Book Challenge 2013

[ChristyLeReveur]

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
14. First Test by Tamora Pierce
15. Page by Tamora Pierce
16.Squire by Tamora Pierce
17. Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce
18. Program Evaluation: Forms and Approaches by John M. Owen and Patricia J. Rogers
19. The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine - Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary by Jenny Uglow

20. Designing Surveys: A guide to decisions and procedures by Ronald Czaja & Johnny Blair
21. The Art of War by Sun Tzu (currently reading)

Is the Art of War any good? I know a bit about the book (the original version in Chinese) but I'm not sure about the English version? Is it complicated? Thanks
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[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)
16. The Longest War: A History of the War on Terror and the Battles with Al Qaeda Since 9/11 by Peter L. Bergen
17. Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
18. The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
19. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account on the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden by Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer
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[rox_yr_sox]

Is the Art of War any good? I know a bit about the book (the original version in Chinese) but I'm not sure about the English version? Is it complicated? Thanks
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It is a very easy, short read. You will probably recognize many of the proverbs as you are reading it.

 

[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
6. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
7. Miguel Street by VS Naipaul
8. A Brief Conversation by Earl Lovelace
9. Inheritance of Loss by Anita Desai
10. Harare North by Brian Chikwava
11. The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo
12. Only in London by Hanan Al-Shaykh

 

[barbaraaa]

It is a very easy, short read. You will probably recognize many of the proverbs as you are reading it.

I've read it very recently too, and I second this. A true strategy classic. I read it in Portuguese, however.

1. Atonement by Ian McEwan
2. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
3. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
4. Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
5. The White Man's Burden by William Easterly
6. The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
7. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
8. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
9. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
10. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
11. Possession by AS Byatt

 

[Hazel]

1. A Question of Honor - Lynne Olson, Stanley W. Cloud
2. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
3. Women - Charles Bukowski
4. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
5. White Noise - Don DeLillo
6. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
7. Of the Farm - John Updike
8. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
9. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Currently reading:
10. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
11. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
12. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

 

[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: A Confession - Philip Roth
5. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
6. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
7. Cormac McCarthy - The Road - disappointing... very slow, hardly anything happens, and given that it's set in a post-apocalyptic world you don't learn anything about why it came to be

 

[Alvedansen]

1. Angelfall - Susan Ee ***
2. Gone girl - Gillian Flynn ****
3. Life of Pi - Yann Martel ****
4. Blue Nights - Joan Didion **
0. Paris, My Sweet - Amy Thomas (too bad to finish)
5. Einstein's refrigerator - Steve Silverman *
6. A walk in the woods - Bill Bryson ***
7. The DUFF - Kody Keplinger ***
8. Across the universe - Beth Revis **
9. Skin - Mo Hayder ****
10. Saeculum - Ursula Poznanski ***
11. Cinder - Marissa Meyer ***
12. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

 

[Candice89102]

1. Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock
2. Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
3. The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
4. Taking the Long Way by Lily R. Mason
5. Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult

Currently reading - Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking: A Novel by Aoibheann Sweeney

 

[Niusity]

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: A Confession - Philip Roth
5. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
6. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
7. Cormac McCarthy - The Road - disappointing... very slow, hardly anything happens, and given that it's set in a post-apocalyptic world you don't learn anything about why it came to be

What do you think about The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared ?? I've read so many reviews and people seem to have mixed feelings, so many readers who're not quite sure if they liked it or not.

 

[liberty33r1b]

1.) The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
2.) Grace: A Memoir - Grace Coddington
3.) The Finish - Mark Bowden
4.) The Price of Inequality - Joseph Stiglitz
5.) The Good Life - Keith Scribner
6.) Cyber War - Richard Clarke
7.) The Racketeer - John Grisham
8.) I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 - Douglas Edwards (currently reading)
9.) Hamlet - W. Shakespeare (currently reading)

 

[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
14. First Test by Tamora Pierce
15. Page by Tamora Pierce
16. Squire by Tamora Pierce
17. Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce
18. Program Evaluation: Forms and Approaches by John M. Owen and Patricia J. Rogers
19. The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine - Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary by Jenny Uglow
20. Designing Surveys: A guide to decisions and procedures by Ronald Czaja & Johnny Blair
21. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
22. The History of Sexuality: Volume 1 by Michel Foucault
23. Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe by Norman Davies (currently reading)
24. Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women by Carol Dyhouse (currently reading)

 

[cloudyshambles]

What do you think about The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared ?? I've read so many reviews and people seem to have mixed feelings, so many readers who're not quite sure if they liked it or not.

I wasn't sure whether I liked it at first either, but about a third in I started to enjoy it the side plot is a bit ridiculous sometimes, but there are funny moments when the hundred-year-old man tells about his life story, having been part of many significant events in world history of the 20th century. it's an easy read too

 

[Candice89102]

1. Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock
2. Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
3. The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
4. Taking the Long Way by Lily R. Mason
5. Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
6. Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking: A Novel by Aoibheann Sweeney

 

[barbaraaa]

1. Atonement by Ian McEwan
2. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
3. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
4. Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
5. The White Man's Burden by William Easterly
6. The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
7. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
8. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
9. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
10. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
11. Possession by AS Byatt
12. A Cool Million by Nathanael West

 

[heelscatchfire]

1. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
2. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
4. The Walking Dead: Book 5 by Robert Kirkman
5. The Walking Dead: Book 6 by Robert Kirkman
6. Candide - Voltaire
7. Carrie by Stephen King
8. The Walking Dead Book 7 - Robert Kirkman
9. The Walking Dead Book 8- Robert Kirkman
10. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
11. Laughing Gas - P.G. Wodehouse
12. Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts - Emily Anthes

 

[Niusity]

I'm shocked I haven't done a list update for so long.

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
9. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
10. Princess in Love by Meg Cabot
11. Ulysses by James Joyce
12. The Trial by Franz Kafka
13. The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell
14. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White - cutest thing on earth.
15. The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War - Camil Petrescu - school re-read.
16. Procrustean bed - Camil Petrescu - loved it even though I'm not a fan of school reads.
17. The Sisters (The Ordeal, #1) by Aleksey Tolstoy - It was really good. Very touching and I got very excited reading it.
18. 1918 (The Ordeal, #2) by Aleksey Tolstoy - not bad, but I wasn't a fan of the parts where revolution was described.
19. Bleak Morning (The Ordeal, #3) by Aleksey Tolstoy - it was okay, very slow at parts though.
20. A Comprehensive Handbook for Traditional Chinese Medicine Facial Rejuvenation by Ping Zhang - loved it even though I'm not a huge fan of scientific books. I found out so many new really informative things.
21. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - slow begining but it was a real masterpiece
22. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides - my expectations were so much higher for this book especially because I didn't like the film that much. It was a good book. Amazing writing style and amazing language and the plot is great but I felt like it was missing something. I gave it 4 stars out of 5.

Curently reading:
Divergent by Veronica Roth

 

[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
05: Ten by Gretchen McNeil
06: The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
07: The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell
08: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

[lizbabe09]

1.) Dead Is the New Black by Christine DeMaio-Rice
2.) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
3.) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
4.) The Case of the Missing Blahnik by Christine DeMaio-Rice
5.) They Never Die Quietly by D. M. Annechino
6.) Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left by Martin Duberman
7.) Drinking and Tweeting by Brandi Glanville

 

[barbaraaa]

21. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - slow begining but it was a real masterpiece

I actually LOVE the beginning, but yes, such a good book. One of my favourites.

As for me:
1. Atonement by Ian McEwan
2. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
3. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
4. Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
5. The White Man's Burden by William Easterly
6. The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
7. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
8. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
9. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
10. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
11. Possession by AS Byatt
12. A Cool Million by Nathanael West
13. The Suicide Club by RL Stevenson