tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178366214524455884.post4443149525599881799..comments2024-03-18T16:57:09.742-04:00Comments on The Road Less Travelled: #MicroblogMondays: Reading updateloribethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09272814565916935113noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178366214524455884.post-55054781531445221572019-05-15T00:19:50.771-04:002019-05-15T00:19:50.771-04:00Enthusiastic words written in this blog helped me ...Enthusiastic words written in this blog helped me to enhance my skills as well as helped me to know how I can help myself on my own. I am really glad to come at this platform.<br /><a href="https://www.i-store.co.th/personalstorage-1" rel="nofollow">Living in bangkok</a>mrkdvsnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09327782819628187575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178366214524455884.post-84077985462415563572019-05-04T08:58:34.820-04:002019-05-04T08:58:34.820-04:00Wow, that's awesome progress!
Not doing any c...Wow, that's awesome progress!<br /><br />Not doing any challenges or book clubs (though your posts are inspiring me to look into my local library to see if they have a book club at a time I can do). I think it would probably be good for me to do something like that, though - some books I wound up loving aren't ones I would have picked up if not for a friend/challenge. <br /><br />Currently just getting ready to start "Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad & Criminal in 19th Century New York" (nonfiction). I'm generally interested in medical history, so hopefully this one will prove revealing. I'll also second Lori Lavender Luz's "The Girls Who Went Away", which I just finished. Inconceivable!http://inconceivable12.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178366214524455884.post-16686924372964479752019-05-01T21:36:02.555-04:002019-05-01T21:36:02.555-04:00Ooh, that one has been in my TBR pile forever! Tha...Ooh, that one has been in my TBR pile forever! Thanks for the reminder about it! loribethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09272814565916935113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178366214524455884.post-24432634505992154302019-05-01T20:55:50.839-04:002019-05-01T20:55:50.839-04:00You inspire me. I go at a slower pace, but I'm...You inspire me. I go at a slower pace, but I'm meeting my goals for the year so far.<br /><br />Right now I'm reading The Girls Who Went Away. Good read for people interested in the history of adoption, as well as feminism & misogyny in the last hundred years..Lori Lavender Luzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15394441222262940632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178366214524455884.post-38080297598052787972019-04-30T19:07:22.798-04:002019-04-30T19:07:22.798-04:00I would think they do... especially if you read th...I would think they do... especially if you read them in their entirety (or most of it...!), not just skimming. <br /><br />I've read some good reviews of Normal People & added it to my "want to read" list. loribethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09272814565916935113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178366214524455884.post-31812053763319371812019-04-30T01:20:15.560-04:002019-04-30T01:20:15.560-04:00You're doing amazing. Maybe you have to reasse...You're doing amazing. Maybe you have to reassess your challenge target for this year, and increase it so you don't have a temptation to cruise for the rest of the year! (And I'm going to reread your post from last year about things that helped you read more.)<br /><br />I've just started The Seed, thanks to your review. And I read Sally Rooney's Normal People in just a couple of days, which was out of character (based on recent performance)! But I've been reading language books and guide books recently, and I'm assuming they don't count. Or do they?Malihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03928262526502319303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178366214524455884.post-47566118251574876722019-04-29T18:22:32.153-04:002019-04-29T18:22:32.153-04:00You can do it! You will hit this challenge. Only i...You can do it! You will hit this challenge. Only increase it if it doesn't make it unfun anymore, I had a summer book challenge and Bryce raised it so much that I felt undue stress trying to hit it and I found I was choosing books not for interest but for length and forgoing ones that I worried would put me "behind." Which takes the joy out. You have good strategies for keeping up on your reading! <br /><br />I just finished "Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl From Somewhere Else" by Maeve Higgins, and it was fabulous. Funny, insightful, well-crafted pieces. I also read a book I'd never read but has been haunting me from the shelf (and it's Bryce's copy from the mid-80s) -- "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." I was NOT as crazy about that one. It had good parts, but it was really all over the place. That one felt like work. I am reading a lot more books than normal during the school year because I am housebound, limited in mobility, and the most comfortable thing I can do is read! :) Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15868505568965284742noreply@blogger.com