BellyBelly Bookclub

[*EJ*]

Hollybolly-Good idea about picking the books a few months ahead of time because i see that some have only just got their copy

I'm also only up to the beginning of the second chapter I'm trying so hard to find the time but i'm struggling.

Boomba you've got the right book Once you get into chapter 2 it'll be like reading a different book. Don't know what it was about chapter 1 but it does seem to get a bit more interesting and easier to read.

DH is going away for 4 days, i hopefully will get some time over the weekend to get a good chunck of it read

[LisaB]

I have started the book, and i wasnt quite sure about the begining, but it seems to have sorted it self out. So hopefully i can finish it.

[prama]

I've just started the book too, only time i can read is on the train to and from work.

[MummyTummy]

I'm still stuck..... I know it will get better, and I think I have hit the point where it starts to go uphill, but with my limited time it really isn't calling me back so I tend to be distracted by all the other things I need to do. Can someone come and belt me around the head with it until I start reading it again????

[ElleJay]

One of my NY resoultions is to read 10 books in a year - so I think I might have to join in here I'm gonna miss out this one though, I just don't think I'll be able to read something so quick

[LisaB]

I am 3/4 of the way through, and im struggling to finish it, i just want to put it down and never pick it up again. And that is saying something...i always finish a book!! So i am going to have to finish it, like it or lump it!!!

[prama]

im just at page 60 or so. so far im enjoying. dnt think i can finish it in time

[*EJ*]

I'm up to 70ish i think, stuggling to get the time and keep reading the same thing over again it seems. Don't think i'll finish it in time either but i'm going to keep readying anyway

[Peach*]

LOL LisaB, oh I feel you!
How is everyone else finding it?

[AnyDream]

Are we still trying to read Love in the Time of Cholera... I haven't started yet but I've got a copy of the movie so I can always PRETEND I've read it, just to help the conversation .

[Peach*]

Hah nice one Marydean. I think we are meant to start chatting about it today?

[MummyTummy]

I think discussion was from the 20th - tomorrow. I was awake for 3 hours in the middle of the night the other night so figured i would try and catch up on some reading. Or at the very least it would put me back to sleep.

Well I read heaps, although I am still in the middle of chapter 2, and it didn't put me to sleep. But, I still really have no inclination to pick it back up again. There is just too much waffle going on in between the story line for my liking!!

Marydean, I was thinking I might get the movie just so i can understand the plot line at the very least to be able to contribute even a little to the discussion!!

[Fleur]

damn sleepless nights & baby brain....

I was at the library & wandering around thinking
'I know there's something I'm meant to be looking for... what was it? I think it had something to do with Bellybelly...'

So I wandered around in the parenting section for a bit then gave it up & went home

yes, that's right.... I don't have the book yet

[Rainbow_Mumma]

im nearing the page 100 mark i cant believe i havent finished it yet, it was a drag to page 50 but since then ive actually liked it, its still a little hard to follow but its getting there, should we extend the time until discussion?

[*EJ*]

Maybe i'll get the movie too...

[MummyTummy]

I'm not sure Mrs S. I think I will struggle, and I know there seems to be alot of people that are way off finishing..... I think if i tried to finish this one it still would be another 2 or 3 weeks before I got through it, and like I said, it isn't calling me!! But i am happy to go with whatever, I had already resigned myself to either finishing it or not finishing it and giving my input to the discussion where I can.

I don't know what page I am up to.... she just arrived back for anyone playing at home!

Jasp! That sounds like me too!

[~Kaz~]

I am so glad to hear that others have struggled to get into this book. I am a great reader and will read anything and everything, usually multiple times but this book I really struggled with. It was interesting for me to react this way to a fiction book so I've given lots of thought to why that might be.

Happy to start the discussion anytime but perhaps a little more time would be good? Just thinking that it will be better to discuss if more people have finished it and I don't want to give away too much by being the first to start

[LisaB]

I am happy to hold off discussing for a little while longer...I am at page 381 and it is last bit that is killing me!!

As the Little Red Caboose said -

I think i can
I think i can
I think i can