November Group Read Kick-Off Post

[glinda]

Naturally, because these things always happen at the least convenient time, my internet fell over on Wednesday morning and has been tempermental ever since.

Anyway, there seemed to be enough interest to make the challenge worth running again so this is your somewhat belated kick-off post!

Basically this can be as big or as little of a commitment as you feel up to. Dependant on your reading speed/available time you can sign up to read one book or ten books. Doesn't matter how big or small the book, only that its something that has been taking up space on your book shelf (or case/box/tottering pile beside your bed) for some time and you've never quite got round to it.

Comment below with the books you'd like to get through this month...or feel free to boast away if you've already finished something!

I'll do regular check-in posts every Friday throughout November - happy reading!

Comments

[fred_mouse]

My goal is to finish 8 books in November. At present, I have 36 books in my 'currently reading' list, so I would like at least four of them to be books already in that list, at least one to be something I've bought in the last month, and at least one to be from the shelf I've been stashing books I really really want to read as soon as I get caught up.

Tentatively, the starting list is (currently reading, unless otherwise mentioned)
1. The Moonlight Dreamers (Siobhan Curham) -- recently purchased
2. Hark! A Vagrant
3. Jackie French's Chook Book -- TBR long term resident
4. The Stars Askew (Rjurik Davidson)
5. A Skinful of Shadows (Frances Hardinge)
6. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Márquez)

Once I've finished two of these, I'll think about what else to add to the list.

Stretch goal: Any week where I read more than two books, the extra numbers will be added to the total for the month, so that I continue to challenge myself to finish two a week. This is because I'm working towards the longer term goal of having 20 or fewer books on the currently reading list at the beginning of 2019. Getting 8 books off the list in November would keep me on track.

[peaceful_sands]

Good luck and happy reading!

[fred_mouse]

Thanks.

The library has demanded #4 back, and I've abandoned #2 and #6 in order to return them at the same time. I wasn't getting pleasure out of them, and it saves me a trip!