2013 Reading Challenge Thread

[Miss-Shelf]

5/51-100 wild: a journey from lost to found by cheryl strayed
touching account of her solo hike along the pacific crest trail in usa (1100 miles )

 

[pennimania]

4/100 Nethergate. Norah Lofts

Charity shop pap

 

[TruXta]

1/50. Grass - Sheri Tepper
2/50. The Broken Sword - Poul Anderson

 

[xenon]

01/30 Pimp - Iceberg Slim
02/30 I Can Make you Hate - Charlie Brooker

 

[imposs1904]

1/100 Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World by Graham Hunter

2/100 Ramones by Nicholas Rombes
Part of the 33 1/3 series.

 

[marty21]

1- City of Gold - Len Deighton
2- Outside- Shalini Boland
3- Deep Black - Stephen Coonts & Jim Defelice

 

[Me76]

I normally would have read two or three by now but I am stuck on a book that I'm not enjoying much but have read bout 40% of so feel too invested to just leave it.

 

[Manter]

I normally would have read two or three by now but I am stuck on a book that I'm not enjoying much but have read bout 40% of so feel too invested to just leave it.

I hate that feeling

 

[TruXta]

1/50. Grass - Sheri Tepper
2/50. The Broken Sword - Poul Anderson
3/50. Emphyrio - Jack Vance

 

[Belushi]

Sebastian Faulks 'Birdsong' (1/20)

 

[marty21]

1- City of Gold - Len Deighton
2- Outside- Shalini Bolan
3- Deep Black - Stephen Coonts and Jim Defelice
4- Before They Are Hanged - Joe Abercombie

 

[magneze]

Are people posting as they finish a book or as they start?

 

[imposs1904]

Are people posting as they finish a book or as they start?

finish

 

[marty21]

finish

this

 

[colacubes]

OK, am determined to do more reading this year so have voted 21-50. I may do more but was incredibly lax by my standards last year and probably did less than 20. So:

1/50 - Alexei Sayle - Stalin ate my Homework.

Really loved it. I've enjoyed his short stories before but this autobiog of his childhood is brilliant. If only 10% of what he says about his family are true they are properly eccentric. Scouse socialists par excellence

 

[BoatieBird]

1/21-50 - Niall Griffiths - Grits

 

[pennimania]

finish

When Ive finished.

But some, like this one, was started long ago.

5/100. The Scottish Enlightment. Arthur Herman

 

[Manter]

4/51-100 the bloody white baron, James Palmer

5/51-100 bodywork, Sara paretsky

Enjoyable fluff.

 

[Ceej]

2/51-100 This book will save your life by A.M.Homes
3/51-100 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Neither as good as I'd hoped - Gone Girl is distinctly meh.

 

[Greebo]

Narcomania - Max Daly & Steve Sampson
Polish for dummies - Daria Gabryanczyk
Findings & Finishings - Sharon Bateman

 

[ringo]

1/30 the room of lost things - Stella Duffy

Best Brixtonish book yet, lovely

 

[imposs1904]

1/100 Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World by Graham Hunter
2/100 Ramones by Nicholas Rombes

3/100 The Train by Georges Simenon

 

[Firky]

1/50: Let The Right One In, John Ajvide Lindqvis.
2/50: Johannes Cabal the Necromancer, Jonathon L Howard.

 

[braindancer]

1/30 Mockingbird - Walter Tevis
2/30 More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon

 

[Firky]

Sebastian Faulks 'Birdsong' (1/20)

Is that the WW1 one? I think I have read that.

 

[pennimania]

When Ive finished.

But some, like this one, was started long ago.

5/100. The Scottish Enlightment. Arthur Herman

6/100 Wallis - the Uncommon Life of the Duchess of Windsor.

Terrible. Only read it because I'm interested in the 30's. Made me hate all of them even more.

Looking forward to reading Let the Right One In very soon

 

[marty21]

1/50- City of Gold - Len Deighton
2/50- Outside- Shalini Bolan
3/50- Deep Black - Stephen Coonts and Jim Defelice
4/50- Before They Are Hanged - Joe Abercombie
5/50 - Last Arguments of Kings - Joe Abercrombie

 

[Manter]

5/51-100 bodywork, Sara paretsky

Enjoyable fluff.

6/51-100 the Collini case, Ferdinand von Schirach. Masterpiece based on a true story. But I found it curiously unengaging....

 

[Miss-Shelf]

6/51-100 bones to ashes Kathe Reichs along the lines of cornwell scarpetta novels set in Canada with more forensic facts

 

[Miss-Shelf]

7/51-100 The Year if the Flood by Margaret Atwood science fiction of dystopian future where gene splicing privitised conglomerates erode civil liberties and god garderners deep green ecologists fight them while preparing for the imminent pandemic - think a coca cola- monsanto cross at war with tinkers bubble