Book Challenge 2013

[ChristyLeReveur]

1. Our Best Last Chance by King Abdullah of Jordan
2. Leap of Faith: Memoirs of An Unexpected Life by Queen Noor of Jordan
3. Gossip Girl: I Like It Like That by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
4. Fifty Shades Freed by E L James (re-read)
5. The Ivy by Lauren Kunze & Rina Onur
6. Gossip Girl: Nobody Does It Better by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
7. Gossip Girl: Only In Your Dreams by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
8. Gossip Girl: Would I Lie To You by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
9. Gossip Girl: Don't You Forget About Me by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
10. Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
11. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
12. Gossip Girl: You're The One That I Want by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)
13. The Debutante Divrocee by Plum Sykes (re-read)
14. The Daughters by Joanna Philbin (re-read)
15. Gossip Girl: Because I'm Worth It by Cecily von Ziegesar (re-read)

 

[Karen0193]

1. Fall of Giants-Ken Follet
2. Savages-Don Winslow

 

[Alvedansen]

1. Angelfall by Susan Ee
2. Gone girl by Gillian Flynn
3. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
4. Blue Nights by Joan Didion
5. Paris, My Sweet by Amy Thomas

 

[rox_yr_sox]

1. Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn
2. Selected Poems by Walt Whitman
3. The Rattle Bag edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes
4. The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
5. Rome: A Empire's Story by Greg Woolf (currently reading)

 

[Niusity]

^what do you think about The Stranger's Child?

 

[rox_yr_sox]

^ I'm not that thrilled with it to be honest. It just wasn't that interesting or engaging to me.

 

[pixiedust1603]

1. The Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
2. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
3. Late for Tea at the Deer Palace by Tamara Chalabi

Currently reading: My Place by Sally Morgan

 

[Juliette]

Oooh, cool thread! I'm aiming to read 52 this year (number of weeks). I did it in 2012. But I mostly read YA and chick lit. Hopefully I'll get around to reading some classics this year, too. I really want to read A tree grows in Brooklyn, it's my grandmother's favourite book.

 

[cloudyshambles]

1. Escape from Camp 14 - Blaine Harden
2. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
3. Siddharta - Hermann Hesse
4. Operation Shylock - Philip Roth (currently reading)

 

[ChrissyM]

It's early yet, but I'm starting to wonder if I should revise my expectations for this year... I was hoping to read 25 books, but I'm thinking 20 might be more realistic since I'm starting to tackle Game of Thrones and will likely have some other long books in the mix as well..

And I've been working a ton, which leaves less time for reading, so that doesn't help either

We'll see... maybe I'll stick with it for now and reassess in a few months

 

[dumbfairy]

I'm looking for 20 books this year. I would usually aim for 2 books a month,but I am starting an open university degree in English literature (very apt) so I guess I'll have a little less time to read for pleasure. So far this year I have read...

1)Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy
2)Frankenstein-Mary Shelley

And tonight I'm starting Under the Greenwood Tree- Thomas Hardy.

 

[dumbfairy]

I'm aiming for 20 books (at least 10 of which have to be modern ). I am not a huge fan of contemporary novels. I like Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, and a lot of the African (often by way of Europe) novelists, but otherwise pfftt. Give me Jane Eyre any day. Speaking of which, I'm not going to count my annual re-read of Jane Eyre among my 20. So 20 new books.

So far:

I'm almost finished with Beloved, which is contemporary, though still relatively old. And I couldn't wait to start Anna Karenina and I'm like 57 pages in already. I should probably finish Beloved though.

I also couldn't wait to start Anna Karenina. And then I couldn't wait to get it over with

 

[MissKateCherie]

1)The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries, The Asylum based on the novels by L.J. Smith
2)The Skins Novel by Ali Cronin
3)Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
4)Beastly by Alex Flinn
5)House of Night: Marked by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
6)House of Night: Betrayed by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast

 

[Juliette]

^We read really similar books, Beastly is waiting for me on my bookshelf. How did you like 50 Shades of Grey?

1. Jackson Pearce: Sisters Red
2. Bree Despain: The Dark Divine
3. Bree Despain: The Lost Saint
4. Bree Despain: The Savage Grace
5. Miha Kovač: Od katedrale do palačinke (for school)

 

[pixiedust1603]

1. The Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
2. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
3. Late for Tea at the Deer Palace by Tamara Chalabi
4. My Place by Sally Morgan
5. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

 

[MissKateCherie]

^We read really similar books, Beastly is waiting for me on my bookshelf. How did you like 50 Shades of Grey?

Well, I didn't think it was really great, but it kind of gets you hooked; it really makes you turn the page to see what happens next...but I have to admit the writing was sooo bad

 

[rox_yr_sox]

1. Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn
2. Selected Poems by Walt Whitman
3. The Rattle Bag edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes
4. The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
5. Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
6. In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce
7. The Woman Who Rides Like a Man by Tamora Pierce
8. Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce
9. Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce
10. Wolf Speaker by Tamora Pierce
11. Emperor Mage by Tamora Pierce
12. The Realms of the Gods by Tamora Pierce
13. Rome: An Empire's Story by Greg Woolf (currently reading)

 

[Belowen]

01: What I Did by Christopher Wakling
02: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
03: 1Q84 (book 1) by Haruki Murakami
04: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

 

[Niusity]

1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
3. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
4. Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot
5. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
6. Saving Grace by Darlene Ryan
7. Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson
8. Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi - wow, great read, Portia is a really nice girl and her book was amazing. She had a great writting language and her story is really heartbreaking.
9. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - a re-read, I really like Kafka and this is one of his best works.
10. Princess in Love by Meg Cabot - I'm hooked on Princess Diaries series. This one was great like the first two books.
11. Ulysses by James Joyce - hmmm, I loved the idea of the book and it was really funny and nice at parts but mostly it was way too boring.
12. The Trial by Franz Kafka - well, I liked it, it got a bit boring sometimes but all in all it was a nice read.

 

[barbaraaa]

1. Atonement by Ian McEwan
2. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
3. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
4. Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger

Currently reading: Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller