peppercricket
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Post by peppercricket on Dec 14, 2016 10:28:11 GMT
23 Lindsay - Green Eggs & Ham!
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Post by elliej84 on Dec 14, 2016 12:40:34 GMT
2 A classic romance - 19 A book more than 100 years old - 21 A book set somewhere you’ve always wanted to visit - 23 A book with a colour in the title - 29 A book based on or turned into a TV show Just these five to go, trying to think if I have any (very!) short books for these categories I read most of Olive Kitteridge weeks ago which was meant to be my tv show one. You could try one of kathy reichs short stories for TV show, she inspired the bones series. I know there are a number of them. Also you can get the book I read for 100 years ago free on Kindle and it's only 120 pages it's by Kate chopin x
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Post by freerange on Dec 15, 2016 21:43:55 GMT
1 A book with more than 500 pages : The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton 2 A classic romance : didn't manage this one (the only one out of the 40!) 3 A book that became a movie : Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen (while waiting for surgery which was then postponed) 4 A book published this year : Treachery - S J Parris (World Book Night 2016 edition) 5 A book with a number in the title : Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (RIP) 6 A book written by someone under 30 : A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 7 A book with non-human characters : The Curse of the Gloamgloazer - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell 8 A funny book : Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic - Terry Jones 9 A book by a female author : The Road Home - Rose Tremain 10 A mystery or thriller : The Girl in the Spider's Web - David Lagercrantz (while recovering from surgery) 11 A book with a one-word title : Seraphs - Faith Hunter 12 A book of short stories : Classic Science-Fiction - ed Peter Haining 13 A book set in a different country : The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman - Louis de Berniere 14 A book from an author you love that you haven’t read yet : The Heart Goes Last - Margaret Atwood (another book group book) 15 A book a friend recommended : The Penguin Lessons - Tom Mitchell (also while recovering from sugery, I was invited to my mum's book group where we discussed it, an overall 8/10) 16 A prize-winning book : The Ask and the Answer - Patrick Ness 17 A book based on a true story : The Damned United - David Peace 18 A book that scares you : Narcopolis - Jeet Thayil (drugs scare me) 19 A book more than 100 years old : Macbeth - Shakespeare 20 A book you can finish in a day : Walking the Walls / The Medusa Project: The Thief - Chris Higgins / Sophie McKenzie 21 A book set somewhere you’ve always wanted to visit : The Other Wind - Ursula Le Guin (I'll never get there though!) 22 A book set in the future : The Art of Murder - Jose Carlos Somoza 23 A book with a colour in the title : The Land of Green Ginger - Noel Langley 24 A book that made you cry : All the light we cannot See - Anthoney Doerr (well not cry, but it was a bit sad) 25 A book with magic : Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb (read all this trilogy) 26 A book by an author you’ve never read before : The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery 27 A book that was originally written in a different language : The Yacoubian Building - Alaa Al Aswany 28 A book set during Christmas : The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper 29 A book based on or turned into a TV show : Small Island - Andrea Levy 30 A book you started but never finished : Fifty Shades Darker - E L James (I didn't finish it for a reason. Oh my.) 31 A book with a place name in the title : A Place Called Winter - Patrick Gale 32 A book with a red cover : A Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers - Xialu Guo 33 A book you bought brand new : The Love Song of Miss Queenie Henessy - Rachel Joyce (with the intention of reading it in hospital but decided it might make me a bit miserable) 34 A book with a person’s name in the title : Mr Pye - Mervyn Peake 35 A book by a male author : Wildwood - Colin Meloy 36 A book which was a gift : Queen's Gambit - Elizabeth Freemantle (World Book Night "this book is a gift") 37 A book set in the past (ie over 200 years ago) : Bones of the Hills - Conn Iggulden (the third in the trilogy about Ghenghis Khan) 38 A book which you feel got an over-rated review : A Spool of Blue Thread - Anne Tyler (the first 5 pages were people raving about it) 39 A book with a character you hated : Geezer Girls - Dreda Say Mitchell 40 A book about a journey : The Far Side of the World - Patrick O'Brien
Total books read in 2016 : 59 Books re-read to complete this challenge : 6 Favourite book : The Art of Murder - Jose Carlos Somoza (although I rushed it at the end) Least Favourite : Fifty Shades Darker - E L James or Honor Thyself - Danielle Steele
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