3 Weeks 4 Dreamwidth Minithon

[kalloway]

Since it's time for 3weeks4dreamwidth, let's have a little reading* minithon until the 15th of May. Pick a book*, any book, and read!

If you'd like, share your plans in the comments!


*as usual - 'read' and 'book' are wide open and audiobooks, visual novels, etc. are welcome.

Comments

[lumiosecity]

I've got a few library books that are, coincidentally, due back on the 15th, so I'm going to try and tackle those! They are, as follows:

• Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones


• Soul Eater (vol 1) - Atsushi Ohkubo


• Soul Eater (vol 2) - Atsushi Ohkubo


• Soul Eater (vol 3) - Atsushi Ohkubo


• Romanov - Nadine Brandes

[kalloway]

Ooh, enjoy! I've seen some of the Soul Eater anime, but haven't read the manga.

[lumiosecity]

The anime was one of my favorites when I was younger— I’m hoping to enjoy the manga just as much! :]

[geraineon]

Oh cool! This is cheating a little because I've already started a few chapters but I am reading The Cat Who Saved Books by Natsukawa Sousuke. When I'm done, I'm going to read Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

[kalloway]

There's nothing wrong with picking the book you're already reading! ^_^;

[zdenka]

Ooh, the Imperial Radch books are good! I hope you like it.

[geraineon]

I really enjoyed Ancillary Justice, so I'm definitely looking forward to it!

[kalloway]

I have three (slim) volumes of My Happy Marriage on my shelf, waiting to be read. Hopefully I can get through at least one.

[scintilla10]

Yay, good luck!

[taichara]

Well, the graphic novel version of 1177 BC arrived yesterday and the hardback After 1177 BC is due to arrive tomorrow, so even without adding anything I could totally be adding things *looks at small pile building up* I think I'm set to go --

[kalloway]

Fantastic! \o/

[snowynight]

I'm reading How and Why Stories by Martha Hamilton. I hope that reading children's book will help me rebuild my reading habit.

[kalloway]

Oooh, that sounds like a really interesting book, too.

[snowynight]

Thanks! I have enjoyed the folk tales from around the world.

[wearing_tearing]

Going to try for volume 2 of Witch Hat Atelier \o/

[kalloway]

\o/

[zdenka]

I have 5 or 6 nonfiction books that I've read a chapter or two of each. /O\ My room was a mess with books all over the floor, but I finally bought a new bookcase and put away and organized all my books, and now I can find my to-be-read section!!

So my plan is to finish Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks. If I finish that, next up is a biography of Margaret Fuller. :)

[kalloway]

Hooray and yay for getting the books under control, too!

[illariy]

Yaay, book organisation feels so good!

Oh, I am interested in your opinion on that Oliver Sacks book as I've read others by him but not that one. Looking forward to your updates a lot. :D

[ilyena_sylph]

I'm in the middle of Cherryh's Regenesis, but currently paused to let a new fan who's reading and chatting with me get a bit ahead so we can talk without spoilers.

So I swapped over to Garth Nix's Sabriel to hang out with the main character, who I love dearly.

[cactus_rs]

Sabriel!!!! Such a fave

[illariy]

Wait, it's 3 weeks 4 DW again? Seems like the challenge just finished last month. Time sure flies.

Anyhoo, this challenge comes at the perfect time for me. :D I was gearing up to post a private reading challenge on my journal but now I'm just going to take part here, yay for added community!

My life is very busy right now so I am purposefully leaving my plans vague: to read on my commute as much as possible and to reduce my physical TBR pile. I've finished 2 books from my paid TBR pile so far this week so it's going great! I think I am going to focus on other tasks the rest of the week but I do want to choose a new book for next week's commute.

[kalloway]

Best of luck! (I love the community of this place, and hearing about what everyone is reading!)

[illariy]

Thank you! Yes, the community here is indeed amazing and it helps me so much. :-)

[cactus_rs]

I'm making a concerted effort to finish The Dawn of Everything, ideally one chapter per day. Then on the fiction side I have a Swedish translation of Where the Wind Calls Home, which I think will last mwe the rest of the minithon!

[kalloway]

Excellent plans!

[adore]

I'm reading Cinderwild by Coranna Adams. I like it so far because witchy stuff + fairytale stuff.

[kalloway]

Oooh, I'm gonna toss that one on my wishlist!

[fred_mouse]

Because Hugo reading is Now, I'm picking Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory, which I have started.

[kalloway]

I hope you enjoy it!

[scintilla10]

I'd like to finish the non-fiction ebook that's due back soon at the library: Burn it Down by Maureen Ryan (only 2 more chapters!). And then some more of Evarina Maxwell's Ocean's Echo!

[rekishi]

High five on Ocean's Echo!

[mekare]

Oh I forgot to comment! I‘m making headway in a couple of books in the "currently reading" pile:

Matt Haig - The Comfort Book
an anthology of Chinese poems about friendship
James Gurnsey‘s Color and Light (which only arrived today, but I‘m dying to dive into)

[kalloway]

Ooh, these all sound fantastic!

[rekishi]

oh, I've had The Comfort Book on my list for a while, if you like you, would you be willing to let me know how you liked it?

[mekare]

Sure! Have you read Notes on a Nervous Planet? It‘s similar in approach and I posted a little about that one in comparison to the Comfort Book here. Oh and here is a quote I particularly liked from The Comfort Book.

[rekishi]

No, no I haven't. Thank you for the links though!

[rekishi]

I want to finish "Ocean's Echo" at the very least, which seems mostly realistic ( I started it pretty much on the 30th so this still counts I hope 😂).

I'm not very ambitious with reading recently due to some health complications (mental and physical) and work, but I figure any one single page is better than none.

[kalloway]

It definitely doesn't matter when you started, don't worry! Best of luck!

[rekishi]

Thanks! <3

[scintilla10]

Hee, high five on Ocean's Echo! Hopefully we both get to make some progress on this fun book. :D

[rekishi]

I certainly hope so, I certainly hope so. I'm sorta half-way through and wanted to pen down my impressions but not sure I'll get around to that. It certainly is a bit different from Winter's Orbit.