https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:31:15 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reading-challenges#post-2779209 Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:08:55 +0000 TemperanceBrennan 2779209@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Dahlia: Seems like a contradiction, doesn't it? I'm only half way through, reading a little each night. It's our book club book for October. I'm looking forward to discussing it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reading-challenges#post-2779207 Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:05:20 +0000 TemperanceBrennan 2779207@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: Yep! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reading-challenges#post-2779206 Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:05:12 +0000 TemperanceBrennan 2779206@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@shellio: Thanks! I hope you like it.<br /> I have tons of hobbies, but also have a slightly obsessive personality so I tend to get immersed in one thing and neglect others. Last year was photography. Year before that was crochet and cross-stitch. This year is having a 1.5 year old (and reading and halloween costumes). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reading-challenges#post-2779205 Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:02:15 +0000 Dahlia 2779205@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TemperanceBrennan: Evicted was SO good and so difficult. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reading-challenges#post-2779203 Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:00:41 +0000 looch 2779203@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TemperanceBrennan: Is Evicted by Matthew Desmond? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reading-challenges#post-2779197 Thu, 12 Oct 2017 09:53:56 +0000 shellio 2779197@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My goal was 26 this year (inspired by some of you ladies!) and I'm on 21, so 1 book ahead of schedule. I am due in a month with my next baby and always have tons of reading time during nursing/pumping so I'm expecting to surpass my goal. I'm currently reading The Handmaid's Tale, Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, and A Beautiful Poison. (Multiple books due to different devices and library returns/back on the waiting list.) Three that I've especially enjoyed this year: Ready Player One, The Warmth of Other Suns, and Elon Musk: Inventing the Future.</p> <p>@TemperanceBrennan: I'm adding Evicted to my list! Sounds fascinating! Good for you for bumping up your reading this year, I did the same and it feels good to do something I enjoy so much. </p> <p>@Dahlia: Just added Underground Railroad, thanks for the rec. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reading-challenges#post-2779166 Thu, 12 Oct 2017 08:34:42 +0000 TemperanceBrennan 2779166@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Since I barely read 5 books in all of 2015 and 2016, my goal was 12 books this year. I joined a book club to keep me on track. Happy to say I'm at 18 which is huge for me.<br /> Just finished The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson and currently reading Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. </p> <p>Evicted has totally consumed me, but I can only read a chapter or so at a time because it is so upsetting. I consider myself a bleeding heart super liberal, but I had NO idea the specifics of how the cards are stacked against the chronically poor in inner cities and the profit that is made off of them. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reading-challenges#post-2779071 Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:30:26 +0000 raspberries 2779071@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm trying to read 50, and I'm at 36 so two books behind. (Then again, I just finished the Oh Crap potty training book, so maybe that counts?!)</p> <p>I've enjoyed The Alice Network and Letters to the Lost if you're into WWII fiction. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reading-challenges#post-2779067 Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:00:40 +0000 Dahlia 2779067@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not doing the challenge, but I've just read some good ones I wanted to recommend! </p> <p>Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead was amazing but so hard to read because of how tragic it is. </p> <p>The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin, The Rosie Project by Graeme Samson, Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel, and The Lake House by Kate Morton are a little lighter and really good. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reading-challenges#post-2779064 Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:45:35 +0000 Anya 2779064@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha I'm exactly halfway behind you- my goal is 52 and I've read 41. I feel like it's been forever since I've read something truly stirring, everything lately has been just OK. I'm working through a stack of Jennifer Weiner books this week and I know they're all going to be just OK too- reliably decent and enjoyable but not amazing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reading-challenges#post-2779062 Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:42:48 +0000 Adira 2779062@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>OMG, I'm so jealous!</p> <p>My goal was only 30 books and I've only read 13!! I'm 10 books behind schedule! AHHH!!</p> <p>I got into kind of a rut by spending too much time trying to read some books that just weren't really interesting me, but instead of dropping them and starting something new, I just sat around avoiding reading them. But I finally dropped them and started reading some books I'm actually interested in, so hoping I can make up for lost time.</p> <p>Currently reading <i>The Human Division</i> by John Scalzi. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/reading-challenges#post-2779039 Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:07:44 +0000 erinbaderin 2779039@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How are your challenges going? Are you on track to hit your goal? Have you read anything you've loved?</p> <p>My goal is 104 and I'm at 82 and partway through 3 others, so more or less on track, but I might have to read some short books over the next month. I did it easily last year but I didn't think about how much less time I'd have for reading once I went back to work - 2 books a week with two kids and a full time job is a lot different than 2 books a week on mat leave. </p> <p>I'm reading Little Fires Everywhere right now and loving it. I've also recently liked Blackout by Connie Willis and The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman (although it was SO sad). </p>