2020 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 in 2018 and 2019 i had fun hosting... 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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List of members who are joining our 2020 Reading Challenge

trystan830
Kaderin Triste
Mekatra
daikokunyo
Quite Man Cometh
Witchchylde

(each name links to their challenge post)

reserved... just 'cause you never know when i might need it...?

my reading challenge: in 2019, i read 45 books - my goal is to read more than that!



for my information:

Totes doing this again!


Kaderin's Reading List

Honestly, my goal is just to finish all the books that are still in progress from last year...
Maybe to read a couple others as well, we'll see.

yaay! glad to see you again, kaderin!

Haha
..I will always join and pretend to read!

I would like to read more books that are either by lgbt+ authors or have lgbt+ characters. Les say my goal is 20 for now.

Kaderin - LOL! but isn't it fun to actually read every so often?

Mekatra - welcome again! i'll link your post #8 as your challenge post :)

It is nice to sit down and escape from reality in a book...
I don't read nearly as often as I should, but I'm hoping to change that soon. I'm also hoping to get a job at the public library, which I will be submitting my application for tomorrow.

oooh... good luck on the job!

i worked at a branch of my county library yeeeeears ago... but it was great fun. :)

From the job description, it sounds like basic front/reception desk stuff, but would be a great job I think. I'm a little hesitant about applying because I don't have any of the education and experience described in the job listing, but my one friend who works there says that doesn't matter because they hire the person not the education and are just looking for someone who is a good fit.

you sound like a good fit from here! :)

Apply like you deserve it and convince them you'll be great without the requirements.

i'd like to challenge myself to read 30 books this year- one book a month.

go for it, Kaderin! :f-cheer:

1. 'On Writing' - Stephen King
2. 'Academy Girls' - Nora Carroll
3. 'Radio Silence' - Alice Oseman

welcome, daiko!

30 books works out to be 2-1/2 books a month. :)

oh damn, yeah. i should've said 12 books but didn't bother to actually math. well, now that i've said 30, i'm going to stick with 30! //paws the ground and snorts

eh, it's fine.

my goal is always "more than i read last year."

in 2019 i read 45 books. we'll see how 2020 goes! ;)

yes, go pay your library fine!

well that gets an oopsie.... maybe the old house ate the book?

I still wonder if our old landlady (who lived upstairs) stole it...

that's.... awkward.

She was a...not nice lady. Let's just put it that way. XD

ah. well that's not so good either....

Wow, it's only been 2020 for thirty-six minutes (where I am) and two pages already! I'm in too, but I think I'll do something different this year, and pick specific books that have been on my shelf for ages and aim for those, while also listing my other stuff that I get through. I'll do that here.

Merry 2020 everyone!

~ Quiet's Reading List ~

The Castle of Otranto - Walpole
Considered the originator of Gothic Literature as a genre.
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
A big Russian novel.
Dark Souls: Beyond the Grave, vol. 2 - Mecheri & Romieu
Academic book about themes etc. in Dark Souls 3 and Bloodborne.

And then some...
Carry On - Rowell
Wayward Son - Rowell
Abalone Summer - Dowd
Fangirl - Rowell

Libraries can be fairly forgiving about fines. If it's a lumpy amount, try talking to the librarian about it, or alternate payment methods. I know some libraries take food donations for a time in lieu of money.

Posting again, but different topics. Is that bad?

So going over my last year's challenge I made my book a month goal, but it was mostly front loaded. I dropped off my book reviews for a couple months because of issues but I'm back at that now. Fingers crossed that I'll get the book I'm after tomorrow. It's sort of Lovecraft for adolescents, or looks that way. My last review was for the second book of a series about a rescue/rescuing dog and it came with a youth sampler for the publishing company's 2020 releases. Fun!

I'm still keeping in touch with youth books even though I haven't found any appropriate library work yet. I may just start a youtube channel or blog or something to go with my LibraryThing and do some little things like book talks and such.

I'm much further into Carry On now, and actually near the end. I'm surprised at how entertaining the book has been. Baz is an absolutely delightful bastard and Simon...not sure yet but I love the interplay. Though it did throw me for a loop a bit when I discovered mid novel (when the author actually gets around to significant descriptions) that I had the cover character backwards.

I bumped into Rainbow Rowell by accident but recalled seeing her book Fangirl around. Fangirl is about a girl who's devoted to writing fan fiction about a character called Simon Snow, and Carry On is (now) the fiction that Fangirl writes about. I'll probably read Fangirl, since I read fanfiction now and then anyway and it's already there. Not sure I'll pick up Wayward Son though, if it's as dramatic and emotional as reviews seem to say.

I don't mind paying the fine and supporting the local library, I just ave to wait until payday to do it.

i read rainbow rowell's fangirl. it was nice. not great, not bad. i liked it.

i do want to read carry on. the snippets of it that were there in fangirl were fun.

welcome, Quiet Man! i'll add your challenge post to #2 on page 1.

Rainbow Rowell. i haventt read Fangirl, or Carry On (also, there's a sequel - Wayward Son), but i have read two others (i needed Goodreads to tell me the titles, but...): Landline and Attachments. i thought both were very good - light, fun reading, that you don't have to think too deeply about, but interesting subject matter. also, these characters are adults, so there was that too. but a fun read, i'll say that.

Ah frick, I was exhausted yesterday and completely forgot to apply for the job. Thankfully, I still have a little time. So I will hopefully remember to do that when I get home from work tonight.
(Also part of my not applying is probably because in the back of my head saying I'm not gonna get it because someone else with experience who doesn't choke in interviews will get it anyway so why bother?)

OMG I haven't had so much fun reading a book in a long time, but then I've been reading mostly classical gothic horror or younger stuff. Baz is on my list of favourite literary characters now. Not sure if I'll read Wayward Son but I'm picking up Fangirl, mostly out of amusement for the fact that it came before Carry On, so I'd like to see how Rowell expanded the story that started in Fangirl.

I enjoyed the book I think in the same way that fanfiction and such is a guilty pleasure of mine, so in some ways it pretty much fit what I was expecting, but I think the book also has a lot of literary merit with where Rowell takes the characters, focus on them and their internal struggles over what's going on in the world around them, with this nebulous "war" that's happening that they can't really see. At the end of the book, I could appreciate why every point of view character had a point of view.


Also Kaderin, it never hurts to try and honestly, from what I've been looking at and learning the past couple years about work and jobs, actual skill and experience is becoming less important than ability to learn and willingness to try. If you think you have a desire for the work, play up that part. If you don't know how to use a certain program they want you to use, but figure you can work it out, say that too.

Think of the phrase (not sure if I have it exactly right) "Skills can be taught. Passion is innate." Have you ever had to learn on the job before? Did you do it? Mention that. Things like being good enough with the internet to find somewhat you want to know can be worth noting.

Based on my experience actually applying for jobs in the last 2 years that theory is a lie.
Also, turns out, I'm gonna miss out on this time applying. They require a resume for the online application. My resume is very stiff and robotic sounding and also is on my computer. Which doesn't have internet access. And I'm working 8am to 6pm today and tomorrow, so I can't put it on a flash drive to work on and upload somewhere else because the only place with useable computers AND internet is the public library. Which closes at 6.

Books to actually finish this year:
The Plot To Hack America, by Malcolm Nance
The Mueller Report, by Robert Mueller
The U.S. COnstitution and other Key American Writings, by various authors, from Word Cloud Classics.

sounds interesting, Witchchylde! i've also added your post to page 1. :)

I need to find more casual reads cuz some of the ones I have picked up lately have been really serious and heavy subject matter.

I tend to hop into a different genre for lighter things. I'm pretty negligent with contemporary reading so I'll go to that sometimes. Or comedy reading.

It isn't isn't a lie if it's a theory, but sucks that it hasn't worked out. It's worked well for me when my health or habit of over stating things hasn't shot me in the foot.

I'm deciding between Pride and Prejudice or Abalone Summer for my next read. Both have been on my list a while. I picked up Abalone Summer from a scholastic book fair back in elementary school.

the second spoiler in my challenge post includes books that i own that i haven't read yet. right now there's only 2, but i'm also in the middle of finishing my reread of Return of the King. i'll get to my books .... eventually XD