HWC's 30 Day Challenge

[HandledWithCare]

Tomorrow I'm going to start my 30 day challenge. I will give up caffeine--I drink sodas with caffeine but I would like to give it up for this challenge. I will be *trying* to walk 10,000 steps a day and I will read Twilight--the first book--in 30 days. I tried to read it on e and hated it, so I'm going to force myself. Any other book would be too easy to be a "challenge".

I'll update daily or as close to daily as possible. Wish me luck!

HWC

 

[Denim Deb]

Good luck. I'm sure you can do it if you really put your mind to it. And, if it makes you feel any better, I had to give up caffeine cold turkey several years ago. I have an inner ear disorder, and I cannot handle most forms of caffeine.

 

[ORChick]

Why force yourself to read a book you don't like? Why not, instead, read 2 (or 3 , or 4) books you DO like?

 

[HandledWithCare]

Thanks for the support!

I am reading Twilight to stretch myself. I read constantly books that I like from horror to "For Dummies" etc etc. I want to make my challenge an actual challenge. I could decide to read the new-ish Stephen King book but I'd be done in three days and wouldn't feel challenged. I think Twilight will be a struggle, and up to now when a book bores me I have abandoned it. As a woman with an English degree I think I need a bit more literary discipline. It's like if I gave up caffeine and already never drank it, just pointless as a challenge goes.

HWC

 

[FarmerChick]

yea, I agree on books. A good one I would read in 2-3-4 days. A bad one, when I hit that 'one paragraph' and I would just lose total interest, put it down and end up donating to the library or goodwill or sending it on to a friend.

 

[~gd]

Thanks for the support!

I am reading Twilight to stretch myself. I read constantly books that I like from horror to "For Dummies" etc etc. I want to make my challenge an actual challenge. I could decide to read the new-ish Stephen King book but I'd be done in three days and wouldn't feel challenged. I think Twilight will be a struggle, and up to now when a book bores me I have abandoned it. As a woman with an English degree I think I need a bit more literary discipline. It's like if I gave up caffeine and already never drank it, just pointless as a challenge goes.

HWC

You have a "English degree" and you consider Twilight to be a challenge? Huum I am fairly sure that it is in the young adult section of our library......

 

[HandledWithCare]

Thanks for the support!

I am reading Twilight to stretch myself. I read constantly books that I like from horror to "For Dummies" etc etc. I want to make my challenge an actual challenge. I could decide to read the new-ish Stephen King book but I'd be done in three days and wouldn't feel challenged. I think Twilight will be a struggle, and up to now when a book bores me I have abandoned it. As a woman with an English degree I think I need a bit more literary discipline. It's like if I gave up caffeine and already never drank it, just pointless as a challenge goes.

HWC

You have a "English degree" and you consider Twilight to be a challenge? Huum I am fairly sure that it is in the young adult section of our library......

It is a challenge because of--in my opinion--slow story development, poor wordcrafting and EXTREMELY juvenile style, like a five-year-old wrote it. Also, thank you for putting my degree in quotations as if I made it up. I usually just get dirty looks for having one in my family. This was new and fun.

HWC

 

[CheerioLounge]

I agree! Attempting to read one chapter of the Twilight trilogy would be a challenge for anyone accustomed to reading "real" literature.

 

[ORChick]

I think if I felt a need for a challenge in reading I might finally read one of the Russian novels, or "Ulysses" by James Joyce - which my English teacher brother has recommended several times (and I have always found something else to read or do when he does ) I like, and still read, a number of books meant for juveniles; nothing wrong with them. But reading a book I cannot like, don't like the writing style, don't think is well written ... IMO that is just a waste of time.

 

[Denim Deb]

I read a bunch of books for kids, too. But there are some that I just can't stand. Quite truthfully, I cannot imagine reading the Twilight books. Nothing about them or the movies ever appealed to me. I like a lot of historical fiction.