The Reading Challenge Group discussion

I cant believe it's that time again. I know I am going to have a very busy year and am expecting less reading time....how unfair! So here are the goals for the year:

1. 40 in 2015
2. Finally read the book that has been haunting me for 2 decades - War and Peace
3. Finish all started series....there are so many, what is wrong with me?
4. The Northanger Horrid Novels - yep I want to read all 9!

25/40

1. The Giver 1/5/15
2. The One & Only 1/9/15
3. The Emerald City of Oz 1/12/15
4. Ensnared 1/19/15
5. The Guardian 1/22/15
6. Leaving Time 1/28/15
7. The Rosie Effect 2/9/15
8. Juliet 2/12/15
9. Love Life 2/19/15
10. Glitter and Glue 2/26/15
11. The Patchwork Girl of Oz 2/27/15
12. The Sea of Monsters
13. The Titan's Curse 3/17/15
14. Olive's Ocean 3/19/15
15. War and Peace 3/28/15
16. The House Girl 4/3/15
17. The Leftovers 4/15/15
18. Cress 4/17/15
19. The Selection 4/23/15
20. The Battle of the Labyrinth 4/24/15

21. Night Road 5/5/15
22. The Girl on the Train 5/11/15
23. Fangirl 5/23/15Still Alice
24. At the Water's Edge 6/17/15
25. Grey 7/5/15
26. the other story 8/3/15
27. The Nightingale 9/23/15
28. To Kill a Mockingbird 10/1/15
29. The Astronaut Wives Club 10/5/15
30. Go Set a Watchman 10/15/15
31. Still Alice 10/28/15
32. The Last Olympian 11/12/15
33. Something Borrowed 11/27/15

34. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride 12/12/15
35. True Colors 12/14/15
36. Benji Franklin: Kid Zillionaire 12/15/15
37. The Five Love Languages of Teenagers 12/20/15
38. Torment 12/21/15
39. Bridge to Terabithia
40. Passion 12/30/15

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3. Finish all started series....there are so many, what is wrong with me?


^ I'm curious on this one... This sounds like a challenging goal to me. Do you have a lot of these?

There are a 8 different series that I have started and not completed. Most of them I only have one or two books left in the series but I never seem to finish them all.

I have at least a few that I also have not finished... Some of them though, I havent read in so long that I'm wondering if I should just start over sometime.

I have had ones like that too and sometimes the beginning of the next book is difficult to get into when it has been so long that I think about starting over but there is so many I want to read that I never end up going back.

I expected War and Peace to be my first book of the year but the kids went back to school today and I always read the books my middle schooler reads. I knew he was getting The Giver today so last night I figured I would just read enough to stay ahead of him. Silly me! I just loved it so much.

I love that you read the same books that he does; that's such a great idea! The Giver was one of my favourites in school as well.

I like to know what he is reading and this way he can always ask me if he has any questions. Plus the older he gets the more I find the nonreaders out there always have something negative to say about what the kids are reading. I like to be able to tell them why they are wrong. I really loved this one but at first I was like wow this is rough then I thought about how at his age all my friends were reading 1984 and Animal farm.

And Lord of the Freakin' Flies.
And Diary of Anne Frank.

Yep everyone read those too.

I am finally getting back to War and Peace :)

I really enjoyed Love Life. I must confess though...I listened to the audio because Rob Lowe reads the book.

I didnt think The Sea of Monsters was as good as The Lightning Thief but I loved the ending and want to see what happens next so I am moving on to the next book.

*Searches for Love Life in local audio library*

Finished Olive's Ocean. I actually read it because it is on a banned book list and cannot figure out how anyone could find anything offensive about this book.

War and Peace.....And there it is!

Woohoo!!!

The Leftovers is probably the most depressing book I have every read.

Oh no! That book has been on my TBR for a long time - if it's depressing I think it's probably going to be a permanent fixture there :)

Wow April? I had no idea it has been that long since I updated. I need to add what I have read since then.

Life is so distracting!!

I am behind in updating again. This year has been so busy. But only a few more weeks and I will have more time for reading. Yey! :)