The Reading Challenge Group discussion

How is we nearly half way through the year?! What?!

Time really does fly!

So, what are you going to read this month? Perhaps a half-way-through-the-year celebratory read? Something you've been saving?

First I will be reading Alice in Wonderland which is the fiction group read for the month in one of the groups I am in to start my Summer Reading and go from there.

All Involved by Ryan Gattis. Fiction based on trues events;riots in LA in 1992. I read I Am Pilgrim last year and this was a departure from the type of book I normally read and I was totally gripped from start to finish. I think All Involved will have the same draw for me, can't wait to get stuck in.

I am starting this month reading John Green's Looking for Alaska, James Dashner's The Maze Runner, and We were Liars. I also want to read Jason Segel's Nightmares, Housekeeping, and Never Let me Go. I'm not sure if I can finish all these books this month but I'm going to try.

The Interestings
The Burgess Boys
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
What She Left Behind
The Master Magician
The Prince of Tides

and, of course
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Red Queen
maybe rereadJane Eyre

Separate trips each to Dubai and Singapore, with ~20 hours of lay over, allow for great reading time.

I'm doing the hooked on books readathon 7th-14th so that's a good chance to get through some of my TBR, which is for this month:

The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Audiobook)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Audiobook)

That's all I have planned that I absolutely want to read this month. My TBR is so big that it takes up more room on my shelf than my read books so if I finish this lot I'll decide then what to read. I'll be home then and will have all my Dad's fantasy to read as well

I'm dividing my reading plans into three categories.
1) The long LGBT list to which i keep adding titles. Many of which I've bought, but I don't have much time to eyeball-read so I'm not sure how far I'll actually get.
2) Classics, of course. Including Jane Eyre.
3) Mini-Challenges and Miscellaneous Leftovers. In particular, the Rainbow Challenge. And, I was finally moved up to the top of the library list on both Unhinged and Ensnared, so I'd like to read them before they're due back.

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I started the month of June with The Crucible. I bought this book in a thrift store. It only cost a dollar. What a powerful story!

I have a lot of plans this month, but I know I won't manage to read all of them. I'm just reading as much as I can to catch up a bit now that finals are over. I already read Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder and am now halfway through our YA group read.

Otherwise I plan to read some of the following:
Fire Study by Maria V. Snyder
The Return of the King by J.R.R Tolkien
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Allegiant by Veronica Roth
To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (as a buddy read with a friend)
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

That's an ambitious list. Good luck with your plan.

Thanks, Renee. I don't think I'll manage everything, but I'm just trying to read as many of these as possible.

Okay, I've really got back into reading over the last few days, so I've decided to press ahead and make a list of things I want to get read in June! I'm horrendously behind on my widget, so hopefully I can make a bit of progress on it!

✔ In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood
✔ The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
✔ The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Poetic Edda by Anonymous
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Have fun holly. Alice in wonderland and through the looking glass were pretty good and it was my first time reading both of them too.