Comments on: End-of-Year Reading Challenge

By: Lady-S

Lady-S — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:09:22 +0000

Thought I’d posted this last night, but probably did something bright like not hitting ‘Submit’. Anyway, I feel like the last person in the world who should be accepting a challenge to reading-just-for-pleasure these days, but I did it anyway.

Committing to reading Sherwood Smith’s The Fox, which is sort of a reread, and will be wonderful, I know, but I keep feeling I ought to read something totally new first. And Maureen Johnson’s Girl at Sea, because it’s upstairs calling me, and I’d be reading it soon anyway, and that way I can say I made a list of books I’d committed to read. And I do love making lists…

By: Kelley

Kelley — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:24:51 +0000

I feel for you, Lizzie! I’m no longer reading textbooks, but I’m editing Sunday school curriculum and biblical commentaries and spiritual self-help books (yippee!) and have very little time for fun reading myself.

Even so, I will commit to one book after I finish Twilight. Just one: The Book Thief. It’s on my to-read list, and if Robin and Molly are going to read it, I’ll have someone to take the journey with me.

Hopefully, I’ll be able to finish more than this, but I’m not going to set myself up for disappointment with the craziness of work and the holiday rush looming.

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:14:16 +0000

Hey Robin,
This is totally off topic, but go see The Savages when it comes out at the end of November/beginning of December. I just caught an advanced screening of it and Monday and it’s killer. Also, Laura Linney was there to do a Q&A after the film, which was pretty cool.

And good luck reading all those books… I wish I could separate myself from my textbooks and finish even one book I was reading for fun, but alas, no.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:23:41 +0000

Hi, just dropping in here. May I just recommend that you ixnay The Book Thief from your list and instead listen to it on your iPod-ish device while you do other things? It’s a marvelous audiobook, and its narrator will propel you out into the universe a strangely changed person. So there. I have chimed in. Now I shall go lie down.

By: Alkelda

Alkelda — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:57:31 +0000

Hmmm… I’ll definitely have to think about which books I’m going to read in the last 11 weeks (what? 11 weeks?) of the year.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:48:30 +0000

Well Let’s see! I think A Great and Terrible Beauty, Looking For Alaska, So Yesterday, the Girl with the Pearl Earrings, and I really need to push through Dairy Queen! XD And probably many more!

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:54:59 +0000

I’m in! I want to read White Time, because I love Margo Lanagan, and because I promised Eisha that I would, and because I can’t read Red Spikes until I do.

Also, The True Meaning of Smekday, because for once, I want to read a book right when it comes out and I’ve been dying to read this ever since I saw his hilarious instructional video on his website.

And then I need The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian.

And something very old: The 21 Balloons, because my daughter keeps telling me how much she loved it when she was younger, and how can she love an old classic that I’ve never read???

By: Vivian

Vivian — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:33:50 +0000

You are going to LOVE The Book Thief. It is definitely one of my favorites. Beautiful.

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:59:32 +0000

“way ahead of him”????

What?

ONE BOOK, BRANDE! You’re ahead by a single book.

On what planet does that translate to “way ahead?”

Amish math. Sheesh.

By: jules

jules — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:50:52 +0000

Oh man, I have to think about this. Really. I’m just a nerdy, work-conscious fool, even when it comes to blogging, which doesn’t pay. I mean, I feel so obligated to get to that “never diminishing To Be Read pile” in the name of all the publishers and authors who have sent me stuff (this is actually something I struggle with now — I tell myself I can’t read an older book, ’cause we only review new stuff, or I can’t read, essentially, something I wouldn’t be able to blog about — isn’t that just wrong? See how blogging has changed my reading habits, even though I love doing it? Sara loaned me a non-fiction title, and I haven’t gotten past the first chapter, even though I’m interested in reading it, ’cause I know I will not likely blog about it).

Sorry to get started on this topic, which is heavy on my mind right now. You have REALLY challenged me now, Robin. Blast it.