The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

30.5 - Cat's Task: Back to School

This is a two book task.
Both books must be new to you.
One book can have the Graphic Novel MPG.
Books with Childrens MPG are NOT permitted.

Pick two options and read a book for each of them.
Required: State the options.
Required: State the books are new to you

Option 1: Read a book from GR's 66 Campus Novels for Back to School

Option 2: Read a book from School Reading List UK's Books for Sixth Form Year 12: https://tinyurl.com/3wv84ykx

Option 3: Read a book from School Reading List UK's Books for Sixth Form Year 13: https://tinyurl.com/bdxjymh5

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This help thread is open.

I saw that the Night trilogy is on the two School Reading Lists, would we need to read the whole trilogy or would it be OK to just read Night?

Wow! When I saw the lists for options 2 & 3, my first reaction was "oh, no". But then I saw the books on the lists. There are some really good books on there. I envy those kids their education.

Meg wrote: "I saw that the Night trilogy is on the two School Reading Lists, would we need to read the whole trilogy or would it be OK to just read Night?"

Per default rules (Miscellaneous 2 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...) it must be the whole trilogy.

Bea wrote: "Wow! When I saw the lists for options 2 & 3, my first reaction was "oh, no". But then I saw the books on the lists. There are some really good books on there. I envy those kids their education."

Yeah - I was impressed by the lists.

I DNF'd one of the books on the list a couple of years ago. I only read about 30 pages before quitting, though I marked it as "read" (which I do for most of my DNFs). Can I still use that book as a "new to me" read?

Book Concierge wrote: "I DNF'd one of the books on the list a couple of years ago. I only read about 30 pages before quitting, though I marked it as "read" (which I do for most of my DNFs). Can I still use that book as a..."

That will be fine.

As an aside: Any reason you haven't set up an additional exclusive shelf "DNF", to accurately track those, rather than sticking them onto Read?

BC will have to reply, but personally I never use the category of DNF. If I don't get far, I take the book off GR altogether. If I read farther but not all the way through, I will probably rate it 2 or 3. (I might feel it is ok but just not for me, that would be a 3.) I am not interested in GR knowing what I didn't read (or what am I reading now, because they send nagging reminders!)

I also might skim ahead and see the end, in which case I count it as read.

Cat wrote: "As an aside: Any reason you haven't set up an additional exclusive shelf "DNF", to accurately track those, rather than sticking them onto Read?..."

I have a dnf shelf, but it isn't exclusive. I count DNFs as read if I have no plan to ever read them again. I don't use GR's tracking method in any case.