November Group Read: Check-in The Third

[glinda]

It's the end of week three of the challenge, how goes it for all of you? Hope you've all had a better reading week than I have, mine really doesn't bear close scrutiny! (I had toothache, and then antibiotics, it was not condusive to concentrating.)

Are we starting to flag a bit as November grinds on or have we triumphs to share? Anyone defeat a book that's been taunting them for long and weary? Share your reading triumphs and disasters in the comments below.

Comments

[autumndaze]

I think I'm going good! I started and finished a book yesterday ("Heaven Official's Blessing" volume 8). And I'm still plowing through "Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint". It's just a very long book lol But I'm 51% of the way through 551 chapters, so that's something XD

[satsuma]

I have *finally* finished Omniscent Readers Viewpoint….which I claimed to be almost done with back in mid-October

In my defense, a lot happens in the last 750 pages 😅

[taichara]

Still wandered off from zines and the like; finished a book of fantastical houses, and one on the catacomb saints, then went full-steam into rereading my collection of 3e Dungeons & Dragons sourcebooks and have chewed through about a half-dozen of them so far. (and now a 3e game may be brewing, lol)

Just acquired a lovely thing by title of Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World, though, so probably another subject swerve upcoming --

[mekare]

I did manage about 20 minutes more of my audio book, but we‘ve been sick here for a while, so I‘m glad I did even that little bit.

[kalloway]

I ended up buying an entire box of (library discard) manga from a friend for $10 and a Transformers toy, so I've been reading a bunch of random stuff. Not good for my Shelf, but interesting to have some fresh 'surprise' input instead of stuff I've been staring at for ages.

[illariy]

Folks, I've done it, I've finished a book! :O

On Tuesday (I think or Monday), then yesterday and today, I spent a total of 1.75 hours reading and finally got to the very end of "Big Brother" by Lionel Shriver. The novel ended up really grabbing me. I still like the only other book by her that I've read, "We need to talk about Kevin" (a mother's perspective on her son becoming an amok shooter at his school) a lot better but this was decent in the end. And I am so glad I stuck with it, yay! :D

I have selected the next book to read, "Machines like me" by Ian McEwan but I am not sure when I am going to start it as I have a lot of studying to do as well as job applications to write.

[peaceful_sands]

Since last week, I finished 'The Woman They Could Not Silence' and 'Troublemaker' and I abandoned both 'Embers in the Wind' and 'Her Majesty's Royal Coven' both of which weren't working for me at present. I also finished 'The Cactus' and 'Dragonflight'.

I'm still reading 'Soul Music' (p. 132 out of 431) and also reading 'Cloud Runner' (p. 19 out of 327) and am now listening to 'Tigana'. I need to put a bit more of concerted effort into Soul Music and Cloud Runner as they were on my original list for the month. Because I ended up listening to Tigana, I'm not sure that I'm going to get to 'Shift' which was the other one on my original list at the beginning of the month as Tigana, which wasn't on the list, is about 25 hours long and I only started it yesterday, so I guess it depends how much I can listen to while doing other things.

[fred_mouse]

I think I've finished one more, abandoned one, and started one that was on the 'to read this month' pile. I'm cautiously optimistic about meeting my minimum reading goal for the month.