Spring Reading Thing: Wrapping It Up

To contact us Click HERE
Much to my own surprise, I made it.

I honestly never know how I'll do in challenges. I'm one of those "best-laid plans" type of people: I love thinking about the list, making it, staring at it lovingly...and then going right out and doing something else. (I don't actually have an explanation for this. Some weird quirk in my character, apparently?) This time around, however, the list and I moved in sync. It might just be that I finally managed to make a list that's more reasonable than ideal.

This time around, it could also have been more about the practical than anything else. I was straddling two locations during the challenge -- in the US and out of the US -- so I was limited to the books available to me. A number of those were sitting on my Kindle, while the others were part of the small library I packed up to head out of the country. (By "small," I'm speaking in relative terms: my husband would argue that there's nothing "small" about the library currently with us. I dread having to remind him that a fair amount of books are still sitting in storage.)

Moving on...

Katrina at Callapidder Days posted a number of questions for wrapping up the Spring Reading Thing, as follows:

Did you finish reading all the books on your spring reading list?

I did! And I'm very proud of myself. It looks like I gauged my reading wants fairly well this time around. (I'll point out that there were a couple of tentative additions that I wasn't sold on reading; those I skipped. But they were peripheral, so I'll still say I completed the books on my list :) If nothing else, I won't feel so bad if I fail to complete the planned list in the future. I can at least say I did it once!

Did you stick to your original goals or did you change your list as you went along?

The goals remained in place. Again, I'm a little surprised at myself, but I must have stumbled into a rare moment of consistency.

What was your favorite book that you read this spring? Least favorite? Why?

-- Favorite: Framley Parsonage, in part because I didn't expect to enjoy it so much. I, Iago comes in at a close second.
-- Least favorite: Death in Disguise. Just wasn't feeling it. I must have been too worn out from the effort of sticking to the list.

Did you discover a new author or genre this spring? Did you love them? Not love them?

This was my first time reading a work by Nicole Galland, and I enjoyed her writing style, not to mention her skill as a writer, immensely.

Did you learn something new because of Spring Reading Thing 2012 – something about reading, about yourself, or about a topic you read about?

I learned that sometimes I'd rather watch Midsomer Murders than read about it.

What was your favorite thing about the challenge?

Lighting a fire under myself to read even when I feel too lazy to read. It is supposed to be a "challenge," after all :)

My thanks to Katrina for hosting the Spring Reading Thing!