November Group Read: Check-in the First!

[glinda]

The first week of the challenge has reached it’s conclusion. Time to share with the class your triumphs and tribulations. Finish a book? Make a start on something that you've been meaning to get round to for ages? Made absolutely excellent progress due to stress/comfort reading in the face of current events? Launch something across the room it's so very much not your thing? Get completely distracted by another challenge or project and forgot you were meant to be doing this until you saw this post? (Or is that just me?!)

Successes and failures in the comments below!

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[illariy]

trigger warnings: suicide, collapse, climate change

Minor success: I have reached almost 50% in my current read, "Termination Shock" by Neal Stephenson. I am enjoying the story (thriller about climate change, major character: the Netherlands queen) so far but a stumbling block is that the queen goes by Saskia and that is also the name of a close friend of mine who killed herself last year. It is hard for me to read her name that often even though the queen is a very different person. It is also not that easy to read about the changes climate change has brought in that near-future world. Especially if I think about people who aren't as privileged as the Netherlands queen and maybe can't afford one of those Earthsuits etc.

My original goal was to finish this book and start another, yet unspecified one. But as I was sick from 1 till 7 November, I am behind schedule and am going to settle for finishing this current read.