Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by Nyssa

So my new "plan" is to read as many stand alone novels as I have time to enjoy...all chosen at random by Calibre. No series!

Yay! Another one. One by one we can change a genre.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Nyssa

I am completely throwing out my previous plans for the rest of the year. Its just not working for me. I love, love, love reading series and have overwhelmed myself with options. In addition, I have downloaded so many freebies over the last year, its ridiculous. Many of them I don't even remember getting....

So my new "plan" is to read as many stand alone novels as I have time to enjoy...all chosen at random by Calibre. No series!

The first one up is Dark Legacy by Anna DeStefano.

Isn't it fun to throw out a non-working plan and start a new one!

[HomeInMyShoes]

^Awesome. I come up with a new plan almost daily. I've revised my 2012 reading challenge four times already and it's not even November of 2011.

As a side note, I've been trying to remember all the books I have read over the years. It's a task doomed to failure, but today I remembered Rare Birds by Edward Riche. A strange book about bird-watching, Newfoundland, and running a restaurant. It was made into a movie and the restaurant was apparently built in the parking lot of Cape Spear National Historic Site just outside of St. John's. Had me thinking about books set in Newfoundland. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News came to mind. Anyone know any other books set in Newfoundland? I grabbed The Nine Planets by Edward Riche at the library today.

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Yay! Another one. One by one we can change a genre.

LOL. I'm not giving up on series completely, just for the rest of 2011. There are far too many series I really want to either finish, start reading or reread.

Originally Posted by kennyc

Isn't it fun to throw out a non-working plan and start a new one!

Yes! Yes it is.

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

^Awesome. I come up with a new plan almost daily. I've revised my 2012 reading challenge four times already and it's not even November of 2011.

As a side note, I've been trying to remember all the books I have read over the years. It's a task doomed to failure, but today I remembered Rare Birds by Edward Riche. <snip>

Don't even get me started about 2012!! I have 5 series on the list already.

As for remembering books past...I could not come up with one title I read in 2008 ! How does someone lose a whole year?

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Nyssa

As for remembering books past...I could not come up with one title I read in 2008 ! How does someone lose a whole year?

Hey, I've been known to misplace entire decades!

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Hey, I've been known to misplace entire decades!

*Is wondering if the 60s had anything to do with that!

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by Nyssa

LOL. I'm not giving up on series completely, just for the rest of 2011. There are far too many series I really want to either finish, start reading or reread.



Yes! Yes it is.



Don't even get me started about 2012!! I have 5 series on the list already.

As for remembering books past...I could not come up with one title I read in 2008 ! How does someone lose a whole year?

planning beyond the next book, to me, is a waste of effort. i did plan to re-read an entire series, but during the time it took to do so, i didn't even think about what was to follow. then part way through the last book of that re-read i began considering what i might read next. but i didn't decide till i was actually done. this way works for me (except for more than a half dozen partially read books that i got distracted away from, but they're still there with bookmarks as to where i need to continue when i get around to it)

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by alansplace

planning beyond the next book, to me, is a waste of effort. i did plan to re-read an entire series, but during the time it took to do so, i didn't even think about what was to follow. then part way through the last book of that re-read i began considering what i might read next. but i didn't decide till i was actually done. this way works for me (except for more than a half dozen partially read books that i got distracted away from, but they're still there with bookmarks as to where i need to continue when i get around to it)

You're right. I just didn't want to go through series burnout, which as happened to me before, so I thought I'd read two or three series (switching off from one to another) instead. That has been a disaster. I'm either not fully enjoying what I'm reading or I'm forgetting details.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Nyssa

*Is wondering if the 60s had anything to do with that!

Ummmm......ummmm......ummmmm

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by Nyssa

You're right. I just didn't want to go through series burnout, which as happened to me before, so I thought I'd read two or three series (switching off from one to another) instead. That has been a disaster. I'm either not fully enjoying what I'm reading or I'm forgetting details.

forgetting details i forget whole books

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Ummmm......ummmm......ummmmm

Originally Posted by alansplace

forgetting details i forget whole books

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by Nyssa

I am completely throwing out my previous plans for the rest of the year. Its just not working for me. I love, love, love reading series and have overwhelmed myself with options. In addition, I have downloaded so many freebies over the last year, its ridiculous. Many of them I don't even remember getting....

So my new "plan" is to read as many stand alone novels as I have time to enjoy...all chosen at random by Calibre. No series!

The first one up is Dark Legacy by Anna DeStefano.

then allow me to recommend one that i'm sure you'll enjoy (if you'll disregard that random thing you mentioned), sacred ground by mercedes lackey

is this why we're seeing you less and less in the dresden files thread?

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next, one of the F&SF back issues I bought this year:
F&SF, January 2005 by Spilogale Authors

An average issue, rescued by a splendid novelet by Esther M. Friesner set in Uruk just after the death of Gilgamesh.

Next up: Contact with Chaos by Michael Z Williamson, that I bought back in March 2009!

So far it's fun, but more for the events and situation than any attachment to any of the characters, rather like the last book of his that I read.

[coderserdar]

i last read Anna Katharine Green's The Staircase
it was good enough
the end of the book was so predictable but
a good example of mystery and crime book

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

An average issue, rescued by a splendid novelet by Esther M. Friesner set in Uruk just after the death of Gilgamesh.

Next up: Contact with Chaos by Michael Z Williamson, that I bought back in March 2009!

So far it's fun, but more for the events and situation than any attachment to any of the characters, rather like the last book of his that I read.

Paul, I've looked at the impressive number of books you've read in the last couple of years, and concluded that perhaps the next quiz thread in the Lounge could be entitled, "Hey!! Let's get some action going! What is Paul reading...today?"