The 50 Book Challenge (2012)

[MissKateCherie]

1)The Vampire Diaries: The Return, Shadow Souls by L. J. Smith
2)La tete du chat by Βασίλης Αλεξάκης
3)The shadow of August by Sue Welford
4)The Runaways by Kristin Butcher

 

[TanyaKiller]

01. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon - [**]
02. Wild Swans by Jung Chang - [*****]
03. The Black Book of Psychoanalysis by Catherine Meyer - [***]
04. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins - [****]
05. Here Comes Trouble by Michael Moore - [****]
06. I Killed Scheherazade by Joumana Haddad - [***]
07. Ímpio by Fábio Marton - [***]
08. Tete-a-tete by Hazel Rowley



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[Karen0193]

1.Never Let Me Go-Kazuo Ishiguro
2. The Virgin Suicides-Jeffrey Eugenides
3. The Great Gastby-F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. Bed of Roses- Nora Roberts
5. Affaire Royale- Nora Roberts
6. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy- John Le Carré

I've started with The Pilars of the Earth by Ken Follet. I didn't knew it was that enormous when I bought it, but it's about 950 pages So, I'll be reading that one for a while.

 

[models_vlada]

i'm also still on my first book, between work and uni i can only read on my train-rides and even then i'm too tired sometimes

does anyone know a veeery easy book in Spanish? i just learned the first past tense, so it could be written in present and preteritum...is there some nice children's book maybe? i looked at the Spanish versions of the Potter books, but they are still way too hard, i need simple, easy Spanish and short sentences.

Hey i can recommend you book i used to read when i was in the first years in primary school. They're supposed to be good when learning to read, but without being like the ones for babies.


El principito by Saint Exupery
La hormiguita cantora y el duende melodía by Alicia Morel
La porota by Hernán del Solar
Cuentos tradicionales by Hermanos Grimm
Maybe the series of book of "Papelucho" by Marcela Paz.

 

[GinAndTonic]

01. The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
02. Glue (Irvine Welsh)
03. The Demon (Hubert Selby Jr)
04. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
05. A Long Way Down (Nick Hornby)

 

[Mistique]

Do audio books count?

 

[BaBorrow]

01. "Night Myst" by Yasmine Galenorn

Planning to read after:
02. "Night Veil" by Yasmine Galenorn
03. "The Replacement" by Brenna Yovanoff
04. "The Space Between" by Brenna Yovanoff
05. "Bloodlines" by Richelle Mead

 

[MissKateCherie]

1)The Vampire Diaries: The Return, Shadow Souls by L. J. Smith
2)La tete du chat by Βασίλης Αλεξάκης
3)The shadow of August by Sue Welford
4)The Runaways by Kristin Butcher
5)Gossip Gilr: You know You Love me by Cecily von Ziegesar

 

[ChrissyM]

I am about 3 chapters into To Kill a Mockingbird but I can't get into it at all please tell me it gets better. I know its supposed to be one of the best books ever written but i'm finding it 'blah' at the moment .

i loved to kill a mockingbird... it's probably one of my favorite books.
i think it may resonate more with americans (not sure if you're american) because of our cultural history and things that our society still struggles with to a certain extent today

i just remember reading the last page and thinking "what a beautiful book"

 

[Candice89102]

So as nerdy as this sounds, does an 80,000 word fanfiction count?

 

[trizzia]

1.- Almost Transparent Blue, by Ryu Murakami
2.- Me convertiré en momia, by Masahiko Shimada
3.- Cien Años de Soledad, by Gabriel García Márquez (what a great book. i don't want it to end!)

 

[nothingless]

Joining in too!! I read almost exclusively on my iPhone now, using the iBooks and Kindle apps, depending on where I bought the ebook.

So far this year:

01. The False Friend - Myla Goldberg - pretty good drama novel, the twist at the end made the book for me. It's a bit slow in places, but since the end was pretty vital, I'm glad I pushed through and finished it.
02. Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey -> LOVED it. It contains some adult content, for the kids amongst us, but I didn't mind it one bit - it wasn't gratuitous, but instead enhanced the story. An amazing fantasy novel, that had me captivated from the first page.
03. Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey -> about 90% through! Loved the first book in the Kushiel series so much I had to start book 2 right away.

 

[yellowetpink]

This is such a good idea, I really need to read more!

1. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath..I thought it would be quite pretentiously written but I actually found it very easy to relate to and it was really honestly written.
2. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky..I enjoyed it, I thought it was refreshing to see a portrayal of a teenage life through a boys eyes. My mum couldn't finish it, found it too 'teen'.

Currently reading Lord Of The Flies, by William Golding.

 

[JennaaMonroe]

1. The Fellowship of the Ring- J. R. R. Tolkien
2. On Canaan's Side- Sebastian Barry- I really loved this book!

I haven't decided what I am to read next!

 

[TanyaKiller]

01. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon - [**]
02. Wild Swans by Jung Chang - [*****]
03. The Black Book of Psychoanalysis by Catherine Meyer - [***]
04. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins - [****]
05. Here Comes Trouble by Michael Moore - [****]
06. I Killed Scheherazade by Joumana Haddad - [***]
07. Ímpio by Fábio Marton - [***]
08. Tete-a-tete by Hazel Rowley - [****]
09. Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton

So, just finished Tete-a-tete, and it was a very engaging read,
I'm glad I read it because I have always heard of the couple
Sartre and Beauvoir, and I used to picture them as this
beautiful and idealized love story, and from this book's perspective
they are obviously just as flawed as everyone else. I feel right now, like it's
hard for me to believe in fairytales, it makes me frustrated and envious,
and this portrait just humanized this story without making it less
beautiful.

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[Belowen]

01: No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
02: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
03: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
04: Consider The Lobster by David Foster Wallace
05: Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

 

[Karen0193]

I've read the first 100 pages of Ken Follet's The Pillars of the Earth and it's so good! I mean it's enourmous and I don't know how much time it will take me to read it but I'm delighted!

 

[Alvedansen]

^it's one of my fave books ever, it's beautiful and although it's so huge, you'll want more once you've finished it. i didn't like the first 300 pages or so too much, but then i couldn't put it down

 

[MissKateCherie]

1)The Vampire Diaries: The Return, Shadow Souls by L. J. Smith
2)La tete du chat by Βασίλης Αλεξάκης
3)The shadow of August by Sue Welford
4)The Runaways by Kristin Butcher
5)Gossip Gilr: You know You Love me by Cecily von Ziegesar
6)The Vampire Diaries: The Return, Midnight by L. J. Smith

 

[Belowen]

01: No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
02: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
03: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
04: Consider The Lobster by David Foster Wallace
05: Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
06: The Art Of Travel by Alain De Botton