2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I want to read at least two books per month. With my master thesis coming up, I think this should be doable.

Moreover, I want to read books from authors I haven't read anything before.
And last but not least I'd really like to read more classic and non-fiction literature.

01. Catching Fire: 472 pp. (01/06) ****
02. Mockingjay: 455 pp. (01/10) ****
03. Sense and Sensibility: 409 pp. (01/11) ****
04. The Mystery of the Blue Train: 317 pp. (01/19) ***
05. The Physician: 695 pp. (02/10) ****
06. Rubinrot: 343 pp. (02/12) ****
07. Saphirblau: 395 pp. (02/16) ****
08. Smaragdgrün: 487 pp. (02/20) ****
09. Erzähl es niemandem! Die Liebesgeschichte meiner Eltern: 285 pp. (02/23) ****
10. Momo: 304 pp. (03/08) *****
11. The World According to Garp: 605 pp. (03.18.) ***
12. The Rosie Project: 295 pp. (03/21) ***
13. Fall of Giants: 985 pp. (04/04) ****
14. Schutzpatron: 400 pp. (04/18) ***
15. The Life List: 368 pp. (04/22) ****
16. Der Steppenwolf: 278 pp. (04/25) ***
17. Winter der Welt: 1,022 pp. (06/07) ***
18. Paper Towns: 305 pp. (07/12) ***
19. The Goldfinch: 864 pp. (07/27) ****
20. The Thirteen Problems: 315 pp. (07/28) **
21. Der Lavendelgarten: 528 pp. (08/03) ***
22. Silber: Das erste Buch der Träume: 413 pp. (08/23) ***
23. Zum Glück Pauline: 411 pp. (08/24) ***

Let's turn pages challenge: 10,951/ 12,500

Those sound like great goals! Good luck!

What are you studying, Cindy?

Good luck with your reading challenge! Is there anything in particular you're looking forward to?

Cassandra wrote: "What are you studying, Cindy?

Good luck with your reading challenge! Is there anything in particular you're looking forward to?"

Megan wrote: "Those sound like great goals! Good luck!"

Currently I am studying business informatics in my last year. What are you studying, Cassandra?

Hmm... not yet really. There are some books I wanted to read for ages (e.g. Wuthering Heights, The World According to Garp, 1Q84 and many more), so maybe I should have a look into the monthly and yearly reading challenges :-).

I loved The World According to Garp. John Irving is one of my favourite authors.

Challenges are a really fun way to read. It is neat to see where your books fit into the different challenges and it encourages me to read different genres. Good luck.

1Q84 is on my priority list for books to make sure to read this year. If you want to read it as a buddy read or something, I'm sure it would make a great one!

I'm studying informatics as well, actually. It's my first year of a BS, though. What a coincidence!

I'm going for 25 books as well. I should probably have a look at some of the challenges

Jodi wrote: "I loved The World According to Garp. John Irving is one of my favourite authors.



I've only read The Cider House Rules (which I really loved) and Hotel New Hampshire and they were both great. I think The World According to Garp will be one of my next books.

Cassandra wrote: "1Q84 is on my priority list for books to make sure to read this year. If you want to read it as a buddy read or something, I'm sure it would make a great one!

I'm studying informat..."

That's a cool idea, the buddy reading. Maybe I will do that in order to make sure that I will finally read it ;-).

Cool! Do you like it? Well, I have to admit I chose business informatics because it's not quite as technical as informatics.

Just finished the second book of the Edelstrein-Trilogie:
Saphirblau

I finished the thirs part of the Edelstein-Trilogie Smaragdgrün last Friday.

I finished Erzähl es niemandem! Die Liebesgeschichte meiner Eltern last night

I finished the wonderul book Momo last weekend.

I just finished The World According to Garp.

Finished The Rosie Project, which was a quick and easy read. It reminded me a lot of Sheldon of Big Bang Theory... After all, it was ok for a quick read after it took me about 2 weeks to finish Garp.

I finished Fall of Giants yesterday and I really liked it. For me it was very interesting and I enjoyed the read.

Cindy wrote: "I finished Fall of Giants yesterday and I really liked it. For me it was very interesting and I enjoyed the read."

I highly recommend the entire trilogy, but don't wait too long between books, because it took me awhile to remember where everything left off:)

Megan wrote: "Cindy wrote: "I finished Fall of Giants yesterday and I really liked it. For me it was very interesting and I enjoyed the read."

I highly recommend the entire trilogy, but don't wai..."

Thanks for the tip! I'm about to start the second part tomorrow and I'm really curious about it. I really enjoyed the first part and gound it very intereseting.

I finished Schutzpatron on the weekend and The Life List yesterday.

I finished Der Steppenwolf which was a challenging read on Saturday. I think everyone can at some point identify with the main character Harry Haller, but in some parts it is just disturbing and weird...

I finally finished Winter der Welt by Kenn Follett. Which was an interesting read but I didn't enjoy it as much as the first part of the trilogy.

Wow, June and July do not seem to be good reading months. I finished Paper Towns on Monday. I liked it, but I think I expected more of it and in the end I rated it 3 stars.

Yay, finally finished The Goldfinch, this sure was a hard piece of work, but in the end I really liked it.

I recently finished Zum Glück Pauline and liked it.