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

taffeta never let me go is my 1 st read of the year!! Loved it...and rate it as one of my top books now..good start eh? Lets hope the next 49 are as good.

On to a sure fire winner at the mo...blue Monday by nicci French ( my 2012 author discovery....amazing addition to my reading life! Heartily recommend all 'her' books)

Finished The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton and really enjoyed it although I had guessed the ending by about halfway through. 1 down 49 to go!

Finished The Last Time They Met - enjoyed it, twist at the end left it open to different interpretations I think - good anyway! Now started The Bradshaw Variations by Rachel Cusk, bit of a family/relationships/ mid life angst sort of thing, spotted it in the library. Seems OK, but is only 250 pages longs so will get through it quite quickly I think.

I'll try. Last year I had only read 5 books by July, so had to catch up and towards the end of the year was reading a book a week, so could make it

Just finished the red and the black by Stendhal, do that's one down, 49 to go

'Behind the scenes at the museum' finished. Just got started on 'The Long Earth'. Next up will be either Feasting, Fasting (Anita Desai) or A Gathering Light (Jennifer Donnolley).

It is on my to do list Taffeta. Thanks for reminding me about it. :)

shrieking, I adore The Debt to Pleasure - it's one of my favourite books.

Re the unit , have you read never let me go? It sounds similar. Never let me go is one of my favourite books.

Finished The Unit about an hour ago. Absolutely loved it.

I'm in. I used to read a lot in bed but have started watching Netflix or love film at night instead and have lst track with my books.
My first book this year is The Unit, a really interesting read about people who are seen as not been useful to anyone anymore get sent to a unit which conducts medical trials and organ donation on the residents of the unit.
It sounds grim but I'm enjoying it.

I've read one so far - World war Z by Max Brooks which was fantastic. Fiction written in the style of non fiction. Two if you count the Further tales of Peter Rabbit.

jetstar I'm going to be reading Wolf Hall this year too. I tried to read it a couple of years ago, and gave up because of lack of time to concentrate on it. I've been waiting for the right time to read it since then, and hope this year is it :)

I'm in! On book 4 already, so off to a flying start!

I'll have a go (not sure I'll make it but what they hey!)
I have The Snow Child ready to read and also the 100 year old man one.
I have started (and stopped) reading Wolf Hall three times now, so if I only read one book this year than that should be my challenge!
shriekingnora I gave When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit as a gift to a teenager friend for Christmas, hope she likes it - I enjoyed reading it as a teen

Have ditched The Wreck at Sharpnose Point. Too boring. Have moved on to The Finkler Question and The Debt to Pleasure.

Ok i'm up for this. i actually thought 50 seemed easy until you pointed out that thats nearly 1 a week!!! I have a toddler and homeschool so hardly any time. But, i have a personal challenge to read all the stephen king books in order of writing. Just finished Carrie. Also have 2 million books on a disk for kindke so lots to read plus i watch too much tv.

Just finished Ruso and the River of Darkness. I like setting (Britain in 2nd century AD) and the characters (especially the hero's "native" wife) more than the plot (something to do with forging coins).

Having read a couple of fiction books, I now feel the urge for non-fiction as a kind of palate-cleanser, so I'm reading The Emperor of Maladies, about cancer. It sounds grim, but it's not - it's written with clarity, compassion and authority. It's like crime fiction, with mutating cells as the master criminal needing to be tracked down.

Just finished No. 3 Separate Lives, really good relationship drama with a couple of twists. Now moving onto Alys, Always.

Starting book 4. "The Expats" by Chris Pavone

Can I join please?

Just finished my first book for the year

1. In Pursuit of Love

Now to re-start Whispers Under Ground. I read three chapters last year and now can't remember any of it.

There are some good 20p books on kindle at the moment! I've also downloaded The Expats by Chris Pavone - it's a spy novel with a female main character.

Still have to decide on what book to start next. May see if I can wrestle the kindle away from DH for a few days!

Ok, I think I finished my first book this year.

###1### Great Wine Made Simple by Andrea Immer Robinson.

Don't laugh - I occasionally read high-brow fiction too .
And what is surprising, I learned during the circa four nights spent reading this volume more than I have in 20+ years of drinking...
It explains in very simple terms how to taste and evaluate wine and then helps you to better understand how you can find what you like and also predict from reading the wine label what it will taste like.

I must be a really prosaic person, but I find reading non-fiction really quick and effortless, almost like breathing. Many novels play games with the reader (you have to figure out who is who - often the point of view shifts from chapter to chapter and paragraph to paragraph - and also whether you are interested in the main characters). I also have a hard time warming up many novels - it's often an uphill climb for the first 50-odd pages.

My favorites are great travel books that either take me to places I wouldn't be able to go myself or help me understand places that I visit / live in.

Signing in.
I did start keeping a list after a thread on here a few years ago. I normally read about 40ish but last year it was down to 35, largely due to me starting a lot and not finishing. I only count them if I finish and I often forget to count non fiction.
I am on 3rd this year so far.
1.Rough Weather by Robert Parker. Light American PI fiction. New to me he's written squillions so I'll try some more.
2.Secret Apocalypse by James Harden. I didn't know when I started it was aimed at young adult (good job or I would have avoided it). Fun.

1. Good Luck and Bad Temper by Ken McCoy.

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