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

Oh, count me in please. I managed it last year and want to do the same this year.

No forget that I loved the Ian Rankin, Just JK's I wasn't taken by :S

Can I join? Dont know if I'll hit 50 though! Does it have to be fiction? And do books I've already read count? I like re-reading books.

KinkyDorito I was excited when I saw he had done another one and immediately put it on my Christmas list. I too have 'Wolf Hall' on my kindle but have not got round to reading it yet. LadyofWinterfell 8 books already :0 (although does '50 shades' really count, I am not judging I have read them too )

thewhingingdefective I did enjoy The Children's Hospital, it was an interesting idea but I found the end unsatisfying.

I've read three this year already, The Silver Linings Playbook, I recommend it, excellent, Ian Rankin.. Standing in another man's grave and JK Rowling, casual vacancy...didn't like :(
I am looking for books to download to my kindle :D

I'm just about to start book 8 this year. I'ver read all of the Jack Reacher books since the middle of november.

A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness
Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness
Stolen Crown - Susan Higginbotham
Mary Boleyn - Alison Weir
Fifty Shades of Grey
Fifty Shades darker
Fifty shades freed
Fitzroy: The boy who would be King - Kathleen S Allen

I clearly read too fast. And have been reading rather than ironing

Finished 'Wicked' - which I really enjoyed in the end. Some of the political-type stuff made it hard going for me, but the character development was fantastic.

I'm now reading "Pretty Little Liars" and feel a bit dirty admitting it On the plus side, if I read the full series I will be through another 12 books in a fortnight or so. It's a bit...candy flossy.

Nosey Ooo, didn't know Rupert Everett had done another one. His first was amazing. (Can feel Wolf Hall once again taking a step back from priority...)

Can I join?

I just started Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, which I was bought last year.

I too have loads of books, and I feel quite ashamed that I have let my reading go.

I will also have (another) go at Wolf Hall. I've made several false starts.

I would love to join in too. I am also on 'Goodreads' and managed to read 42 last year (after originally setting myself a target of 30) I have set myself a target of 50 this year. I tend to get loads of freebie books ( I just browse the top 50 free books each week on Amazon) and as a result my reading tends to be very eclectic. Atm I am reading 'Me Before You' by JoJo Moyes, which I am finding just as surprising as her last one 'The Girl You Left Behind'.
I got these 3 books for christmas which I am looking forward to reading:
The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry , Vanished Years by Rupert Everett (I have read both of their previous autobiographies) and 'Death at Seaworld by David Kirby.

velcro is The Children's Hospital good? I keep picking it up, meaning to read, then not.

Glad other people have books stacked by their beds in such quantities.

Can I join? But I will want to include religion, georgette heyer and crime, some of which I will already have read, and biography.

I'm doing it, but my reading pace really fluctuates so I have no idea if I will hit the target, exceed it or fail miserably.

I read 45 books last year which is reasonably good for me, but I am doing a fast track A level in Biology at the moment so trying to focus on that. After exams in June I will hopefully crack on with the novels again.

I am halfway through 2 books right now - Five Children and It by E Nesbit ( but children's books don't count if you abide by the rules) and The Little Friend by Donna Tartt.

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Ooh, we're having a Ben Aaronovitch moment!

I'm in. I've got about 150 books to read split between paper & kindle and that's if I can stop buying books that is. I've read so far this year
Rivers of London & Moon over soho both by Ben Aaronovitch
Satre's sink by Mark Crick
The Children's hospital by Chris Adrian
The Girl who fell beneath Fairyland by Catheynne Valente
And currently reading Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch

Satre's sink was ok & the children's hospital was good but disappointing ending. Really enjoyed the others

yes nickname i liked that as well, race isn't used overtly or 'shoulder-chipped', but it's occasionally refred to with regard to racism outwith the met ( I think one of the american characters asked a question regarding race) but it's not seen as a big deal to have a mixed race copper with weirdo supernatural powers.... becasue we're Londonners and we take this in our stride... :)

I'm in, not sure I'll manage 50 books! Currently reading The Invisible Ones by Stef Penney which is a reading group book. I'm enjoying it so far so will try The Tenderness of Wolves which is in my huge pile of books to read. Also reading The Casual Vacancy but finding it hard going.

snapespeare, yes, I found whispers a bit ploddy as well. It just seemed to lack the invention of the other two, and I missed the hero's parents. I preferred book 2 (Moon Over Soho). One small thing I like about the series - as the hero is mixed race, so he mentions whether characters are white rather than having that as the default assumption.

On the subject of Gillian Flynn I read Gone Girl first & that's how I came to hear of her. Definitely going to have to get hold of Dark Places. There's something about her writing which really grabs me.

Yay - just finished "The Glass Painter's Daughter" so that's 3 down, 47 to go :)

I've shamefully become addicted to the True Blood books series by Charlaine Harris, so have been reading them non stop for the past few days! It's not great literature, but I find the books really enjoyable. I'm onto book 5 of the year, 45 to go!

1. Debbie Macomber - Touched by Angels
2. Charlaine Harris - Dead Until Dark
3. Charlaine Harris - Living Dead in Dallas
4. Charlaine Harris - Club Dead
5. Charlaine Harris - Dead to the World

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