November Group Read: Check-in the Last

[glinda]

So it's the last day of November, time to review your joys and woes for this month! Did you get through everything you wanted this month? Or did you read something entirely different? Discover anything new or odd about your reading habits? Did you start strongly then crash and burn completely half-way through the month? (I think I read about four chapters this month...)

Did you saunter over your self-set target deadline or are you reading furiously right up to the final minute of the final day, hoping to finish one more book?

Comments

[taichara]

I never finished the DMG (the past week went ... let's just say it went), but I did read all the PICO-8 -related things on my hopeful list and started on some other things, so on the whole I'll call it a success in the end --

[illariy]

Oh yay for finishing all the PICO-8 things on your list and also starting some other things, too. Sounds like you made great use of your time in this busy time of the year, cheers! :D

[taichara]

Yeah, I got through some things and added some other things and actually got to read, which was the big thing ~

Thankee kindly :3

[kalloway]

Ended up sick and busy. ^^;; Read some manga and also about half of a short-story collection that I downloaded and printed out back in like 2020. (It won't be difficult to finish; the hard mode is that I completely botched printing it and have to keep stopping to get the pages in order.)

[illariy]

Oh noes, sickness and busy-ness all at once, what a bad combination! I was sick a lot in November, too, so I feel you on that front.

Happy to hear you could fit some manga in and half of that short story collection despite the extra time required to get the pages in order. Yay! :D

[kalloway]

I hope you're feeling better! I got whatever headcold was going around and it's been a doozy.

(Still trying to figure out what 2020!self did while printing this! I could theoretically reprint it but it seems so wasteful since all the pages are here, just, like, confused.)

[illariy]

I spoiled my final result in last week's post already but I am shameless enough to just repeat it here and also add to it.

So, my adjusted November goal was to finish the one book I was currently reading, "Temptation Shock" by Neal Stephenson. I am very happy to announce again that I did finish it on Thursday so with a little time left, yay!

It is a climate thriller or near-future sf novel set on multiple continents featuring the Queen of the Netherlands as one of the main protagonists. She is on a mission to help keep her country from
going underwater as sea levels keep rising due to global warming. The book was overall a fun read even though the Queen's main name to be called was the same name a friend of mine had who died by suicide last year. So always reading that name made it hard for me to read the book and it made me abandon the earlier goal of starting another novel in November. Aside from that, the book was also sometimes quite technical and for my liking, could have used some more focus on character development. But at the end, I found myself wanting a sequel anyway. Sadly, it appears that there is no sequel or at least not yet.

Anyway, I am super thrilled with my November reading results. This is always such a enjoyable challenge. Thanks everyone for being here and special thanks to the mods for making it happen! :D

[luvbarryfefe]

I finished one book (Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson - it was a decent enough read) and made progress on another (On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle - it's okay so far) so I consider this a very successful group read. I was happy to participate and look forward to the next one. Thanks for organizing!