it's the all-singing all-dancing 2018 reading challenge thread

[petee]

keeping it modest this year, 1 - 9, might actually do it.

1: freeman and garety, paranoia, the psychology of persecutory delusions
2: harvey, marx, capital, and the madness of economic reason

 

[Beats & Pieces]

22. Agricola & Germania - Tacitus

 

[gawkrodger]

work has impacted my reading time

1) Wolff - Fire and Fury
2) Feigenbaum - Tear Gas - pleasently surprised. Very much enjoyed
3) Mark Fisher - The Weird and the Eerie

 

[Ptolemy]

1/25. L'Assommoir - Émile Zola.
2/25. La Bête humaine - Émile Zola.
3/25. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

23. The Letter Of Marque - Patrick O'Brian

 

[BoatieBird]

1/65 - Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
2/65 - Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
3/65 - Ruth Rendell - An Unkindness of Ravens
4/65 - Stephen King - Firestarter (1/10)
5/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Veiled One

6/65 - Joanna Cannon - The Trouble With Goats and Sheep

 

[pennimania]

1. Lady Susan - Jane Austen
2. Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom - Nik Cohn
3. Little Women/Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott (possibly the 20th reread always a joy)[/QUOTE]
4. The Disneyization of Society - Alan Bryman

 

[Beats & Pieces]

24. The Thirteen Gun Salute - Patrick O'Brian

 

[marty21]

1/76 The Thirst - Jo Nesbo
2/76 Alt-America : The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump. David Neiwert
3/76 Pursuit of Honour - Vince Flynn
4/76 American Assassin - Vince Flynn
5/76 Ardennes 1944 - Anthony Beevor
6/76 The Last Nazi - Andrew Turpin


7/76 The Old Bridge - Andrew Turpin

 

[D'wards]

1/26 - Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend (reread)
2/26 - The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (reread)
3/26 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

 

[May Kasahara]

1. Tim Ecott - Neutral Buoyancy
2. Susan Cooper - The Dark Is Rising

3. Naoki Higashida - The Reason I Jump

 

[Red Cat]

1. Tim Ecott - Neutral Buoyancy
2. Susan Cooper - The Dark Is Rising

3. Naoki Higashida - The Reason I Jump

Do you recommend the last one?

 

[gawkrodger]

1) Wolff - Fire and Fury
2) Feigenbaum - Tear Gas - pleasently surprised. Very much enjoyed
3) Mark Fisher - The Weird and the Eerie
4) Kilcullen - Blood Year: Islamic State and the failures of the war on terror

 

[Beats & Pieces]

25. The Nutmeg Of Consolation - Patrick O'Brian

 

[May Kasahara]

Do you recommend the last one?

It was okay.

 

[BoatieBird]

1/65 - Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
2/65 - Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
3/65 - Ruth Rendell - An Unkindness of Ravens
4/65 - Stephen King - Firestarter (1/10)
5/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Veiled One
6/65 - Joanna Cannon - The Trouble With Goats and Sheep

7/65 - Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat

 

[Nanker Phelge]

1/19 - Mark Kermode - The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex
2/19 - Mark Kermode - It's Only a Movie
3/19 - Mark Kermod - Hatchet Job

 

[Threshers_Flail]

1. Radclyffe Hall - The Well of Loneliness
2. Carson McCullers - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
3. Olivia Laing - The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
4. Albert Camus - A Happy Death
5. Orlando Figes - A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924

 

[Voley]

1/30 The Bottom Corner - Nige Tassell
2/30 Long Road From Jarrow - Stuart Maconie
3/30 Withnail And I - Bruce Robinson
4/30 Tschick* - Wolfgang Herndorff

Really enjoyed this. Some weighty old stuff in this kids/young adults book. Hero of the title is a 14 year-old alcoholic with possible links to the Russian Mafia so, yeah, we're not in Hogwarts here. Seen through the eyes of his uncool mate they nick a Lada and head off on a surreal road trip. Loads of stuff on the nature of friendship, the awkwardness of being 13, a nod or two towards JD Salinger and a book that's genuinely quite moving.

* aka 'Why We Took The Car'

 

[kropotkin]

1. The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
2. The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin
3. The Brothers Ashkenazi - I. J. Singer
4. Chronicle of a Death Foretold- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View- Ellen Meiksins Wood
6. ‎ Burial Rights- Hannah Kent
7. ‎ Strike! - Jeremy Brecher
8. ‎ With the End in Mind- Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial - Kathryn Mannix
9. ‎Hillbilly Eligy - J. D. Vance

 

[nogojones]

1/40 - Catherynne Valente - Deathless
2/40 - Robert Louis Wilken - The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity

3/40 - Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem

 

[ringo]

1/40 Days Without End - Sebastian Barry
2/40 The High Window - Raymond Chandler
3/40 An Artist Of The Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro

 

[Shirl]

I was struggling to find good bedtime reads and so had a quick look at some of BoatieBird's reads as she seems to like some of the same things as me.
I spotted some Ruth Rendell. I've usually dismissed her as I don't care for Wexford but I'm glad I bought and read

1/20 The Lake of Darkness - Ruth Rendell
2/20 The Face of Tresspass - Ruth Rendell
3/20 A Demon in my View -Ruth Rendell

Thanks BoatieBird I feel like I did when when I first discovered Patricia Highsmith and had to read all her books

 

[BoatieBird]

Glad to be of service Shirl

 

[SpookyFrank]

1/40 Mark Greif - Against Everything
2/40 Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon
3/40 Michele Wallace - Invisibility Blues

4/40 Connie Willis - Blackout
5/40 Kathleen Taylor - Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control

I've set myself the extra target of reading at least 50% women writers this year.

 

[crossthebreeze]

1/15 Kate Mosse - The Mistletoe Bride and other haunting tales

 

[Beats & Pieces]

26. Clarissa Oakes - Patrick O'Brian
27. The Wine-Dark Sea - Patrick O'Brian
28. The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
29. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

 

[iona]

1/25 A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
2/25 A Life for the Stars - James Blish
3/25 The Triumph of Time - James Blish
4/25 A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow - George R. R. Martin
5/25 A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold - George R. R. Martin
6/25 A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin
7/25 The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths
8/25 The Janus Stone - Elly Griffiths
9/25 The House at Sea's End - Elly Griffiths
10/25 King Rat - China Miéville

 

[gawkrodger]

1) Wolff - Fire and Fury
2) Feigenbaum - Tear Gas - pleasently surprised. Very much enjoyed
3) Mark Fisher - The Weird and the Eerie
4) Kilcullen - Blood Year: Islamic State and the failures of the war on terror
5) JG Ballard - The Drowned World

 

[Pickman's model]

1/50 david lightfoot, "winterman's company"