the wonderful world of reading 2020 reading challenge thread

[chilango]

Blatant cheating - everyone here should be able to pass a test on whatever they’re counting against their total!

Some of us kind of have to...

 

[nogojones]

Any reason why people dont write even a shortest of reviews on this thread?

We don't want to spoil it for you

 

[colacubes]

1/19. Airhead - Emily Maitlis
2/19. ‘Twas the nightshift before Christmas - Adam Kay
3/19. Normal People - Sally Rooney
4/19. Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
5/19. Captain Marvel: Higher, Further, Faster, More - DeConnick, Lopez, Loughridge

Dunno what the rules are round graphic novels, but I’m having it

 

[colbhoy]

1/10 - Die Trying by Lee Child

 

[neonwilderness]

1/24 The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman

 

[Pickman's model]

2) Willie Carlin, thatcher's spy: my life as an mi5 agent inside sinn féin

3) Stephen Hunter, point of impact

 

[hattie]

Good luck hattie - might be worth picking carefully?

Thanks Poot!

I have finished my first book and I'm half way through my second so proud of myself
I have been choosing carefully, my 2nd book is 288 pages long - exactly the same as my first . I'll think of some other random carefulness to apply to my third choice...

1/4 The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

 

[Irish353.109]

just looking back this is the eleventh of these reading challenge threads, i hadn't realised i'd posted them every year in the past decade

Not trying to be flippant, but as a huge fan of Ru Paul’s Drag Race “reading challenge” has a different meaning according to Mama Ru “reading is fundamental, the library is (always) open“

 

[pennimania]

1. The Generous Earth - Philip Oyler
2. Excitements at the Chalet School
3. The New Mistress at the Chalet School

 

[Pickman's model]

Not trying to be flippant, but as a huge fan of Ru Paul’s Drag Race “reading challenge” has a different meaning according to Mama Ru “reading is fundamental, the library is (always) open“

In Berkshire a reading challenge is different too, most people who take it only manage a few months

 

[Me76]

L - library
Ld - my sister's library

1/50 The Gallows Pole, Benjamin Myers - Ld
2/50 You, Caroline Kepnes - Ld
3/50 Women Within, Anne Leigh Parrish - nice read this. Nothing really happens, just a portrait of three women's lives. They are connected but of different generations.

 

[nogojones]

1/50 Paul Lafargue - The Evolution of Property
2/50 Michio Kaku - Physics of the Impossible
3/50 Issac Asimov - Foundation

4/50 Ted Chiang - Stories of Your Life and Others
5/50 Philip K. Dick - Martian Time-Slip

 

[marty21]

1/75 The Girl Who Lived Twice - David Lagercrantz
2/75 Sweet Sorrow - David Nicholls
3/75 Mortal Prey - John Sandford
4/75 The Night Fire - Michael Connelly
5/75 Borderlands - L J Ross
6/75 Three Weeks to say goodbye - C J Box

 

[braindancer]

1/30 - Now in November - Josephine Johnson
2/30 - The Wanderers - Richard Price
3/30 - The Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov

 

[imposs1904]

1/26 Smart Moves by Stuart M. Kaminsky

2/26 Think Fast, Mr. Peters by Stuart M. Kaminsky

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

6. Demon Divine
7. C.A.E.C.O
Both by the same guy as above. I decided to catch up on his other series.

Wondering what next...

8. Provenance - Ann Leckie - set in the same universe as her imperial radachi series took me a bit to get into but I did enjoy it very much.

back at work so spent a lot of time reading web novels this week only finished one proper book.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

8. Provenance - Ann Leckie - set in the same universe as her imperial radachi series took me a bit to get into but I did enjoy it very much.

back at work so spent a lot of time reading web novels this week only finished one proper book.

9. Shadowblack
&
10. Charmcaster - Sebastien de Castell

MORE of that series.

 

[chilango]

10/100: We are the crisis of capital - John Holloway.

I should've liked this a lot more than I actually did.

 

[BoatieBird]

1/70 - Shirley Jackson - The Bird's Nest
2/70 - Annie Proulx - Accordion Crimes (re-read)
3/70 - Liz Nugent - Unravelling Oliver

4/70 - Elizabeth Strout - Anything is Possible

 

[kropotkin]

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[Biddlybee]

1/20 - The Good Immigrant - ed Nikesh Shukla
2/20 - The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman

 

[imposs1904]

1/26 Smart Moves by Stuart M. Kaminsky
2/26 Think Fast, Mr. Peters by Stuart M. Kaminsky

3/26 Buried Caesars by Stuart M. Kaminsky

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/50 Hilary Hinds - A Cultural History of Twin Beds
2/50 Alan Garner - Boneland

3/50 James Herriot - All Things Bright and Beautiful

 

[pennimania]

1. The Generous Earth - Philip Oyler
2. Excitements at the Chalet School - Elinor Brent Dyer
3. The New Mistress at the Chalet School - " " "

4. Betty: the story of Betty MacDonald - Anne Wellman
5. The Coming of Age of the Chalet School - Elinor Brent Dyer

 

[Ptolemy]

1/30. Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty. - Karl Shaw.
2/30. Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Stories - Unknown (translated by Hermann Palsson).
3/30. Born 1900 - Hunter Davies.
4/30. The Pearl - John Steinbeck.
5/30. A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe.
6/30. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick.
7/30. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf.
8/30. First Love - Ivan Turgenev.
9/30. The Color Purple - Alice Walker.
10/30. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (re-read).

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/50 Hilary Hinds - A Cultural History of Twin Beds
2/50 Alan Garner - Boneland
3/50 James Herriot - All Things Bright and Beautiful

4/50 Philip Pullman - The Secret Commonwealth

 

[billy_bob]

1/40 Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White*
2/40 Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
3/40 Hans Rosling - Factfulness

4/40 Alastair Bonnett - Off the Map
5/40 Anna Burns - The Milkman
6/40 Charles Fernyhough - Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory

* my target this year is to read more long books. * = 500+ pages

 

[Detroit City]

1/23 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

Was the movie with Anthony Hopkins based on this book?

 

[Poot]

Was the movie with Anthony Hopkins based on this book?

I think so though I've never seen it. I usually prefer books to films so I'm really ignorant of films. I mean, I'm not that well read either, but still...

 

[SpookyFrank]

1/52 Philip Pullman - La Belle Sauvage
2/52 Norman Doidge - The Brain That Changes Itself
3/52 Vladimir Nabokov - Bend Sinister

4/52 Mackenzie Wark - Capital is Dead

Pretty transparently a bunch of unrelated essays cobbled together into a book on a common theme, and sadly it's a book that doesn't really make a case for the proposition in the title. There's some interesting stuff in here amongst the standard Marxist theory navel-gazing but it's mostly stuff I've encountered elsewhere in more coherent form, notably 'The New Dark Age' by James Bridle.

This is what I get for impulse buying in the Verso books sale I suppose. There you go ska invita, a review.