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November Group Read: Check-in the First!
The first week of the challenge has reached it’s conclusion. 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? Dedicated way too much time to reading today just so you don’t have to admit you only read two chapters this week? (Or is that just me?!)
Successes and failures in the comments below!
Successes and failures in the comments below!
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I have also taken on a new book, which is now the most urgent to read, as it is for a module I am taking at uni. The book came in on Tuesday, so yesterday, and so far I have only looked at the table of contents.
My partner and I have to select a topic for a project soon and do a small, oral-only presentation on our topic and our selected format on 20 November. So the time frame is short and this week, I have to do 150% of the hours I usually work, one whole day added. No idea when I am going to read at least a part of that book because the weekly exercise in the other module I am taking is taking a long time this week, too. So stressed.
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Hope your reading is going well. :-)
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Also, it is always good to find new media one truly enjoys so I am very happy to hear you are likely picking up the novel and definitely going to enjoy the rest of the webtoon, yay! :D
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I partially waited on ORV cause I knew it was long and I have so many other things to read, but the fact the webtoon is 99% free to read legally was very appealing, particularly when I was reading so much boring stuff. And goodness am I glad I finally read it T-T I got a friend into it as well and we been screaming together.
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So happy to hear you enjoy the novel, too. Wishing you lots of progress on Dark Heir and then more fun with the novel :D
Exceedingly cool that you also got a friend into the webtoon so you can now enjoy together. That is just the most joyful thing, to share a fandom! :D
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For myself, across both paper books and audio books, I've learned something important this week: sometimes fiction is easier to follow than non-fiction. This isn't true for me across the board, but this week I encountered it twice and changed what I was doing because of it.
First a success: I did finish a Chinese graded reader, yay! It was fiction, pretty straightforward, and I'd been meaning to start on these graded biographies I've had for a while, so I went to one of those next. That was a failure, because the biography was so hard I thought it was a much higher level than the fiction story I'd just read. But no, it was actually supposed to be easier than what I'd just finished!
I concluded that in a fiction story I have expectations about what's going to happen next (in conversation, in someone's daily routine, maybe even in the way a story is told) that make it easier to understand words in context, whereas in a biography there's no way to guess what's coming next (unless you already know the life story of the person you're reading about, which may have been my disadvantage). It was the difference between reading fictional dialogue: "what are you doing here" "oh I'm getting the mail, did you hear the news" "no what news" etc., which is pretty predictable, and a biographical account: "he didn't graduate from high school, so he started looking for jobs to do while pursuing his musical career," which is completely unpredictable (to me). (And also I'm not going to lie, this biography was a little boring in addition to being very hard to follow.)
So I put the biographies away and went to thriftbooks.com and found some more graded fiction. I'm reading a "harder" one now (two chapters so far, cheers :D ) and it's still way easier than the "easy" biography. (It's also more interesting!)
Second, I found a similar phenomenon when I idly switched from audiobooks to audio dramas: the audiobooks were fiction, and there was dialogue, so that was good, but the audio dramas had people acting out the dialogue, and that made comprehension so much easier! I was so surprised by the difference that I renewed my efforts to find audio dramas I actually want to listen to, instead of just whatever was around when my Audible credits were about to expire :)
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I was trying to finish a non-fiction I was already half-way through to give myself an early success to motivate myself for the challenge. However, I've been writing lots and watched a lot of films so I read even less than expected. I managed three chapters in the end yesterday, taking me to five chapters for the week which isn't terrible!
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Nice! I'm impressed that you more than double your weekly output in a day! :D
Also it's neat that you know exactly what took the place of the reading time, and that the activities of writing and watching films seem to have so much in common with reading in terms of world building, expanding horizons, seeing different perspectives, etc. Sounds like a win overall! ♥
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I have discovered that some of these have been waiting so long, I've since gotten utterly
aggravated as hell atuninterested in the authors and may be thinning the collection >.> I also suspect this will keep on being the case as I chew through the pile >.>;;no subject
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I’ve finished The Lost Present (didn’t personally enjoy but it was only short): The Plea ( this was like a legal thriller type thing - enjoyed this for the most part) and The Broken Kingdoms - a good one for fantasy lovers.
Moved onto persuasion, the life-changing magic of tidying up and embers in the wind.
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