50 Book Challenge for 2011

[Doll_Parts]

First book read. 'The Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Wonderful! Read it!

Next: My **** Life So Far by Frankie Boyle.

 

[fashionista-ta]

Finished #3--Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (Helen Simonson). I really liked it overall, though there were a couple places where it really went OTT. I'm sure that was intentional, but it was a bit much. Beautiful language, and a very credible older British male protagonist from an American female novelist. Stayed up too late reading it last night ...

 

[Rigida]

Just finished reading Murder on the Link by Agatha Christie.
It's quite easy to point who the real killer is..

 

[kate_is_goddess]

1 // Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
2 // Limit by Frank Schätzing
3 // The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Phew, finally finished "Limit" yesterday... Can't quite say how I feel about it yet, review to follow (in the review thread).

 

[Dora]

4. Torment by Lauren Kate

 

[YoninahAliza]

Starting my second book:
2. Victoria and Albert by Richard Hough
(it's a biography about Queen Victoria and Prince Albert!)

 

[adorkablejulie]

1. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
2. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

really excited about starting the second book, read many positive reviews about it.

 

[Ziegfeld Girl]

I just finished my fourth book and am just about to start my fifth.

01. A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena de Blasi
02. Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
03. See Naples and Die by Penelope Green
04. The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
05. If This Is a Man by Primo Levi

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[e-v-elina]

1. the grapes of wrath by john steinbeck
2. water for elephants by sara gruen

just finished water for elephants, lovely book. now onto "the heart is a lonely hunter"!

 

[Belowen]

Finished my fourth book, now onto the fifth...

01: American Subversive by David Goodwillie
02: The Collector by John Fowles
03: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
04: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
05: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

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[Belowen]

Question for the group: How do you think you're progressing? Are you reading more than you did at the end of last year? And are you enjoying it?

Personally I feel like I'm in a good rhythm with books at the moment, and I'm praying I don't stumble across a crap book that throws me off and puts me off of reading for a while! Fingers crossed... I think I've made pretty safe choices for myself so far. Might start mixing it up soon, as I'm pretty far ahead with the 1 book per week average.

 

[Alvedansen]

i wish i had more time reading, but uni takes up a LOT of time atm with homework and exams
hope i'll have more time soon
overall i'd say though, that when i have the time i rather read now instead of watching the TV/surf the net, and i think that's due to this group

 

[Ziegfeld Girl]

I think I'm going pretty well so far and I've gotten into a good reading rhythm. Hopefully I can keep it up. I've read more books than I had the same time last year. So far the books I've read haven't been very long or difficult but I have some pretty lengthy non-fiction books I'm planning to read. I'm not working or studying at the moment so I have plenty of time to read.

 

[from: sophia]

I am moving really slowly but I am also moving into a new apartment should pick up after that.

 

[ChrissyM]

i think I'm doing pretty well too...
I'm into my fourth book and this is one that I've sort of been dreading tackling for a while now... (last one of a trilogy... and I plodded through the first two)
I think because of this challenge I have more motivation to stick with the book and forge on where before I might have just laid it aside for a while...
and in turn, I think i'm actually enjoying this book more and am having an easier time reading it than i did the first two...
maybe i've just had more time to get accustomed to the writing style, but i feel like it's more due to my determination to stick to this goal as much as possible

 

[MulletProof]

I've actually temporarily stopped to focus my attention on 7 books I need to read and memorise by late February, and which I don't count in the challenge as they're school-related and I'm reading them because I have to. I'll resume to my tediously p*rn*gr*ph*c/grotesque/psychedelic Jodorowsky book after that and probably grab a few more since I'll have plenty of time on a trip.

 

[e-v-elina]

i'm doing rather well considering the time uni takes up, so whenever i have a day off or two, i read the whole day to "catch up". reading a book of my own choice kinda feels like a luxury now. with school, you hardly ever have any free time, you bring school everywhere you go. i have to say, it's kinda hard to really relax and enjoy the book when school is constantly in the back of your head...

hopefully i'll be able to do most of my reading this summer, when i just work and don't have any school at all.

 

[1karina1]

Can't believe I've only just discovered this thread! It's so up my alley!
I want to join but am about 3 weeks behind you all...can I count the books I've read since the beginning of this month?

 

[ChrissyM]

Can't believe I've only just discovered this thread! It's so up my alley!
I want to join but am about 3 weeks behind you all...can I count the books I've read since the beginning of this month?

of course! count any books you've been reading this year... it's a challenge for 2011

 

[tigerrouge]

05: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

I first read the book when the trailer for the film came out - it seemed so beautiful, I wanted to know the whole story before I watched it. Re-reading it all these years later, the charm remains, an obsessed group of boys piecing together the lives of five girls, as if that would bring them back in any other form than a fantasy.