Event 2025 Reading Challenge!

[Auticorn]

Is it too late to join this? I know I probs won't get around to it much... but I do want to try and read more. x.x I have a way of tracking with a book thingy (which I'll show after this). I think my goal will be five books. If I manage to go past five, I'll increase it... we'll see! :D I'll just go with that since it takes me a LOT to actually read something these days. ;o;

The images are also pretty big, so I'm going to put them as attachment. :3 I'm probably going to start by reading the one I got from my cousin. It's called Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar!

 

[Starlight]

Is it too late to join this? I know I probs won't get around to it much... but I do want to try and read more. x.x I have a way of tracking with a book thingy (which I'll show after this). I think my goal will be five books. If I manage to go past five, I'll increase it... we'll see! :D I'll just go with that since it takes me a LOT to actually read something these days. ;o;

The images are also pretty big, so I'm going to put them as attachment. :3 I'm probably going to start by reading the one I got from my cousin. It's called Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar!

Absolutely not too late, you can join at any time!

Welcome to the 2025 Challenge! I will add your goal to the first post 😊

 

[Auticorn]

Absolutely not too late, you can join at any time!

Welcome to the 2025 Challenge! I will add your goal to the first post 😊

Yeah... hopefully I can start reading soon. The book I'm going to read is a good starting point since my camp nano story has to do with the love interest being an Iraq Vet (in other words, both my story and the book have a war type theme).

 

[Jbsundown]

3 months in and I finally finished the book I was reading.
Avenging Son by Guy Haley has been finished. Up next I have Kallocain by Karin Boye on my to read list so starting that one now.
I'm hoping it'll be much less time given it's about 1/5th the size of the 40K book I was on. As well as travelling for work meaning I'll have lots of time to read on trains so now the catching up truly begins!

 

[gimmepie]

Finished another Re:Zero book. Started on Children of Time just recently too. I'm up to part three so far and it's already been a really interesting and unique read.

 

[Auticorn]

Sadly, I've been spending so much time with camp nano that I haven't read a whole lot, if at all, but I will try to do it either during or after April (when Camp starts). >w<

 

[RMVNZ]

I think I'll start with a book a month, so twelve!

So far in the year I've completed two books: The Courage to Be Disliked and The Courage to Be Happy by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi.
For my third book currently in progress, I'm going political with How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa.
Once I finish this book, I'll delve back into the Hunger Games universe with The Sunrise on the Reaping.

 

[gimmepie]

I forgot to say but I finished Children of Time a ways back. I liked it a lot. Easily a top ten book.

That's 5/15

 

[Jbsundown]

I forgot to say but I finished Children of Time a ways back. I liked it a lot. Easily a top ten book.

That's 5/15

Absolutely loved children of time when I read it! It was amazing!

 

[gimmepie]

Absolutely loved children of time when I read it! It was amazing!

Fabian was my favourite.

 

[Starlight]

I think I'll start with a book a month, so twelve!

So far in the year I've completed two books: The Courage to Be Disliked and The Courage to Be Happy by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi.
For my third book currently in progress, I'm going political with How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa.
Once I finish this book, I'll delve back into the Hunger Games universe with The Sunrise on the Reaping.

Welcome to the 2025 challenge! I'll get you added to the list 😊

 

[Megan]

So far I've finished three books:

A Stroke with the Pen (collection of short stories written by Sir Terry Pratchett)
Blood of Elves
The Time of Contempt

The last two continue the story of the Witcher story.

3/5

 

[Auticorn]

Oh crap! I totally forgot all about this! I got a new book recently from Bull Moose (small town-like book place where I live), so I might give that one a try.

 

[gimmepie]

Finished another Re:Zero book - one of the side stories this time. There are so many of these freaking books. They just keep going.

6/15

 

[Starlight]

First post updated!

 

[Janp]

I wasn't as active in this thread as I hoped for, but I'm slowly working on my goal and I'm optimistic that I'll make it. Let's talk about yet another book I read earlier this year.

Wolf by Samuel Bjørk
Wolf is yet another excellent detective novel by Bjørk. It's a prequel to his previous books, which I've read and written about in earlier iterations of this thread. It follows Bjørk's main duo – Holger and Mia, on their very first investigation. It's refreshing to see them happy and positive for once, instead of constantly being depressed and suicidal like in previous books.

The book is solid and carries the same strengths and weaknesses as Bjørk's previous works. The pacing is fast, but it often feels like the main characters aren't really driving the investigation — most of the major leads are handed to them from the outside. In fact, they end up catching the culprit almost by accident — and it's not even them who actually do it.

Despite that, the story is as captivating as ever. It's a shame that some of the side plots weren't resolved, but there's always hope they'll be picked up in the next book.

[11/25]