2022 ONTD Reading Challenge discussion

Did you enjoy your April pick? Would you recommend it to your fellow readers? Was it difficult or easy to complete this task?

So i have about 50 pages left in Bastard Out of Carolina. it is good but to say i am enjoying it is...incorrect. I wish i had found something lighter this month since i am already feeling down/stressed with everything going on and feeling socially isolated.

I read Blood Heir and I hated it so much I wrote a dang novel as a review. It committed the dual sins of being boring and stupid.

Read Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 and it was such a rage inducing read.

Pushed through Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and...I didn't mind it?

Other than Hagrid being a bumbling moron with a drinking problem (I have a massive beef with the very classist UK trope of "only uneducated characters speak in phonetics") and any PoC being in roles so minor as to be microscopic (yay, 90's...), it wasn't terrible overall. It wasn't at Tintin levels of "ok, this was formative, but holy shit I'm glad I didn't take some of these notions, why was I allowed to read these on my own? (yay, learning to read in the 80's...)".

Still, while this was an enjoyable adventure, knowing what the series and author ended up as, I'm quite satisfied my nephew, who is Hogwarts-letter-aged, hasn't shown any interest in the franchise, and future nibling will not be introduced to it by me, at least.

I read Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote.



I found it to be an engaging story filled with timeless characters. It definitely captured the feeling of Manhattan.

On the 87th time of reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, it's still awesome and I'm still not a witch.

I read Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 too. I liked it a lot even though it was so frustrating to read. Also it showcases how men are weak because it wasn't even that radical, it was just the main character going through life as a woman and what she experienced and like she wasn't even that mean about men (I would have been meaner) but I did like how she basically pointed out how men don't pay attention unless a woman points it out & even then the men are still dumb as hell lol.

I read The Bell Jar and I didn’t particularly enjoy it, though some of the sentences were beautifully written. I can see why it was controversial for its time, but it also kinda scared me because I found myself relating to Esther in more ways than I'm comfortable admitting.