SA Book & Challenge Lovers discussion

Barbara wrote: "@Lauren: you really should start. There were some great reads in there."

I know. I need to step out of my comfor zone for a bit too.

Read Riana's nomination The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Read Sharle's choice - The Fault in Our Stars

4/9

Read Barbara's choice - The Night Circus. Lovely book - I have a long list of people that will enjoy it so my copy will be shared around for a while.

Been rather quite of late, but read

Liezels and Rianas Choice

Home Front By Kristin Hannah

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

Finished Sharle's choice: The Help

8/9

one to go...

Finished ✔Liezel: Room

3/9

Completed Varla's choice:
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

4/9

Finished Riana's choice The Hunger Games.
2/9

Read Varla Fiona's choice - Good Omens. I love Aziraphale and Crowley!

Finished Riana's choice House Rules
9/9

Finished entire challenge!

Well done!

Thanks!!

Finished Liezel's choice: The Way of Shadows

3/9

Updated!

Please check your scores and if I did it right. Thanks!

Completed Lauren's choiceGone Girl.

5/9

Completed Liezel's choice: Room

6/9

Completed Claudia's choice: Zoo City. Enjoyed it hugely - probably more than The Shining Girls.

7/9

Completed Lu's choice: The Whisperer. Excellent book.

8/9

Completed Sharle's choice: The Help. Glad I finally read it, lovely book. Nice way to end 2013 reading.

9/9

Well done to everyone who finished!

I can't believe how badly I did at this challenge this year, even though there were some books I really wanted to read, and plenty of short options for those I was unsure of.

Are we doing it again next year?

Yea I also did very badly :(

Completed Gone Girl Lauren's choice and The Hallowed Ones Lu's choice

6/9

This was my favourite challenge of the year. I still have 4 or 5 books that were nominated which I want to read.

I had a good time with it last year (even if part of it was spent ranting about books I hated!). I was very organised about it, which I completely failed to be this year.

I will set up a new one. But I have to think about how to do it. The point is that with all the great books that are nominated and read some of them will be nominated by other persons the next year. So I will look into it and see how to set one up.

Another theme?
- favourite series (nominate book 1, but we have the option of reading others)
- favourite characters
- Best challenging books (things that took you out of your comfort zone like unlikeable characters, a genre you're not used to, difficult subject matter, etc.)

Yeah, that is what I was thinking about. I am also considering favorite author. I am just trying to eliminate problems we could be having. Like with series are there enough for us all to nominate good series? I will probably set something up later this week then have two weeks for nominations and then start reading somewhere in the middle of march or maybe even 1 April.

Whatever you guys decide I'm in :)

I think there are enough series. I don't even read that many and I can think of 5 to nominate, and that's not including the popular ones like Discworld and The Hitchhiker's Guide. I know several people will want to nominate those along with Harry Potter and Twilight, but if you miss out on one of your favourites, it means you can re-read one of your favourites for the challenge. Also, giving the option of reading any book in the series will give loads of choices.

I don't really mind which one you choose though; was just throwing out ideas. I think 1 April would be a good date to start.

I know. And I think it will be series. We have discussed this earlier and there were many people who liked doing series. So that will probably be it.