November Group Read: Ready Steady Read!

[glinda]

Well, that was a pleasingly positive response - let's do this thing!

Checkins will be on Fridays except for the final one which will be a Saturday! As ever, there are no penalties for checking in late, missing a check-in or not making your target. It's all about encouraging each other to read more than we would have otherwise. If you've got a list or a target, feel free to share it in the comments below!

And most importantly, have fun! As much as one of the core ideas of this challenge is to get unread/half-read books read, life's too short to read bad books/books that aren't right for you, so don't keep slogging away at one book you're not enjoying - unless it's, you know, homework, in which case tell us and we'll up the cheerleading - just because you've listed it when you could be spending that time reading something else you'd enjoy.

Comments

[glinda]

My list:
Black and British - David Olusoga
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow - Natasha Pulley
The Sundance Kids - James Mottram
The Poppy War - RF Kaung
The Earthsea Quartet - Ursuala Le Guin
Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture - Sheldon H Lu
The Art of Explanation - Ros Atkins
Welcome to Nightvale (A Novel) - Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

I want to read/finish reading any four of these this month.

[taichara]

Atm I'm hopefully looking at:

- D&D Dungeon Master's Guide, 5.5 edition
- the PICO-8 user manual
- a handful of PICO-8 zines, one of them reasonably hefty

Knowing me I'm bound to wander around and add things and graze and generally make a mess, but those are what I'm hoping to actually read this month lol

[mekare]

Book of Joy - Dalai Lama&Desmond Tutu
Legend of the Condor Heroes - Jin Yong
Help! - Oliver Burkeman

[tamsin]

I'll aim for 2 books. Focus is on books that have been on my shelves for a long time and that I suspect are books that fall in the "read once & pass on" rather than the "keep" category.

[luvbarryfefe]

Hi there. I am excited to participate. I have several books that I tossed aside for whatever reason (honestly, it was usually because something else looked 'shinier' at the time) so I am planning to finish at least 3 of them this month. Any of these will do:

** Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
** Sophomore Year is Greek to Me by Meredith Zeitlin
** The Inn by James Patterson
** Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris
** The Black Ice by Michael Connelly
** Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena
** On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle
** Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton & James Patterson

[boxofdelights]

I've got

Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge, by Ted Conover
Caleb Williams, by William Godwin
To Shape a Dragon's Breath, by Moniquill Blackgoose (really looking forward to this!)

to read for book groups this month.

But I've got

The absolute book / Elizabeth Knox.
Walk : slow down, wake up, and connect at 1-3 miles per hour / Jonathon Stalls
The porpoise : a novel / Mark Haddon.
We solve murders : a novel / Richard Osman

that are all already overdue at the library. I should just return the library books and get back on their waitlists, but it's so hard to let go of a book when I have started it but haven't finished it!

[wearing_tearing]

Hopefuls:

- The Fury of the Gods by John Gwynne (last book in the trilogy!)
- Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson (so I can hopefully finish the series in December)
- Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune (for my A-Z Challenge)

I'm also taking part in the Nonfiction November Challenge hosted by abookolive and will be reading 4 nonfiction books this month :D

[fred_mouse]

Goal: finish 8 books from the 'currently in progress' list of Doom. Which topped out at, I think, 49 books recently

Note that that isn't actually currently in progress in the sense that I've been reading them. But in the sense that I started them, put them on the list, and have neither finished or decided to abandon them.