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

Duly grateful for missing that!

Consider yourself lucky that you didn't come to the parts where he claims that PMS is your "pain-body" awakening to the collective historical suffering of humanity, or that when you stop thinking and live in the present at all times your body's molecular structure (no less) actually gets less dense and so it ages much slower.

Who reads such crap?

I wouldn't even have picked it up let alone force myself to read it, but have to for our book club. I have never ever seen so much rubbish in print and am frankly that Tolle has convinced someone to print this crap.

Cote, I had to stop The Power of Now a few pages in. I just couldn't make any sense of it at all.

I strongly disliked A Card from Angela Carter - all rather pointless and banal.

1. Existence - David Brin (Arguably the worst sci-fi book I have ever read, and about 600 pages too long)
2. The Power Of Now - Eckhart Tolle (By far the worst book I have ever read, full of nonsense that had me howling with laughter, and that is against some competition. That this book has ever been a bestseller sours my faith in humanity)

24 books so far, half fiction and half non-fiction:

1. A Corkscrew is most useful, Nicholas Murray (non-fiction about Victorian travellers)
2. Sugar Nation, Jeff O'Connor (non-fiction about nutrition)
3. The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, Nick Hornby (non-fiction about reading)
4. Gillespie and I, Jane Harris (fiction)
5. Russo and the River of Darkness, R.S. Downie (fiction)
6. The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddartha Mukherjee (non-fiction about cancer)
7. The Stepmothers' Support Group, Sam Baker (fiction)
8. Stranded, Emily Barr (fiction)
9. Dark Places, Gillian Flynn (fiction)

I'm on book 25, Paula Byrne's The Real Jane Austen, and have another 10 or so lined up....

How funny, Dutchess - your No.21 was my No.15. Totally agree with you. Were you reading it all in his voice to yourself?

I've just got started on No. 16 'The Eyre Affair' by Jasper Fforde. It was recommended by a friend. Liking it so far. Somewhere between Robert Ranking and Ben Aaranovitch in terms of fantasy setting/alternative reality.

No.21 finished - Back Story by David Mitchell. A little patchy in places but, on the whole, I enjoyed it.

10. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

I enjoyed it :)

Book 15 If This Is A Man by Primo Levi finished this on friday. It was a brilliant book and it will stay with me. I don't quite know how to describe it. It wasn't at all what I expected. I expected a Holocaust survivors tale but this wasn't, it was more. Sorry this is not a good review because I can't quite explain how it made me feel I think I am still processing .

Book 16 The Truce by Primo Levi I am about half way through this now

Finished No 21 The Visitor - Lee Child it was quite good although I knew who had done it really early on. The previous Lee Childs I have read were later on in the series and a bit by numbers, I thought. This was better.

I really don't know what to read for 22. I'm not feeling like reading this week.

15. Ann Nonny -The Merry Wives of Henry VIII
16. Blake Crouch - Snowbound
17. Tessa Dunlop - To Romania with Love

I started the year with a Goodreads challenge of 50 books - I'm currently on number 3 not doing so well! I love reading and always have a book on the go - just don't get time to read them

Started book 11 - From Hell (graphic novel) by Alan Moore.

It's actually very cool. It's just that not everyone realizes.[

I keep a written list of the books I read (started a couple of years ago) and also keep a record on Goodreads. I used to keep a record when I was a teenager but gave up, thinking it was a bit ummm anal anorak-y :o I don't care now :o

I've also got 16-18 lined up and another five on reservation with the library. I used to be really anal organised (?) and list all the books I read during the year in the back of my diary. This is going way, way back. I think the most I read one year was 251! No chance of besting that until I retire, I think.

I really enjoyed DM's autobiography apart from the chapter where he links to everyone that he knew through Footlights and showed exactly what a closed shop tv/ radio humour was: all the directors, producers, writers and engineers know each other. If you didn't go to Cambridge or do the Edinburgh Fringe, it takes a lot longer to get noticed.

Right, here's my list so far:-

1. Is it Just Me? - Miranda Hart
2. Henry VIII's Wives - Julie Webster
3. The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey
4. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce
5. Four Children and It - Jacqueline Wilson
6. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (audio book)
7. Wonder - R J Palacio
8. Sightlines - Kathleen Jamie
9. A Cupboard Full of Coats - Yvvette Edwards (audio book)

Nearing the end of books 21 and 22 hopefully in the next couple of days.

Mrs Cosmopilite I'm reading David Mitchell's autobiography at the moment too :). I've got about 100 pages to go, and it's getting better. I thought the early chapters were a little patchy, but I like the way he writes and he comes across as a genuinely nice person, not the posh bloke he gets portrayed as on tv (he makes it quite clear he really isn't). Enjoying it a lot more now.

Oh and I want to read Lee Mack's autobiography too :) I should stop reading this thread as my tbr list is starting to get out of control.

Will do a tot up of the books I've read and come back with a list. I know it's going to look quite a lot because I've included some audio books too.

tumble, I really enjoyed the John Mullan book too. And "Jane's Fame" is very enjoyable as well. Hmm, didn't realize I had such a fixation on books about JA.

I've read the Claire Tomalin biography and enjoyed it. I got 'What Matters in Jane Austen' by John Mullan as a Christmas present, so I'm looking forward to that too.

I'm also quite a fan of Lee Mack so I might have to add his autobiography to my list - which is getting far too long as a result of this thread!!

To add to the confusion, I've namechanged since my last posting.

I've now finished No.11 Point of Origin - Patricia Cornwell. I've not read the Kay Scarpetta books in order and I had made an assumption from one which appeared to be incorrect, so was a bit confused when I first got started (don't want to give anything away). There was a horrible and unexpected twist.

No. 12 was Lee Mack's autobiography - Mack the Life. I really enjoyed it. Not hilarious, and not a sob story, but some real laugh out loud moments and he came across as a very grounded bloke.

No 13 was Charlie Brooker's latest offering, "I can make you hate". I love his ramblings. I gasped, I tutted, I sniggered, I spat tea out of my nose.

No. 14 was Terry Pratchetts "A blink of the screen". I'd forgotten I bought this with a voucher a while ago. It's a collection of short stories and tales mostly associated with Discworld. Easy to see how he's developed, embellished and refined over the years. He's still one of my top authors.

Now on No. 15, David Mitchell (comedian) autobiography "Backstory". So far, so good.

Just finished book 10!

1. Edge Of The Orison - Iain Sinclair
2. The Year 1000 - Robert Lacey
3. The Clay Machine Gun - Victor Pelevin
4. V For Vendetta - Alan Moore & David Lloyd
5. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
6. A History Of England Vol 1: Foundation - Peter Ackroyd
7. The Death Of Grass - John Christopher
8. The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson
9. The Hand That First Held Mine - Maggie O'Farrell

Wow well done to those already past book 20!

Here are mine so far:

1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
2. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
3. The Auschwitz Violin by Maria Angels Anglada
4. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
5. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
6. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
7. The Unliekly Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
8. Matilda by Roald Dahl
9. The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell

Just started number 10 today.