November Group Read: Check-in The Second

[glinda]

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.

Comments

[starandrea]

I finished a second graded reader (a fictional story about finding one's ancestral home at the bottom of a lake) and started a third. (I can't tell yet if the third one is about a romantic threesome, which I didn't know was encouraged in Chinese popular fiction, or just one person in love with two people who "has to decide." I did read the last chapter first just to make sure it didn't end tragically, and all of the characters do survive! One of them goes back to the US at the end, though, so maybe that's considered a resolution.)

I also went back and slogged through the rest of the biography I started, just because it annoyed me to leave it unfinished, but I don't think I got much out of it :)

Oh! And I've started rereading Mo Dao Zu Shi on LingQ, which is a long term project for sure but so far very entertaining ♥

[illariy]

Sounds like you made some decent progress, yay! I didn't know this about Chinese popular fiction either, let us know if you find out more on how the book goes ;-)