the great urban75 2016 reading challenge thread

[Cpatain Rbubish]

2014 = 0
2015 = 0 (read one chapter)
Guesstimate for 2016 = 0

 

[sparkybird]

I thought I'd join up! I have no idea how many books I read in a year, so I'm guessing my target is 35. I'm gonna track and find out!
1/35 Wanting. Richard Flanagan.. Good so far

 

[bimble]

Yay! Here be the thread. Really looking forward to keeping a list which i've never done before.
But what if this makes fat books even more daunting than they already are ?

1/50 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips

 

[Miss-Shelf]

I've tried this twice before and failed spectacularly (I think the fail is against my own progess nit others competition Is that the spirit of the thread?) And didn't need more failure in my life

Not sure it's the reading but it is the recoding of it I find hard

Going to go for 10 books to keep it manageable

 

[Greebo]

Setting a target of 31, which I'll be lucky to reach if life gets in the way as badly as it did last year.

1/31 Wie man Deutscher wird in 50 einfachen Schritten - Adam Fletcher
2/31 Goblin Fruit - Laini Taylor

 

[purenarcotic]

Rejoining this, really need to read more. Setting ten in the hope I beat it.

 

[Voley]

1/10 My Story - Steven Gerrard
2/10 Ancient Sites In West Penwith -Cheryl Straffon

 

[BoatieBird]

I've tried this twice before and failed spectacularly (I think the fail is against my own progess nit others competition Is that the spirit of the thread?) And didn't need more failure in my life

Not sure it's the reading but it is the recoding of it I find hard

Going to go for 10 books to keep it manageable

Yes, that's the spirit of the thread - the only person you're challenging is yourself
Good luck!

 

[Voley]

I've just gone for ten books, too, for the same reason Miss-Shelf. It'll be about 7 more than I managed last year.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Only 8 more to go

 

[chilango]

3/52 Finding Nemo - Lisa Anne Marsoh

 

[Me76]

1/50 A Heat of the Moment Thing, Maggie Le Page - crappy chick lit. Just what I needed over Christmas.

 

[Me76]

Yay! Here be the thread. Really looking forward to keeping a list which i've never done before.
But what if this makes fat books even more daunting than they already are ?

1/50 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips

I find the big books only get intimidating come October. But reading on kindle gets rid of that anyway.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

2/20 the Boys in the Boat

Having flustered read Brief History of 7Killings and Misha Glanny's book about Nem de Rocinha I'm rather hoping for no drugs and corruption in this one..hopefully the 1936 Olympics predates all that.

 

[ringo]

Previous scores:

2012 27/30
2013 35/30
2014 44/35
2015 48/45

Will go for 45 again.

 

[chilango]

3/52 Finding Nemo - Lisa Anne Marsoh

4/52: Tales from the Tower - maximus Andrea Posner-Sanchez

 

[BoatieBird]

1/75 - Belinda Bauer - The Facts of Life and Death
2/75 - Stuart MacBride - Broken Skin

 

[Pickman's model]

1/50 a.j. smith, 'the black guard'

2/50 a.j. smith, 'the dark blood'

 

[Miss-Shelf]

1/10. Bear Bones Kathy Reich - good train reading fodder

 

[billy_bob]

I said 20 last year, upped it to 50, read 57. Unlikely to equal that this year (protracted illness in '15 helped) so I've estimated 41-50 again.

1/50: Sarah Perry - After Me Comes the Flood
2/50: Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit

 

[marty21]

1/60 The Lost Starship - Vaughn Heppner.

Space Marines! Enjoyable space marine romp.

 

[boohoo]

1/30: Hard Work by Polly Toynbee

I aim low as I just don't get the time.

 

[ringo]

1/45 An American Outlaw - John Stonehouse

 

[Sea Star]

Finished my first today

1. Special Deluxe - Neil Young

and started on my number 2 - Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood.

and noticed that by a complete fluke that I'm reading two Canadian authors in a row!
I've also decided I'm going to rotate male and female authors as I go along.

 

[tim]

1/76 Mafia Republic by John Dickie. A history of orgwnised crime (Cosa Nostra, Camorra, 'ndranghetta)in Italy since 1946 and relationship between the criminal and political classes. Quite a lot of this I was familiar withfrom previous reading, including an earlier book by Dickie Cosa Nostra. However, it was ihteresting to see different strands bought together. I woul.d have liked more focus on the Sacra Corona Unita, the Puglian Mafia, as they were very active when I was living in Bari in the early 90's. I found the transkation and continual repetition of every nickname irritating

2/76 Venusberg by Anthony powell. A comic novel about the frivolous Lives of 1930's upper-class expatriates in a small newly independent Baltic nation. At times it read rather like P G Wodehouse with more sex, death and fortune telling.

 

[toggle]

5 books I've owned more than 3 years -
5 books i buy during the year -
5 books that are 2 inch thick hardbacks that challenge me to look at them -
5 local history books -
5 local fiction books -
5 fiction books not set within anglo/anglicised culture -
5 books that are about teaching myself new skills -
5 biogs/autobiogs -
5 translated fiction books -
5 of himself's books -
10 pre 20th century fiction books -
10 books I'd need for the lit review when i get off my arse and pick the bloody project -
5 books for the other thing I've got planned -
10 books that i got the idea to read on this thread (or last years) -
5 non fiction books that aren't history - 1-
10 audio-books -

1. Lynne Truss - eats shoots and leaves.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

1/10. Bear Bones Kathy Reich - good train reading fodder
2/10 Shakleton's Stowaway - by Victoria McKenna - this is a teen book - which makes it perfect bath and train fodder

 

[boohoo]

5 books I've owned more than 3 years -
5 books i buy during the year -
5 books that are 2 inch thick hardbacks that challenge me to look at them -
5 local history books -
5 local fiction books -
5 fiction books not set within anglo/anglicised culture -
5 books that are about teaching myself new skills -
5 biogs/autobiogs -
5 translated fiction books -
5 of himself's books -
10 pre 20th century fiction books -
10 books I'd need for the lit review when i get off my arse and pick the bloody project -
5 books for the other thing I've got planned -
10 books that i got the idea to read on this thread (or last years) -
5 non fiction books that aren't history - 1-
10 audio-books -

1. Lynne Truss - eats shoots and leaves.

I like your list. (Too many books for me to read but maybe I should do a version of this!)

 

[Miss-Shelf]

I like your list. (Too many books for me to read but maybe I should do a version of this!)

I thought I could do a version of that with 1 in each category not 5

 

[boohoo]

I thought I could do a version of that with 1 in each category not 5

I have excellent local history books about the Norwood area.