How are you all doing with your 888 reading plans?

[Crissy]

I am not participating, but I followed the planning posts in the beginning.
Does anyone have an update to share?
Are there any categories you wish you'd not added?
Any topics you are enjoying more than you imagined you would?
Do you have one favorite title so far this year?

In other words, how's it going? :D

[angela in ohio]

I am (re)reading through Mere Christianity right now and enjoying it immensely. I dropped one book - a devotional on Proverbs. It was too hard to remember what I was reading from day to day. Other than that, I will be pretty much on schedule.

I enjoy most the "children's classics" category. :blush: I had never read Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and it was excellent!!

[Janna]

I've read 5 books on my list, and am in the middle of the 6th one (The Call of the Wild, which I must say is rather violent) with my dd.

However, in addition to those, I've read 6 books that were NOT on my list at all, LOL. Those are all natural birth/breastfeeding/vaccine books, with the exception of one (The China Study).

So I've strayed (an understatement). BUT, I must say that I am happy with myself for even being able to concentrate enough to have read 12 books since January, kwim? I'm not sure how much I'll be able to read after the baby comes.

[WTMindy]

I'm doing well on my list (I've finished 27 and working on 4 more), and I'm reading my first of the Pulitzer prize winners thanks to YOUR suggestion. :-) I'm actually listening to Middlesex (Eugenides) on audiobook and it is a wonderful reader! It is a very amusing book.

[Kristiana]

I think I've read 12 books now though that's mainly due to curling up with 3 Anne of Green Gables books last week alone. I may just finish the series this week on spring break. I haven't felt a great desire to read non-fiction or anything heavy lately but I'm in the middle of about 4 other books currently.

So I don't know, I'm a little behind but haven't much time for reading until symphony season is behind me. I plan to read more over the summer.

[mellifera]

The problem is I keep checking books out from the library that aren't on my list. :tongue_smilie: I should have a category for books from the library that look interesting. We also went to a used book sale this last weekend and bought more books. Ah well....

[mellifera]

I am not participating, but I followed the planning posts in the beginning.
Does anyone have an update to share?
Are there any categories you wish you'd not added?
Any topics you are enjoying more than you imagined you would?
Do you have one favorite title so far this year?

In other words, how's it going? :D

My favorite title so far is Stride Toward Freedom- Martin Luther King, Jr. That one wasn't even on my list. I stumbled across it at the library and checked it out on a whim. That man could write! From the 888 list I think the favorite has been The Phantom of the Opera. Dk and I read it together and liked it better than the movie.

[Mrs. Readsalot]

I have enough Jane Austen so much, that I added a Jane Austen related catagory. I eliminated my time travel catagory, but at the pace I am going I might be able to add it back at the end of the year. I have finished my 1600's American history catagory and it was wonderful. Most of the books were read alouds or readers for our homeschooling. I have learned a lot from my 1600's World History catagory, and I am presently reading Terror on the Spanish Main aloud and ds is reading Madeleine Takes Command (I am also reading it altough he has gotten a bit ahead of me)
I am really glad I took on the challenge, it has forced me to stick with a reading pattern and I have enjoyed it.

[WTMindy]

The problem is I keep checking books out from the library that aren't on my list. :tongue_smilie: I should have a category for books from the library that look interesting. We also went to a used book sale this last weekend and bought more books. Ah well....

Yes, I've had this problem too. :-) I think I've read about 6-7 books that weren't on my list also.

[6packofun]

I'm doing well on my list (I've finished 27 and working on 4 more), and I'm reading my first of the Pulitzer prize winners thanks to YOUR suggestion. :-) I'm actually listening to Middlesex (Eugenides) on audiobook and it is a wonderful reader! It is a very amusing book.

Great book! I just bought my own copy after deciding it was a "keeper"!

[6packofun]

I recently finished Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson and loved it. Also read The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy and enjoyed that quite a bit, too!

I'm currently on Gilgamesh, which I added to my "Classics" category since I had space for it and I dropped another.

So far this year, I haven't read any but the Shakespeare title above from my 888 list that I'd consider a definite keeper...

[Heidi @ Mt Hope]

Only 11 finished so far, and a few started, but I'm really happy at my progress all things considered. I've enjoyed all the books, and I'm really looking forward to most of them.

I enjoyed Brave New World much more than I thought I would. Watership Down was difficult for me to get into, but I loved it by the end and have found that I think about it often.

A few of the books will be changed around by the end of the year, but most will stay on the list and I hope I get them all read!

I wish I had been more creative with my catagories, but the main thing was to get most of my 'want-to-read' books on there. I think I've accomplished that.

[Wendi]

I'm working on #6 (Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell). I better hurry up!:driving:

I'm going to pick up #7 from the library today (gotta love interlibrary loan!): Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Thomas Hoving. Doesn't that sound cool? :001_smile:

Wendi

[Rachel]

I started off with a bang and read 13 books by the end of February......but I've only read 2 more since then and I've started and put down a half dozen more. I'm hoping I will get remotivated and start up again.......some books on my list have changed as I've found some too boring to continue or not what I thought and I've found other books that have "just come up" that I just HAD to read.......in fact I'm going to rename one of my categories "just came up"

[Jenny in Atl]

I've finished 25, but other bks keep getting in the way, which I see is common around here. :cheers2:

[Janna]

I read Watership Down a few years ago, and I still find myself thinking about it periodically too. I will tell you that I have not looked at rabbits the same way, LOL.

Also, a friend of mine had a baby girl last year and named her Hazel after her grandmother. Every time I see her I call her "Hazel-ra", LOL! Thankfully my friend studied that book in depth in high school and knows what I'm referring to, LOL!

[Tonia]

I've finished 14 from my list with another 6 or so in my pile to read. Plus a pile (or two) of books from the library because they looked good. Trying to finish out my Jane Austen category and get started on my history reading (ancient history stuff - Homer, etc.)

[gardenschooler]

Not so hot. I need to get to the library! I plan on getting a whole lot of it done over the summer. I've only read about 10 or so.

And my list is very, very fluid. As a matter of fact, I've changed it so much, some categories are skimpy now. I need to go work on that.