50 Book Challenge 2014

[juneybean]

Hopefully nobody minds me starting this thread.

The idea is to read 50 books in 2014 (or more as many people have achieved this year!)

Please also check out our group on Goodreads if you're stuck for ideas of what books to read!

www.goodreads.com/group/show/59438-the-book-vipers

Finished Book 1 the other day - The Dinner by Herman Koch. Now reading The Midnight Rose by Lucinda Riley. It's 600something pages long to have to do my best not to be knocked off course with long books.

I now have 191 unread books. If I can knock 50 off that list this year I'll be very happy.

Book 3 is Love Nina by Nina Stibbe. As I lurve Alan Bennett and subscribe to the London Review of Books, I am in heaven...

1. The things We never Said. By Susan Elliot Weight

Very enjoyable 9/10

Can I join too please, I read loads but most of it crap or gardening books. I really want to read some good books this year and broaden my reading horizons a bit.

I'd like to join too, please. Used to read all the time, but lately have been rubbish and I'd like to kickstart my reading habits again.

1.) Longbourn by Jo Baker.

Not exactly a retelling of Pride and pPrejudice, but an entirely separate story about the servants who barely appear in the original. It also shows the darker side on life in that time which Austen doesn't touch on. Started to flag a little at the end, but otherwise enjoyed.

Have just started The Devil's Acre, another historical novel.

Definitely in. Need to read lots more new authors and different genres this year!

I'll join.

1. May we be forgiven - by A M Homes
2. Currently reading 11.22.63 by Steven King. Will finish by next week.

May read Stoner by John Williams after this.

2. The End of Your Life Book Club, Will Schwalbe. A son's memoir of his mother and the books they read together. I like reading about reading and she was an impressive woman, so this went down well, even if it made me start thinking about one day losing my parents.

Can I join too, I do a mixture of audiobooks (which are brilliant when I am doing housework, esp ironing), my kindle, and real books!

So far this year I have read

1 Sisters growing up in Talacre
2 Meeting Mr Write
3 A Perfect Proposal by Katie Fforde (which I think someone said they didn't like, but I enjoyed it)

I have got a few suggestions from here but if anyone can suggest any chick lit that would be great.

I know I should try and read different things but I can't be bothered! I have to get into a book in the first chapter or I'm not interested.

If I really enjoy a book I will read it again, which I know seems a waste of time, but I like it as I enjoy it more knowing what happened I do love reading but go through stages with it.

Just started Morrissey's autobiography as my book number 1, wish me luck.

Finished reading my first book of the year
1 tangled lives - Hilary Boyd. Was an ok read.

Now starting the universe versus Alex woods. It's good to be getting some recommendations from here, just bought a few books on my kindle based on the books others have read.

Getting through Apple Tree Yard (book 2) quickly. Hope to finish it next week.

Did you all see... we made discussion of the day!!

I'm a bit late, but I'm in!

1. The Rosie Project - Graeme Simison.

Loved it! Very charming and quirky

About to start The Snowman by Jo Nesbo.

Can I just say, I'm loving goodreads! Spent a pleasurable hour on there last night adding books to my TBR list - I've got one of those "1001 books you must read before you die books" so am going to try and read 50 from there before the end of the year - they're not all "classics" but has a lot of modern books as well so will get me reading a range of different things.

Although clearly that hour would have been better invested in actually reading instead of working out what to read - but I do like a list!

Thursday Last I can see why you loved Fault In Their Stars, which I've now finished as book number 3. It really isn't the sort of thing I would usually read, but I was hooked while I was reading it!

On to book 4 now - inspired by Sathnam Singhera's Marriage Material, I'm having a go at The Old Wives Tale by Arnold Bennett. Even on the Kindle it feels like a long book, so it may be a while till I next post!!

I'm in - English Lit degree actually put me off reading (3 books a week can do that to you), so a target should help get me back on track. Currently reading J K Rowling's 'The Casual Vacancy' but struggling to get into it...

Dragontrainer let us know how you get on with The Old Wives' Tale. It was one of my favourites years ago and is on my list to reread this year.

I'm in the middle of South Riding at the moment which I'm finding similar to Arnold Bennett in its portrayal of smalltown life in the north of England. Quite enjoying it but keep picturing the TV series while reading .. always better to tackle the book first!

Oooh - I love a good challenge. I'm in!

I've really struggled to find enjoyable grown up books to read - any recommendations?

I got bought my own set of Harry Potter books for Christmas so I'm currently ploughing my way through them. I've so far read:

1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Currently half way through the next one.

1. Melissa Explains It All by Melissa Joan Hart

Ok,

1 Stoner by John Williams

Loved this, sad and poignant and strangely gripping.

1. Perfect by Rachel Joyce

Bleak, not as uplifting as Harold Fry but gorgeous prose and good twist.

Currently I have 2 on the go, Love Nina and Sheryl Sandberg's Lean in. V different!!

Just finished number 2, The Circle by Dave Eggers. Thought the idea was great and there were some stand out moments of brilliant satire on social media. Ultimately though it was a bit of a popcorn book for me. Enjoyable but not the work of genius it's been hailed as in some places.

Number 3 will be a reread of The Explorer by James Smyth before its sequel is released later this month.

Hello! Space for another? I am just over half way through"Notes on a Scandal". I so wish I had read it before I saw the movie, but having Judi Dench tell me the story in my head is not such a bad thing .

On book 3. My secret - short books.

Irene Nemirovsky - the Misunderstanding. It only took 4 hours to read it and good value because of the different angles you can view the book.

The Other Typist (author forgotten name). Hugely underrated book. Set during prohibition and about a female bootlegger.

Now onto Cazalet Chronicles. Very English darling (so far)!

I'm in!

1. Tipping The Velvet (Sarah Waters)
2. Birdsong (Sebastian Faulkes)
3. Under Orders (Dick Francis)
4. Clean Sweep (Ilona Andrews)
5. Brazen (Kelley Armstrong)