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

First book done, Mary Ann in Autumn, last in the Tales of the City series. V easy to read and best if you'd read the others. Great ending.

Thanks for the suggestions, will look into them.

VERY jealous of your daughter! :) what a task!!!

ilovecolinfirth if you liked A Thousand Splendid Suns I strongly recommend A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman .. set in Sri Lanka, similar in theme but better than ATSS I think.

I also think you'd love The Observations by Jane Harris - a really enjoyable read.

Btw, my DD had to clamber over Colin Firth when working as a seat-filler at the Baftas a few years back. A tough job but someone's got to be prepared to do these things

Finished 'Angel's Fury'. It was okay. Nothing special. Interesting concept but I think very predictable and what the blurb said it is about is quite rushed and I don't think comes across that well.

Think I'll save choosing another book until tomorrow!

I've read three books so far this year. Haven't read in 3 days though. Need to get back into it, I'm hoping to start reading properly again. Is difficult with a 16 week old baby though.

I'm gonna check out that link. Seems interesting :)

minsmum I read Swimming Home before Christmas. I really enjoyed it. Found it quite gripping, though a bit strange too. I'd be interested to hear what you think of it when you've read it!

nomnom Jean Brodie is one of my all time favourites.

AmelieRose I enjoyed the Gretchen Rubin one! Have you seen she has a new one out? Happier At Home? Also I LOVE Life of Pi. 20p is a bargain. I hope you enjoy it!

AmelieRose I'm with you in Ephron. Just finished 'I Feel Bad About My Neck', which was glorious. Felt the same about 'I Remember Nothing', which I read last year.

Started 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit' this morning.

'The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie' is such fun - I may have to re-read that!

I'm trying to keep count this year just to see how many I can read, have far too many lined up on my kindle/bookshelf. I will definitely won't get tempted by all suggestions on here
Easing myself in gently I've read only kindle freebies:

1. Robert Brumm - Windigo Soul
2. Anne Bronte - Tenant of Wildfell Hall
3. Grace Wynne Jones - Wise Follies
4. Peter Lihou - Rachel's Shoe

I'm onto Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. On the final third and frustratingly working the next couple of days so not sure when I'll get to finish it. I really want to know who the murderer is! It's a brilliant book but be warned has pretty graphic descriptions of self harming.

me. i've not really been reading and have stacks of things to catch up with. so far i've read jane yeh's the ninjas (if poetry counts) and half of one of the game of thrones series, the fourth one i think - dragons and brutality, not edifying, really. thinking next the china factory (mary costello, short stories), the prime of miss jean brodie, and bring out the bodies. see y'all in february :)

Elkie - am really sorry but have completely forgotten who wrote it. The name sounds reasonably familiar though.

Just checking in - have finished The Glass Painter's Daughter (ok but not as good as I hoped) and have started 100 Year Old Man (25% through it and enjoying in an abstract, slightly disengaged way).

I'd like to join as well please, have a stack of books on my bookshelf and another lot on my kindle, so im thinking of alternating one from the shelf one from the kindle just so I eventually get them read.
1st of Jan I started reading The Girl Nobody Wants by Lily O'Brien , yesterday I started reading Siege by Simon Kernick.
So nearly two down, forty eight to go.

okay I have decided my 3rd book will be Swimming Home by Deborah Levy

Oh, and just downloaded 'Life of Pi' to re-read before going to see the film. Only 20p on Amazon!

I'm in. I'm terrible for not reading enough even though I love reading.

I've read (well, finished as most were half read) 4 so far this year:

The Happiness Project - Gretchen Rubin
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
I Feel Bad about my Neck - Nora Ephron
I Feel Nothing - Nora Ephron

I'd highly recommend the Nora Ephron books if you like funny non-fiction - really easy to read and made me laugh out loud loads. Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' is also great for this. I'm currently reading 'How to be a Woman' by Caitlin Moran after beginning it 6 months ago - hoping to finish it this week as it's an easy and funny read.

can i join?
so far this year i have read 39 weeks and midway through bridget jones

I'd like to join the challenge please! I was really bad at reading last year...a toddler, a difficult pregnancy, and working most evenings after my ds went to bed!

I'm getting back on track now.

Can anyone recommend something to grab my attention?

Some of my fav books are:

The Kite Runner
A thousand splendid suns
Anything by Tracey Chevalier
Rebecca
The book thief
The shadow of the wind

Well I finished Did you miss me last night and started Allan Massie "death in Bordeaux" which I am not liking much.

So I need to choose something else, can't decide what though

Having an early Jan self-improvement kick. Read Mange Tout, about how to encourage children to eat veg (let the children play with veg); Sugar Nation (how to deal with incipient diabetes - low-carbing and exercise); Join the Dots (how to appreciate classical music).

Also reading Nick Hornby's Polysyllabic Spree. This irritated me horribly when it first came out, but now I've accepted that he is writing about the experience of reading and doesn't attempt to say anything enlightening about the books themselves, so I'm enjoying it a bit more, despite his irritatingly twee descriptions of his employers.

Now pondering whether to get a Kindle. I get most of my books from the library, so it won't save me any money, and I read a lot anyway, so I don't need to be encouraged to read more. It's just there are a couple of books that I'd like to get where the kindle versions are a lot cheaper than the print version, and I have a £20 voucher for Amazon so it wouldn't cost too much.....Opinions, anyone?

Remus, is that White Tiger by Aravind Adiga? (Librarything threw up a few other books with the same title.

I'm in