November Group Read: Check-in The First

[glinda]

It's the end of the first full week of the challenge!

How're we all doing? Anything to report? Are we racing ahead, falling behind or getting tangled up in our Nano committments? Or are we even reading everything but the books we initially suggested?

Report your triumphs and tribulations in the comments below!

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[fred_mouse]

According to my Goodreads list, the only books I've read in November are not ones that were in the proposed list, which suggests that they were already read at the point that I made that list, so I'm not counting them. After valiant effort, I've abandoned (and returned to the library) Hark! A Vagrant and 100 Years of Solitude. I've also had to return The Stars Askew so as not to attract library fines. I would still like to read it, but I probably won't end up reborrowing it in November.

New list, at least as far as I've thought about it:

1. The Moonlight Dreamers (Siobhan Curham) -- recently purchased
2. Jackie French's Chook Book -- TBR long term resident
3. A Skinful of Shadows (Frances Hardinge)
4. All Systems Red (Martha Wells) -- new from library, already 1/2 the way through
5. Exit Protocol (Martha Wells) -- new from library

Beyond that, there isn't anything on my 'currently reading' list (which is still 34 books!) that inspires me right at the moment. I'll see what I end up grabbing off the shelf. There are a lot of hard-work non-fiction books on that list at the moment, where I've read the chapters that were relevant at the time, but want to read the rest (two on depression, one each on organisational strategies, version control, statistical methodology, and history). Which brings me to

6. At least one non-fiction book from my currently reading list.

My complete unwillingness to specify eight books instead of six makes me wonder whether I should be revising my goal.

[peaceful_sands]

I've finished (amazingly) three out of the 4 audio books I specified - turned out one in particular was only three hours, so by listening to it while I did ironing and other household chores it was finished in a day. I've started listening to The Luminaries (the final one) today but envisage this taken a bit more time (it's over 29 hours of listening).

With regard to the actual books, I've finished The Power of Three and am three chapters in The Chase (not really loving it so far) and about 1/4 of the way through Arrival. With luck I'm hoping to make progress on one or both of those this weekend.

I'm also thinking that I might add in to my list to read two graphic novel/comic collections - 1 will be a re-read from several years ago while the other is its sequel which is newly acquired. Also if I finish The Luminaries before the end of the month, then I shall listen to The Farseekers, the sequel to Obernewtyn (again getting me closer to tackling the unread one that has been sat on my shelf for four years while I waited for the rest of the series to be published).

[glinda]

So far I've only managed to finish a library book (Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi) and start one of the books from my shelf - I've read the introduction and first chapter of The Makers of Scotland. Not much progress but definitely a start!

[tamsin]

I've read about a hundred and twenty pages of my intended book. Had to get some library books that were due out of the way first.