50 Book Challenge for 2011

[Annu]

16. 101 Experiments in the philosophy of everyday life by Roger-pol Droit
17. Witch tree symbol, Mystery of the moss-cover mansion & The mystery of the fire dragon by Carolyn Keene
18. Love virtually by Daniel Glattauer

I have interested philosophy, just little but my school classes were so boring that after those I have tried to find some more interesting stuff. This little book is kind of practice book and while I'm doing those, sometimes I realized some things what writer wanted.. to see things from different perspective. Those feelings were great!

Couple of Nancy Drew mysteries.. I love them and when I see a book which I haven't read a while, I read them.

Love virtually is just collection e-mails but it works. Maybe because of short-stories similatiers, you just can't know everything. I didn't like characters but story was was tempting. I'm gonna check next part too, this was much better than I expected.

 

[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
14. Stephen Baxter - Ark
15. Markus Zusak - The book thief
16. Ethan Hawke - Hin und weh (original title: the hottest state)

i didn't even know he was also a writer

 

[kate_is_goddess]

1 // Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
2 // Limit by Frank Schätzing
3 // Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
4 // The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5 // Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
6 // Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
7 // The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
8 // The Collector by John Fowles
9 // The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett
10 // Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
11 // Slapstick! or Lonesome No More by Kurt Vonnegut
12 // Bei Einbruch der Nacht (L'Homme à l'envers) by Fred Vargas

13 // A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
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[myown]

wow i am slow!! i am only at my 9th book

 

[Susann]

Im super slow too...
finished: number 5: When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom (was very good!)
and number 6: South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami (loved it!)

 

[lucy92]

Alvedansen, i read the hottest state when it first came out. it was OK. i thought the movie was good though. let me know when you are done, i want to double check on a major plot point with you.

 

[iperlchen]

i'm getting a little competitive with myself, feeling like i'm not reading fast enough...
but 50 books a year is a tough challenge
even if i don't make the final number goal, i think the motivation to get close to it will definitely have me getting through more books than i might have if i didn't have the goal in mind

Exactly, it's the effort that matters, despite my urge to up the number on goodreads Are any of you on there as well?

01) Victor Pelevin - The Life of Insects
02) Albert Camus - The Stranger
03) Valerio Evangelisti - Magus, Il Presagio
04) Alain de Botton - Kiss & Tell
05) Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
06) Alain de Botton - How Proust Can Change Your Life
07) Joost Zwagerman - Duel
08) Alain de Botton - The Romantic Movement
09) Alain de Botton - The Art of Travel
10) Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
11) John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
12) Alain de Botton - Essays on Love
13) Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy

 

[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

15: Cloudstreet by Tim Winton​

16: The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham

 

[ChrissyM]

Exactly, it's the effort that matters, despite my urge to up the number on goodreads Are any of you on there as well?

I'm getting on goodreads right now

you've given me a good procrastination tool

 

[Alvedansen]

i have an account
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2198526-alvedansen

 

[ChrissyM]

^^just friended you

i would post my link in here but i'm too new to goodreads to know where to find it

apparently i'm on track with my goal of 50 books this year according to goodreads...
that made me feel a little better

i think that thing will be good... i just also randomly reconnected with a friend from college who i met while studying abroad 5 years ago...
funny how things work out

 

[tigerrouge]

28: I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Written as if the lame Emperor had penned his own autobiography, it's a very dense book, but considering the subject matter, goes at a good pace, like an episode of Rome.

 

[Alvedansen]

Alvedansen, i read the hottest state when it first came out. it was OK. i thought the movie was good though. let me know when you are done, i want to double check on a major plot point with you.

alright, i just finished the book

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
14. Stephen Baxter - Ark
15. Markus Zusak - The book thief
16. Ethan Hawke - Hin und weg (original title: the hottest state)
17. Justin Cronin - The Passage

 

[kate_is_goddess]

1 // Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
2 // Limit by Frank Schätzing
3 // Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
4 // The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5 // Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
6 // Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
7 // The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
8 // The Collector by John Fowles
9 // The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett
10 // Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
11 // Slapstick! or Lonesome No More by Kurt Vonnegut
12 // Bei Einbruch der Nacht (L'Homme à l'envers) by Fred Vargas
13 // A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
14 // To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

 

[Annu]

19. The land of painted caves by Jean M. Auel
I used to love Earth's childres serie but it seems that newer books, fifth and now sixth, were not my favorites.. actually I tried to remember what make me even like these but I can't recall. Last book just came out here and I just wanted to know how she end the serie.. 800 pages and so many hours.. sigh. Usually I hate historical book, this was not exception and many thoughts seem way too 21th century to be located in pre-historic world, way too much love stuff, too little nature and way too much repeats. Doesnt' anyone use editor nowadays, lately I have felt that little more work and so many book would have been better. This was major disappointment but honesty, I didn't wait any better after fifht book. Now.. have to find sci-fi.

 

[mari]

hi! i didn't know about this thread before, so here's what i've read so far this year:

1. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender
2. Bestiario - Julio Cortázar
3. Antologia General - Pablo Neruda
4. A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
5. If I Stay - Gayle Forman
6. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. - Sam Wasson
7. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
8. Cosmopolis - Don DeLillo
9. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
10. Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman
11. The Girl with Glass Feet - Ali Shaw
12. Across the Universe - Beth Revis
13. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
14. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
15. Just Kids - Patti Smith
16. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
17. Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins
18. Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
19. An Education - Lynn Barber
20. Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
21. Ambush at Fort Bragg - Tom Wolfe
22. Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel García Márquez
23. 1984 - George Orwell
24. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
25. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
26. City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
27. City of Ashes - Cassandra Clare
28. City of Glass - Cassandra Clare
29. Animal Liberation - Peter Singer
30. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves - Karen Russell

I'm currently reading Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley.

 

[Susann]

finished nr. 7: Gifts by Nuruddin Farah

 

[kate_is_goddess]

hi! i didn't know about this thread before, so here's what i've read so far this year:

you are one busy reader!

 

[ChrissyM]

1: This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
2: Just Kids by Patti Smith
3: The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K.Rowling
4: Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
5: The Monster of Florence: A True Story by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi
6: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
7: Little Bee by Chris Cleave
8: The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy
9: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
10: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
11: The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
12: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
13: The Last Titan by Rick Riordan
14: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
15: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
16: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Shadow of the Wind was still good six years later... but not as good as the first time around...
Even though I had forgotten A LOT, I didn't have the same element of surprise that made me love it the first time I read it.

 

[Alvedansen]

one little question:
at the beginning of this challenge we said we'd only count books with at least 100 pages. i have a book i want to read with only 96 pages, but i've read a book that have 1200 pages and several with more than 500, currently reading one with 950, so can i ignore those 4 pages or can't i count the book?