50 Book Challenge 2017 Part Eight

[southeastdweller]

Welcome to the eighth and final 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 and please try to let us all know your thoughts on what you've read. To anyone who hasn't posted, feel free to de-lurk and share with us what you've read this year.

The first thread of the year is here, the second one here, the third thread here, the fourth one here, the fifth one here, the sixth one here, and the seventh one here.

How have you got on so far this year?

Happy Christmas to all my fellow 50-bookers 📚
What books did everyone get today? I didn't get any, just Waterstone's vouchers as I'm so hard to buy for.

The Ali Smith Autumn and Winter books from my husband. One is paperback and one is hardback though. Will crack Autumn open after lunch. The books I bought all went down well.

Merry Christmas everyone! I got His Bloody Project and Stalker - Lars Kepler. Very festive

Mariana by Monica Dickens and The Letters of Sylvia Plath. Very happy - merry Christmas everyone

Merry Xmas Everyone. Like Southeast I too have book tokens . Did get one book but have register to my mum as I have already read it! That's why I get book tokens!!

Same as the last two years -- a set of the Booker prize shortlisted titles. And I'm actually going to read them this year.

Happy Christmas fellow bookworms!

I got The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, and Twin Peaks - The Final Dossier - both lovely hardbacks to be poured over at leisure.

Plus a vintage mountaineering book, The Long Climb Up To Hell by Jack Olsen, which DH had already bought for my birthday in June and forgotten to take off his present ideas list so if anyone fancies it I have a spare!!

Merry Christmas all. Will post my (relatively small) book stash later.

In fact...

54. The Lost Words - Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris

A stunning illustrated treasure trove of word 'spells' - acrostic poems summoning the spirits of otters, conkers, herons and other supposedly 'lost' nature words from children's vocabularies, although pleased to say that mine knew most of them!

I got Ed Yong's We Contain Multitudes. I'm hoping I might have Mary Beard's Women and Power lurking somewhere in the remaining small heap of unopened gifts. Also got Waterstones gift vouchers. And I got myself Feynman's Six Easy Pieces which I intend to start if I get any time.

Merry Christmas all !!!

I have been given Jo Pratt - A Flexible Vegetarian by my sister. I do have a bit of a thing for cook books.

I got Over The Hills And Far Away -Candida Lycett-Green and Diary of an Ordinary School Girl - Margaret Forster plus some book tokens so I am very happy.

No cookbook this year for the first time ever so I think that is where the book tokens will go.

I bought the Mary Beard for DD so looking forward to borrowing it.

D2's ex bought me a vegetarian/vegan cook book, which I thought was really lovely and thoughtful.

Merry Christmas everyone! I got a kindle paper white AND a kindle fire so am sorted for all my reading needs (the fire does OverDrive!). Am very pleased with DH.

54. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg Another rec from Sadik I think, and again one I really enjoyed; fascinating stuff and worth a look before you make any new year resolutions! {grin}

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Merry Christmas everyone! 🤶🏻📚

DH gave me...
The House of Shattered Wings Aliette de Bodard
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things Jon McGregor
My Name is Lucy Barton
Burial Rites
Sweet Yotam Ottolenghi.
And a beautiful leather journal into which I can record all my favourite books.

My DB gave me Amazon vouchers to spend on even more books! 😊

Happy Christmas! I hope everyone has had a lovely day.

I've got four books:

Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium - a collection of the artwork of Paul Kidby for the Discworld novels
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Tales of Mystery & Imagination and Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - unfortunately I already have a collected works of Poe but the thought was there!

Plus £25 worth of book tokens.

Merry Christmas everyone!! I got the Fever Tree Art of Mixing book and a very generous Waterstones voucher, looking forward to browsing to use it!

Thankyou noodlezoodle, I'm going to get it Any Human Heart! I may embarrassingly have mixed it up in my mind with John Boyne's The Heart's Invisible Furies and bought that last night, but that also looks excellent so I'll read both!

Happy Christmas all!

I got The End of Alchemy by Mervyn King, Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare, Dark Matter by Blake Crouch and Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng. Don't know anything about the last couple, but definitely looking forwards to the first two.

I also just bought for 99p an urban fantasy collection Charmed and Dangerous which looks like a nice easy read of long-ish novellas, & have I Contain Multitudes from the library, so I've got plenty to keep me going over the holidays :)

I haven't read The Power of Habit Tanaqui, but sounds like just my sort of thing!

Merry Christmas!

I was very happy to receive Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit. Also, I'm really forward to book shopping tomorrow at an indie bookstore that's closing soon (the owner is retiring); books are $1 each!

I look forwards to your review of Wanderlust Vanderly

55. The Grey King - Susan Cooper

Fourth in the Dark Is Rising fantasy series, and the best so far, I think. Will Stanton is sent to recuperate in rural Wales after a serious illness, and has no memory of the quest he's on for a magic harp until he meets a mysterious young man and gets caught up in a local feud with roots in an ancient myth. Cooper's writing is superb and just as good at creating strong characters as weaving fantasy and myth into landscape.