Reading Challenge [2023]

The trial by kafka,
Dogs of war by adrian tchaikovsky,
leech by hiron ennes,

 

Read that this year, it's kino.

 

Halfway through The Brothers Karamazov. It's very good, but also very tough going. Regularly goes off on chapter-long tangents and down side roads that loop around and back again then go off elsewhere. 500 pages in and the plot of the book as described in the blurb hasn't happened yet lmao. The main appeal I think is how well realized the characters are, and how they interact with other characters equally well constructed.

 

Don't know what this mean but most of the book flew over my head, i believe it is something about the futility of resisting established authority or something? If so the Book could have been shortened as several chapters were i found completely useless.

 

I was just thinking if I should listen to an audiobook of that. I am concerned I'll fall asleep to large sections of the book and forget where to pick it back up from.. think i'll give it a go

 

It's not a finished book, it was assembled from drafts and published after Kafka died. The story is a satire of German bureaucracy.

 

I'm not sure that's a good idea. I'd imagine the book to be confusing if listened to as opposed to read.

 

Sorry I’m so late on the reply, Seth LCU hit the nail on the head. Darth Plagueis is awesome and so are the Darth Bane novels by Karpshynn. There is a newer book called Lords of the Sith by Paul S Kemp that was pretty awesome as well. The new Darth Vader comics from Marvel have been phenomenal. Issue 18 of the second run was really awesome as he taps Grand Moff Tarkin to actually hunt him so that he can find any area he may be “weak or lacking” and crush that weakness. The two new Thrawn trilogies, though not Sith focused, were also great and the second book of the first trilogy sees Thrawn teaming up with Anakin.

 

Missed one week because I had a headache. So this one is just for this week.

Read

Amos 1
Proverbs 12
ADWD 123-214
The Battle of Alamein 246-320

 

25 pages from completing britney spears audiography, shes a good writer but its simple living writing, you need to be a fan of her to really indulge i suppose. I signed up at https :// booktasters . net , you make a profile, then click what genres your into then i guess they send you bunch of book titles to choose from, for free, new novels , but its for reviweing, your signing up to be a reviewer , leave your reviews on amazon books an good reads, they send you the free copy either from them or dirrectly from the author through email

 

I'm currently on finishing chapter one of " Mortal Engines - predators gold" for those who watched the movie, its what happens next after the movie, i enjoyed the movie more then i intended, there was a book fair and thats where i picked up the book, right now its other characters , ester hasnt made an appearance yet

 

One Eyed Owl like the tokyo ghoul character ? I was wondering haha

I read The Broken Earth by NK Jemisin its great, shes great i guess there are two more books so ill pick those up at some point

 

Finished The Brothers Karamazov the other day. Great book, very dense and complex with a lot of ideas. 8/10. I'm now reading Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami.

 

Read:

Amos 2
Proverbs 13
ADWD 215-326
The Battle of Alamein 320-360

Read:

Amos 3
Proverbs 14
ADWD 326-421
The Battle of Alamein 360-414

Yes Miss Bubbles my name is indeed from Tokyo Ghoul. It was one of the first animes that I had watched and I really feel in love with the show. And yeah the One Eyed Owl was one of the characters that I really liked.

 

Finished Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. A good book but I think it drops off a bit in the second third. Very typical Murakami fare, where the plot doesn't matter and it's more about the mood. 7.5/10.

Next up I'm going to read Deadhouse Gates, the second Malazan book. As with Gardens of the Moon, I've read it before, but I want to re-read it in preparation for the third book, which I have not read yet. Might be worth someone making a new thread for 2024? I'll do it myself if I find the time.

 

Who Moved My Cheese?
Book by Spencer Johnson. This is a small book but very interesting. I finished it in 3 days. 8/ 10 for me.
Next up is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It's a bestseller of all time.

 

Im reading Atomic Habits I ordered Angela Duckworth's Grit it says its comming today we'll see

 

I made it.

 

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