November Group Read: Check-in the First!

[glinda]

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!

Comments

[illariy]

Aaah, I have mostly failed in my reading challenge. I have read but very little and only free samples on the Kindle app, none on my target books.

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.

[glinda]

Oh dear, you haven't failed yet - just fallen behind! But yes, the coursework book should definitely be your priority, and as that seems a heavy/stressful workload it would be totally understand if you nope out of this! (It's supposed to be fun not stressful!) But feel free to check in with progress on your coursework book if that helps you get through it ahead of your deadline!

[illariy]

Thank you for your encouraging words! I am finally doing some reading of the coursework book and that is going very well and is turning out to be a good source. Hopefully, by the time of the next check-in, I'll have a little progress on my challenge books, if only 15 min or one chapter.

Hope your reading is going well. :-)

[peaceful_sands]

Sounds like you’re having a really challenging time with work and course commitments. Stay strong

[illariy]

Yeah, you got that right. Thank you for the good wishes! I particularly need them right now as I just found out on Sunday that I lost my job effective 24 November and am now in a mad scramble to apply for benefits (extra hard for students here) and search for a new job all while juggling uni responsibilities. Ugh.