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

I'm in. More later. Baby crying... again!

I do not know what it is but I cannot seem to get into a book even on holiday I could not be bothered to read which is so unlike me.
Interestingly I have read less since I got a Kindle and am seriously thinking of going back to books either by purchasing from Waterstones or any other book retailer or by going to the library - actually I quite miss my weekly visits {to the library

I'm very impressed how many books you've all read so far. But it's also adding to me To Read pile! I need to hibernate and get on with my reading. Had a manic start to New Year and still only finished one book! I reread Call The Midwife and am at 64% (on my kindle) of Pride and Prejudice. I haven't read it since I was a teen and I'm really enjoying it. But it's taking a while! I plan to catch up with some easy reading quick reads after!

on ' memoirs of an imaginary friend', enjoying it but not getting through it very fast.

Would probably get through it quicker if I stopped looking at kindle book offers on amazon!!

Downloaded the 100 year old man for 20p what a bargain!!

Late to the party but count me in!
I read a mixture of nonfiction and fiction.
Three shaky piles on my nightstand.

I've started the year with some wine books and travel writing.
Also got a couple of books on architecture for Christmas.
Typically, I have five books going on simultaneously (some of which I will never finish). Haven't finished any of the above yet...

Hello I am new to this but I am so impressed reading your messages and I look forward to a lot of friends and fun. I am 77 and have been a reader for many many years, like the lady with the huge pile of books by her bed, me too, and I would read one in two or three days, the older I got the faster I would read. Last year my Grandchildren bought me an EReader, it is so much easier for me I don't have to hold a book or turn the pages,but I am now reading even faster and because I need less sleep I get through one a night. Is this good or bad for me? I don't know, but I love it and learnt so much. It is really wonderfull to know that there are so many readers out there it hasn't always been so. Good reading to you all.

Id like to join please! May be a bit ambitious, as I have an 8 wk old baby, but would love to try. We had a bit of a clear out before xmas and I had to admit that I had books on my shelf I was just never going to read,so they went to charity, but that still leaves me with a whole lot of books to get through! Am going to start with Capital by John Lancaster which is n my kindle. Happy reading all!

I'm in.

January:
The criminal conversation of Mrs Norton - Diane Atkinson
Ripper Hunter -M J Trow

This looks great! I'd love to join in. Not sure if I can hit 50 but I'll try. Like a lot of people on this thread I also have a stack of unread books by my bed. Some have been there for quite some time

I'm planning to cut down book expenditure this year by joining a library.

Am up for this challenge. Have read the Casual Vacancy so 49 to go.

I'm going to join you guys Need to take the time to read this thread though - that's my first challenge. Loads of books gathering dust should be no problem though!!

How odd, I'd already set myself the challenge of reading a book a week! So far I've read Me Before You by JoJo Moyes, which I really quite enjoyed, although didn't expect to.

Currently reading The Fast Diet by Dr Michael Mosley (with a view to getting back on the 5:2 fast next week) and also Down Under by Bill Bryson.

Will be returning to fiction after that though

I'm a big reader, and belong to a book club, and currently have a out 100 books not touched yet!! For some reason the last few months I have lost the reading bug and just about manage to read my allocated book club book! My new year resolution is to pull it back and find the bug again!! I'm currently reading
Dorian Grey which is ok, it's a book you need to concentrate on!

Hello, I'd like to join you. I usually read loads but have got out of the habit in the last month or so. Will post back later with the books I have to read on my shelf and kindle.

Can I join please ive read 3 already this year I currently have 22 to read on the kindle. My new years resolution is I cant add anymore to my kindle wish list on amazon till i have got all the ones on there which currently stands at 99 books so hopefully i will manage 50 thsi year 47 to go.

Count me in please.
So far I have read and finished Miss Perigrines peculiar children, (enjoyed it very much), The Virgin Suicides (liked that as well). Currently part way through Alex's adventures in numberland, very interesting about the history of numbers and I hate maths, also part way through The Night circus, beautiful writing and I'm about to start The Perfume Garden. As for books I too have piles and piles lurking around waiting to be read and lots on my kindle from the free or 50p offers.

thegreylady I am seriously impressed by the number of books you get through!

What did you think of The Chess Men? I've just read Peter May's first two - loved the first one and enjoyed the second although not quite so much. How does the third measure up?

ooh my little smileys didnt come up....sorry ladies!

Count me in! I havent managed to read anything this year as of yet. Last year I had a look on the bbc 100 top reads and started with them although I digressed and read something I fancied in between. I wanted to read some of the classics as its a travesty I feel to read as much as I do and not actually touch on any of them. I did find it very hard and as someone suggested earlier on I did start with Pride and Prejudice and absolutley loved it.
I make it my mission though as many of you have to actually dust off many of the 'to read' pile also (blush) which I can imagine getting through lots of (wine) and snacks.! (wink)

I am staring the year by finishing The Voyage of The Beable by Charles Darwin. Its very interesting and in parts quite humorous. Bus journeys to work are all the more interesting with a good book in hand (smile)

This year I have read:

Divergent - veronika Roth
Insurgent - veronika Roth
Partials - dan wells
Switched - Amanda hocking
Torn - Amanda hocking
Ascend - Amanda hocking
Unwind - Neal shusterman
Matched - ally condie
Crossed - ally condie
Reached - ally condie

I'm about to start I am number 4 (pittacus lore).

I'd be keen to join too but, like others, I think 25 is more realistic for me than 50.

In response to some above,
-'Before I go to Sleep' is not too scary, no, go for it.

• IME if you assess The Casual Vacancy at page 50, you'll bin it. But I'm glad I finished it
• for those that want a classic when they don't usually, I'm no expert but I really like Wilkie Collins' Woman in White and The Moonstone though they take much longer to read than modern fiction again affecting your number!

I read Ben Elton's latest over Christmas, may have finished in the New Year, does that count? It's called Two Brothers, set in WW2, I liked it but it's not funny like his earlier offerings!

And this week I finished Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry'. I did enjoy it but my expectations were very high and sadly it didn't quite live up.

So far this year I have read 14 books I usually read between 4 and 7 a week.I am a very fast reader and if the weather is bad I can read about 500 pages a day.I dont watch tv at all.
The Bell Jar I abandoned many years ago.I loved The Snow Child.I am currently reading The Chess men by Peter May and have just finished Dying Fall by Ellie Griffiths.

I am up for it.

I have so far read,

Great expectations by Charles Dickens
The uncommon reader by Alan Bennett
The mysterious affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Half way through,

The Lighthouse by Alison Mooore
Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone by J K Rowling .... I am counting this as I am doing most of the reading with DC

So far this year I've read Weirdo by Cathi Unsworth which was so brilliant I started to reread it all over again. If you like crime that's not too traditional - this is the best i've read since Kate Atkinson's last Brodie book.

Started The Casual Vacancy - I'm enjoying it but keep picking up other things instead. Hasn't gripped me, but I don't understand people who think she's not up to much as a writer. I like her style.

Also read a handful of short stories from Best american Mystery Stories 2012. V good so far.

Can I join in too? I did read 120 books last year, target of 10 a month, though some months more and some less! The Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies month a lot less - quite hard going but I enjoyed them. This year my challenge is NOT to buy ANY books!!! I have them stacked around the house - some are even on shelves! I am allowed to download free books for my Kobo and then I have to get through the piles. Plus I am skint. Very skint. So books are not to be bought. (Apart from my £10 Waterstones voucher!) The library is my friend .

So far this year I have read:

• To My Best Friends - Sam Baker. Froth/chick lit but OK

• The Radleys - Matt Haig. This was good -a very different take on the vampire genre, which I don't read, but I enjoyed this one!

And I'm currently half way through 'The Last Time They Met' by Anita Shreve, who I generally enjoy, and this is OK so far!