fred_mouse: pencil drawing of mouse sitting on its butt reading a large blue book (book)
fred_mouse ([personal profile] fred_mouse) wrote in [community profile] readingtogether2023-12-12 07:57 pm

Quick challenge: Pick a book, any book!

I'm seeing the end of the year heading for me very fast, and the list of books I was going to read This Year is nowhere near as small as I want it. So! for this week (umm, say, between now and sometime Sunday) the challenge is to select one book, and focus on finishing it.

What book are you going to try and get to the other end of this week?

illariy: a woman sits and leans against a giant white question mark (question mark in my head)

[personal profile] illariy 2023-12-15 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a tough book. Hope you can get more progress this week!

And yeah, one less author to auto-buy is good, at least for the length of the tbr pile ;-)
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[personal profile] kalloway 2023-12-12 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I signed up for an advent calendar of what I thought would be short stories but some of them are whole-ass novels. I'll pick one of the ones I haven't touched yet when I flop in bed later.
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[personal profile] kalloway 2023-12-12 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I was really surprised. The first couple I got to were ~40 pages and that was fine, then suddenly, like, 300 page ebooks getting dropped on me and while I do like free books, there's no way to read them as quickly as they're virtually piling up.
illariy: a woman sits and leans against a giant white question mark (question mark in my head)

[personal profile] illariy 2023-12-15 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Holy carp, that is a lot of reading! :O

Sounds like you are now set for the rest of the season. Hope the one you picked was pleasant to read. Reading in bed is so comfy.
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[personal profile] glinda 2023-12-12 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I’m going to try to finish either Harley Quinn: Black, White and Red or Record of a Spaceborn Few both of which I’m halfway through!
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[personal profile] cactus_rs 2023-12-12 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm doing a reread from several years ago, Karin Boyes "Crisis," cause wow is it a wild ride and I don't think my Swedish was up to the task the first time around.

And then also "A Japanese Nightingale" which is not my cup of tea so far BUT I have a beautiful hardback edition with lots of gorgeous illustrations so I can at least enjoy those!
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[personal profile] rmc28 2023-12-12 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)

I did finally finish Carrying the Fire yesterday (memoir by Michael Collins, the astronaut who stayed in orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon) and got it back to the library only ten days overdue (after renewing it all possible times). It was a good book, it's just I didn't start it until it was nearly overdue.

I have five more physical books nominally due back on 19 Dec, all of which I think I can renew, so I'm focusing on Honour's Knight and Heaven's Queen, books 2 & 3 of a milsf trilogy by Rachel Bach (omg, I just found she's written oodles more as Rachel Aaron). I can't actually get to the library on 19 Dec, it's either Sat 16 or Sat 23, but if I can get both the Bach books back this Sat that'll be good.

illariy: uhura smiles (uhura: smile)

[personal profile] illariy 2023-12-15 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that memoir sounds interesting. Congrats on finally finishing it!

Best wishes for those library books. :-)
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[personal profile] rmc28 2023-12-16 09:14 am (UTC)(link)

It was really interesting!

I have finished the Rachel Bach books, go me!!

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[personal profile] illariy 2023-12-16 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, you finished both of them? Yay, huge congrats to you! :D
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[personal profile] peaceful_sands 2023-12-12 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I've got a library audio book that I want to either finish or give up on - The Man She Never Met by Annie Hulley (not really enjoying the author's voice).

I also need to finish 'Split Infinity' by Piers Anthony which is a paperback I have underway and at least one of the ebooks I have on the go - I have 2 underway and both are early reviewer copies with another waiting to be read. Not sure where I'll find the time for them all! At least with the audio one, I can clean while listening and there's always plenty of that waiting to be done!

illariy: entrance into a swimming pool (water entrance)

[personal profile] illariy 2023-12-15 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, loads on your reading plate! :O

I wish you much success and much progress with all of those. :-)
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[personal profile] angledge 2023-12-12 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll finish my current Libby loan, Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II by Lena Andrews. My maternal grandmother was a Rosie the Riveter in Denver so it's making me think of her!
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[personal profile] angledge 2023-12-17 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It was pretty good! I finished it yesterday.
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[personal profile] shanaqui 2023-12-13 12:14 am (UTC)(link)

Oh! That is usually difficult because I usually read several books at once and finish them within a fairly short timespan... but this one is easy, because I've been stalled on finishing Deanna Raybourn's The Impossible Impostor since I a) learned the ending and b) realised it was going to be driven by the "we can't possibly talk to each other honestly" trope of stupidness.

So I will choose that. Skimming it is fine if that is the only way I can get it read. I just want to get done with it.

illariy: a young man swings his hair (boy hair swing)

[personal profile] illariy 2023-12-15 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, skimming has allowed to get much reading done with books I just wanted to finish.

Best wishes for finishing this book, whether you have to skim it or not. :-)
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[personal profile] mekare 2023-12-14 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I‘ll try and finish Ikigai! I‘m more than halfway through and I really want to finish at least one more book from the pile.
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[personal profile] illariy 2023-12-15 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, that book is on my to read list. Once you are done, would you mind telling me if you would recommend it or not?

Best wishes for finishing the book this week!
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[personal profile] illariy 2023-12-15 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh man, I am so sorry to have missed this. I had my book picked, a pop science book by a German TV moderator who is a scientist, and was planning to read on my commute yesterday. Well, then the commute came and I turned to my backpack to fetch out my book and it wasn't there. I think I must have unpacked it for a shopping trip and then failed to put it back.

Now I don't think I'll get any reading done the rest of this week, not which how little I got done today for uni and with how much I need to write more on that long letter plus the other project for uni. Too bad. But I hope to continue with that same book next week - once I have found it, that is!
illariy: uhura smiles (uhura: smile)

[personal profile] illariy 2023-12-16 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much.


Ooooh, I much look forward to future challenges. :D
illariy: a young man swings his hair (boy hair swing)

[personal profile] illariy 2023-12-17 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, your comment came in at 3.21 am my time and I was indeed asleep. But I just got done with uni work and commented on the new progress post. These are so much fun! Thank you for doing this. :D