2013 Reading Challenge Thread

[Greebo]

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

 

[TruXta]

1/50. Grass - Sheri Tepper
2/50. The Broken Sword - Poul Anderson
3/50. Emphyrio - Jack Vance
4/50. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

 

[ringo]

1/30 The Room Of Lost Things - Stella Duffy
2/30 At Hell's Gate: A Soldiers Journey From War To Peace - Claude Anshin Thomas

 

[ringo]

1/30 The Room Of Lost Things - Stella Duffy
2/30 At Hell's Gate: A Soldiers Journey From War To Peace - Claude Anshin Thomas
3/30 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Thought this would be dogmatic & hard work but it was brilliantly written, sad, funny & very powerful.

 

[pennimania]

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

It's not that good

 

[Me76]

1/50 Rachels Holiday, Marian Keyes

Finally finished this book that has been holding me up!! Supposedly amusing tale of an addict going into rehab. With a love story.

Now to choose one I enjoy and can rip through.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

It's not that good

you must admit that the god gardeners did appear familiarz

btw whats the etiquette on this thread about reading books other people recommend?

 

[pennimania]

you must admit that the god gardeners did appear familiarz

btw whats the etiquette on this thread about reading books other people recommend?

God gardeners .

Oh no - I've never met anyone who was one of those

Reading books - just do it.

 

[BoatieBird]

2/50 Suicide Hill, James Ellroy

 

[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
6/50 - The Horse At The Gates - DC Alden

 

[Belushi]

Sebastian Faulks 'Birdsong' (1/20)
Colin Thubron 'Shadow of the Silk Road' (2/20)

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1."Standing in Another Man's Grave" - Ian Rankin, good solid stuff and very enjoyable.
2. "Child 44" - Tom Rob Smith (?). Good if a little slow in parts

 

[belboid]

I'd not realised the poll was secret! So, I went for 21-50, aiming at around 30.

5/30 - ?? - The Secret Footballer. It's, y'know, quite intersting and entertaining, if mainly just an extension of whats in the paper.
6/30 - Hilary Mantel - Bring Up The Bodies. Absolute fucking genius.

 

[imposs1904]

I'd not realised the poll was secret! So, I went for 21-50, aiming at around 30.

5/30 - ?? - The Secret Footballer. It's, y'know, quite intersting and entertaining, if mainly just an extension of whats in the paper.

Any closer to knowing who it is from reading the book?

 

[belboid]

Any closer to knowing who it is from reading the book?

No. Tho it does really make it seem like they played for Liverpool at some point.

 

[imposs1904]

No. Tho it does really make it seem like they played for Liverpool at some point.

hasn't someone suggested that it might be Danny Murphy? I guess it would be too easy for it to be David James.

 

[belboid]

hasn't someone suggested that it might be Danny Murphy? I guess it would be too easy for it to be David James.

how much does Murphy hate Robbie Savage? If its in excess of 'a lot' then it could very very well be him.

 

[petee]

1/30 los yermos de los camaldulenses de monte corona en las américas (mulitzer)
2/30 a critical history of early rome (forsythe)

 

[Belushi]

Sebastian Faulks 'Birdsong' (1/20)
Colin Thubron 'Shadow of the Silk Road' (2/20)
Philip Larkin 'High Windows' (3/20)

 

[Me76]

1/50 Rachels Holiday, Marian Keyes
2/50 Fingersmith, Sarah Waters

 

[colbhoy]

1/20 -The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbo

 

[TruXta]

1/50. Grass - Sheri Tepper
2/50. The Broken Sword - Poul Anderson
3/50. Emphyrio - Jack Vance
4/50. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
5/50. Nightwatch - Terry Pratchett

Read it before but I picked it up the other day in bed as it's light.

 

[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

4/100 Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran by Andy Taylor

 

[braindancer]

1/30 Mockingbird - Walter Tevis
2/30 More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon
3/30 Bottle Factory Outing - Beryl Bainbridge

 

[ilovebush&blair]

1/51-100 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
2/51-100 Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) by Marcel Proust
3/51-100 The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, John E. Woods (translator)

 

[TruXta]

1/51-100 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
2/51-100 Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) by Marcel Proust
3/51-100 The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, John E. Woods (translator)

Fucking hell, man, that's some heavyweight stuff.

 

[Red Storm]

Just found this thread, kept meaning to look for it.

I've gone for 11-20 books. I'm hoping for 20.

Not read any books of my own choosing while I was at uni so i'm looking forward to getting back to reading. All of my books will be on the Kindle too.

1/20 - A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
2/20 - A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
3/20 - Physical Resistance by Dave Hann
4/20 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

 

[ilovebush&blair]

Fucking hell, man, that's some heavyweight stuff.

I'm not fucking around with this shit man. I'm reading big badass books this year. BTW Proust is a jerk. I'm glad In Search of Lost Time isn't in one big book. Because it's shit. Swann's Way is as far as I'm going with him.

 

[el-ahrairah]

well, i've already read 4 so i'm going for 100+. but i'll never remember to put them all on teh thread so i'll only put on books when i remember to.

at the moment i'm reading Simon Sebag Montefiore's 'Jerusalem' which is dead exciting and well written.

Nearly finished Jerusalem. Not so convinced by his interpretation of early 20th century history.

In between headaches I've read two shitty sci-fi pulp novels, and 7. 'Ex-libris' by Anne Faniwell, a collection of essays about being a booklover in which she comes across as smug, elitist, and thoroughly pleased with herself. Also she has an entire bookshelf dedicated to books written by "Family & Friends". So everyone can see how clever she and all her friends and family are. *voms*

 

[el-ahrairah]

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 used to be like that but once i realised that i don't need to finish it, no-one is judging me, i won't lose anything good, it doesn't matter etc i enjoy life a lot more!