Exceedingly Mundane

I finished another book in my Fall Reading Challenge last night, “The Reading Group” by Elizabeth Noble. I have had this book on my library list for a while, and I finally decided to check it out and read it. I liked it, but I didn’t love it. I think that if I had read it at another time, maybe earlier in the year, I would have liked it a lot more. I seem to be a lot busier lately, and a lot less “into” my reading. I guess I’m in a bit of reading rut 😀

I liked the book, but it did take me quite a while to get into it. I don’t think it’s that the fact that’s it’s chick lit, as I normally love this genre. Nor do I think because it’s British, because I usually really like British fiction (think Sophie Kinsella). I think it’s the fact that there were so many characters and I really had trouble keeping them straight for quite a ways into the book. Thankfully, there was a “cast of characters” type page in the front, that I had to repeatedly keep referring to. It listed the main characters (5 in the reading group), their spouses, children, extended family, who was friend with whom, who worked with whom, etc. It just took me a while to get invested in the characters I guess, and get them all straight!

For the record, that makes 63 books read so far this year, with a total of 22,243 pages read. Next up to read is another book on my Fall Reading Challenge list, a book I own that it sitting on my bookshelf — “At First Sight” by Nicholas Sparks. This book is a follow-up to one I read earlier this year, True Believer, also by Sparks. I hope it’s good!!!