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

Well I really loved the quirkiness of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. My onlt criticism is that I wish it had been longer as I wanted to spend more time in the company of the characters.

I've made a start on book number 7, which is Netherwood by Jane Sanderson. It was recommended by a friend who knows I enjoy Downton Abbey, but so far, so Catherine Cookson. Not my thing, but I'll forge on for now.

Nickname, Moonshine and Velcro - I read all the Ben Aaranovitch books last year; really enjoyed them but possibly because I could imagine myself in many of the places he mentioned, being London born & bred.

I finished book 2 "Feasting, Fasting" on Thursday evening, and am working on finishing book 3 "The Long Earth" which is getting stranger and stranger by the minute!

Next up are;

1. Gathering Light - Jennifer Donnelley
2. A cat, a hat and a piece of string - Joanne Harris
3. Ash: Return of the beat - Gary Val Tentura (never heard of him, book bought for me)
4. I can make you hate - Charlie Brooker

my number 6 book is Wolf Hall I may be some time.

Ooh I have the house at sea's end out the library. Currently reading Alys, always by Harriet Lane as someone else has reserved that one.

Number 5 finished - went for The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz. It is FANTASTIC. Really enjoyed it. Think some intensive Conan Doyle is in the near future!

Finished No7 The Janus Stone - Elly Griffiths. I enjoyed it good plotting, interesting characters.

Now on to No8 The House at Sea's End - Elly Griffiths again. It is the 3rd in her Ruth Galloway series and I'm enjoying it so far.

Finished book 2 and 3 : NW, and 1227 QI amazing facts (hope that one counts!).

Can't decide what to make of NW - enjoyed the streams of conciousness style and elements of the story, but not convinced it all hangs together that well. Might have been better for the ideas to have been explored separately as complete novels, though I understand the fragmentation and lack of neat endings are part of the overall effect.

Just started Andrew Marr's Modern History of Britain (can you tell I made the most of the Kindle sale?) Really fascinating so far, but it's long so think I'll have to interperse a few other books to have any chance of hitting 50.

Finished book 4, The Expats. Thoroughly enjoyed it. A kindle 20p bargain.

Got my new kindle today so starting book 5 on it. It's Alice Hoffman ' fortunes daughter'

Finished book no. 2: Blake Charlton - Spellwright. It was so so. Got better towards the end, but I don't think I'm going to bother with the inevitable sequel.

Well I finished my 5th book A Room With a View and I must confess that I didn'tenjoy it as much as the film. I found it hard going

I've also set myself a challenge, but only 2 per month - plus an extra on holiday, so 25 in total. I find reading on a Kindle much easier than carting paperbacks about though, and I must admit I'm going for the 'lighter' books to get me through January. This one is good for a 'switching the mind off' read - plus it's cheap on Amazon at the mo! www.amazon.co.uk/Rosy-Georges-Convention-Conundrum-ebook/dp/B008OZENS8/ref=la_B008QN1FNY_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1358528014&sr=1-1

Finished The Emperor of All Maladies. Enjoyed the human story, but got a bit lost in the genetics part towards the end.

Read the first chapter or two of The Stepmothers' Support Group, but not sure I can be bothered to go on. Not badly written as such, just a bit pointless.

Dabbling with the first few chapters of Wilkie Collins' No-Name. Enjoying it so far, but not necessarily prepared to make the commitment to follow the story the whole way through.

Finished Alys, Always. Really good characterisation, interesting take on the Single White Female concept, I really liked it.

Now on to Number 5, The Twelve, which I'm really looking forward to.

ShriekingNora, I hope you're grateful to your 9 year old - I think my mum read my copy when I was your dd's age, but I don't know if I had to beg her. I recommend the other two books in the trilogy too, though #2 is probably a bit old for your dd, and although #3 is published as a children's book, it just isn't - grown up Anna goes to visit her mother in Berlin after the war and it's really a very grown up book (nothing x rated, it just isn't really for kids).

Finished the Care of Wooden Floors, and couldn't have disliked it more! I found it one of those books which, sentence by sentence, is very well written but didn't work as a whole, particularly as I couldn't stand the characters.

I've also read the Lewis Man by Peter May, which I raced through: a good pageturner.

I'm about to continue the reading marathon by moving on to John Saturnall's Feast by Lawrence Norfolk.

Schnarkle Fahrenheit 451's on my list too, arrived from Amazon today with a few others (V for Vendetta, The Death Of Grass and The Knife Of Never Letting Go).

minsmum I'll tell you what I think of the Morgue drawer book when I get to it though as I'm reading alphabetically by author it maybe some time

SuperScribbler I loved Guernsey Potato Pie & rather missed the characters when I finished it.

Die for Me finished so now to start book 5. Not sure what yet

Hothouse Flower finished. It was not too good - the dialogue needed more crackers with all the cheese

I'm now into The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Quirky title, quirky book.

I'm in, I've really neglected reading over the last few years. I'm way behind the times, so I'll use this year to catch myself up with the rest of the world

1. Tripwire Lee child
2. Twilight (1)

Next on the list is Fahrenheit 451.

Velcro - I have all the Morgue Drawer books on my Kindle - not started them yet though

1. Edge Of The Orison - Iain Sinclair read
2. The Year 1000 - Robert Lacey read
3. The Clay Machine Gun - Victor Pelevin started

Ok finished
Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch which I really enjoyed and was rather sad that I've got to wait for the next one to be published
The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up by Jacob M Appel. Started well but got rather silly
Now reading The Secret Supper Club by Dana Bate

Alas my plan to clear my to-read backlog is being thwarted by my inability to stop buying kindle books. Purchased today Persuasion by Jane Austen & Morgue Drawer Four by Jutta Profijt

Enjoyed No6 The Crossing Place so I'm now going to read the sequel

The Janus Stone - Elly Griffiths (number 7)

TheFourCees - The Long Walk is my favourite Stephen King book. It's haunted me since I read it as a teen. Enjoy!

I'm rollicking through Me Before You, my 3rd book. Can't believe I haven't read it before. I love it. It's so brilliantly written.