November Book Read - First Check In

[glinda]

Somewhat delayed due to train shenanigans - due to signal failure I was sent on a 3 hour detour - last night, but as this week was a short week I'm sure you won't mind the extra reading time...

Anyway the first week of the challenge has reached an end. 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? Or finally accept that that one book everyone recommended you is just not your thing and you're never going to get past the second chapter?

Successes and failures below the line please!

Comments

[glinda]

My unexpectedly epic journey over the weekend meant that I read just over half of Ladies on the Grand Tour by Brian Nolan. I was listened to a chapter of Life of Pi which I've had on the go for a ridiculous amount of time.

[shanaqui]

I could not stick with Life of Pi when I tried it. Sigh.

[glinda]

Yeah, well I started the audiobook in March so I dunno what that tells you about my relationship with it...I'm enjoying it, but if someone was to take my copy away and I never found out the ending I don't think I'd be that bothered? I'm glad I'm consuming it as an audiobook because I think I'd have got bored and given up long ago if I had to slog through the text rather than having it read to me by someone with a rather pleasant voice... :S

[peaceful_sands]

I've had a couple of tries at reading Life of Pi and I never seem to get very far with it. Is it worth persevering with?

[glinda]

I'm not sure that it is actually, I might be wrong and the ending might be amazing, but it'll have to have a pretty amazing ending for me to recommend it to anyone.

[shanaqui]

Let's see -- I can't quite remember exactly when this challenge started versus when I finished various books, so I'll just go with "since last Monday".

Finished:
-Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl.
-Patricia McKillip, Wonders of the Invisible World.
-Guy Gavriel Kay, A Song for Arbonne.
-Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell, The Sleeper & The Spindle.
-G. Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphona, Ms Marvel: No Normal.

Started:
-Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale.
-Adam Alter, Drunk Tank Pink.
-Jo Walton, The Just City.
-Guy Gavriel Kay, The Lions of Al-Rassan.
-Robin McKinley, Shadows.

I had to start The Thirteenth Tale again because I've been dawdling so long about reading it; the GGK books are rereads so I might not make much progress on Al-Rassan. Been meaning to read Shadows for a while, and The Just City is coming out in January and I am so excited to get to read it now.

[peaceful_sands]

Sounds like you're making great progress :D

[shanaqui]

Just hope I keep it up, haha!

[peaceful_sands]

I've finished Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh and Worst Case by James Patterson this week.

I'm just over half way through Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, about a third of the way through Dead or Alive by Tom Clancy and I hope to finish Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko in the next day or two.

[shanaqui]

Eeh, I need to catch up with Sergei Lukyanenko's latest. Enjoying Night Watch?

[peaceful_sands]

I am so far - not much more to go - I've started the third part of the book. I've got the next three books on the shelf to read (probably after Christmas now). Are the subsequent parts something to look forward to? I presume they are as you're going to catch up with the new one. I was dubious before starting about whether they were going to be my thing, but so far I'm pleasantly surprised :D

[bookblather]

I finished a book that was on my list! And promptly got distracted by my Victorian queer romance mysteries. I regret nothing.

But I am done with Beauvallet! And now, Jezebel.

[glinda]

Hooray! I must say that Victorian queer romance mysteries sound intriguing though...