50 Book Challenge 2017 Part One

[southeastdweller]

Welcome to the first thread of the 50 Book Challenge for this year.

The challenge is to read fifty books (or more!) in 2017, though reading fifty isn't mandatory. Any type of book can count, please try to let us all know your thoughts on what you've read.

Who's in for this year?

Hope your friends are okay Cote

Kiki, I hope you get on with Swing Time, a favourite of mine from last year's reading list.

Stitches, how are you and the baby?

Thinking of you cote it's senseless

Baby is gaining weight nicely and settling into a pattern of merrily cluster feeding into the early hours now his tongue tie's been sorted.

Perfect opportunity to get stuck into reading something on the kindle, if I can stop getting distracted by mumsnet/Facebook/games on the kindle fire

How is this so full already?! Me too please if I may?

Currently reading the first Harry Potter in French (who knew Hogwarts was Poudlard?!) so will start counting after I've finished that.

Some will be classy, most won't. And hopefully I travel enough for work to finish A Suitable Boy which I need to read in longer stints than I generally manage. That's my one ambition for this year!

Ah, stitches babies can be so obliging giving you regular bursts of reading time throughout the night Congratulations if I didn't say it before.

Just coming back to say ChillieJeanie I like your idea of reading the Goodreads classic each month. I'm signed up to the vipers book group but never really join in - that would be a great NY resolution. I'm in!

Making notes of lots of these books , but 50 ? A book a week seems very ambitious , how do people manage that? Long commute on public transport?

No, just a conscious effort to go to bed 10/15 minutes earlier and read instead of watching TV and drinking wine

Agreed I miss my commute for reading time (even if a 25 minute drive is SO much easier than an hour's train journey) but if you want to read, there's always a way...

That's great, I have high hopes for The Paying Guests now. Read Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet some years ago and I enjoyed them both.

Cote, I somehow missed your post. I do hope your friends are ok and you hear soon

I'm in!

I managed 54 last year - should have been 55 but I got really fed up with #55 and abandoned it on December 30th (I may go back to it at some point or maybe life's too short? )

I have Nigel Owens' autobiography, 'Hurrah for Gin' and 'The Woman Next Door' lined up for January.

I'm in! Want to focus on books and not Netflix this year. Let's see how we do!

I don't really have a set portion of time to read like a commute but if I'm into a book I'll just read whenever, it's not a chore to be fit in. I read during toddler naps if I get them, while I'm cooking, if the kids are watching tv, in the evenings, in bed, first thing when I have a cup of tea...if my dh gives the kids a bath I'll read instead of finding jobs to do...waiting for anything...

I'm in too this year. Read 36 books last year and will set my target at 50 although it might be a bit ambitious. Starting Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard today.

Cote

1. NW
2. A God in Ruins

Not going to beat myself up over how many books I read this year - I want to be ok with taking on long slow books (yes, This Thing of Darkness, I am looking at you). Excited to be on this thread though after I missed the 2016 one.

My target last year was 104. Managed 107 so going for 110 this year

Cote I'm so sorry too

Cote

Going to start The Power today, which I bought DD (15) for Christmas.

I've ordered the following from Amazon, which should be here today.

Where My Heart Used to Beat - Sebastian Faulks.
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr.
His Bloody Project - Graheme Burnett.

I've gone back to paperbacks from the Kindle in the last few months, so I shall also investigate the local library, which we are lucky enough still to have in our village, albeit on tiny hours now.

Do cookery books count? I spend hours scouring new ones!

Thinking of you Cote , hard times.

The Lovelace book sounds interesting, I've never read a graphic novel, maybe this is a good place to start.

Cote
I've finished the teatime islands by Ben fogle, it's worth a read if you like books about off the beaten track places. I'm now reading Oliver tearle's the secret library: a book lover's journey through curiosities of history. It better be good because I broke my new year resolution yesterday because of it.

Bloody hell Cote. I hope your loved ones are safe.

Thinking of you Cote, I hope you manage to get some news soon.

Do try the Lovelace book, Stokey, I can't recommend it highly enough. (Now waiting for someone to read it and hate it . . .)

I've kicked off with the Bruce Springsteen memoir and also have an Ian Rankin on the go - both very good so far.

Sending love, Cote.

I finished The Essex Serpent last night. I really liked it. Review to follow - need to post and run at the moment!