50 Book Challenge for 2011

[m0del]

Starting off this year with 1. Indelible by Karin Slaughter. My friend says it's really good!

 

[Alvedansen]

i started this year wanting to finish The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck (i'm on page 177 of 476, so i hope this book counts)

 

[cloudyshambles]

i'm still reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. I have 110 pages to go, i hope this still counts? if not i'll start counting with the next book i'll read

 

[Zoely]

count me in!

 

[papa_levante]

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Been trying to start it for a looooong time now.

 

[wild roses]

Last year, I read 22 books altogether.

If I really loathe a book, I'll still finish it just so that way I can write my review on amazon or elsewhere to warn people "this author is overrated! here's why!" (That honour last year belonged to "The Time Traveler's Wife.")

Anyway, I tend to read around a dozen books at one time (but it takes forever to read them all), but the 3 I've been working on currently:

*Mistress Pat by L. M. Montgomery
*The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens
*Short Fiction of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman

 

[Lola Montès]

I'm still reading Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates. I've read 250 pages last year. Now, I still have 750 pages to go.

 

[Alvedansen]

Last year, I read 22 books altogether.

If I really loathe a book, I'll still finish it just so that way I can write my review on amazon or elsewhere to warn people "this author is overrated! here's why!" (That honour last year belonged to "The Time Traveler's Wife.")

ugh i gotta agree, so over-rated
do you have an account on goodreads.com? great site to rate, review and keep track of your book

 

[kate_is_goddess]

I'm in! I read one in two days at the end of december 2010, can I count it?

At the moment I'm tackling Frank Schätzing's "Limit" (1100+ pages)

 

[e-v-elina]

am i late? i'd love to join =) 50 books, that sure is a challenge. right now i'm reading the grapes of wrath. but i just ordered the heart is a lonely hunter and water for elephants. also, i have plenty of school literature to read

 

[kate_is_goddess]

I read one in two days at the end of december 2010, can I count it?

I just realised this sentence is a little confusing... What I meant was, I just read a book ("Imperial Bedrooms" by Bret Easton Ellis) last week. Can I include it in the challenge?

 

[myown]

^ we had a Few extra days from past Year, so i think, Yes you can Count it

 

[lovely lethargy]

01. The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

I'm starting with this fiction book. It's geared more toward the younger demographic (not that I'm old o.O; ), but I love his books.

 

[kate_is_goddess]

^^cool, thanks!

 

[papa_levante]

Congratulations to those who have finished a book already! I have yet to crack mine open.

 

[Toccata]

Thanks to Belowen for making a separate post for our Book Reviews.
I almost missed seeing it so remember it's there. I just wrote mine out.

Good luck everyone!

 

[fashionista-ta]

Last year, I read 22 books altogether.

If I really loathe a book, I'll still finish it just so that way I can write my review on amazon or elsewhere to warn people "this author is overrated! here's why!" (That honour last year belonged to "The Time Traveler's Wife.")

Anyway, I tend to read around a dozen books at one time (but it takes forever to read them all), but the 3 I've been working on currently:

*Mistress Pat by L. M. Montgomery
*The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens
*Short Fiction of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman

I loved The Time Traveler's Wife. It's so unusual to find anything new and original in fiction, and I think that book really is. Totally worth reading.

I'll do this ... right now I'm reading Eckhart Tolle's Practicing the Power of Now, and House Beautiful's The Home Book.

 

[purplethistle]

What if a book in split into two books, eg. War and Peace, does that then count as one or two books if both books are over 100 pages?

 

[fashionista-ta]

I think each person should make his/her own rules, and if s/he feels compelled, state what they are I, for example, am counting the books I've started, and any Eckhart Tolle counts as a book, I'm not checking the page count

 

[IAmLordZen]

Still looking for a book to read...