the strictly come reading 2023 reading challenge thread

[Pickman's model]

Usual rules apply - this thread for books read (that is, completed) between 0000 on 1 Jan 2023 and 2359 on 31 Dec 2023. Books completed before midnight on 31/12/22 should go in the 2022 thread. By read I mean read in print or electronic form, read to you, read by you to someone else, listened to as an audiobook - consumed in any way apart from actually eaten

 

[PursuedByBears]

I'll go for 45 again.

 

[marty21]

Reduced my target to 59 , hoping to beat it.

 

[RedRedRose]

At my peak, I can get through a book once every three or so days, but I don't recall a year where I ever read more than 60 books in a year. I was thinking this year I could aim for 100, but since contracting COVID a few weeks back I have massively lost my reading habit.

Let's aim for 60 good books and see what happens...

 

[BoatieBird]

I'm going for 52 again - a book a week.

 

[nogojones]

I just about scraped my 45 this year, so I'll stick with that.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I went 30-39 last year but only managed 29 so I'm going for 30-39 again and hope I can reach it!

 

[May Kasahara]

I read 20 this year (not including books I read to my daughter, perhaps I should include those) so will say anything more than 20 for next year.

 

[Pickman's model]

I read 20 this year (not including books I read to my daughter, perhaps I should include those) so will say anything more than 20 for next year.

Include everything you read

 

[Biddlybee]

I only managed 12 this year, one a month. No audiobooks for some reason. Going to try and carve out time to read more, from somewhere

15 ish for me in 2023.

 

[Pickman's model]

1/50 georges simenon, maigret and the old lady

 

[D'wards]

1/20 - Shantatam by Gregory David Roberts

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/45 Joe Abercrombie - Half a King

 

[xenon]

Will try at least 20 this year. Lost my reading concentration a bit lately. Though I've also got a few books that are dip in / out sort of things, which I've not included. e.g. the Mammoth Book of Bizarre Crimes.

 

[iona]

I'm always shit at keeping up with this but I have five library books that are so overdue I've been blacklisted so I'll try to read them by the end of the year at least.

 

[nogojones]

1/45 Ken MacLeod - The Human Front

 

[yield]

Less than one a month is probably realistic for me. Aiming for 12 this year.

1/45 Ken MacLeod - The Human Front

Ken MacLeod's Fall Revolution series is great. Not read Human Front, what did you think of it?

 

[Pickman's model]

1/50 georges simenon, maigret and the old lady

2/50 h.p. lovecraft, fungi from yuggoth

 

[Me76]

1/50 Saturday, Ian McEwan

 

[nogojones]

Less than one a month is probably realistic for me. Aiming for 12 this year.


Ken MacLeod's Fall Revolution series is great. Not read Human Front, what did you think of it?

Really enjoyed it. Short but fun. Guerilla warfare against the Yanks and "aliens".

 

[iona]

1/5 Cixin Liu - Hold Up the Sky

 

[shifting gears]

1/30 - Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker

Well I can perwel say Iwl parbly not read a better book this year. Thiswl stay in the memberment for a long tym to come, there’s no doubt in my mynd. Parper brilliant.

 

[tim]

1/39 Iain Sinclair - The Gold Machine

Carry On Up the Tributary as Iain, his daughter, and an ensemble of chums follows in the footsteps of his great-granddad's botanical expedition to Amazonian Peru. There is the bonus of a trip, with a mysterious Spaniard to Beckton Alp which is an 8-minute walk from my home. The lady on the bus warns me that there is an albatross close when we go past the alp, but I have never seen it. I bet Iain did. He's the sort that does. Iain's ancestor shot a snake on the Amazonian tributary which Iain felt brought some bad karma or whatever the Peruvian equivalent of karma is, to the original expedition. I hope no harm came to our albatross at Iain's hand.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1. "The Death of Mrs. Westaway" - Ruth Ware. Good solid easy to read thriller

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/45 Joe Abercrombie - Half a King

2/45 Joe Abercrombie - Half the World

 

[BoatieBird]

1/52 - Ruth Rendell - Tigerlilly's Orchids (re-read)

 

[Me76]

hc - hard copy
dl - dens library
k - kindle
g - google

1/50 Saturday, Ian McEwan - hc
2/50 East of Eden, John Steinbeck - dl

 

[imposs1904]

1/36 Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go by George P. Pelecanos

 

[Winot]

1/30 - Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker

Well I can perwel say Iwl parbly not read a better book this year. Thiswl stay in the memberment for a long tym to come, there’s no doubt in my mynd. Parper brilliant.

That’s on my list to (re)read this year.

 

[Winot]

1/29 The London Problem - Jack Brown

Short encapsulation/summary of some statistics and polling regarding the relationship between London and the rest of the UK.