November Group Read: Check-In The Third

[glinda]

Ooops late post this week, I went back to work on Monday and promptly got eaten alive by work. Anyway, it's the end of week three of the challenge, how goes it for all of you? Hope you've all had a better reading week than I have… I don’t think I read a single page…

Are we starting to flag a bit as November grinds on or have we triumphs to share? Anyone defeat a book that's been taunting them for long and weary? Share your reading triumphs and disasters in the comments below.

Comments

[mekare]

I‘ve made food progress in Tian Ya Ke and have arrived at chapter 64.

[illariy]

Yay for good progress! I am not familiar with that title but it sounds like a long one with that many chapters. :D

[taichara]

I didn't do as much reading the week past, because I was throwing myself at formatting up a minizine (when not staring into the abyss) and then the weather and etc hit me like a truck. Got the minizine done though!

I might swerve back to the Dungeon Master's Guide this week and try to stick to it. Kind of feeling the old Dark Sun setting for AD&D 2e, also, might dig some of that out and see if it wakes me up ...

[illariy]

Wheeee, a mini zine, how fun! What a worthwhile distraction. Congrats on finishing the mini zine, too!

Yeah, the weather and other stuff have been bringing me down, too.

Hope this current week was better for you and looking forward to your next update.

[fred_mouse]

Still at 3 finished, but DNF is now at three rather than two. Which brings the list down to 44, which is not as close to 30 as I was hoping (the goal was to read some and abandon some, and so far I've decided to persevere with more than I'm DNFing, which yay for having picked books I want to read :) )

[illariy]

Yay on DNFing another one and bringing the list down!

And yeah, it is good to find stuff that is fun to read even though that takes longer than DNFing.

[illariy]

Last week, I was pretty much noton DW due to RL and also read very little, I think maybe 50 to 80 pages?

But this week, oh boy! The post for this week isn't up yet, which I fully understand BTW, but I just cannot contain my excitement and have to share this: yesterday, just in time for the end of the challenge, I finished the one book I was hoping to finish! It is "Termination Shock" by Neal Stephenson. A climate novel set in the near future on multiple continents. It was overall a fun read and at the end, I was hoping for a sequel, hehe. But there was not enough focus on character development and feelings for me. Still, I enjoyed it a lot and am still undecided on whether to keep it around or declutter. I have a space problem, otherwise I would absolutely keep it for a second reading. ;-)