekends are Not Typical because of Christmas/New Year in my country. I know kalloway is planning a challenge 26-31 December, so we have that to look forward to!)
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Date: 2021-12-13 01:11 pm (UTC)Ironically, I cancelled one of my journeys due to illness, but then decided to read as if I were on the train anyway - which was a lot more reading than I would have done otherwise. Then I got well enough to do my remaining planned travel and actually managed to read for most of it, so I count this as a success!
I successfully hit my main goals:
I didn't touch either of my stretch goals, but I had a surprise bonus because The Menopause Manifesto had come in for me at the library and I managed to read a few chapters of it on the train before switching back to SWBTS. I have been especially struggling to read non-fiction for most of the last two years, so that was a particular success as far as I'm concerned.
A couple of people asked about The Thursday Murder Club and I haven't managed to organise my thoughts into any kind of review but: I liked it, it's a surprisingly funny and kind book about murder and the secrets people carry, and of course about the danger of writing people off because they're old and frail. There's a lot of different viewpoint characters, and I appreciated that the author decided to make this clear by having one chapter per viewpoint, even if sometimes that led to very short chapters. I definitely intend to read the sequels, and I may come back to reread it again at some point. If you have more specific questions I can do my best to answer.