50 Book Challenge in 2013. Who's with me?

What, my review doesn't make you want to rush off and buy it, Dragon?

Got swamped down in the Patrick Leigh Fermor biography for a while - think I was somewhat hampered by not knowing who half the people referred to were and also by not having a microscopic interest in the names of various beaches around Crete. It was a good book, clearly well written, but I can't help but feel that I missed the point of it!

After that I moved on to two quick page turners - The Chess Men by Peter May (not as good as the two previous books in the series, but OK) and How to Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman (read this in one sitting, really enjoyed it).

Off to the library shortly to choose some new reading material before picking up the little one from kindergarten! Will be avoiding the Buried in Clay book, Nickname!

30. Buried in Clay by Priscilla Masters. Appalling. No idea why I finished it. It purported to be be about a historical mystery - potter makes jug with clue to ancient crime - but this part of the book ended up being only a few paragraphs, while most of it was about how irresistible the heroine was to wealthy and controlling men, with their controlling natures portrayed as being the ultimately in Sexy. Awful.

Now on (31), Ten Little Herrings by L C Tyler.

Finished No 24 Crucible - S Mackenzie. It disappointed me, it is set in Aberdeen in the 17th century but they all talk in RP.

Now on The Crow Trap - Ann Cleeves

11. From Hell - Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell
12. Room - Emma Donoghue
13. Omon Ra - Victor Pelevin
14. The Knife Of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness

The Patrick Ness book is really, really good. Book 1 of a trilogy and I've got the other two from the library so they'll be next.

I'm one of the snail-pace readers on this thread .

1. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn 7.5/10

1. Stuart - A Life Backwards - Alexander Masters 9/10

Oh shrinking, what a distressing accident. I've just spent the last of my Christmas Amazon voucher. I was in two minds about whether I should put it towards the cost of a Kindle or just buy books. In the end I went for the books, because I get so many books free from the library that I don't think I would really save money by using a Kindle, and my reading borders on the obsessive anyway, so it's not like I need to fit more of it into my day.

Book 10: The Truth about Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell - easy read chick lit but with interesting themes and really enjoye dit.
Book 11: The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton - excellent book with some great twists. I am a big fan of Kate Morton.

Now trying to decide on book 12!

Chin up Cardiff you know you can do this, soon it will be Agile April, and you will be filled with enthusiasm.

Don't take Caitlin too seriously, you could have written a better version yourself !!

im late for the book party but im going to make myself comfortable any way

i have a serious book addiction and i have SO many to read... but so far this year i have read...

1. twelve days of christmas - trisha ashley (started in dec but ended in jan so im including it)
2. where rainbows end - cecelia ahern (bathroom book)
3. deja view - lisa armstrong
4. out on a limb - lynne barrett-lee
5. the shop on the corner - marita conlon-mckenna
6. when i fall in love - miranda dickinson
7. love always - harriet evans
8. dont look back - scott frost
9. something blue - emily griffen
10. never say never - melissa hill

currently reading "left to die - lisa jackson"

am reading by alphabet otherwise id just be picking ones ivd brought recently.

I'm currently about a third of the way through Atonement by Ian McEwan. So far, so good.

It will be one ticked off from my shelf of books bought far too long ago and left unread, gathering dust :o

32. Capital - John Lanchester finished on Saturday. I thought it excellent.
33. Skin - Mo Hayder. These are getting a bit samey now but was a good light read.
34. The Photograph - Penelope Lively. Recommended up thread and very good it is too.

Despite having no money, I accidentally bought my entire shopping basket on Amazon the other day. So there's another 10 books on their way to me oops! In my defence they're all less than £3 including postage.

Gave up on Whoops by John Lanchester and a book on Stonehenge. I think I might enjoy them in other moods, but I have other stuff going on that requires more concentration, so I just want to read frivolous things.

Finished Lovers of Pound Hill by Mavis Cheek. All very quirky, some mild commentary on gender politics, and everyone gets their just deserts by the end.

Another of the Six Sisters series by M C Beaton - Deirdre and Desire. Still swooning over the handsome, rich, masterful yet kind heroes she portrays, though they might be hard to live with long-term.

Have discovered a new series - Herring on the Nile by L C Tyler. Very funny crime fiction, riffs nicely off the Agatha Christie stock characters and situations, and lots of laugh-out-loud comments about the sorrows of being a third-rate crime writer. I'm going to seek out the rest of this series with enthusiasm.

^Up there, I meant I've just got hold of another Jasper Fforde book to read.

Just popping in to say that Cat and Mouse by Tim Vicary is free on Amazon Kindle today. I am reading this ATM and really enjoying it, set in 1914 and following the lives of two sisters involving the suffragette movement and the Ulster Volunteer Force, it's fast paced with interesting characters.
Double check that it is still free before you click as offers cn be short lived.

Ha, no problem, Dutchess - this thread is so long,with so many interesting potential reads on it, it's easy to miss things. :)

Well, No.16 "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde was real fun. It was somewhere between Ben Aaranovitch and Robert Rankin. I've just got hold of another book to read.

Currently on No. 17 "Roughing It" by Mark Twain. About 20 chapters in and I'm still not sure. It's not as dry and funny as other works. I'll stick with it, but I am a little disappointed.

Lined up:
No. 18: "Bronze Summer" by Stephen Baxter.

Allalone I have just reserved a copy of 'The Agincourt Bride' as it sounds like my kind of book. I might also look into 'The Sonambulist', Purple.

Thanks Duchess I'm only a few chapters in so far, but enjoying it. I'll let you know.

Good choice Wednesday - I read The Lifeboat last year, and really enjoyed it. Hope you do too :)

I've had to give up on book 15, I couldn't bear reading any more. I was put off by the author putting very politicised and adult conversations into the mouths of children. In theory, not necessarily unbelievable, but the language and ideas were far too advanced and political to fit with the image if young children playing in treehouses and riding skateboards.

I don't know whether that counts or not, but my replacement choice is The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan

Finished No 23 The Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch which I really enjoyed and now am reading Crucible

Mrs Cosmopilite - sorry I completely missed your post Sunday 3/3 - yes I did keep hearing his voice as I was reading it :o. I'm pleased I got to the end, still liking him!

22. Notorious Nineteen - Janet Evanovich - a bit samey, but still love this series.
23. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou - fabulous, want to read the rest of the series.
24. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (audio book) - chilling.
25. The Fast Book - Dr Michael Mosley & Mimi Spencer (eye-opener - I'm hooked :o)
26. The Magic Faraway Tree trilogy - Enid Blyton - DD's bedtime story (a mammoth 600+ pages) 26.5 Esio Trot - Roald Dahl (so short, it doesn't really deserve a whole book number :o)

11. From Hell - Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell
12. Room - Emma Donoghue
13. Omon Ra - Victor Pelevin

Omon Ra was great - a short, funny, incredibly black satire on the Russian space race.

32 nearly finished - Capital by John Lanchester. I am really enjoying this - one of the best I have read this year. Funny and moving with incredibly believable characters. Hope it continues to be this good to the end.