50 Book Challenge 2013 -The Sequel!

i have just stopped reading my number 35. i just cant carry on. its the first book i have ever stopped reading. just, no! its going straight in the charity shop box

cant remember what my next book is. i think its the third mortal instruments book... will start it tomorrow

Well I seemed to have spent ages trying to read book 48 AppleTree Yard! I eventually gave up but as it took me most of September I'm counting it!

Book 49 Dominion by CJ Sansom - Excellent read. Very imaginative thriller and kept me hooked.

My book 50 is a reread from many years ago The Shining.

34. harry potter #2 was finished yesterday. love that they are quick reads. feels like im actually getting somewhere

35. dont try this at home - katie pearson. im 3 chapters in and not enjoying it. hoping it will get better

44. Wind, Sand And Stars - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Charming little book about his adventures as a pilot flying the mail plane over Africa and South America.

35. Running With The Kenyans - Adharanand Finn

41. Where'd You Go Bernadette - distinctly average
42. Heft - pretty fab.

50. Sweet Tooth - Ian McEwan. I enjoyed parts of it, but found it quite irritating too.

60. A Lesson in Dying - Ann Cleeves . Quite murder by numbers but OK. She's done a lot better.

51. Havoc, in it's third year by Ronan Bennett. Quite strange, but equally quite gripping. In a nutshell, the tale of a coroner (in the 17th century) investigating a suspicious death.

34. War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

this thread keeps dissappearing from my threads im on so apologies for not updating for ages. didnt read for 2 1/2 weeks as i took a break to watch some boxsets but im making up for it now

31. city of bones - cassandra clare. enjoyed very much. during the first half i prefered the film... but by the second half, i prefered the book.

32. harry potter #1 - j.k. rowling. have never read hp before but have seen all the films. an easy read as i knew the story.

33. city of ashes - cassandra clare. liked this very much. i love the fact that it pretty much continues where it left off in book 1. cant wait to read the others.

34. harry potter #2 -j.k. rowling. halfway through. again, a quick read as i know what happens

ive set aside a pile of books that make up my 50 for this year and it looks so daunting that i dont think im going to make it. im having surgery in november so thats going to set me back too. ah well... at least i tried!

I do feel you pain. I actually shivered a little when I read your post.

Good luck. I haven't picked up my Kindle for days after I finished Anna Karenina. Never thought anything could come between me & my Kindle. I'm half way through a book about running now. It's very quick and easy, just what I need right now

Cote d'Azur: "Anna bloody Karenina - Leo Tolstoy"

Feel my pain. I have been on War and Peace for the last month, though actually it feels like my whole life. I have read 1100 pages and have 350 left to go, ie the length of a normal novel, but I do feel as if, somehow, there is a pinprick of light at the end of the tunnel.

There's loads of stuff I'm looking forward to reading when I've finished it.

The Kitchen book keeps popping up in my Amazon recommends lists.
I think I shall have to buy it. Thank you for your thoughts after reading it DuchessofMalfi.

Book 83 - Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto. Absolutely delightful. Beautifully written, and poetic. I want to read more of her work.

43. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer

Gripping, though harrowing eye-witness account of the spring 1996 climbing season on Everest when 12 climbers died (people being incompetent or generally horrid eg clambering over dying climbers on their way up).

73. Lesley Thomson - The Detective's Daughter
74. Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code
75. Jade Goodmore - Forget-Me-Not
76. Jill Mansell - Don't Want To Miss A Thing
77. Roald Dahl - Boy
78. St Johne Greene - Mum's List
79. Michael Morpurgo - Private Peaceful
80. Kazuo Ishigaro - Never Let Me Go

No. 36 Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgewick

Book club read. I really enjoyed this. It is part fact with a large dose of artistic licence. It is centred on the Russian Revolution and coincides with my non-fiction reading for uni and it is clear that Sedgewick has read parts of the same book.

21. March, Women, March - Lucinda Hawksley 6.7/10

Non-fiction about the early suffragette days.

22. The Ladykiller - Martina Cole 6.8/10

I have always wanted to try a Cole novel and actually quite enjoyed it! An easy read.

23. The Emperor of all Maladies 8/10

NF book about cancer, as recommend on this thread (an earlier version).

24. Until You're Mine - Samantha Hayes 7/10

25. Margaret Rutherford - Dreadnought with Good Manners - Andy Merriman 7/10

A gentle non-sensational bio.

26. Apple Tree Yard - Louise Doughty 7.7/10

I know lots of people have been lukewarm about this but I really enjoyed it far more than the other similar ones - really enjoyed her writing style.

Actually, I thought his ladies' detective agency books were silly and tedious.

Do you think you are on a book recommendation thread, by any chance?

Any books by Alexander McCall Smith. Not just the Private Ladies Det. Series but all his other serial books. Fabulous!

cote I see exactly what you are saying about Rosemary's Baby, but I felt it worked well specifically as a period piece about entrenched attitudes to women ie as a vessel: the pregnancy paranoias being just a little too heightened, the worry of the husband working so hard, was he up to no good? etc. As a companion piece to Stepford Wives I though that Ira Levin was quite clever about getting you inside the woman's head and deliberately excluding you from what the men thought.

Congratulations to everyone who has made it to 50 and beyond

Technically though, I'm marking my place as I'm reading 3 books at the moment and will drop off the thread otherwise

I haven't seen the tv show yet I purposely avoided it until I had read it, I have got The Red Queen here to read and have the others on my kindle so will get onto them soon!

before tackling that!