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glinda ([personal profile] glinda) wrote in [community profile] readingtogether2023-11-15 08:53 pm

November Group Read: Check-in The Second

We're (almost) half way through the month now and how are we getting on? Procrastinating wildly? Reading everything except what we intended to? Forging ahead and putting everyone else to shame?!

*waves pompoms enthusiastically*

Check in below with your triumphs and tribulations. Celebrate the achievements big and small, whether you got through a whole book or merely made a start on a book that's been taunting you for ages.
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[personal profile] fred_mouse 2023-11-18 10:25 am (UTC)(link)

Just looked back at the last check in to see where I was at, and lo! but apparently I forgot. Which means I get to report on two weeks worth of achievements!

I've finished four books this month, two of which had been on the 'currently reading' list for some time. My currently reading is now at 29, so I've achieved the minimal goal of 'less than 30'. Of these, I'm most pleased with having got the non-fiction book about Australian history and present bushfires back out of the library, and actually read the whole thing this time. I still think that it needed a good edit for readability, but the information is important.

In terms of the other goal, which is to have read at least one book from each of three lists, I'm where I started, having finished one from one list. However! I finished up work on Thursday, and getting everything handed over was taking significant time and energy (I worked multiple evenings attempting to tidy things up), so I hope I have more energy for reading for the next two weeks. I have an interstate trip to complicate matters, because I don't particularly want to be carrying multiple physical books with me.

I guess that means I should focus on the physical books now. Picking the three that have been on the currently reading list for the longest, this week I want to finish one of A Diasporic Mythography: Myth, Legend and Memory in the Literature of the Indian Diaspora, The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty, or This All Come Back Now

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[personal profile] illariy 2023-11-18 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, four books finished this month so far, that is impressive! :D

Also very cool that you got your currently reading under 30.

Best wishes for progressing on the three selected books for the week!
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[personal profile] fred_mouse 2023-11-19 10:33 am (UTC)(link)

Thank you! Note that the 'finishing' doesn't include 'starting' for two of the books :) And I've had a bit of quiet reading time, which has been wonderful. Taking advantage of it while I have it.