50 Book Challenge 2013 -The Sequel!

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Morning all,

As the old thread here is nearly full, I have created a shiny new one for your delight and delectation.

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I'm Cardiff and I've nearly finished book 16, so I'm very behind as to be in track we should be approaching 25 by now. Where is everyone else up to?

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

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

35. Running With The Kenyans - Adharanand Finn

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.

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

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.

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

Finished book 48: The Night Circus. I loved it. There wasn't a particularly exciting plot, but it was so evocative and imaginative that the plot didn't need to be dramatic.

Book 49 is Anne Tyler's "Ladder of Years" - it's the first of hers I've read, and I'm enjoying it so far

Enjoy, Wednesday - I'm an Anne Tyler fan.

38. Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell. I enjoyed this, but didn't think it was as good as her earlier books The Hand That First Held Mine and After You'd Gone, both of which I loved.

I will tumble

Have you read Ladder of Years?

Evening all.

26. Dublin by Simon Moncrieff.

Really good. Lots of sweary, violent nonsense. A bit like a Tarantino movie in book form.

Ooh Wednesday, just noticed you read the Night Circus. I read that last year. A really wonderful, enchanting book. One of those books where I wished it was real!

No, I haven't read that one. Let me know what it's like!

Have just bought Night Circus too!

Joining this thread very late as I've only just discovered it. I'm really enjoying other people's recommendations.

So far this year I've read (not in order):
1 Wonder by R J Palacio
2 Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell
3 Summer Falls by Amelia Williams
4 The Good Father by Noah Hawley
5 The Fear Index by Robert Harris
6 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
7 Capital by John Lanchester
8 Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
9 Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
10 Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin
11 Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin
12 Strip Jack by Ian Rankin
13 11.22.63 by Stephen King
14 Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
15 The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
16 Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
17 The Casual Vacancy by J K Rowling
18 The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
19 Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst
20 The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
21 Double Cross by Ben Macintyre
22 The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
23 Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
24 Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
25 My Lover's Lover by Maggie O'Farrell
26 The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell
27 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
28 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
29 The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
30 After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
31 N-W by Zadie Smith
32 Dominion by c J Samson
33 Mutual Causes by Ian Rankin
34 Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
35 The Outsiders by Michelle Paver
36 Double Fault by Lionel Shriver
37 The Secrets Between Us by Louise Douglas
38 I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
39 What Matters in Jane Austen by John Mullan
40 Day of the Triffids by John Wyndam
41 Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
42 Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle
43 The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan
44 Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner
45 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

There are quite a few children's books in that list as I try and keep up to date with these so that I know what my children are reading. I thought that Wonder by R J Palacio was amazing and would really recommend it for year 6/7s.

The book that I've most enjoyed this year so far is Life After Life by Kate Atkinson.

I've also met three of the authors listed above this year at book signings (Derek Landy, Michelle Paver and David Sedaris) and they were all absolutely lovely. Phew!

Book 84 - Fragile by Lisa Unger (audio book). Surprisingly good, considering I had only chosen the book for my letter U in my alphabet challenge on Goodreads.

Cardiff I loved Night Circus. I really wish it was real!

46 Heartburn by Nora Ephron. A bittersweet fictionalised account of the author's marriage breakdown.

Was it good, funambulist ? I read I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron recently, and really enjoyed it. Was wondering whether to try Heartburn.

10. The Kill Room - Jeffery Deaver

74. Enigma, by Robert Harris

75. The Other Typist, by Suzanne Rindell

76. Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein

61. White Cat - Holly Black. It's YA I think but I really enjoyed it. Very well plotted and twisty.

Woo hoo! I've just finished War and Peace. Feel free to send cards, flowers, champagne...

It took me nearly six weeks. I followed it up with Mr Lynch's Holiday by Catherine O'Flynn, a sweet story about a father-son relationship, which I read in two days.

Here's my most recent 10:

34. A reed shaken by the wind by Gavin Maxwll
35. Granta 124 (travel)
36. Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
37. Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
38. The Cuckoo’s calling by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling in disguise)
39. Biography of Nancy Mitford by Harold Acton (can't remember exact name)
40. Longbourn by Jo Baker
41. History of Medicine: a very short introduction by William Bynum
42. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
43. Mr Lynch’s Holiday by Catherine o’Flynn

BOF - What did you think of Enigma? I wasn't planning on reading any more from Robert Harris after the silly nonsense that was Pompeii, but I'm interested in code breaking in general and Enigma in particular.

Well do on finishing War & peace, hackmum. Was it worth it?