Dominika's Reading Challenge

It's time to finish!  I had 50 challenges ready and I did 41 of them - not bad and I'm quite satisfied. What I realised lately is that I'm bored with this reading challenge, and reading was always a joy, not a chore for me. I don't want my reading to be tedious and demanding, it's to be fun and relaxing. So - it's the end for me :) Let's go reading - without a list this time! :)

I didn't enjoy this book. Generally, I found it really boring and rather disturbing. It's a story of a woman and a 16-year-old boy, who get stranded on a deserted island, where they spend three or four years before they get rescued. As you can imagine, not many things happen on a deserted island - today we ate a coconut, today we caught some fish, is anybody going to save us? - this kind of stuff. Really, really tiring to read for me. And, as we have a woman and a man - almost a man, let's be honest - there is a love story and that's what I found disturbing. He's just too young. And ok, I get it, there are just the two of them, the conditions are extreme and the boy is 18 before they have sex - still, I hated it. And I was not a fan of the part of the book after they were rescued, again, too long, boring, and people were really mean for one another. Definitely not for me and I don't think I'll read this author in the future.

It's week 41 and it's time for a book from the place I've always wanted to visit - and for me this place is the Maldives. When I first saw the pictures from the Maldives I thought that's how the paradise must look like. I chose: On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves I heard many good things about this book and I hope I'll enjoy it.

This book was a huge disappointment for me.  It seemed very long and boring, although in fact it was a short book. The sex scenes were quite brutal and didn't seem really necessary to the book, and I really didn't like the heroine of the book, I found her quite stupid and insipid. I could hardly finish and I didn't enjoy this experience at all. I don't think I'll ever re-read this book.

This week it's going to be a book with a love triangle - I hate love triangles and I was not happy about it. But then I've nocited  Lady Chatterley's Lover by David Herbert Lawrence waiting patiently on my to-be-read shelf and I decided it's a sign. I NEED to read this book at last, it's been there for twenty years or more. I really hope I'll love it!

For the last seven weeks I couldn't write on my blog, but I'm happy to write, that I didn't forget about my reading challenge - I just need to write about all seven missing books in one post. Week 33 was "a book from your childhood" and I chose "Giancarlo wkracza do akcji" by Giuliano Amici . I remember, that I used to love it when I was a child - unfortunately, it seems that you need to be a child to appreciate this book. I didn't enjoy it at all. Week 34 was "a book that made you cry". I re-read "Cien ojca" by Jan Dobraczynski . I read it on a train and cried all the time - I'm sure I made the other passengers feel quite uncomfortable. The book was really beautiful and I enjoyed it immensly. Week 35 was "a book you own but have never read". I decided to read (finally!) "Shalador's Lady" by Anne Bishop . This book has been waiting on my to-be-read shelf for almost ten years, because I was