Welcome one, welcome all, to quite a late and impromptu Friday Reads. I’ve just got home from a meal with some of my school friends from back home so it’s safe to say that this is going to be brief.
It’s getting to be crunch time with my reading goals for 2017 – there’s not much of this year left and I’m so determined to finish at least one reading challenge, namely the Around the year in 52 Books challenge. So my reading right now is completely dominated by the remaining challenges I need to complete for that, and I’m doing reasonably well in ticking them off. Since posting my December TBR, I’ve made sure to prioritise reading things that will fulfil the challenges, specifically Jo Nesbo’s The Bat and Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies, the latter of which pleasantly surprised me and I thoroughly enjoyed it. This is the very reason that I like doing reading challenges that persuade me to read outside of my normal genre which, let’s face it, is either fantasy or historical fiction. Speaking of…
At the moment I’m reading (well rereading) Marie Rutkoski’s The Winner’s Kiss, the first book in the Winner’s Trilogy of which I hope to finally get to Books 2 and 3 in 2018. It also handily fulfils the challenge of reading a book recommended by a favourite author because VE Schwab has rated the trilogy highly on Goodreads. I’m currently also reading Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Again, this is a reread as I’ve studied this before at University, but it’s nice to read it again just for pleasure. Plus it’s definitely the right time of year for it. It’s not very long at all and I’m reading it here and there on my phone so I expect to finish it soon enough. I’m also planning to read Jane Austen’s Lady Susan as this will fit with the epistolary novel prompt and Kendare Blake’s Three Dark Crowns which will fulfil the ‘Read a book from What Should I Read Next’ since it was recommended for lovers of Six of Crows.
All in all, I’d like to think I can still complete this challenges but I have noticed a massive drop in my reading pace since coming home for Christmas. As I’m not travelling into/home from work every day, I don’t have that guaranteed minimum of 30 minutes of reading daily, so I have to sit down and actively plan to read instead. I’m not brilliant at doing this when there’s the distraction of family and Christmas things but hopefully I can pull my socks up this weekend before Christmas and get some good reading done. Everyone loves a trier, right?
What are you reading this Friday and into this weekend? Do you have any festive themed reading plans? Have you completed any yearly reading challenges? Let me know what you’re reading at the moment in the comments below because I’d love to hear it!
The Terror of Knowing 