50 Book Challenge 2015 Part 1

[Southeastdweller]

Thread one of the 50 Book Challenge.

The idea is to read 50 books (or more!) in 2015.

Who's in for this year?

I'm in this year. I looked at the thread last year but would love to join. I am currently on The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell. My tastes are eclectic so I look forward to some recommendations!

Hi all, I'd like to join in too please. I read a fair bit last year but nothing really challenging as I had DS2 and needed brain mush. My Jilly Cooper books are falling to bits!
I think I'm going to start with Wilkie Collins' The Woman In White: I've always wanted to read it but never got around to it.

'The Woman in White' is excellent. Wilkie Collins = God imvho.

Hello and happy new year!
Could I please join?
I have a huge pile of books I would love to make my way through.
I am in the middle of And the mountains echoed (Hosseini).
Next on my table is Forty rules of love (Elif Shafak).
That should see me through ;)

Please can I join in? Have finished 'The Miniaturist' this afternoon (loved it) and am about to start 'The Paying Guests'. I also have very eclectic tastes and am open to any recommendations especially good autobiographies.

I'd like to join too this year.

I'm starting The Farm tonight.

Would people who finish a book write a couple of sentences about it? Nothing to stress about, it is just that we would like to know what it was about, what you thought about it, etc. Write as much or as little as you would like to share, but do tell us a bit more than "I finished this book, I liked it".

Mrs Current? Bexicles?

I've set up my good reads challenge too. I've set it to 100. I'm not sure if I'll manage it but I'm looking forward to trying :-)

I have just finished Steve prescotts autobiography. Someone only rugby league fans have probably heard of but a truly inspirational man who when diagnosed with terminal cancer decided to raise as much money as possible and undertook some amazing challenges. Fantastic read but tear jerker in places

Next book is war horse

Good idea cote

Daughter by Jane Shemilt - the story of a "normal" well to do Bristol family, professional parents and teenage children. One night the 15 year old daughter does not come home and their lives collapse, revealing that all of them have secrets, and are in fact pretty dysfunctional....I found it compelling, and quite heartbreaking, mainly as layer by layer the mother's beliefs about what she thinks she knows about her family are stripped away....makes you start to pay attention to your own loved ones in a renewed way.....

Reminded me about some interview I watched on TV with a child psychologist...."do you know what your child's favourite colour is? Who is their best teacher at school? What is worrying them at the moment? Who do they sit next to in class?" Instead of "how was school?" To which you'd probably get "boring" or "ok", try "what were the three best things that happened today?"

Anyway, made me think. And not your usual happy ending. Really enjoyed it.

I'm in this year. Had a baby in November so been doing plenty of reading during all night cluster feeds.

First book for me is The Children Act by Ian McEwan.

Hi, I'd like to join this year.

I'm currently reading The Shock Of The Fall.

Happy New Year everyone .

I'd like to join too please. I read loads last year but didn't keep much of a record. I tend to get a bit author obsessed and read everything they've written. Towards the end of last year I started reading Robin Hobb and got through 13 books of hers in the space of a few weeks. I think I need to slow down, absorb a bit more and focus on quality too.

I started Us by David Nicholls yesterday so that is my book number one.

Just finished 'the rosie effect' (follow up to the rosie project) .... didn't enjoy the middle much and in my opinion not as good as the rosie project but harmless enough and easy to read when tired (main requirement for most things I read!)....would be interested in what others thought. Now to choose between 'daughter' by jane shemilt and 'the signature if all things' by Elizabeth gilbert.....

Ooh Remus - looking forward to it even more now.

Happy New Year.

I'm in. Am currently reading 'In the light of what we know' but not v far into it.

How does it work do we keep tab and post reviews and latest tally?!

Think 'In light' is v long. Gulp.

I have kicked off with The Secret History by Donna Tartt as for some reason I have never got round to reading it. It's going to take me a while though as it's long and I am a very slow reader. I already think it's better than The Goldfinch.

Ulysses is worth reading. I read it for my degree and I'm really glad I did. It was effectively banned in the USA (burned by customs officers) amongst other places but was never officially banned in Ireland which is interesting, although it was unavailable to buy there. I think it's always interesting to read a banned book - Ulysses was banned on religious grounds and for indecency.

Marking my place. Started One Step Too Far this afternoon and intrigued as to how it is all going to pan out...

I've just finished my first book of the year, The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton. I found it a good, easy read, shifting perspectives between past and present as a family secret is uncovered. However, although I was engaged enough to want to follow the twists and turns as the secret is unravelled, I didn't care sufficiently about any of the characters to make this a book that's going to stick in my mind for any time.

Of the unread books on my bookshelf, I have settled on Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway as my next. I have absolutely no recollection of when I bought the book and it's really not my usual fare. I think it must have been the quote on the front cover describing it as a 'Pure, unhinged delight', that made me think it would be the perfect book for me. (Although I'm certainly not pure, or indeed that delightful, but have been known to become slightly unhinged at times .)

Kindle set-up turned out to be simple, once I (embarrassingly) realized that I do have wifi at home, once I, ahem, enter the correct password. Oh dear, oh dear. This could be very dangerous.

I've just attempted Confederacy Of Dunces and have died a little inside with the 5 pages I read. Would it be a bad mistake if I give up on it? (So soon after T E Lawrence's Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, I really don't think I can go through another self-important, verbose doorstopper that gets on my nerves.)

Biblio - You will love the Kindle. Happy reading

Thanks cote! And you have my blessing to give up on Confederacy of Dunces.

whippetwoman The Secret History is in my top ten of all books and streets ahead of The Goldfinch....imvho...

I'm in.