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Re: The 2020 Reading Challenge
Posted: Feb 17th, '20, 17:17
by jacobgrey
Oh yeah! XD I scrolled back to remind myself who said that, but I didn't scroll back far enough apparently XD
Re: The 2020 Reading Challenge
Posted: Feb 21st, '20, 17:23
by Rubie
I'm actually surprised I got less than 200 pages in a 500 page book left already. Probably won't get a chance to read again until Sunday/Monday though, but still way faster than I anticipated. Especially with my slow start.
I told my friend yesterday with this book series (The Shadow Campaign series by Django Wexler) I was expecting the typical guns war with politics and some magical voodoo happening, but I was not expecting the amount of female on female romance. That kind of took me by surprised, not like I am like "ewww gross." by it, it just was unexpected when I first started reading this series and by description of it.
Re: The 2020 Reading Challenge
Posted: Feb 22nd, '20, 01:50
by Sanssouci
I finished The Slow Awakening. I'm not sure what to read now. I have a few books going, but I'm just not that into any of them. I need one that I'm into.
Re: The 2020 Reading Challenge
Posted: Feb 23rd, '20, 16:38
by Sanssouci
I had no idea what I wanted, so I just kept trying different books to see what would stick lol. I have now settled on a trashy historical romance called How To Capture A Countess.
Re: The 2020 Reading Challenge
Posted: Feb 24th, '20, 11:24
by memoriam
So I finally made a decision to start another book. This time Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson. Wish me luck with starting it today

Re: The 2020 Reading Challenge
Posted: Feb 24th, '20, 16:06
by Rubie
@wulfilalice: It's not bad, it just was complete unexpected since usually when I read the war, guns, and magic fantasy they never have same sex relationships in it. Usually dudes talking about girls in those.
Oh I love Naomi Novik! I read her series "Her Majesty's Dragon" I still need to read the last two but I am going to reread the entire series when I do. I keep telling myself I should read her other books since I like that series so much.
...and you can never go wrong reading Brandon Sanderson. You can do it Mem!
I bought myself a amazon fire tablet as my new ereader/tablet I guess since you can also use netflix on it. My ereader is so old (all of my electronics are old tbh, but my ereader is 10+ years old) and glitchy and amazon's was the cheapest one for what I wanted so late birthday gift to myself. I just hope I won't get distracted on it since it'll have other functions than just ereader. lol
Re: The 2020 Reading Challenge
Posted: Feb 25th, '20, 10:18
by memoriam
I've never had an e-reader

It's probably more convenient than paper books but damn, I don't think reading would be that nice anymore. I once bought an ebook and read it in pdf on my phone. Wasn't the best for my eyes or my nerves but was pretty convenient for my spine XD
I have another ebook somewhere on my google drive ;u;
But they weren't novels, just books on writing XD I bet an e-reader is probably more convenient than phone.
Oh yeah, Sanderson is pretty awesome. Although his stories are so technical and complex in mechanisms I don't even xD With The Way of Kings I was confused for the first half of the book

Re: The 2020 Reading Challenge
Posted: Feb 25th, '20, 16:00
by Rubie
I got my first one because my friend got one and she loved it. I still prefer real books all the way, just much more convenient because you can read them on your phone as well. Plus books I'm on the fence about reading, I can just wait until the randomly go super cheap. (Plus I kind of wanted a new tablet anyway and not spend a lot of money so two birds one stone)
I have a problem with that series because I don't like some of the characters so when it becomes their narrative I just have a much harder time reading it. lol.
Finished my book last night so three out of fifteen read. Going to read a completely random book because I'm using the kindle unlimited trial and one of the books I've had my eyes on is one I could "borrow" so going to read that before my trial runs out. Then back to my plan to read list.
Re: The 2020 Reading Challenge
Posted: Feb 25th, '20, 22:47
by memoriam
Yeah, for me reading Shallan was like... ugh just get on with it already XD Same for Adolin.