Book Talk Reading Challenge: May 2025 **RESULTS P.45** - Page 47

Originally posted by: LizzynDarcy

In my defence, I am jobless right now, I have more time to do some extra reading.

Did you know, for around 5 days, I just slept for 18 hours daily?? And the only reason none freaked out at home was because this was the only break I got since July last year.

And then I also wrote something, visited friends and all.

So, I think I have been fairly lazy.

I'm sorry to hear about your job. I'm sure you'll get another job soon because you've experience in teaching and profound knowledge of English literature. I understand you got a lot of time to read in May. Still, your total page count of May is great! If I only read, eat and sleep for 1 month, I won't be able to read more than 7000 pages.

Originally posted by: Shirsha

I'm sorry to hear about your job. I'm sure you'll get another job soon because you've experience in teaching and profound knowledge of English literature. I understand you got a lot of time to read in May. Still, your total page count of May is great! If I only read, eat and sleep for 1 month, I won't be able to read more than 7000 pages.

Don't be sad about my unemployment - I am seasoned in the university culture of contractual labour, which will rehire me in July/August.

@bold I guess it might or might not be the case. I mean, if you are going to read 2 of the popular chinese novels of 200+ chapters each - you can finish reading them quickly. Because they are easy to understand and read. However, if you take classics of 200 pages, they will need more time to understand and read. My point is, your reading pace is highly affected by the choice of texts you pick. If you read more classicals, then you read more pages than someone who read regular fiction or formula works.

Originally posted by: missFiesty_69

Lisa Kleypas 🤌🏽 — she’s really good when it comes to historical fiction.

I have the last book in Liz Tomforde’s series pending If you haven’t finished it yet, we can totally buddy read it!
I’m also going to check out your recommendations for Elsie Silver She’s surprisingly good!

@b: Arre!! I didn’t know, varna I would’ve buddy read it with you! I don’t mind reading it a second time with you (I won’t be entering it in the log though.)

Miss Shibani had a lot of thrillers listed in her log, so I’m planning to give them all a try 🙂‍↕️
Of course, I’m also planning to read a lot of LGBTQ+ books!

Oh yeah I forgot to mention, my stalking list keeps getting longer every month. First I was stalking Lizzie and WD's logs, now Shibani too. Some of those thrillers look really tempting.

Originally posted by: LizzynDarcy

Don't be sad about my unemployment - I am seasoned in the university culture of contractual labour, which will rehire me in July/August.

@bold I guess it might or might not be the case. I mean, if you are going to read 2 of the popular chinese novels of 200+ chapters each - you can finish reading them quickly. Because they are easy to understand and read. However, if you take classics of 200 pages, they will need more time to understand and read. My point is, your reading pace is highly affected by the choice of texts you pick. If you read more classicals, then you read more pages than someone who read regular fiction or formula works.

I completely agree with what you said about classic literature. Yes, it takes a lot of time to understand classics. If someone selects a drama written by William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe, he/she will need much more time to finish that drama compared to someone who has chosen Frieda McFadden's novel. That's doesn't mean I don't like Frieda McFadden's books. I enjoy reading them. It's just that they're way easier to understand and read compared to Shakespeare or Marlowe's plays.

Congratulations Team Biblio Beaters!!!

Butterscotch11, Shibu, Vera & Parm… y’all read over 10000 words. Absolute stars! And Butterscotch11 for being the MVP!

I aimed for the ACE Badge this time and got it. Not bad.

This month I shall aim for the G.O.A.T badge.

Thank you Ri for hosting.

Originally posted by: minakrish

Badge aa gaya par results nahi aaye?

Originally posted by: Shirsha

I completely agree with what you said about classic literature. Yes, it takes a lot of time to understand classics. If someone selects a drama written by William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe, he/she will need much more time to finish that drama compared to someone who has chosen Frieda McFadden's novel. That's doesn't mean I don't like Frieda McFadden's books. I enjoy reading them. It's just that they're way easier to understand and read compared to Shakespeare or Marlowe's plays.

Absolutely true. I enjoy all of them - classics to cringiest fanfictions - each of them have their own charm. And there is no one better than the other.

Yayy, go team Biblio Beaters!!! we really did splendidly and our team definitely churned out the most reading monsters

Butterscotch ji, Shibu ke chakkar mein aapka rajdhanipan to notice hi nhi ki maine 15k+ pages, that's simply amazing!!! 🤩🤩

Congrats to all the Whizzes and GOATs, you guys are what I aspire to be Vera, congrats on upgrading from Whiz to GOAT

Macchar shergill, kaisa lag raha mere saath same category mein aakar? it must be too much awesomeness for your maccharness to handle

Originally posted by: minakrish

I aimed for the ACE Badge this time and got it. Not bad.

This month I shall aim for the G.O.A.T badge.

Thank you Ri for hosting.

This month I will probably be a Star After July I'll try for Whiz 😅

I feel like you and I are the only ones treating the badges like pokemon

Originally posted by: Bee222

This month I will probably be a Star After July I'll try for Whiz 😅

I feel like you and I are the only ones treating the badges like pokemon

Hahaha, probably.

I rather have different badges every month instead of the same one.