2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Ok ladies and gentleman, I have decided to take a challenge for the entire year, and I am hoping for the best, because I am not an avid reader. I am a gamer, a YouTuber, a social person that loves to go out, looking into podcasting, I draw as well, and reading has just been something I started to get into just a few years ago. I mean, I read comics but even that has gone on the wayside as well since I just put many things into my free time, that reading is not one of these things I did so often.

But I’ve been reading much more since I bought a Kindle PaperWhite, and currently have a pretty impressive stack of books on the wishlist of my GoodReads “Want to Read” list. I have many books I want to read, but I need to be a bit realistic when I say that if I want to read more, I have to set up a small goal. So for this challenge, I plan on reading 20-30 books in written form and hope to catch on my backlog of trade paperback comics from my shelve. With new consoles coming out in 2017, games I started now, and more things I have planned for next year, this is going to be a tough one, but I hope to do my best. If I can’t, I’ll still post my experience and share with you all my hurdles and well, if I somehow do it….I will jump for joy.

Good luck with your challenge (and readings) Fico!

Marcus wrote: "Good luck with your challenge (and readings) Fico!"

Why thank you!

Best of luck in 2017 there are tons of challenges that you can join if your into that sort of thing I find that the challenges help clear my selves because i start with what i own to fill them before I buy something

Blagica wrote: "Best of luck in 2017 there are tons of challenges that you can join if your into that sort of thing I find that the challenges help clear my selves because i start with what i own to fill them befo..."

I was reading those as well. I just got American Gods by Neil Gaiman (first dive into Gaiman Land) and I hope to share my thoughts a bit when I finish.

So I just got done reading Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer and I added a review for it on the page. I'll share it here as well so I hope you like it. GET THIS BOOK!

This was definitely an excellent ride of geekery, magic, fantasy, humor, and tons of references that made me super happy. Video games, music, movies, wrestling, coding, programming, technology, and crime (not that I like it but it’s there), all mixed into a wonderful story about a guy that find a file that leads him to make changes to make his life better, until reality comes crashing down on him because you can’t, just make yourself financially better and get away with it nowadays with this repository file he discovers. And things only get better when he uses it to go to Medieval London, try to convince people he is a wizard, and then finds himself on the training plan of another wizard and that is where the fun officially begins.

Characters and setting were very well down by the author, Scott Meyer, and shows that his love for games, programming, technology and humor shine through with this amazing story. And if you have this book on a reading device like the Apple or Android version of the Kindle Reader, you get pages with different colors, animated book covers, scenes brought to life, etc…

I enjoyed this book, immensely, and I am told the 3rd book is amazing as well, but I must for go to the 2nd and I will definitely get that 2nd book! Buy this!

Fico wrote: "Blagica wrote: "Best of luck in 2017 there are tons of challenges that you can join if your into that sort of thing I find that the challenges help clear my selves because i start with what i own t..."

I read unwind which was awesome i havent decided on american gods yet

Blagica wrote: "Fico wrote: "Blagica wrote: "Best of luck in 2017 there are tons of challenges that you can join if your into that sort of thing I find that the challenges help clear my selves because i start with..."

So far I've just got done with the first chapter of Part 1 and so far it's starting out very good. I am not aware of Gaiman's style for the moment. I just read like the first comic for The Sandman series but that is pretty much it. I saw it for $2 and it was on my wishlist for GoodReads and I couldn't pass it up.

I'm enjoying how he sets the scenes up and doesn't seem to skimp on any detail like, going to the bathroom where, he kind of adds details of what Shadow is doing, that I have not read anyone describe like that. Good way to envision things on each scene.