2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Hi, all! I'm new to goodreads and this is my first book group. I'm very excited to get to know everyone and have some fun reading along the way.

A little about me: As you may have guessed from my topic subject, my name is Morgan. My husband and I welcomed twin boys, Cody and Ryndon, into our lives on November 8, 2013. They are amazing and it's been such a wonderful, but exhausting lol, time for us.

I am a senior veterinary student and I'll be going back to school full time at the beginning of February. After 4 long years of undergraduate studies and 4 even longer years of vet school, I'll receive my DVM in August and I can't wait! Unfortunately, being a full time mom on top of being a full time student and studying for my national board exam, I won't have as much time to dedicate to pleasure reading as I would like. I joined this group because one of my new year's resolutions is to make sure to take a few minutes everyday for myself and I'm going to use this challenge to keep myself on track. I tend to put myself and my needs on the back burner, so I need someone to keep me honest :)

I have always loved reading. I love all sorts of genres, but I tend to gravitate towards crime/mystery/thriller type novels and science fiction. I'm not a huge fan of romance, but I'll try any highly recommended book regardless of genre. I am setting a goal of 50 books over the course of the year. It's not as many as I would like or I'm used to, but hey...it's a start and manageable (I hope lol).

If you have any book recommendations, I'd love to hear them! Happy reading, everyone! :)

Book 1 of 50-done! Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

Welcome to the group Morgan! I am a big Odd Thomas fan. How did you like it?

Hi, Jodi! Well, I started off not liking it as much as I thought I would. It was slow going and I found Odd's narrative style a little disjointed, but! Then I kept reading. I think it was very clever how Koontz used that style of writing to further character development. Once I was about half way through, I couldn't put it down. I ended up liking it very much. I have a few books on my "to-read" list ahead of the next book in the series, but I look forward to reading it. Which of the Odd Thomas books is your favorite? Do you recommend other Dean Koontz novels? Thanks for stopping by!

Book 2 of 50-Done! Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K. Hamilton

I confess I started reading this book right before Christmas, grew tired of it, and I just finished it last night. So even if I didn't technically read it all in 2014, but I finished it in 2014 so that counts...riiiight? ;)

Books 3 and 4 out of 50: Done!

"Cobra Event" by Richard Preston
"The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

I enjoyed both books.

what did you think of fault of our stars?

Morgan wrote: "Hi, Jodi! Well, I started off not liking it as much as I thought I would. It was slow going and I found Odd's narrative style a little disjointed, but! Then I kept reading. I think it was very cle..."

I have only read the first four books of Odd Thomas. I am not sure which was my favourite because I read them so long ago. I have two more of the Odd Thomas books to read. Hopefully I will get to them this year.

I love Dean Koontz. A few of my favourites are and . They are creepier than Odd Thomas. I have read three books of his Frankenstein series and I enjoy his take on Frankenstein. It makes me want to see what the original book was like.