2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I finished my reading challenge for 2016 today!! My 20th book was Murder on The Orient Express by Agatha Christie. It just took a little more than half a day to read it. It was so engrossing!!! The ending was just....... WOW. (view spoiler)[When almost all of the people in the coach turned out to be somehow connected to the Armstrong household, I was like NO WAY Christie would be this impractical. But then Poirot delivers the ending and BAM I was blown away. (hide spoiler)]
Although this wasn't the first time I've witnessed Christie's mind blowing endings, Kudos to her.

My first book for 2017 is And Then There Were None again by none other than Agatha Christie, of course. It is known to be her most famous and most loved work as of yet and I found no reason to contradict.
She had captured that feeling of being afraid of what's to come, so well, I myself felt it.
(view spoiler)[I tried to arrive at my own conclusions, as to who the mastermind is but all I could deduce was that he/she had staged their death at some point. But I had initially considered Wargrave, and thought him to be too obvious, and quickly dismissed that idea. I mean, out of the ten people on the island, he had been the only one smart enough to have organized it. And it turned out I was right!! If only I had stayed true to my guess, I would have actually correctly guessed the murderer in an Agatha Chrsitie novel!! (hide spoiler)]
It was an epic read.

I read The Hunger Games trilogy for the third time. And all I can say is, it never disappoints. I'll always keep coming back to it.
I first read The Hunger Games three years ago and I loved it. But reading it again for the third time made me realize how blind and immature I've been to overlook the other aspects of the book besides romance. I was too busy cheering for Peeta and Katniss that I forgot to appreciate the way Suzanne Collins has poignantly brought out how people suffer in times of war. I realized that the book was never about overthrowing the Capitol but about the devastation and the utter futility of war. Because, in the end, there's no completely good or completely bad side.

I've started to read the Divergent now and this will be my second time reading it. To be honest, my love for the series has faded over time but I bought it last year just for the sake of having it (I'm weird like that) and I'm reading it out of loyalty because when I really did enjoy reading it for the first time (though I the ending isn't perfect).

Finished reading the Divergent series and this time I read Four: A Divergent Story Collection. It was interesting to be in Four's (I'm not a big fan of the name Tobias) head. I really enjoyed reading his encounters with Tris.

Rereading the Harry Potter series. On the fifth book now. It's a whole new experience. I've started to see a lot of characters in a new light. All the seven books are, of course, unputdownable. Reading for the second time knowing the story has not changed that fact. But I can never forgive J.K Rowling for going on a killing spree beginning from the Goblet of Fire. She killed so many beloved characters!!