2012 reading challenge

[Epona]

I'm considering taking part this year. I read a huge amount and a large portion of it is crime novels, but I'm now at the point where I'm beyond caring about whether other people think my reading habits are worthy.

So are there any rules that I need to be aware of?

 

[D'wards]

1/26 - I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan by Alan Partridge

 

[D'wards]

So are there any rules that I need to be aware of?

Nope - you play your own game. Last years thread was free of snobbery or negative comment about others reading habits.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I was crap last year. Read loads but this thread fell off my radar

 

[Mrs Magpie]

if you read a book from cover to cover you have to include it

It'll be an eclectic list then. I read a lot of stuff cover to cover with kids at work. Sometimes I read books aloud in installments with girls scattered about me in the library, I also work with a girl with quite a severe learning disability and I read a lot of books to her. In fact I am known around the school as a big book fan, so much so that when the library flooded a couple of years ago there was a knock on the staff room door and a girl summoned me with a cry of "Miss! Your friends are drowning and people are rescuing them!"

 

[toggle]

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

 

[ilovebush&blair]

1/50 the myth of sisyphus - albert camus

 

[Pickman's model]

1/50 the myth of sisyphus - albert camus

you don't piss about!

 

[monsterbunny]

<likes reading, needs some structure to the day so joins thread>

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I am about to head into our living room and sort some books (don't faint, Pickman's!) and I'm starting with childrens books as I expect to have my grandchildren staying overnight this month. The chances are I may read some.

 

[baldrick]

1/100 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin

 

[Corax]

Do internets count as books?

 

[imposs1904]

Do internets count as books?

If only . . .

 

[D'wards]

Do audiobooks count as books? Personally i'd say no, but are other opinions available?

 

[krtek a houby]

I finished one this morning, can that kinda count?

 

[imposs1904]

Do audiobooks count as books? Personally i'd say no, but are other opinions available?

I'd say no as well but what do I know . . .

 

[toblerone3]

I think I read about 25 books last year, about one every two weeks.

 

[petee]

what happened to the 20-30 category?

 

[pennimania]

1 - Summer Half - Angela Thirkell - a bridge between the years Had to have an antidote to the odious Ms Dunn (see old thread)

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm having

Charles Stross- Iron Sky

as I finished it this morning

Am halfway through Martin Shorts history of the mafia

 

[Mrs Magpie]

1/100 Orlando's Home Life by Kathleen Hale
2/100 Orlando: A Seaside Holiday by Kathleen Hale
3/100 Orlando's Evening Out by Kathleen Hale

 

[MellySingsDoom]

OK, seeing as my reading was a bit here and there last year, I'll try to dedicate some quality time to the old reading. I'll go for 20 books, and the first is: "Bad News - The Wapping Dispute" by John Lang and Graham Dodkins.

 

[ebonics]

1/25 Frederica, Georgette Heyer

Hoping to finish Perdido Street Station by COB. I deliberately held off on finishing a couple of books until today so that I could start this challenge off on a high note. Is that cheating? Probably. Cheating to succeed is going to be my mantra for 2012.

 

[Cerberus]

Another for the 20-50 choice - though if last year was anything to go by it'll be the bottom end...

1. London 'The Biography' - Peter Ackroyd

At around 800 pages it may be some time before i next post on here......

happy reading

 

[ilovebush&blair]

you don't piss about!

i didnt go out or get drunk last night

 

[Sweet Meiga]

I went for 51-100, it seems realistic now, at the beginning of the year

 

[ebonics]

2/25 The Seventh Sinner, Elizabeth Peters

 

[baldrick]

2/100 I, Lucifer - Glen Duncan

 

[ilovebush&blair]

1/50 the myth of sisyphus - albert camus
2/50 prometheus rising - robert anton wilson

 

[october_lost]

I deliberately held off on finishing a couple of books until today so that I could start this challenge off on a high note. Is that cheating? Probably.

No. I intend to do the same.

Partly reading a book in one year, to finish it in another would otherwise leave it in limbo and off both years lists.