November Group Read: Check in the First

[glinda]

I spent all day excited to make this post and then when the time came I...emm...forgot. Sorry about that.

Anyways... 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

[alexseanchai]

Read the first book of the Iliad. :)

[glinda]

I've made a start on my first book, I've read half of The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan, which is every bit as lovely as I'd hoped it would be. I read a short story version of the book (more like a snippet of its world) a couple of years ago, so I was really excited to find that she'd made a book of it.

[shanaqui]

I have so far managed to read a book a day, four of them being books I bought pre-2016. So I am hitting my goals, though not catching up to my year-long goal.

Finished:
-The Talisman Ring, Georgette Heyer.
-Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely.
-Genome, Matt Ridley.
-Natural Causes, James Oswald.
-This is Your Brain on Music, Daniel Levitin.

[peaceful_sands]

I finished Dead in the Water by Ann Granger, a murder mystery set in a UK town but was fairly unimpressed (I've previously read some others by the same author and enjoyed them more than this one). I also read Black Butler volume XX by Yana Toboso which was a good continuation of the series.

I'm a little over halfway through The Riddle by Alison Croggon and almost halfway through The Crowded Shadows by Celine Kiernan. This probably puts me about on target for the month.

[tamsin]

I've finished one graphic novel (Same Difference by Derek Kirk Kim) and one non-fiction book (Die Frauen der Genies by Friedrich Weissensteiner).