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1. As You Wish - Cary Elwes (reread), 259 pg.

2. Hag-Seed - Margaret Atwood, 301 pg.

3. The Country of Ice Cream Star - Sandra Newman, 592 pg.

4. Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone - J.K. Rowling (reread), 309 pg.

5. The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil - Stephen Collins (reread), 240 pg.

6. Beautiful Darkness - Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët, 94 pg.

7. Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut, 250 pg.

8. Vinegar Girl - Anne Tyler, 240 pg.

9. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling (reread), 341 pg.

10. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling (reread), 435 pg.

11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling (reread), 734 pg.

12. Amphigorey Also - Edward Gorey (reread), 156 pg.

13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling (reread), 896 pg.

14. Beauty - Kerascoët and Hubert, 144 pg.

15. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling (reread), 652 pg.

16. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling (reread), 784 pg.

17. Angel Catbird - Margaret Atwood, Tamra Bonvillain, and Johnnie Christmas, 116 pg.

18. Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection - Kate Beaton, 166 pg.

19. Pearls Gets Sacrificed: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury - Stephan Pastis (reread), 248 pg.

 

Total: 6,957 pg.

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2017

 
  1. So This is Christmas (Adrien English #7) - Josh Lanyon
  2. Shades of Sepia (The Sleepless City #1) - Anne Barwell
  3. Dead Ground - Adam Wright
  4. Electric Candle (The Sleepless City #2) - Elizabeth Noble
  5. Rejoice Dammit - Kaje Harper
  6. Family and Reflection (The Sleepless City #3) - Anne Barwell
  7. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves - PG Wodehouse
  8. Demon Moon - Brad Magnarella
  9. Shifting Chaos (The Sleepless City #4) - Elizabeth Noble
  10. Fortunate Blizzard - L.C. Chase
  11. Status Update - Annabeth Albert
  12. Connection Error - Annabeth Albert
  13. Finding Your Feet (Toronto Connections #2) - Cass Lennox - trans m/f :cake: pairing.
  14. Beta Test - Annabeth Albert
  15. Ghostly Invtigations - Edward Kendricks
  16. Hid in the Shadows: Assassin's Loyalty - Stephani Hecht
  17. Shane's Promise - Stephani Hecht
  18. Starstuck (Bluewater Bay #1) - L.A. Witt
  19. Shadow's Edge - S.C. Wynne
  20. The Prince of the Moon - Megan Derr
  21. Quarry (The Vampire Guard #2) - Elizabeth Noble
  22. The Godmakers - Frank Herbert
  23. Hell, Look at Me - Edward Kendricks
  24. Waiting for Clark - Annabeth Albert
  25. Junior Hero Blues - JK Pendragon
  26. Dragon Sun - Liv Rider
  27. The Royal Inquisitor - Megan Derr
  28. To Ride Pegasus - Anne McCaffrey
  29. Night of the Living Date - Brian Olsen
  30. The Galloway Road - Catherine Adams - :cake: ace character
  31. The Lost Tudor Princess - Alison Weir
  32. Elizabeth of York - Alison Weir
  33. Dragon Consultant - Mell Eight
  34. Dragon Deception - Mell Eight
  35. Dragon Dilemma - Mell Eight
  36. Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire :cake: character
  37. Bloodlist (Vampire Files #1) - PN Elrod
  38. Dragon Detective - Mell Eight
  39. Canada - Mike Myers
  40. Sunrise (Pact Arcanum #2) - Arshad Ahsannudin
  41. Not My Mate - Hollis Shiloh
  42. Dragon Soldier - Mell Eight
  43. Fair Chance (All's Fair #) - Josh Lanyon
  44. Growing Pains - Cass Lennox
  45. Moonlight (Pact Arcanum #3) - Arshad Ahsannudin
  46. How to Court a Librarian (Jewel Bonds #4) - Megan Derr
  47. Inheritance - Lissa Kasey
  48. Wick - Megan Derr
  49. Frostwick - Megan Derr
  50. Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature (The Great Courses) - Pamela Bedore, Ph.D.
  51. The Heart of the Kingdom - Sasha L. Miller
  52. The Modern Scholar: Behold the Mighty Dinosaur - John C. Kricher, Ph.D.
  53. Starlight (Pact Arcanum #4) - Arshad Ahsannudin
  54. Long Shadows (Common Law #1) - Kate Sherwood
  55. Skim Blood and Savage Verse (Offbeat Crimes #3) - Angel Martinez
  56. Darkness (Common Law #2) - Kate Sherwood
  57. Embers (Common Law #3) - Kate Sherwood
  58. Home Fires (Common Law #4) - Kate Sherwood
  59. Plenty of Fish - Josh Lanyon
  60. From Here to Infinity: An Exploration of Science Fiction Literature - Michael D.C. Drout
  61. For a Good Time Call (Bluewater Bay #17) - Anne Tenino :cake: ace character/gay pairing
  62. Paladin of Souls (Chalion #2) - Lois McMaster Bujold
  63. The Vampire's Werewolf Bodyguard - Liv Rider - every bit as silly as it sounds too
  64. Sensation (Kid Sensation #1) - Kevin Hardman
  65. Reclamation (Dominion #2) - Lissa Kasey - barely worth the read and worse than the first book
  66. Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan) - Lois McMaster Bujold - I would love to have another book from Ivan's point of view
  67. Linesman - S.K. Dunstall
  68. Forget Me Not (Mnevermind #2) - Jordan Castillo Price
  69. A Worthy Man (Men of Halfway House #5) - Jaime Reese
  70. The Mystery of Nevermore - C.S. Poe
  71. The Hated Finn - Charlie Richards
  72. Rediscovering Himself - Charlie Richards
  73. Femme - Marshall Thornton
  74. The Mysteries of the Curiosities - C.S. Poe
  75. The Ghost Slept Over - Marshall Thornton
  76. Liam Davis & The Raven - Anyta Sunday
  77. The Two Gentlemen of Altono - Lisa Henry & J.A. Rock - reread
  78. Binti - Nnedi Okorafor
  79. The Science of Supervillainy - C.T. Phipps
  80. Marvel's Doctor Strange - Bradford Hastings - junior novel that actually stops just when the real action's just getting started in the movie!
  81. The Monet Murders - Josh Lanyon
  82. Doctor Who: Touched by an Angel - Jonathan Morris
  83. The Merchant of Death - Lisa Henry & J.A. Rock - reread
  84. Witch Week - Diana Wynne Jones - reread of much older material
  85. Back to You - Chris Scully
  86. Tempest - Lisa Henry & J.A. Rock - reread
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87. Ring, Swords and Monsters: Exploring Fantasy - Michael D.C. Drout

88. Bear, Otter, and the Kid (BOtK #1) - T.J. Klune

89. Feral Dust Bunnies (Offbeat Crimes #4) - Angel Martinez

90. Bluewater Blues (Blue Water Bay #15) - G.B. Gordon

91. The Modern Scholar: Medieval Mysteries: The History Behind the Myths of the Middle Ages - Thomas F. Madden

92. Death Magic - M.J. Kraus

93. The Dragons of Dorcastle - Jack Campbell

94. Skin After Skin (Psycop #8) - Jordan Castillo Price

95. Doctor Who: The Shining Man - Cavan Scott

96. Echoes of Deviance (Aberrant Magic #4) - Lynn Gala

97. Jax's Rebellion - Stephanie Hecht

98. X-Files: Cold Cases (Audio) - Joe Harris - based on the IDW graphic novels

99. The Manny Files - Christian Burch

100. Hue, Tint & Shade - Jordan Castillo Price

101. His Quiet Agent - Ada Maria Soto :cake:ace characters

102. Wisp of a Thing (Tufa #2) - Alex Bledsoe

103. No God is Safe - Orlando A. Sanchez

104. The Sumage Solution - G.L. Carriger

105. A Natural History of Dragons - Marie Brennan

106. Quinn's Gambit - Bellora Quinn & Angela Martinez

107. All My Broken Pieces - Hollis Shiloh

108. Charming - Elliott James

109. A Destiny of Dragons - T.J. Klune

110. Carry On - Rainbow Rowell

111. The Soldati Prince - Charlie Cochet

112. OCD, the Dude, and Me - Loren Roedy Vaughn

113. Drama Queen - Joe Cosentino

114. Diversion - Eden Winters

115. Collusion - Eden Winters

116. One Bratty Omega - Stephanie Hecht

117. Long Black Curl (Tufa #3) - Alex Bledsoe

118. A Boy Worth Knowing - Jennifer Cosgrove

119. Corruption - Eden Winters

120. Something Like Spring - Jay Bell

121. Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell - because I read Carry On and got curious...

122. White Cat - Holly Black

 

123. Redemption - Eden Winters

124. Reunion - Eden Winters

125. Posted - John David Anderson

126. UnWrapping Hank - Eli Easton

127. Cutie and the Beast - EJ Russell

128. The Flaw in All Magic - Ben S. Dobson

129. Blood Doesn't Decide - Stephanie Hecht

130.Cocaine Blues - Kerry Greenwood

131.The Druid Next Door - EJ Russell

132. Mafia and Magic - Lynn Gala

133. Bad Boy's Bard - EJ Russell :cake:Ace character

134. Openly Straight - Bill Konigsberg

135. Jackalopes and Woofen-Poofs (Off Beat Crimes #5) - Angel Martinez

136. By Fairy Means or Foul - Meghan Maslow

137. X-Files: Stolen Lives - Joe Harris

139. Last Car to Annwn Station - Michael Merriam

140. Clay White - Kim Fielding

141. The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths and Magic - F.T. Lukens

142. The Long Way to a Small, Angry, Planet - Becky Chambers

143. Time Binge - Martina Fetzer

144. The Stone - Seb L. Carter

145. A Rare Book of Cunning Device - Ben Aaronovitch

146. Building Forever - Kaje Harper

147. Earning His Stallion's Trust - Charlie Richards

148. Transformed - Suzanne Falter

149. The Heart of the Lost Star - Megan Derr

150. The Painted Crown - Megan Derr

151. American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest - Hannah Nordhaus

152. Pale as a Ghost - Stephen Osborne

153. Men and Dragons - Bailey Montagne :cake:Aro-Ace protagonist

154. Halloween is Murder - Josh Lanyon

155. The Fall of the House of Cabal - Jonathan L. Howard

156. Animal Instinct - Stephen Osborne

157. Silver Silence (Psi-Changling #16) - Nalini Singh

158. A Carriger Quartet - Gail Carriger

159. Romancing the Werewolf - Gail Carriger

160. Flax's Pursuit - Bellora Quinn & Angel Martinez

161. Kellen's Awakening - Bellora Quinn & Angel Martinez

162. Drama Muscle - Joe Cosentino

163. Consumption of Magic - T.J. Klune

164. Stolen Ink - Holly Evans

165. Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor

 

Goal: 165 books - "Mischief managed." ;) However, we still have another 25 days left of the year ....

Page count: 36,061

 

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Mine came to a stuttering halt for the last 3 months... I'm still only on about 6. I even started reading again last month (a new series and omg I love it) but I got distracted half way through and can't build the energy to pick it up again!  *cries* 

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iff's list 2017

1. of love & other demons - gabriel garcia marquez ★★★★  reread 160 pages



2. the underground railroad - colson whitehead ★★★★  1/2 306 pages
3. mend the living - maylis de kerangel ★★★★★ 230 pages
4. the tobacconist - robert seethaler ★★★ 1/2 234 pages
5. the lesser bohemians - eimear mcbride ★★★ 1/2 312 pages
6. the killing lessons - saul black ★★★★★ 408 pages
7. tomato red - daniel woodrell ★★★★★ 188 pages reread
8. all for nothing - walter kempowski ★★★★★ 343 pages
9. human acts - han kang ★★★★ 224 pages
10. nutshell - ian mcewan ★ 199 pages

11. A Horse Walks iInto A Bar - David Grossman ★★★★★ 198 pages

12. The Gustav Sonata - Rose Tremain ★★★★★ 240 pages
13. Dear Mr M - Herman Koch ★★ 400 pages
14. submission - michel houellebecq  ★★★★ 250 pages

15. hot milk - deborah levy ★★ 218 pages

16. the things we don't do - andres neuman ★★★★ 170 pages

 

17. empires in the sun: the struggle for the mastery of Africa - Laurence James ★★★ 329 pages

18. child wonder - roy jacobsen ★★★★★ reread 264 pages

 

total pages - 4,673 pages

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On 4/12/2017 at 10:17 PM, ByASpringForASpell said:

List for 2017

 

1. Native Son by Richard Wright ★★★★★ (560 pages)

2. Passing by Nella Larsen ★★★✩✩ (122 pages)

3. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway ★★★✩✩ (250 pages)

4. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner ★★★★★ (303 pages)

5. The Lamentations of Zeno by Ilija Trojanow ★★★½✩ (159 pages)

6. The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de Lafayette ★★★✩✩ (176 pages)

 

Total pages: 1570

 

7. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf  ★★★★✩ (112 pages)

8. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte ★★★★½ (367 pages)

9. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston ★★★★½ (193 pages)

 

Total pages: 2242 

 

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I completely neglected this list this year, I don't even remember if I updated it to show my final list for last year..

 

 

 


1    The Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai    -    Barbara Lazar    ****    548     pages
2    House Of Chains    -    Steven Erikson    ****    1034     pages
3    The Lies of Locke Lamora    -    Scott Lynch    ****    537     pages
4    Fool's Errand    -    Robin Hobb    *****    584     pages
5    The Martian    -    Andy Weir    ****    387     pages
6    The Golden Fool    -    Robin Hobb    *****    712     pages
7    Dolphin Diaries: Into the Blue    -    Lucy Daniels    ***    119     pages
8    De Clan van de Wolvin    -    Maite Carranza    ***    303     pages
9    The Clan of the Cave Bear    -    Jean Auel    ***    572     pages
10    The Valley of Horses    -    Jean Auel    ***    596     pages
11    The Mammoth Hunters    -    Jean Auel    ***    752     pages
12    Blue Labyrinth    -    Preston & Child    ****    560     pages
13    Charmed Life    -    Diana Wynne Jones    ****    165     pages
14    The Magicians of Caprona    -    Diana Wynne Jones    ****    164     pages
15    Witch Week    -    Diana Wynne Jones    ****    163     pages
16    The Lives of Christopher Chant    -    Diana Wynne Jones    ****    213     pages
17    Mixed Magics    -    Diana Wynne Jones    ***    89     pages
18    Conrad's Fare    -    Diana Wynne Jones    ****    200     pages
19    The Pinhoe Egg    -    Diana Wynne Jones    ****    226     pages
20    Grimpow, the invisible road    -    Rafael Àbalos    ****    451     pages
21    The Wittgensteins    -    Alexander Waugh    ****    415     pages
22    Hello, Cruel World    -    Kate Bornstein    ***    240     pages
23    Oorlog zonder Vrienden    -    Evert Hartman    ****    295     pages
24    The Plains of Passage    -    Jean Auel    ***    874     pages
25    The Shelters of Stone    -    Jean Auel    ***    808     pages
26    The Land of the Painted Caves    -    Jean Auel    ***    710     pages
27    I, Robot    -    Isaac Asimov    ****    256     pages
28    Xenocide    -    Orson Scott Card    ****    444     pages
29    Fool's Fate    -    Robin Hobb    *****    805     pages
30    Howl's Moving Castle    -    Diana Wynne Jones    ****    190     pages
31    Castle in the Air    -    Diana Wynne Jones    ****    174     pages
32    House of Many Ways    -    Diana Wynne Jones    ****    174     pages
33    Consider Phlebas    -    Iain Banks    ***    471     pages
34    The Magician's Nephew    -    C.S. Lewis    ***    171     pages
35    The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe    -    C.S. Lewis    ****    171     pages
36    The Horse and his Boy    -    C.S. Lewis    ****    175     pages
37    Prince Caspian    -    C.S. Lewis    ****    190     pages
38    The Voyage of the Dawn Treader    -    C.S. Lewis    ***    189     pages
39    The Silver Chair    -    C.S. Lewis    ***    191     pages
40    The Last Battle    -    C.S. Lewis    ***    172     pages
41    The Eye of the World    -    Robert Jordan    ****    739     pages
42    So You Want to Be a Wizard    -    Diane Duane    ****    386     pages
43    Deep Wizardry    -    Diane Duane    ****    371     pages
44    High Wizardry    -    Diane Duane    ****    353     pages
45    A Wizard Abroad    -    Diane Duane    ****    356     pages
46    Cryptonomicon    -    Neal Stephenson    *****    1152     pages
47    The Wizard's Dilemma    -    Diane Duane    ****    422     pages
48    A Wizard Alone    -    Diane Duane    ****    334     pages
49    Wizard's Holiday    -    Diane Duane    ****    424     pages
50    Wizards At War    -    Diane Duane    ****    552     pages
51    A Wizard of Mars    -    Diane Duane    ****    549     pages
52    Harry Potter and the Cursed Child    -    J.K. Rowling    ***    352     pages
53    A Little Princess    -    Frances Hodgson Burnett    ****    171     pages
54    Uglies    -    Scott Westerfeld    ****    276     pages
55    Pretties    -    Scott Westerfeld    ***    176     pages
56    Specials    -    Scott Westerfeld    ****    246     pages
57    Extras    -    Scott Westerfeld    ***    284     pages
58    Shaman's Crossing    -    Robin Hobb    ****    631     pages
59    A Natural History of Dragons    -    Marie Brennan    ****    351     pages
60    By the time you read this, I'll be dead    -    Julie Ann Peters    ****    156     pages
61    Define "Normal"    -    Julie Ann Peters    ***    155     pages
62    Dragon Keeper    -    Robin Hobb    ****    553     pages
 

 

Total 2016: 62 books, of which 33 new.

Total 24479 pages, of which 13134 new.

 

In 2017 I somehow started reading more fanfiction all of a sudden. I still keep track, but I don't like listing the word-counts. So, the actual books I read this year so far:


1    Odalisque    -    Fiona McIntosh    ***    474    
2    Sneak    -    E. Jade Lomax    ****    197
3    Liar    -    E. Jade Lomax    ****    217
4    Traitor    -    E. Jade Lomax    ****    287
5    The ABC's of LGBT    -    Ashley Mardell    ****    189
6    Midnight Never Come    -    Marie Brennan    ****    471

 

total pages: 1835

 

All of these are new, and I have another three in progress.

My goal for this year: 25 books, as I don't think 50 is feasible. What with all the fanfics I'll still read whatever page or word limit I could have set.

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Need to update my list

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iff's list 2017

 

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1. of love & other demons - gabriel garcia marquez ★★★★  reread 160 pages

2. the underground railroad - colson whitehead ★★★★  1/2 306 pages
3. mend the living - maylis de kerangel ★★★★★ 230 pages
4. the tobacconist - robert seethaler ★★★ 1/2 234 pages
5. the lesser bohemians - eimear mcbride ★★★ 1/2 312 pages
6. the killing lessons - saul black ★★★★★ 408 pages
7. tomato red - daniel woodrell ★★★★★ 188 pages reread
8. all for nothing - walter kempowski ★★★★★ 343 pages
9. human acts - han kang ★★★★ 224 pages
10. nutshell - ian mcewan ★ 199 pages
11. A Horse Walks iInto A Bar - David Grossman ★★★★★ 198 pages
12. The Gustav Sonata - Rose Tremain ★★★★★ 240 pages
13. Dear Mr M - Herman Koch ★★ 400 pages
14. submission - michel houellebecq  ★★★★ 250 pages
15. hot milk - deborah levy ★★ 218 pages
16. the things we don't do - andres neuman ★★★★ 170 pages

17. empires in the sun: the struggle for the mastery of Africa - Laurence James ★★★ 329 pages

18. child wonder - roy jacobsen ★★★★★ reread 264 pages

 

19. fever dream - samantha schweblin ★★★★★ 151 pages

20. compass - mathias enard ★★★★ 475 pages

21. the old child - jenny erpenbeck ★★★★ 107 pages

 

total pages - 5,006 pages

 

hope to have another one finished by end of june. i found compass a good read but it was also a difficult read which slowed me down a bit. i did samantha schweblin's book in one saturday

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I should really try to do this. I used to love to read, but I have been neglecting that pastime for less cerebral ones the past few years.

 

I'm going to make a list to try and encourage myself to keep this up. Granted, I am starting in the middle of the year, so I don't remember all the books I have already read this year. I'll try my best to list the ones I recall.

 

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  1. The Boomerang Clue - Agatha Christie
  2. Three Blind Mice and Other Stories - Agatha Christie
  3. D-Day with the Screaming Eagles - George Koskimaki
  4. The Good War - Studs Terkel* (still in progress)
  5. Truckers - Terry Pratchett
  6. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists - Gideon Defoe
  7. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab - Gideon Defoe
  8. The Old Dark House - J.B Priestley
  9. More than Somewhat - Damon Runyon
  10. Furthermore - Damon Runyon
  11. Sleeping Murder - Agatha Christie
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i hope you do try to do this EmotionalAndroid

 

iff's list 2017

 

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1. of love & other demons - gabriel garcia marquez ★★★★  reread 160 pages

2. the underground railroad - colson whitehead ★★★★  1/2 306 pages
3. mend the living - maylis de kerangel ★★★★★ 230 pages
4. the tobacconist - robert seethaler ★★★ 1/2 234 pages
5. the lesser bohemians - eimear mcbride ★★★ 1/2 312 pages
6. the killing lessons - saul black ★★★★★ 408 pages
7. tomato red - daniel woodrell ★★★★★ 188 pages reread
8. all for nothing - walter kempowski ★★★★★ 343 pages
9. human acts - han kang ★★★★ 224 pages
10. nutshell - ian mcewan ★ 199 pages
11. A Horse Walks iInto A Bar - David Grossman ★★★★★ 198 pages
12. The Gustav Sonata - Rose Tremain ★★★★★ 240 pages
13. Dear Mr M - Herman Koch ★★ 400 pages
14. submission - michel houellebecq  ★★★★ 250 pages
15. hot milk - deborah levy ★★ 218 pages
16. the things we don't do - andres neuman ★★★★ 170 pages

17. empires in the sun: the struggle for the mastery of Africa - Laurence James ★★★ 329 pages

18. child wonder - roy jacobsen ★★★★★ reread 264 pages

19. fever dream - samantha schweblin ★★★★★ 151 pages

20. compass - mathias enard ★★★★ 475 pages

21. the old child - jenny erpenbeck ★★★★ 107 pages

 

22. the old curiosity shop - charles dickens ★★★★ 545 pages

 

total pages - 5,551 pages

 

 

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From the public library:

1.  Thirteen ways of looking McCann, Colum, 1965- 29 Jun 2017 21 Jul 2017
2.  Home fires. [hardback] Wolfe, Gene 29 Jun 2017 21 Jul 2017
3.  Avenue of mysteries Irving, John, 1942- 29 Jun 2017 21 Jul 2017
4.  Stone mattress : nine tales Atwood, Margaret, 1939- 08 Jun 2017 29 Jun 2017
5.  The simulacra. [paperback] Dick, Philip K., 1928-1982 08 Jun 2017 29 Jun 2017
6.  The dark flood rises Drabble, Margaret, 1939- 08 Jun 2017 29 Jun 2017
7.  The better angels of our nature : [paperback] a history of violence and humanity Pinker, Steven, 1954- 19 May 2017 08 Jun 2017
8.  The secret to not drowning Snowden, Colette 19 May 2017 08 Jun 2017
9.  The world without us Juchau, Mireille 19 May 2017 08 Jun 2017
10.  The green road Enright, Anne, 1962- 02 May 2017 19 May 2017
11.  Last night on Earth Maher, Kevin (Kevin Thomas) 22 Apr 2017 02 May 2017
12.  Gut symmetries / [paperback] Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- 07 Apr 2017 02 May 2017
13.  In a land of paper gods Mackenzie, Rebecca 07 Apr 2017 02 May 2017
14.  The buried giant Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954- 10 Feb 2017 07 Apr 2017
15.  Hystopia Means, David, 1961- 10 Feb 2017 07 Apr 2017
16.  The ocean at the end of the lane Gaiman, Neil 27 Jan 2017 10 Feb 2017
17.  The elegance of the hedgehog Barbery, Muriel, 1969- 27 Jan 2017 10 Feb 2017
18.  I stared at the night of the city ʻElî, Bextiyar 27 Jan 2017 07 Apr 2017
19.  Espedair Street / [paperback] Banks, Iain, 1954-2013 14 Jan 2017 27 Jan 2017
20.  Ragnarok Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- 14 Jan 2017 27 Jan 2017
21.  Written on the body / [book] Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- 14 Jan 2017 27 Jan 2017
         
22.  Spark's satire Spark, Muriel 11 Oct 2016 07 Jan 2017
         

From the university library:

23 The end of patriarchy : 28/09/17 23:59 18/07/17 17:34 Main Library
24 Human ecology : 15/06/17 23:59 15/05/17 16:22 Main Library
25 Where the wasteland ends : 15/06/17 23:59 23/03/17 10:43 Main Library
26            
  Order out of chaos : 19/01/17 23:59 24/01/17 00:04 Main Library
 

Then it becomes more difficult, because I have to rely on my memory:

27 Permaculture 1

28 Permaculture: a designers manual

29 The collected stories of Frank Herbert

30 Soul catcher, Frank Herbert

I'll have a look in my bookcase at home.

 

 

 

 

 

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I'm attempting to get to 50 this year on Goodreads. Once I finish that, I'll add more. I'm at 33 right now. I believe I started in May though. I started kind of late. 

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iff's list 2017

 

 



1. of love & other demons - gabriel garcia marquez ★★★★  reread 160 pages

2. the underground railroad - colson whitehead ★★★★  1/2 306 pages
3. mend the living - maylis de kerangel ★★★★★ 230 pages
4. the tobacconist - robert seethaler ★★★ 1/2 234 pages
5. the lesser bohemians - eimear mcbride ★★★ 1/2 312 pages
6. the killing lessons - saul black ★★★★★ 408 pages
7. tomato red - daniel woodrell ★★★★★ 188 pages reread
8. all for nothing - walter kempowski ★★★★★ 343 pages
9. human acts - han kang ★★★★ 224 pages
10. nutshell - ian mcewan ★ 199 pages
11. A Horse Walks into A Bar - David Grossman ★★★★★ 198 pages
12. The Gustav Sonata - Rose Tremain ★★★★★ 240 pages
13. Dear Mr M - Herman Koch ★★ 400 pages
14. submission - michel houellebecq  ★★★★ 250 pages
15. hot milk - deborah levy ★★ 218 pages
16. the things we don't do - andres neuman ★★★★ 170 pages

17. empires in the sun: the struggle for the mastery of Africa - Laurence James ★★★ 329 pages

18. child wonder - roy jacobsen ★★★★★ reread 264 pages

19. fever dream - samantha schweblin ★★★★★ 151 pages

20. compass - mathias enard ★★★★ 475 pages

21. the old child - jenny erpenbeck ★★★★ 107 pages

22. the old curiosity shop - charles dickens  ★★★★ 545 pages

 

23. three loves, one death - evald flisar ★★★★ 201 pages

24. the book of words - jenny erpenbeck ★★★ 1/2 123 pages

25. i am the brother of xx (short story collection) - fleur jaeggy ★★ 133 pages

26. 4 3 2 1 - paul  auster ★★★★★ 866 pages

 

total pages - 6,874 pages

 

Auster's novel was superb, the length had been off putting on getting started on it but once I did, I really enjoyed it.

 

Short story are a genre i:'m not big on so that didn't help fleur jaeggy's novel's rating (it was part of a subscription service I am signed up to)

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On 5/28/2017 at 7:09 PM, ByASpringForASpell said:

List for 2017

 

1. Native Son by Richard Wright ★★★★★ (560 pages)

2. Passing by Nella Larsen ★★★✩✩ (122 pages)

3. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway ★★★✩✩ (250 pages)

4. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner ★★★★★ (303 pages)

5. The Lamentations of Zeno by Ilija Trojanow ★★★½✩ (159 pages)

6. The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de Lafayette ★★★✩✩ (176 pages)

7. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf  ★★★★✩ (112 pages)

8. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte ★★★★½ (367 pages)

9. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston ★★★★½ (193 pages)

 

10. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ★★★✩✩ (100 pages)

11. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce ½ ✩✩✩ (253 pages)

 

Total pages: 2595

 

I was shocked and disappointed at how much I didn't like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I've never read Joyce before and I'm sure I'd like his other novels (maybe?), but this one just felt so boring and aimless. The protagonist was also highly unlikable -- which doesn't always render a book horrible, but it didn't work for me here. Oh well. If anyone here has read it, let me know what you think!

 

Also: I'm so, so behind on my reading schedule. Then again, I'm making my way through like four works right now and trying to read a lot of long-form articles, which can't really be added here. But hopefully I'll reach my reading goal by the end of the year. 

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31 Talking it over, Julian Barnes

32 Marcel, Erwin Mortier

33 The Jesus Incident, Frank Herbert

34? Children of Dune, Frank Herbert

35? Chapterhouse Dune, Frank Herbert

I'm not sure about the last two. It feels like less than 7 months that I've read those, but I've read them so many times that I've lost count (~once a year for the last 30 years).

 

@ByASpringForASpell: I've read A portrait of the Artist, and I started Ulysses, but thought that was equally aimless and in addition interminable. There are so many other great authors that I feel no compunction about not reading ones anymore when I didn't like the first one I read, and certainly not if I tried a second one, even if they were famous.

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32 Marcel, Erwin Mortier

what did you think of this one?

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what did you think of this one?

I've noticed that Flemish post WWII novels, compared with Dutch novels, tend to have many more characters who collaborated with the Germans, and talk about the stigma this left in the post-war years. And I've wondered whether this reflects a reality of collaboration being more frequent, or a different way of dealing with the guilt; for instance how the collaboration of individuals resulted in their family members being stigmatised, as in Marcel.

 

Do you speak Dutch, or has it been translated?

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I've noticed that Flemish post WWII novels, compared with Dutch novels, tend to have many more characters who collaborated with the Germans, and talk about the stigma this left in the post-war years. And I've wondered whether this reflects a reality of collaboration being more frequent, or a different way of dealing with the guilt; for instance how the collaboration of individuals resulted in their family members being stigmatised, as in Marcel.

 

Do you speak Dutch, or has it been translated?

I haven't read that one so I'm not sure if it's been translated but another of his that i've read a translation of "while the gods were sleeping" which I liked.

 

 

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iff's list 2017

 

 

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1. of love & other demons - gabriel garcia marquez ★★★★  reread 160 pages

2. the underground railroad - colson whitehead ★★★★  1/2 306 pages
3. mend the living - maylis de kerangel ★★★★★ 230 pages
4. the tobacconist - robert seethaler ★★★ 1/2 234 pages
5. the lesser bohemians - eimear mcbride ★★★ 1/2 312 pages
6. the killing lessons - saul black ★★★★★ 408 pages
7. tomato red - daniel woodrell ★★★★★ 188 pages reread
8. all for nothing - walter kempowski ★★★★★ 343 pages
9. human acts - han kang ★★★★ 224 pages
10. nutshell - ian mcewan ★ 199 pages
11. A Horse Walks into A Bar - David Grossman ★★★★★ 198 pages
12. The Gustav Sonata - Rose Tremain ★★★★★ 240 pages
13. Dear Mr M - Herman Koch ★★ 400 pages
14. submission - michel houellebecq  ★★★★ 250 pages
15. hot milk - deborah levy ★★ 218 pages
16. the things we don't do - andres neuman ★★★★ 170 pages
17. empires in the sun: the struggle for the mastery of Africa - Laurence James ★★★ 329 pages
18. child wonder - roy jacobsen ★★★★★ reread 264 pages
19. fever dream - samantha schweblin ★★★★★ 151 pages
20. compass - mathias enard ★★★★ 475 pages
21. the old child - jenny erpenbeck ★★★★ 107 pages
22. the old curiosity shop - charles dickens  ★★★★ 545 pages

23. three loves, one death - evald flisar ★★★★ 201 pages

24. the book of words - jenny erpenbeck ★★★ 1/2 123 pages

25. i am the brother of xx (short story collection) - fleur jaeggy ★★ 133 pages

26. 4 3 2 1 - paul  auster ★★★★★ 866 pages

 

 

27. you should have left - daniel kehlmann ★★★★★111 pages

28. exit west - mohsin hamid ★★★★★ 229 pages

29. the good people - hannah kent ★★★★ 380 pages

30. memoirs of a polar bear - yoko tawada ★★★★★252 pages

 

total pages - 7,846 pages

 

a good spell of books :)

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iff's list 2017

 

 

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1. of love & other demons - gabriel garcia marquez ★★★★  reread 160 pages

2. the underground railroad - colson whitehead ★★★★  1/2 306 pages
3. mend the living - maylis de kerangel ★★★★★ 230 pages
4. the tobacconist - robert seethaler ★★★ 1/2 234 pages
5. the lesser bohemians - eimear mcbride ★★★ 1/2 312 pages
6. the killing lessons - saul black ★★★★★ 408 pages
7. tomato red - daniel woodrell ★★★★★ 188 pages reread
8. all for nothing - walter kempowski ★★★★★ 343 pages
9. human acts - han kang ★★★★ 224 pages
10. nutshell - ian mcewan ★ 199 pages
11. A Horse Walks into A Bar - David Grossman ★★★★★ 198 pages
12. The Gustav Sonata - Rose Tremain ★★★★★ 240 pages
13. Dear Mr M - Herman Koch ★★ 400 pages
14. submission - michel houellebecq  ★★★★ 250 pages
15. hot milk - deborah levy ★★ 218 pages
16. the things we don't do - andres neuman ★★★★ 170 pages
17. empires in the sun: the struggle for the mastery of Africa - Laurence James ★★★ 329 pages
18. child wonder - roy jacobsen ★★★★★ reread 264 pages
19. fever dream - samantha schweblin ★★★★★ 151 pages
20. compass - mathias enard ★★★★ 475 pages
21. the old child - jenny erpenbeck ★★★★ 107 pages
22. the old curiosity shop - charles dickens  ★★★★ 545 pages

23. three loves, one death - evald flisar ★★★★ 201 pages

24. the book of words - jenny erpenbeck ★★★ 1/2 123 pages

25. i am the brother of xx (short story collection) - fleur jaeggy ★★ 133 pages

26. 4 3 2 1 - paul  auster ★★★★★ 866 pages

27. you should have left - daniel kehlmann ★★★★★111 pages

28. exit west - mohsin hamid ★★★★★ 229 pages

29. the good people - hannah kent ★★★★ 380 pages

30. memoirs of a polar bear - yoko tawada ★★★★★252 pages

 

31. the golden legend - nadeem aslam ★★★★ 364 pages

31. the end of eddy - edouard louis  ★★★★★ 192 pages

33. those who leave and those who stay - elena ferrante ★★★ 418 pages

total pages - 8,820 pages

 

an interest mix, nadeem aslam's book the golden legend  set with some of the main characters being christians in pakistan  kind of ran out of steam towards the end.

 

the end of eddy has been well worth the praise it has received, based on the childhood of the author in dealing with the pressures of being male in northern france when you don't really fit in to that.

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I just found this thread through @iff's signature and I love it! I've been writing those lists since 2015, so I'm just gonna post all of them now (I never got to 50, though :c).

As I am German, I won't always be able to write down an English title because some of those books were never translated. If there is a translated title, I will use it, but I'll always write down in which language I read the book.

 

2015:

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1. Susan Abulhawa: Mornings in Jenin (German) ★★★✩✩

2. Bastian Sick: Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod (German) ★★★✩✩

3. Hans-Joachim Gehlberg: Eines Tages (German) ★★✩✩✩

4. Michael Gerard Bauer: Ismael And The Return Of The Dugongs (German) ★★✩✩✩

5. Michele Launders: I Wish You Didn't Know My Name (German) ★★✩✩✩

6. Joseph von Eichendorff: Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (German) ★★✩✩✩

7. Caroline Leavitt: Into Thin Air (German) ★★★✩✩

8. Marc Levy: If Only It Were True (German) ★★★★✩

9. Rolf Dobelli: Die Kunst des klugen Handelns (German) ★★★★✩

10. Rachel Campbell-Johnson: The Child's Elephant (German) ★★★★✩

11. Federico García Lorca: Bodas de sangre (Spanish) ★★✩✩✩

12. Max Frisch: Homo Faber (German) ★★★✩✩

13. Rafik Schami: Erzähler der Nacht (German) ★★★✩✩

14. Erich Fromm: The Art of Loving (German) ★★★★✩

15. Wolfgang Herrndorf: Tschick (German) ★★★✩✩

16. Christiane Zehl Romero: Simone de Beauvoir (English) ★★★✩✩

17. Anna Kuschnarowa: Schattensommer (German) ★★★★✩

18. Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (English) ★★★★★

19. John Williams: Stoner (German) ★★★✩✩

20. Patricia Cammarata: Sehr gerne, Mama, Du Arschbombe! (German) ★★★✩✩

21. Georg Büchner: Dantons Tod (German) ★★✩✩✩

22. James Proimos: 12 Things to do before you crash and burn (English) ★★★★✩

23. Antonia Michaelis: Der Märchenerzähler (German) ★★★★★

24. Aristophanes: The Frogs (German) ★★★★✩

25. Teri Terry: Slated (German) ★★★★★

26. Teri Terry: Fractured (German) ★★★★★

27. Teri Terry: Shattered (German) ★★★✩✩

28. Bob Fenster: Die Katze in der Mikrowelle (German) ★★★★✩

 

2016:

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1. David Levithan: Every Day (German) ★★★★✩

2. Weihnachten mit Katze (Collection of short storys) (German) ★★★★✩

3. Peter Stamm: Agnes (German) ★★✩✩✩

4. Ovid: Heroides (Latin/German) ★★★✩✩

5. Max Frisch: Homo Faber (had to re-read it for school) (German) ★★★✩✩

6. Ovid: Amores (Latin/German) ★★★✩✩

7. Sophokles: Philoktetes (Greek/German) ★★★✩✩

8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust (German) ★★✩✩✩

9. Gerald Huber: Hubers Bairische Wortkunde (German) ★★★★★

10. James Bowen: A Street Cat Named Bob (German) ★★★★✩

11. Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factors (English) ★★★★★

12. J. J. Abrams & Doug Dorst: S (German) ★★★★✩

13. Peter Asprion: Gefährliche Freiheit? (German) ★★★✩✩

14. Michael Skirt: Wegsperren?! (German) ★★★✩✩

15. Hannah Green: I never promised you a rose garden (German) ★★★★✩

16. Jean-Pierre Vernant: The Universe, The Gods, and Men: Ancient Greek Myths (German) ★★★✩✩

17. Jörg Maurer: Schwindelfrei ist nur der Tod (German) ★★★★★

18. J. K. Rowling: Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (English) ★★✩✩✩

19. Randall Munroe: What if? (English) ★★★★★

20. James Bowen: The World According to Bob (German) ★★★★✩

21. Leonie Swann: Glennkill (German) ★★★★★

22. Leonie Swann: Garou (German) ★★★★★

23. Tilmann Lahme: Die Manns (German) ★★★✩✩

24. Guillaume Musso: Central Park (German) ★★★★✩

25. Bernhard Zimmermann: Die griechische Tragödie (German) ★★★✩✩

26. Bernhard Zimmermann: Die griechische Komödie (German) ★★★✩✩

27. Christiane F.: We Children From Bahnhof Zoo (German) ★★★★★

28. Wolfgang & Heike Hohlbein: Drachenfeuer (German) ★★★★★

29. Ulrich Plenzdorf: Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. (German) ★★★✩✩

30. Robert Schneider: Brother of Sleep (German) ★★★★★

31. Minette Walters: The Ice House (German) ★★★★✩

32. Agatha Christie: Es riecht nach Mord, Miss Marple (German; collection of a few Miss Marple stories) ★★★★✩

 

2017 (so far):

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1. Stefan Üblacker: Das Buch Ä (German) ★★★★★

2. Dan Howell & Phil Lester: The Amazing Book Is Not On Fire (English) ★★✩✩✩

3. Various Authors: The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (German) ★★★✩✩

4. Kirsten Fuchs: Mädchenmeute (German) ★★★★★

5. Jay Asher: Thirteen Reasons Why (German) ★★★★★

6. Frederik Bodmer: Die Sprachen der Welt (German) ★★★★★

7. Lauren Oliver: Before I fall (German) ★★★★★

8. Audrey Niffenegger: The Time-Traveler's Wife (English) ★★★★★

9. Frau Freitag: Chill mal, Frau Freitag! (German) ★★★✩✩

10. Stephen King: It (German) ★★★★✩

11. Daniel Kehlmann: Measuring the World (German) ★★★✩✩

 

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On 8/11/2017 at 4:09 PM, ByASpringForASpell said:

List for 2017

 

1. Native Son by Richard Wright ★★★★★ (560 pages)

2. Passing by Nella Larsen ★★★✩✩ (122 pages)

3. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway ★★★✩✩ (250 pages)

4. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner ★★★★★ (303 pages)

5. The Lamentations of Zeno by Ilija Trojanow ★★★½✩ (159 pages)

6. The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de Lafayette ★★★✩✩ (176 pages)

7. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf  ★★★★✩ (112 pages)

8. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte ★★★★½ (367 pages)

9. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston ★★★★½ (193 pages)

10. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ★★★✩✩ (100 pages)

11. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce ½ ✩✩✩ (253 pages)

12. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier ★★★★★ (401 pages)

13. Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis ★★★★✩ (304 pages)

14. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ★★★★✩ (58 pages)

15. The Man Who Disappeared/Amerika by Franz Kafka ★★★★✩ (288 pages)

16. Kafka’s Selected Stories by Franz Kafka ★★★½✩ (190 pages)

 

Total pages: 3,836

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My list for 2017 is minuscule, as was the one for 2016. I used to be an avid reader, now I rarely feel like reading. Taking advantage of my recent bout, I checked out 2 books, both of them Twin Peaks-style. The one I'm reading now is called Laura and, just like TP, is about a missing small-town girl named Laura. It's not really a supernatural-themed story (so here the TP similarities end), but still quite interesting. Also, it's Finnish, so there's an opportunity for me to learn something more about Finland.

 

EDIT: And now I found out that the local libraries have the remaining 2 volumes in stock. YAY! :D

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cool. I only just found this topic, and I have only been a member here since August or so, but I already had a list going. Set myself a target of 52 and already have more than 83. I really like the star rating, I might have to edit a rating system into my list now! 

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Finishing reading the second book I checked out recently. If my reading-fever bout doesn't fade away, I may be able to reach 10 books by the end of the year WOOO :D (but, honestly, it's more of an :eyeroll:

This one is interesting, and even though I'm nearing the end I still don't know how it's going to end. (In a nutshell: A journalist whose car broke down has to stop in creepy little town. The inhabitants are clearly showing her that she should be on her way as soon as possible. After some asking around, the woman finds out why. The town is cursed and it can only hold 1000 people in its borders. Or else... The thing is, she's 1001st. But, being a journalist (and grounded, until her car is fixed) she decides to snoop.).

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Me: This sounds like a wonderful challenge but I have sadly already completed, and as it is November I doubt I can read 50 books in a moth and a half.

 

Here are the books I remember reading. There were most likely a lot more.

 

1:A book on a bee's perspective on life in a hive. The protagonist was named Flora.

 

2:Wonder

 

3:Fuzzy Moss

 

4: Monsters be here or something? I cannot remember

 

5:The Art of being normal

 

6: Catch 22

 

7:Interface

 

8: We are all made of Molecules

 

9: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

 

10: Interface

 

11: River of Ink

 

JUST TOO MANY STAR TREK BOOKS AND THAT BRINGS IT TO 57

 

 

I read quickly, and it turns out I had completed the challenge before I had found it in November. Reading is just easy for me for some reason. I very am lucky to be able to finish a 200-300 page book in one day if I read at home and at school, and because I borrow books every other day, I completed it.

 

For others, say, if you have dyslexia, this would be a very hard challenge to complete, just because someone else does a hard thing easily doesn't mean your achievements are moot. For some, sparing the time to read just one book is tricky, let alone 50. Also, social media, (even though I do not have it) can be distracting so bravo for reading that book or just starting this challenge! :cake:Have an ace day!:cake:

 

Oh goodness I have started the puns...

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1:A book on a bee's perspective on life in a hive. The protagonist was named Flora.

 

2:Wonder

 

I read your first one, it was ok i thought.

Is no. 2 the one by Emma Donoghue, I quite liked that

 

iff's list 2017

 



1. of love & other demons - gabriel garcia marquez ★★★★  reread 160 pages
2. the underground railroad - colson whitehead ★★★★  1/2 306 pages
3. mend the living - maylis de kerangel ★★★★★ 230 pages
4. the tobacconist - robert seethaler ★★★ 1/2 234 pages
5. the lesser bohemians - eimear mcbride ★★★ 1/2 312 pages
6. the killing lessons - saul black ★★★★★ 408 pages
7. tomato red - daniel woodrell ★★★★★ 188 pages reread
8. all for nothing - walter kempowski ★★★★★ 343 pages
9. human acts - han kang ★★★★ 224 pages
10. nutshell - ian mcewan ★ 199 pages
11. A Horse Walks into A Bar - David Grossman ★★★★★ 198 pages
12. The Gustav Sonata - Rose Tremain ★★★★★ 240 pages
13. Dear Mr M - Herman Koch ★★ 400 pages
14. submission - michel houellebecq  ★★★★ 250 pages
15. hot milk - deborah levy ★★ 218 pages
16. the things we don't do - andres neuman ★★★★ 170 pages
17. empires in the sun: the struggle for the mastery of Africa - Laurence James ★★★ 329 pages
18. child wonder - roy jacobsen ★★★★★ reread 264 pages
19. fever dream - samantha schweblin ★★★★★ 151 pages
20. compass - mathias enard ★★★★ 475 pages
21. the old child - jenny erpenbeck ★★★★ 107 pages
22. the old curiosity shop - charles dickens  ★★★★ 545 pages

23. three loves, one death - evald flisar ★★★★ 201 pages

24. the book of words - jenny erpenbeck ★★★ 1/2 123 pages

25. i am the brother of xx (short story collection) - fleur jaeggy ★★ 133 pages

26. 4 3 2 1 - paul  auster ★★★★★ 866 pages

27. you should have left - daniel kehlmann ★★★★★111 pages

28. exit west - mohsin hamid ★★★★★ 229 pages

29. the good people - hannah kent ★★★★ 380 pages

30. memoirs of a polar bear - yoko tawada ★★★★★252 pages

31. the golden legend - nadeem aslam ★★★★ 364 pages

32. the end of eddy - edouard louis  ★★★★★ 192 pages

33. those who leave and those who stay - elena ferrante ★★★ 418 pages

34. the proof - cesar aira  ★★★★ 100 pages

35. lincoln in the bardo - george saunders ★★★★ 343 pages

36.the vagrants - yiyun li ★★★★★ 337 pages reread

37. mirror, shoulder, signal - dorthe nors ★★★★★ 188 pages

38. Doubloon Cove - the secret of the ancient visitors - kelly novak ★★★★★ 192 pages

39. The Big Grey Man of Ben Macdhui ★★★ 169 pages

40. still the same man - jon bilbao ★★★★★ 181 pages

41. nightmare in berlin - hans fallada ★★★ 271 pages

 

total pages - 10,501 pages

 

note to self - note to leave it as long in updating next time

 

having said that, we have 40 days left of the year

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On 21/11/2017 at 2:46 PM, Space-Ace-Android said:

1:A book on a bee's perspective on life in a hive. The protagonist was named Flora.

 

 

On 21/11/2017 at 8:54 PM, iff said:

I read your first one, it was ok i thought.

 

 

If that's The bees by Laline Paull, I also thought it was ok, but not great.

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8 hours ago, lapat67 said:

 

 

If that's The bees by Laline Paull, I also thought it was ok, but not great.

That is the one I thought

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  • 2 weeks later...
kimhasapetfish

I think this is an awesome idea, is this for calendar years? Or is it twelve months from the starting date?

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