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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 22nd, '20, 23:41
by AliceON
@Sanssouci: do you know what you'd like, approximately?


@Rubie: haha that's interesting experience. I wish blurbs were more accurate though because it really harms the book when the blurb is promising something different. I don't know how dramatic it is in your case but oh I've read books where I thought "if only the blurb mentioned this" :mclaugh:



I had to switch the book for my buddy read
we were going to read "the mermaid and mrs.hancock" but it's not available in my library and I only have two weeks to devote to focused reading so we had to find something else and chose "uprooted"


'The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock'
by Imogen Hermes Gowar


:trade:


'Uprooted'
by Naomi Novik


I'm enjoying the book a lot. I read "spinning silver" by Novik and found her incredible at writing fairy-tales magically and down-to-earth at the same time. "uprooted" hasn't disappointed yet, though it's so different from "spinning silver".

other than this change I've been following the plan so far, but I'll probably cross out the unread books in march and make a new list. not sure but it's rather likely

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 :mcheh:

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 :mcargh: 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 :mcargh:

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.