You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

Hey, I'm Lisa but I'll be using my nickname Lotti for this challenge, as there already is another Lisa (hi).

I'm going for the low octane version, because this is not the only challenge I'm participating in and I don't want to overdo it.

The first book I finished was Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher.

The next one I am reading now, Bill Bryson's At Home: A Short History of Private Life and the one after that will be The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

Hi Lisa (Lotti) from the other Lisa!

Good luck with the challenge. It sounds like you have some great books lined up! :)

Hey Lisa!

Thanks, I like your list, there's quite a few that are on my TBR list. Have fun!

Okay, I already have a question: I usually read (a lot) more than one book at the time... is it okay to keep doing that with this challenge, as long as I finish them in order? For example, I'm not done with my book for B but I'd really like to start on the one for C. Thanks to anyone who can help me out!

Hi Lotti,

welcome in to join the fun.

Yes, it's fine to be reading B&C (for example) at the same time. but you can't be reading nonadjacent letters, so no jumping forward & reading B & F together.

Thanks Judy! The only other book I've read by him so far is A Short History of Nearly Everything, but I do have to admit I liked it a lot more than the current one. It's not bad, it just seems random at times, the house concept feels a little forced. But I still think it's an enjoyable read and it has lot of interesting facts.
I definitely have more of his works on my TBR list, I just really like is style.

Hey Helen, thanks, that makes sense and is the way I was going to do it, so that will work out perfectly!

Just finished At Home: A Short History of Private Life. It was an interesting and entertaining read, but doesn't compare to A Short History of Nearly Everything.
I'm excited about starting The Alchemist, but now I'm off to bed. Good night!

Hi Lisa. I completely agree that A Short History was better than At Home. I think he found it a bit easier to write in 3 categories already determined and established like Physics, Chem and Bio, than categories he was making up as he wrote ie. rooms in the house.

However, I still found it fascinating. I always look at green wallpaper now with hesitation, and all the members of my old book club which we read it for all close the toilet now in case of rats. Doesn't matter our plumbing is only 30 years old instead of 300. YOU NEVER KNOW!

So I've changed my mind about what book to read for C.
I was going with The Alchemist because I have always wanted to read it and assumed I own it, but I don't, and as I have to start C today, I picked Ender's Game by Orson S. Card. It's been on my shelves for quite a few years and I've never gotten around to reading it. I'm through the first 67 pages and like it a lot so far. I'll probably get it done today, because I have to study for an exam tomorrow and that's usually the time when I read the most :)

6 hours and a whole lot of reading, cleaning up the apartment, and idling around on goodreads and only a bit of studying for my exam tomorrow, I am done with Ender's Game. I loved it. Can't wait to read the next one.

Time to get started on book #4: Dawkin's The God Delusion Actually, I already got started on it last year, but it usually takes me a while longer to finish non-fiction. I figured it wasn't cheating, since I was not even 1/3 done. I'll skim over that part again because it's been a while since I've read it.

Okay, I am done with D and E. The God Delusion by Dawkins was great as expected. He is really an amazing scientist as well as writer and you can always feel the passion and dedication that he has for the world and its people (even the negative passion he expresses toward religion). I agree with pretty much anything he says and he has given me many arguments to use when talking about religion (and science too for that matter).
Andreas Eschbach's Exponentialdrift was an easy and entertaining read, but I have read better books by him.

Next up on the list is The Great Gatsby. I already read this one some year's back, but I don't really remember anything so I wanted to read it again.

You are doing great, Lisa. You'll be finished The Great Gatsby in time for the movie coming out.

Lisa wrote: " I already read this one some year's back, but I don't really remember anything so I wanted to read it again."

I also have the same 'problem'. Easily forgetting what I've read, even some weeks or days ago. Quite frustrating

Neenee wrote: "Lisa wrote: " I already read this one some year's back, but I don't really remember anything so I wanted to read it again."

I also have the same 'problem'. Easily forgetting what I've read, even s..."

I actually have a list where I put down everything I read, because I have often realized some dozen or even hundred pages into a book that I already read it. I think that just happens if you read a lot, and I just try to make the best out of it (I can reread my favorite books and if I waited long enough in between, I'll have forgotten a lot).

Janice wrote: "You are doing great, Lisa. You'll be finished The Great Gatsby in time for the movie coming out."

Thanks Janice! I'm not sure I'll watch the movie though, I have a hard time watching movies made out of books that I read. But I will probably give it a try.

Lisa wrote: "I actually have a list where I put down everything I read, because I have often realized some dozen or even hundred pages into a book that I already read it. I think that just happens if you read a lot, and I just try to make the best out of it (I can reread my favorite books and if I waited long enough in between, I'll have forgotten a lot)."

Another problem is forgetting the plots and characters and mixing them up with other books.... should do the list too.