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Post by pennylane on Jan 2, 2019 16:29:05 GMT
I will be doing the 40 + 10 Book Challenge, plus the A-Z .. Then I have my Classic challenge of one read per month .. Otherwise, my greatest struggle will be to read more tree books from my TBR than I add to it .. I also need to read more tree books from my tbr bookcase before it explodes again after a recent sort out!
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Post by geminii on Jan 2, 2019 16:55:29 GMT
I will be doing the 40 + 10 Book Challenge, plus the A-Z .. Then I have my Classic challenge of one read per month .. Otherwise, my greatest struggle will be to read more tree books from my TBR than I add to it .. I also need to read more tree books from my tbr bookcase before it explodes again after a recent sort out! We can't be havin' none of them explosions !! What would 'Elf n Safety say ??
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Post by pennylane on Jan 2, 2019 17:31:17 GMT
I might do a 10BC of ongoing series books (as in the last 2 years of Mrs Mac's challenges) as some of them are on my 'tbr next bookcase' so we'll see how we go -
1. Death Trip by Lee Weeks (Detective Johnny Mann #3) READ JAN
2. Looking Good Dead by Peter James (Roy Grace #2)
3. The Secret by Katerina Diamond (DS Imogen Grey, #2)
4. Let Me Go by Chelsea Cain (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #6) - oops another I've realised I've read before!!
5. The Death Collectors by Jack Kerley (Carson Ryder #2)
6. Hide by Lisa Gardner (Detective D.D. Warren, #2) - READ MARCH
7. The Secret Friend by Chris Mooney (Darby McCormick #2)
8. Lifeless by Mark Billingham (Tom Thorne #5)
9. The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen (Rizzoli & Isles #9) READ JUNE
10. Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs (Temperance Brennan #9)
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Post by peppercricket on Jan 3, 2019 8:14:39 GMT
Also doing a 15 challenge I've picked from a spreadsheet elliej84 sent over. So, 75 in total!
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Post by pennylane on Jan 3, 2019 10:20:39 GMT
I also need to read more tree books from my tbr bookcase before it explodes again after a recent sort out! We can't be havin' none of them explosions !! What would 'Elf n Safety say ?? lol nutta!
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Post by froglady on Jan 3, 2019 10:56:11 GMT
I don't really have a bookcase any more as most of my books are on my Kindle! I WILL finish the BIG books that I didn't finish last year, the remaining ones from the BBC Big Read of 2006. They are: Bleak House by Charles Dickens Ulysses by James Joyce War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Magus by John Fowles Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake The Stand by Stephen king One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
and some other books, which I haven't decided on. I have joined the Good Reads challenge and decided to read 52 books this year.
Fingers crossed for all of these.
Cheers, Sal
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Post by natsplatt on Jan 9, 2019 9:07:04 GMT
I'll join in with the "10" challenge!
I'm planning on reading 10 books that are part of a series I have collected! I have loads to choose from, and I'm sure at least some of them will also fit in somewhere on the 40BC too anyway!
Definitely want to include some Alexander McCall Smith in there,(I think I have over 20 of his on the TBR!!) and Philippa Gregory (I have almost 10 of hers and never read a single one!!) but otherwise I'll just take it as it comes!
Nat
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Post by geminii on Jan 9, 2019 9:51:25 GMT
Definitely want to include some Alexander McCall Smith in there,(I think I have over 20 of his on the TBR!!) and Philippa Gregory (I have almost 10 of hers and never read a single one!!) but otherwise I'll just take it as it comes! Loved AMS's No 1 Detective Agency books .. a good excuse to drink tea & eat cake whilst reading .. You'll understand when you start them .. If your PG are The Tudors Series, start with The Lady of the Rivers .. this one hooked me in straightaway - a fab story .. I think I'm about halfway through the series of 15 .. aim to finish this year .. Hope you enjoy ..
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Post by natsplatt on Jan 9, 2019 9:58:56 GMT
Definitely want to include some Alexander McCall Smith in there,(I think I have over 20 of his on the TBR!!) and Philippa Gregory (I have almost 10 of hers and never read a single one!!) but otherwise I'll just take it as it comes! Loved AMS's No 1 Detective Agency books .. a good excuse to drink tea & eat cake whilst reading .. You'll understand when you start them .. If your PG are The Tudors Series, start with The Lady of the Rivers .. this one hooked me in straightaway - a fab story .. I think I'm about halfway through the series of 15 .. aim to finish this year .. Hope you enjoy .. I've read lots of the No 1 Detective agency books, but I still have several more on the TBR! I'm a huge AMS fan already, I've just got a bit behind in the reading of them! Nat
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Post by pennylane on Jan 16, 2019 10:59:41 GMT
Getting off to a good start, one down!
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Post by freerange on Mar 21, 2019 21:16:26 GMT
One of my challenges for this is re-read 10 books and decide whether to keep them or not. One is Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. I was going to post a pic of the comment a previous reader has pencilled in at the end of the third chapter but no option when posting from my phone so... "I gave up here. Perseverance has limits"
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Post by janetandjohn on Mar 21, 2019 22:09:47 GMT
One of my challenges for this is re-read 10 books and decide whether to keep them or not. One is Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. I was going to post a pic of the comment a previous reader has pencilled in at the end of the third chapter but no option when posting from my phone so... "I gave up here. Perseverance has limits"At the time this was published, I remember a lot of folk where I worked were reading this. I had seen Rushdie interviewed at the time of the fatwa, and sadly saw him as a really odious character then. I haven't changed my mind, either, so no Midnight's Children for me (or any of his others). When I read that comment I laughed out loud, a short and succinct comment! Thanks for sharing .
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Post by freerange on Aug 30, 2019 19:58:10 GMT
Completed all the reading!
Read 10 books from Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander series
I read all 21! Bit of a blip in the middle where I read The Letter of Marque before The Reverse of the Medal instead of afterwards and then had to read The Letter of Marque again after The Reverse of the Medal so as to not get even more confused...
Read 10 books from my TBR and release them via Bookcrossing The House on the Strand - Daphne du Maurier (released)
A Dark so Deadly - Stuart MacBride (released, funny story behind this one)
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra - Vaseem Khan (ready to go)
The Lazarus Effect - Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom (released)
Streets of Darness - A A Dhand (released)
Mr Loverman - Bernadine Evaristo (ready to go)
Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy - Helen Fielding (released)
Someone Else's Skin - Sarah Hilary (ready to go)
Reasons to Stay Alive - Matt Haig (ready to go)
Maggot Moon - Sally Gardner (released)
Read 10 books again (after reading once years ago) and decide whether to keep them or not The Sisters Brothers - Patrick DeWitt (keep)
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood (not keep)
The Enchanted Castle - E Nesbit (not keep) Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (not keep) The Hare with Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal (keep)
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (not keep) A Zoo in My Luggage - Gerald Durrell (not keep) Encounters with Animals - Gerald Durrell (not keep) The Rough Guide to Ethical Living - Duncan Clark (still wading through this, not keeping) oops, that's only 9... American Gods - Neil Gaiman (now top of my pile to read)
Dark so Deadly long but funny story: In 2013 I left a book (Let the Right one in - John Ajvide Lindqvist) registered with BookCrossing in a remote tower (the Greygarth Monument, Dallowgill, North Yorkshire.) A couple of years later, I noticed there was a geocache in the Graygarth Monument but when I went to look for it I couldn't find it. I scrolled through previous logs and discovered that someone else had also not been able to find the cache but had mentioned 'someone used this tower as a book drop, bonus!' The log was dated only a few days after I'd left my book so I guessed it must be the same book. In 2016, at a yearly book sale at Baldersby Church (about 30 miles away) I found my copy of Let the Right One In! Earlier this year, I went to the Greygarth Monument to have another try at finding the cache (I didn't, it was missing) but I left a book (A Dark so Deadly), again registered to BookCrossing. A few months later, while I was in Cornwall, I got a message from a fellow geocacher who was a parish councillor for the Dallowgill area. One of his colleagues had come across the book while performing the monthly inspection of the tower, and had called the police thinking it was a horrible practical joke someone leaving books about murder in remote places! I did apologise, and explain that it was fiction, and clearly labelled as a Bookcrossing book... PS neither book has been logged on BookCrossing again so not sure if they are in circulation any more.
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Post by janetandjohn on Aug 31, 2019 7:15:21 GMT
Completed all the reading!
Read 10 books from Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander series
Read 10 books from my TBR and release them via Bookcrossing
Read 10 books again (after reading once years ago) and decide whether to keep them or not
Yay! well done on completing my challenge! (I know you will finish the Neil Gaman!). And I did like the story of the book and the silly b*gger who was "just doing his job" but not really... did he not have the wit to open the book ....
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Post by geminii on Sept 1, 2019 6:18:10 GMT
4. Let Me Go by Chelsea Cain (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #6) - oops another I've realised I've read before!!lol nutta !! ..
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