2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Neverending list

My list keeps getting longer and longer and I feel like I never make a dent in it.

Recommended By Reading Challengers - 2014
10/7

1 Frankenstein
2 Eleanor & Park
3 Code Name Verity
4 This Song Will Save Your Life
5 Firefly Lane
6 The Catcher in the Rye
7 The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
8 Looking for Alaska
9 Lolita
10 Divergent

Must finally read this year

3/5

Touch
The Haunting of Hill House
Night of the Living Deed
Murder is Binding
Lolita

Well I just added two more thanks to the Recommended By Reading Challengers - 2014 challenge:)

The Listopia Challenge - 2014

list

Hidden Gems: YA-Fantasy Novels 10 books (now 11)

1 The Dark Lord of Derkholm
2Year of the Griffin
3Fire and Hemlock
4The Perilous Gard
5 The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
6Secrets in the Dark
7 Summers at Castle Auburn
8 The Singer of All Songs
9The Hawk and His Boy...............
10 Obernewtyn
11The Goblin Wood

Best for Book Clubs 5 books

1 The Catcher in the Rye
2 Lolita
3 Frankenstein
4The Sounding
5 Firefly Lane

What I'm planning for January:
None of these are part of the above lists, of course:)

All of these are currently residing at home via purchase from bookstore, on Kindle, and checked out from library.



11/16 read
UnSouled Done
Fangirl Done
Falling to Pieces Done
Second to None DONE ILL came in. Wasn't originally planned:)
The WarriorDone
Mistress of Mellyn Done
The Devil's FootprintsDone
These Broken Stars Done
Falling Kingdoms Done
Night of the Living Deed Done
Angel Diary, Vol. 05 Done

Shall do better for FEB. Probably not:)



The Body of Christopher CreedDone
Room with a Clue Done
The Rosie Project Done
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares Done
A Study in Scarlet Done
The Quick and the Thread Done
Go Fetch!Done

January's reads I dearly loved and was happy to discover that was out:) That series I just really enjoy.

Managed planned list. Onward!



Code Name Verity Done!
The Boy in the SuitcaseDone!

Plan for March:





Vicious Done
I Heard the Owl Call My NameDone
BittenDone
A Kiss Before the ApocalypseDone
Never Fall Down Done
The Man from Primrose Lane Done
The Enchanted Done
Night BrokenDone
Strawberry Shortcake MurderDone
Looking for AlibrandiDone

April Finished

Plan for May:

Finished:


The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Stitch Me Deadly
This Song Will Save Your Life
Thread Reckoning
The Last Templar
It Happened One Autumn
Devil in Winter
Break My Heart 1,000 Times
The Gunslinger
The Sanctuary
Sea of Shadows

JUNE

Plan:

Finished:



James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
Eleanor & Park
And Then Came You: Sam's Story
House Of Many Shadows
House of Shadows
The Blood Gospel
Someday, Someday, Maybe
The King's Daughter
Firefly Lane
Freewill

I just finished with two books, I always feel like I'm missing something when books have the opposite affect on me than with the masses.

One very popular book that everybody loves, that I couldn't finish. Very cliche, that I can enjoy if it hits me right; and the main characters friendship, where they didn't listen to each other.

Firefly Lane

And then a book which doesn't have very many ratings at all... and most people who read it seem to hate it. I felt deeply about the main character and really enjoyed.

Freewill

For July....


FINISHED:

AUGUST:


FINISHED

Hi Deborah,
Have you started The Catcher In the Rye?
I am reading it this month with the Lexington group. But if you are interested you might check out some of the discussion groups around this book here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/list_...

I'm about a quarter of the way through, not quite sure where the book is going.
Thanks for the link, I've been browsing some of the links, such as the "why" of it being a classic. It helped put some of the earlier chapters in perspective:)

Deborah wrote: " I've been browsing some of the links, such as the "why" of it being a classic. It helped put som..."

I totally understand. The first time I read it I thought it must be the profanity. I thought it must be a gimic of some sort. But now since I have read it quite a few times it has become a book like Ulysses only more approachable. But I disagree with the consensus that it is about mental illness. I think Holden is pretty sane and I wonder about the adults that are making a game out of life.

But more than this is the first line in the book. He tells you not to focus on Holden like you would David Copperfield because he is not giving you that kind of story. If you read the first page of David Copperfield you will find Caul-(field) explained.

I don't know if you have had any programming but I noticed that the language seemed organized to point to different things by the different descriptive words...such as when he used phoney or grand or vomit. Or where the different words are used. I was think about WW2 and how the code breakers were very popular.

One thing that I just noticed was the use of "fish" on the second page and then the other places that he uses the word fish...(to put together meaning for what the fish might mean).

As an experiment take a name or a word like ducks and Google that name and if nothing relevant comes up put WW2 with it and see if something comes up. Did you figure out how Holden got that good Good-bye? I think that was very confusing. Did you know that Salinger liked Hemingway a lot. Hemingway came up with the ice berg theory (Google that). I think that Salinger has used that to create this "huh?" kind of experience that makes you have to look deeper than just a book like "Anne of Green Gables.

When you get to the end of the book two songs will be mentioned. Be sure and play those as they will totally change the "read" you get on that scene, and perhaps make you question the "official" (cliff notes) interpretation on this book.

I see the book as an allegory rather than a biography of Holden. I would just keep an open mind to possibly looking at it in both ways and see what makes more sense.

If you have any questions and would like my opinion, I hope you will ask!

Thank you for writing back.

September!!!!!


Finished:

October plans

Finished

NOVEMBER: The start of the crazy season in retail.

This will surly keep me sane


FINISHED: