Reading as a cheap hobby

florianatwobob

@Brambling  I didn’t read The Clouds or the Lysistrata but had to read The Frogs by Aristophanes. The dawn quote has embedded itself partly because, on first reading, it’s a lovely description of sunrise and then I think every chapter started the same way! 

sammy_kaye18

Loving this thread.
I am trying to read more this year and have set myself a challenge - its actually a reading bingo that a dear friend of mine who has sadly passed away made and I am reusing. It has 16 categories and I wonder if some people could offer suggestions for some that I dont have ideas for yet please 

Im open to reading all sorts of books - expanding knowledge etc and not wanting to get stuck in one genre.
The categories are as followed. 

1. Book by an author Ive never read
2. A book from my wishlist 
3. A Book I have seen reviewed
4. A book picked by a child - Cinderella must die - chosen by my daughter
5. A book with a cowboy
6. A Book from school I never read - how to kill a mockingbird
7. A Series of books
8. Re-read a favorite - the hobbit or the color purple
9. A biography of someone I don't like - 'Spare' perhaps? or Britneys? 
10. A non fiction book
11. A Book I have won
12. A book with over 500+ pages
13. A Book given to me - CURRENTLY READING 
14. A Book set by the coast
15. A book that became a movie
16. A book outside my comfort zone - maybe a horror or paranormal of some sort?

As you can see I have quite a few to fill in! 
I am currently reading Dont Want To Miss A Thing by Jill Mansell which my MIL gave me for Christmas and I have been using StoryGraph App to put some books into my reading list that I would like to read and before christmas read 'The Island' by Victoria Hislop that I really enjoyed too. 

Brambling

For a book with a cowboy what about The Horse Whisper?

Brie

Have you read any Vita Sackville West?  If no then I recommend All Passion Spent.  Or it almost qualifies as a 15 having been made into a TV show a number of years back starring the marvellous Wendy Hiller (she also was the aged princess in Murder on the Orient Express which of course would be another 15)

PipneyJane

@sammy_kaye18 for number 14, how about Have His Carcase by Dorothy L Sayers?  That’s set on the coast.  It’s also a murder mystery so might also qualify for a book from a genre outside your comfort zone.  (Not certain what you do/don’t like reading.).

If you allow television series into number 15, then it’d tick that box too, having been serialised in the 1980’s.

-  Pip

MrsStepford

For those of us with Kindles, Amazon is doing a Kindlish reading challenge between 1 April and 30 June.

sammy_kaye18

@PipneyJane @Brie @Brambling

Thank you so much for your suggestions. I will add them to my StoryApp and have a look at them to tick some of the boxes. 

Brie

PipneyJane said:

@sammy_kaye18 for number 14, how about Have His Carcase by Dorothy L Sayers?  That’s set on the coast.  It’s also a murder mystery so might also qualify for a book from a genre outside your comfort zone.  (Not certain what you do/don’t like reading.).

If you allow television series into number 15, then it’d tick that box too, having been serialised in the 1980’s.

-  Pip

Can you read Have His Carcase without reading Strong Poison first?  Makes the Wimsey/Vane relationship make a bit more sense.

Nonnadiluca

@sammy_kaye18, Elly Griffiths series of Ruth Galloway books is great and will also cover books set on the coast: The Salt Path by Raynor Winn is also coastal and non fiction (and brilliant!). Any of the Strike books by Robert Galbraith aka JK Rowling are well over 500 pages but don't feel like it and for an author you've never read before I would recommend Claire North, particularly The Sudden Appearance of Hope. Do you have a good library near you?

Nonnadiluca

Another Good series are the Hawthorne books, starting with The Sentence is Death, by Anthony Horowitz.