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trystan830 01-01-2022 05:40 PM

2022 Reading Challenge
 
hi again!!!

i set myself a reading challenge every year, which is to read more books than the previous year. 2017 was the first year i did this on Trisphee, (i had a great time! thanks Moonshadow!) and i started hosting this in 2018. it's great fun ... so here we are again!

so, (snagging from previous threads), set a challenge for yourself: read 50 books, read only the books you have at home that you haven't read yet, read a specific genre, read only non-fiction books... whatever you choose.

Your first post should contain your challenge, and use a spoiler to indicate how you are progressing in meeting that challenge. i use a spoiler for my booklist. =)

Please feel free to chat about books, your day, anything!

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trystan830 01-01-2022 05:40 PM

List of members who are joining our 2022 Reading Challenge

trystan830
Kaderin Triste
Monokai

(each name links to their challenge post)

trystan830 01-01-2022 05:41 PM

reserved... just 'cause it's good to have another post reserved. as soon as i don't reserve one, i'll need it for something.... right, Murphy? XD

(and as long as i keep reserving a post that i don't need, i won't need it. right?)

trystan830 01-01-2022 05:43 PM

my reading challenge: in 2021, i read 69 (!!) books - my goal is to read more than that!



for my information:

Kaderin Triste 01-03-2022 04:57 PM

My goal this year...is gonna be the same as last year: 12 books. But it's a loose goal as there's a good chance I'll be finishing 3 books this month. 2 that are roll-over from last year and 1, which is a graphic novel that caused a pretty big stir recently at another library in the state when it was demanded to be removed from shelves. So of course I need to read it! XD

Books Read:

trystan830 01-03-2022 08:02 PM

what was the graphic novel??

Quote:

Oryx & Crake
Good Omens
ooooh!!! Oryx & Crake was a good one! it's 1 of 3 in the MaddAddam series, btw. (#2 - the Year of the Flood; #3 - MaddAddam)
i read Good Omens some time ago, but it's not listed on my goodreads list!! but watched the series when it came out, which was good fun. i think i need to add it to my reread list!

Kaderin Triste 01-05-2022 01:33 AM

Ah, the GN is Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe

I literally brought it home tonight from work and just read the whole thing in one sitting.
If I recall correctly the one major part that people are protesting is a depiction of oral sex (which was actually pretty mild, tbh). But like...it really isn't anything worse than reading a sex scene from a harlequin romance novel. And I could understand the protest/arguments perhaps if this graphic novel were in the "young adult" section as, though many teens/young adults are probably mature enough to handle it, some of the more adult content of the memoir might not be deemed "appropriate" for that age range. But it's not in that section. It's in the adult section. Where you can also find such gems as: Fifty Shades of Gray (which I have never read but I remember how popular it was with...way too many females when it came out) and the Anita Blake series (which started off good but quickly devolved into essentially just written-word paranormal porn).

I found it to be a wonderful insight into Maia's journey of discovering their gender and sexuality. As someone with an nb sibling, it was interesting to hear an nb's perspective on their gender, whether or not it's not the same way my sibling views/feels about their own.

trystan830 01-05-2022 11:05 AM

ooh that sounds like an interesting graphic novel!

and oh yeah, i can totally relate to reading the Anita Blake series. i DO i like a little more plot with my porn, which is why i stopped reading the series quite a number of years ago.

and some of those conservative goofnuts just like to complain about anything that doesn't fit their own narrative.

and completely related, this was my Popular Information newsletter today - https://popular.info/p/the-war-on-library-books (if it wants you to sign up, there's a link on the page that says "let me read it first.")

Kaderin Triste 01-05-2022 03:41 PM

It really was a fantastic graphic novel and I'd highly recommend it.

Yeah....I could do without sex in my books entirely, but it's not always avoidable. So I put up with it if it's a series I otherwise enjoy. But the Anita Blake series...was a disappointment. It started off so good! Zombie raising, crime solving, etc...and devolved into a nearly plotless sex-filled mess. I put up with it for like...15 books in the futile hope that it would come back around to a better plot. I don't think I've read any of the books since shortly after graduating high school.

Ugh. Book banning is just the absolute worst. And just chock full of political hypocrites who really are just trying to push their own racist, sexist, and anti-lgbtq+ agendas.
Let libraries do their jobs and provide resources to the community. And let parents do their job and actually monitor what their kids are reading if they're that concerned. To an extent, my parents did that with our music. Any cds with a "mature" rating label on it had to be either listened to by the parents or they had to read the lyrics before allowing us to buy them. But that was between the ages of about 12-15. Beyond that they didn't care. And they never cared what we read.

trystan830 01-05-2022 08:05 PM

according to goodreads there are 28 books in the Anita Blake series. i read up to 24, which was published in 2015 (looks like i skipped 23 though). there's quite a number of "between the books" books as well - theres's also a book #22.5 and #22.75 story as well!

i understand why Hamilton changed her writing style - it was in a blog post several novels after she'd first introduced the ardeur. apparently her publisher (or editor - i don't remember which) said that nice girls don't write "that stuff" (aka porn) and to dial it back. no one wants to be told what to do, no matter what it is. so she went *shrug*, created the ardeur as a plot device to explain all the porn. and that's her prerogative...but if that's not what i want to read, then i won't read it *shrug*

i have, however, read Hamilton's Merry Gentry series. sure, there's sex scenes in there, but when you have a story about the fae, and that's how they do stuff, it's expected. but Anita? not so much in my mind.

as for book banning, the conservatives and concerned parents who support book banning want to keep everyone ignorant. knowledge is a powerful weapon, and when people learn things, they're empowered. and a lot of conservatives want to keep their people ignorant so that these conservatives can stay in power. i love my library, and i let my kids read whatever they wanted. my parents let me read whatever - my dad would also read my books i read for english, and with at least one of them, he thought was aimed much older than high school reading because he asked me if i understood what i read, but i had no clue! (still don't. also never reread it...) as for music, i didn't really start listening to rock music on the radio when i was in high school, so... yeah.

trystan830 01-30-2022 03:50 PM

between cozy mysteries and graphic novels, i'm reading book #9, and it's just the end of January! woot!

trystan830 02-15-2022 12:01 AM

just finished book #12 today. goodreads says I'm 4 books ahead of schedule for my 70 books this year. being ahead is a good thing. :D

trystan830 03-01-2022 12:28 PM

i finished all the Sandman books! Sandman 1-75, and a few others - Endless Nights, Overture, and the Dream Hunters. *woot*!!

trystan830 03-12-2022 10:32 PM

still reading along. i'm up to reading #21. these cozy mysteries are just like potato chips.
also goodreads says I'm 7 books ahead of schedule. :D

Kaderin Triste 03-14-2022 05:16 PM

I have not kept up with my list... xp
Kind of updated it though I know I need to add at least 1 more to the finished list.

Have been bad about tracking page counts and when I finished the books so I may drop those. Idk that adding them to my list did anything except clutter it slightly and/or made it look like I'd read more than I actually had.

trystan830 03-14-2022 05:19 PM

yeah, i just keep track of the books i read, and that's it. XD


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