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

Just checking in to say I'm still wading through A Prayer For Owen Meany - I'm sort of enjoying it but keep falling asleep while reading it!

Really interesting to hear what everyone is reading. I've added a few to my 'to read' list as well! I loved The Old Wives Tale years ago - may have to read some more of the Five Towns books.

No 9 - "The Long Earth" by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. Really enjoyed reading this and am looking forward to the sequel being published.

Book 8 ~ "The Silver Mist" by Martin Treanor, set in NI during the early 1970s, Eve tells the tale of her family caught up in the 'Troubles'.

With a narrative voice reminiscent of that of Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones", it was an ultimately uplifting read.

Feel I am rather lagging behind too. Today I've bought the Partick Moore autobiography for 99 pence from Amazon Kindle, I loved his enthusiasm for his subject.

Thanks Nickname and Allalone yes that's the one I was thinking of - wrong period of history, right book! I tracked it down for reservation from the local library.

I've also reserved The Etymologicon which Dutchess mentioned.

Thanks Nickname I'll certainly get that, yy to JJN, I used to love him on the radio, and his TV programmes.

MrsC, as Nickname says, you could be thinking of "The Sunne in Splendour" by Sharon Penman, though it is about Richard III rather than the Tudors.

The Sunne in its Splendour?

Just to confuse everyone, I've NC'd (was NotGeoff)

No.11 Point of Origin - Patricia Cornwell done. Well, there was one thing in there I didn't see coming, and had to read it a few times to let it sink in!

Now on No. 12 Lee Mack's autobiography - Mack the Life. So far, pretty amusing.

Nothing planned for No. 13 onwards. Someone mentioned one about the tudor period earlier - something about the Sonne (Sun, I presume). If I can find the title, I might go for trying to get it via the library.

Allalone, the biography is by Artemis Cooper. She is the daughter of John Julius Norwich (I love his books on Byzantium) and PLF was a family friend.

Mary, I did the same thing with the Ann Cleeves Shetland series - I think she is much better than Ian Rankin.

Finished No 17 Red Bones - Ann Cleevely and now working on No 18 Blue Lightning also Ann Cleevley.

I love it when i find a new author that I like and I can read all their books one after another.

Ooh Nickname I'm a fan of Patrick Leigh Fermor, who is the author of his biography? I'd like to read "Ill met by Moonlight" too.

Finished The Robsart Mystery. It was ok for what it was - a typical hist-myst, easy to read, no great thought required.

Book 18: War Crimes for rhe Home by Liz Jensen. Already being drawn in after only 5 pages.

I seemed to have struck a good run of books. I've justed started the biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor, and I think the biographer has hit exactly the right note - she's captured his sense of wonder and enthusiasm, while gently pointing out that you can't always entirely trust his memory of events, and she does so with great affection.

I had to give up on the Zafon because I realised very quickly that I needed to re-read the first one, so now tackling Game of Thrones

It's just as good, honest!

I loved The Etymologicon. Wasn't sure whether to read The Horologicon, but you may have just persuaded me Nickname :o

Dragon, that's the best thing about having to return library books by a set time!

I'm currently reading Horlogicon by Mark Forsyth. I really enjoyed his earlier book, the Etymologicon, so I knew I would be in safe hands, and he keeps making me laugh out loud. The chapters on the pointlessness of office life are particularly funny.

Just finished "Walking Home" by Simon Armitage, about a poet walking the Pennine Way. I realised on typing that synopsis that I should have guessed that the book would be slightly pretentious!!

Moving on to Dominion by CJ Sansom next and looking forward to it as I love his Shardlake books. My only problem is that it looks quite thick and is due back at the library soon with no chance of renewing it as lots of others have reserved it. Oh well, it will give me a "valid" excuse to procrastinate dealing with ironing mountain and to read instead!

Highlands maybe that was my problem that it's not somewhere that I know. I just couldn't see where it was going and I didn't like him very much.

Finished The Sunne in Splendour, which was good, but perhaps not as good as I was expecting. I suspect that's because it's showing its age- wordier than more modern historicals and the 'love story' was too overblown for my taste.

Book 17: The Robsart Mystery - a lightweight hist-myst, so not too taxing I imagine.

Finished book 8 - The Finkler Question - which I was pretty meh about, can't really see why it won the Booker Prize. Still no Amazon delivery so will move on to the other book my mum lent me (The Hand That First Held Mine) and hope it's better!

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

Just finished No 16 - White Nights by Ann Cleevley. I really enjoyed it, its the second part of a series set in Shetland, I read the first one last year and I'm going to read the third one, Red Bones as number 17.