Quick challenge: Pick a book, any book!

[fred_mouse]

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?

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[fred_mouse]

I'm about half way through Richard Osman's most recent Thursday Murder Club book, The Last Devil To Die. It is giving me the irrits, but I do really want to find out what the plot is, so I'm still going. I think, however, this book has solidified my intention to not auto-buy this author any more.

[kalloway]

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.

[glinda]

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!

[cactus_rs]

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!

[rmc28]

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.

[peaceful_sands]

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!

[angledge]

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!

[shanaqui]

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.

[mekare]

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.

[illariy]

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!