50 Book Challenge for 2011

[Alvedansen]

01. John Steinbeck - The grapes of wrath
02. Richard Matheson - I am legend
03. Joyce Carol Oates - Big mouth & Ugly girl
04. Ken Follett - The pillars of the earth
05. Haruki Murakami - Afterdark
06. Gayle Forman - If I stay
07. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
08. Patti Smith - Just kids
09. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
10. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The lightning thief
11. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The sea of monsters
12. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The titan's curse

...on to the fourth book in the series

 

[tigerrouge]

20: Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier

The short story which formed the basis of the film, plus four other tales of mystery and human misfortune.

21: Blood From A Stone by Donna Leon

Venetian detective Guido Brunetti investigates the murder of an African street-seller, which leads him into a world of blood diamonds and government suppression.

 

[Ellin]

I really enjoyed Tomorrow When The War Began by John Marsden, and the series that followed. It's the story of a group of Australian teenagers who "go bush" for the weekend and return to find that the country has been invaded. It's very interesting and covers a lot of teenage issues that was pretty handy during high school It's also very well written for a YA book. I love John Marsden.

I totally agree. John Marsden is a great writer, probably my favourite really. I think I read the TWWB series at least three times when I was in highschool!
His other books are good, too: So Much to Tell You is one of my favourites as well.

 

[lucy92]

tigerrouge, i started "rebecca" by daphne de maurier a week ago but couldnt get through the first couple pages. the writing seemed a little dated. did you read that one as well?

i think i'm going to list all the books in here that ive read and just tally them up at the end up the year.

 

[tigerrouge]

The problem I had with Rebecca was that I kept remembering the film all the way through reading it, and seeing that in my head instead of imagining for myself what was being evoked by the writing!

I found that with the short stories, they're about 50-60 pages apiece, so if you're not so keen on the sound of one tale, you don't have long to go before you get into another. But the 'short story' form can be a strange thing, capturing a moment rather than constructing a world, so they often don't make much 'sense', and if you don't like the tone of someone's writing, you'll possibly like them even less in that format.

 

[Belowen]

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
06: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
07: Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
08: The Forest Of Hands & Teeth by Carrie Ryan
09: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
10: The Odyssey by Homer
11: The Dead Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
12: The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
13: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
14: Sweet Valley Confidential by Francine Pascal

I've definitely not been challenging myself lately with my book choices, but I couldn't resist moving straight on to Sweet Valley Confidential after The Hunger Games...
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[mint condish]

^ I'm definitely curious about that one Looking forward to your review

 

[lucy92]

^^loved SVH and loves SVtwins. those books were so junk-food like. i could blow through one of those books in under an hour in the 80's.

its also on my list to read!

 

[tigerrouge]

22: The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe

Got a couple of books by this Japanese author from the library the other day - and I found that there are also film versions of both of them, so that's something I'm going to explore after I finish the second.

 

[Belowen]

First thoughts on Sweet Valley Confidential -

 

[saann]

hahaha

Is that a new book? I remember reading the other books when I was younger..

 

[Belowen]

hahaha

Is that a new book? I remember reading the other books when I was younger..

It is, it's the twins '10 years later...' it's pretty rubbish

 

[mint condish]

^ It reminds me of how I tried The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell last year. I didn't get very far

 

[Alvedansen]

01. John Steinbeck - The grapes of wrath
02. Richard Matheson - I am legend
03. Joyce Carol Oates - Big mouth & Ugly girl
04. Ken Follett - The pillars of the earth
05. Haruki Murakami - Afterdark
06. Gayle Forman - If I stay
07. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
08. Patti Smith - Just kids
09. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
10. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The lightning thief
11. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The sea of monsters
12. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The titan's curse
13. Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson - The battle of the labyrinth

i don't have the fifth book yet, so i have to wait a little to read that
now reading Ark by Stephen Baxter

 

[Dora]

A book by an Albanian writer "A journey into cosmos".

 

[Siennalicious]

My last weekend's reads:
The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and a Son by David Gilmour
Fragments by Marilyn Monroe
Łóżko by Janusz Wiśniewski (Polish writer)

I've been so bad lately and totally forgot about my books. Now I'm getting back on track

 

[kate_is_goddess]

Thank god my exam is finally over and I can continue reading!! I seriously have some catching up to do, you guys have been busy busy!
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[miss_catherine]

01 l JD Salinger - Franny & Zooey

02 l Dave Eggers - Zeitoun
03 l Lawrence Lipton - The Holy Barbarians
04 l LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables​

05 l F Scott Fitzgerald - The Beautiful and the Damned
06 l Deborah Ellis - I Am A Taxi
07 l John Green & David Levithan - Will Grayson, Will Grayson
08 l Marcus Zusak - Fighting Ruben Wolfe (reading)
09 l David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest (reading) - this one is going to take me awhile...
10 l PG Wodehouse - Weekend Wodehouse (reading)​

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Completed: 7, Reading: 3.​

 

[tigerrouge]

23: The Face of Another by Kobo Abe

Because it's presented in the form of the written thoughts of a disfigured man who decides to wear a mask, the novel is quite introverted in nature, and while it raises a variety of ideas about identity and how we interact with each other, I ultimately found it rather unsatisfying, as if the plot was merely there to act as a convenient vehicle for the presentation of abstract thoughts, rather than properly taking on life as an interesting storyline in itself.
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[mint condish]

01 l JD Salinger - Franny & Zooey

02 l Dave Eggers - Zeitoun

04 l LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables​

05 l F Scott Fitzgerald - The Beautiful and the Damned
(reading)​

Any quick thoughts on these? Haven't read these fully.