2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Just finished reading The Grownup. Gillian Flynn is a godsend - the book was incredible and only 67 pages long.

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Hey, I am in. I am going to read The River Is Dark byJoe Hart

I finished reading "I'll Give You The Sun" in one day. Challenge complete.

Becca wrote: "Just finished reading The Grownup. Gillian Flynn is a godsend - the book was incredible and only 67 pages long.

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I picked a different book for this challenge, but have that one in my pile to read soon. Glad to know you liked it!

I'll give this a try. I'll read "The Time Machine" by HG Wells.

I'm in. I haven't started it yet so it will work for this: They Exist. It's the 103 page prequel to Carmen DeSousa's Creatus series.

I'm going to read Dodger of the Dials

Finished the book today.

I'm also going to read Silently and Very Fast

I finished my book yesterday evening. A very nice read!

I'm done! Started and finished Ethan Frome yesterday.

I'm done with my book also, finished Watchdog.

Looking forward to monday! This book has been on my kindle since Kara recommended it last autumn, have been saving it for a special time ^^

Can I change my book? Today, I read Called for Life: How Loving Our Neighbor Led Us into the Heart of the Ebola Epidemic, which was not the book I originally planned to read for this challenge.

Decided that today had to be the day to do this challenge. I am going to be working on Monday and it is planning to be a long day. So I started Bared to You by Sylvia Day this morning. I couldn't put it down. Despite doing many other things today, and I am not the fastest reader in the world, I just finished it and I absolutely adored it. Not sure if I am more in love with Christian Grey or Gideon Cross.

Just finished Enormous Smallness - my choice for this challenge. Wow wow wow. I loved it. Beautiful intro for everyone, not just the "enormous smallies" that may be in your life - and if you do have them, and you love e e and/ or poetry do yourself and them favour and read it to them. Beautifully illustrated by Kris Di Giacomo too.

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Theresa~OctoberLace wrote: "On the roster I'm linked to the wrong book. I'll be reading Of Love and Evil by Anne Rice. For some reason, when you put in that title the first book listed is FOR Love..."

Just a clicking error. When I typed in the name of the book, For Love and Evil was the first selection.

Hello All,

I posted the last update until Tuesday morning for this feed. I have to give myself time to read too :) I have really enjoyed watching all of you select your books, and the enthusiasm you have had for this challenge. I hope it goes well for all of you and you can come back and tell us about your great day reading.

Love, Kadijah Michelle (and I'm sure the other Moderators will totally agree).

Just finished City of Illusions. It was pretty interesting, but the shortness of it made it feel a bit rushed.

Read "Passing" by Nella Larson today.

I've just finished The Drowning Eyes. It's a great adventure of a book - I wish it'd been longer! Thanks for a fab challenge!

Trials of Death finished this in one day! challenge complete!

Today I read which I enjoyed very much.

i m going to finish The Grapes of Wrath

Well done everyone who has completed their challenge! Over in Australia (where I am) today is the 29th so I decided rather than read random number from my home bookshelf I would read number 29 on said bookshelf! So I will be reading "The Theban Plays" by Sophocles!! That's what I get for keeping my books from high school and Uni lol! It is short though so it should be fine....shall keep you posted!!

It's 29th now and I've started reading "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" by Raymond Carver an hour and a half ago and I've finished it now. :) My extra reading challenge on extra day is done :)

Hope it's not too late. I misunderstood the challenge, and thought we were supposed to read the book on the leap day. I'll be reading Coraline.

I just downloaded "Silently and Very Fast" based on your recommendation, so that's what I'm going to read! Seems like a great story!

Rachel, you're not too late at all! Most of us are reading on the 29th, but because not everyone can devote a day to reading a book on a Monday, we allowed people to choose any day in the week leading up to it. I hope you enjoy Coraline!

Suzanne, welcome to the Silently and Very Fast team. :)

I read Night today since I don't think I will have the time tomorrow.

I'm working tomorrow, so I read my book today.

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1. Fish In A Tree (★★★★)

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Cassandra wrote: "Rachel, you're not too late at all! Most of us are reading on the 29th, but because not everyone can devote a day to reading a book on a Monday, we allowed people to choose any day in the week lead..."

Hopefully I can finish within the day! I've just realized I don't have too much time to read tomorrow. It's a nice short book though, so it shouldn't be a problem.

Scratch my previous entry. I actually managed to read a book in a day. I started Mine by Aubrey Dark yesterday morning and finished it in the evening.

Mean't to sign up earlier, hope it's still okay to join in!

I'm hoping to read The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton, my mother's favourite book from her childhood which she has been wanting me to read for ages :)

My book was Carry On by Rainbow Rowell. I read it in a day (yes, I'm bloody insane). Actually, just finished it. Just couldn't put it down.

Well I finished "The Theban Plays" - all three of them! And it's still the 29th over here too - woohoo!

I have a busy leap day ahead of me so I read Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life by Michael Dirda over the weekend.

used today to finish books i had already started but im going to settle down with Dracula for this challenge and hope to finish it by tonight.

Yay! I finished the book :)

I read The Library of Unrequited Love on Friday night. It took me 2 hours and was a cute, amusing read. Glad to get it read because I've had it on my TBR since 2014.

EDIT to say that I updated my initial post, message 46.

I read Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in one go this afternoon. Only took about 45mins as it's very short, but it was very enjoyable. I particularly enjoyed the foreword and 'about the author' sections at the beginning, they gave a bit more insight on Newt Scamander as a character before the film comes out later this year! I've read this book a few times, but not in a long while, so I'm glad I got round to it again.

Also, does anyone have any ideas if there's a name for a book like this. A non-fiction/reference book, but from within a fictional universe?

You can change my TBD to A Darker Shade of Magic - I read over half of it on the bus this morning! So excited to finish it!

Read my book.
The Time Machine

I loved it but perfered the 60's? Film. I think it was just a lot more visual in places. I loved the film bit where it was passing slowly through time to get to the utopia years. Thats not in the book :(

I finished my 3 volumes of manga yesterday

I finished The Old Man and the Sea today! I found it a little ...off-base and flintily surrealistic for my liking, though part of that could be because Hemingway was literally translating his Cuban Spanish dialogue and thought processes to English. And it feels weirdly like The Martian except it's on a boat, and it doesn't work quite as well. It's still very good though, there's something oddly comforting about its sense and experience and the way it tilts towards myth and darn near succeeds at it. I think Catty has it right, but I'd need to think about it more before I could say whether I agree with it or not. Maybe even read it again. None the less, I really thought it worked. Definitely.

Also, Andrew, if you see this, I read Don Quixote quite some time ago and though I barely remember it, I'd agree with Theresa~OctoberLace that it was really funny in parts, and mostly very enjoyable, and while it was long and occasionally far too long, it was never the kind of long that felt overly tedious. I'd say go for it! :)

Just finished Candide by Voltaire

It's interesting reading all of your reactions!

Paul, I didn't realize The Old Man and the Sea was short enough to read in a day, and now I'm intrigued by your description.

I'm about halfway through with Silently and Very Fast and so far I'm in love.

I wasn't sure that I would be able to participate, but I will be reading the entirety of Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It today, so please count me in for that one :)

I read The Invention of Hugo Cabret today. I read it when I was younger and thought it would be great to reread it. It was even better this time around!