50 Book Challenge

[LibraryLady]

Did you like "Mr. Whicher", LibraryLady? I read it in one day last August when a wind storm knocked out our power and I had no distractions. I thought it was fascinating!

Oh yes, I loved it. The story of the crime itself was well told but the background information about public attitudes of the time really enriched the experience.

[lupo pazzesco]

Wow, I think I likes this thread. I can't remember everything I've read since January 1st of this year, so I'll just list what I do remember (Which is probably within the last month or so...)

Teasing Secrets from the Dead by Emily Craig
Hades' Daughter by Sara Douglass
God's Concubine by Sara Douglass
Darkwitch Rising by Sara Douglass
Druid's Sword by Sara Douglass (The four by Sara Douglass were her Troy Game series)
Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs
Catering to Nobody by Diana Mott Davidson
The Shadow Queen by Anne Bishop

Currently, I'm working on Chalice by Robin McKinley, and I have two other books after that lined up, Dying for Chocolate by Diana Mott Davidson, and The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

Oh, and if re-reading counts, then I have to include the following...

Death's Acre and Beyond the Body Farm by Dr. Bill Bass and John Jefferson, and the entire Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop, as well as Tangled Webs and Dreams Made Flesh, also by Anne Bishop.


yeah...I likes to read...

[lolad]

Over the past two weeks i've read:
Men at arms
Guards guards
Interesting times
Jingo
Carpe Jugulum
- Terry Pratchett

I've read all of those except interesting times this year, but only because i don't own it yet.

have also read -
When H.A.R.L.I.E. was One (Version 2.0) by David Gerrold
Thud
Thief of Time
Where is my Cow
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (the whole series)
Darkly dreaming dexter by Jeff Lindsay (and the next 2 dexter books)
and a couple more i can't remember right now (already had to refer to the bookshelf )

[Bella_Vixen]

Only 50? Slackers.

I can't say that these are all the books that I've read since the beginning of the year, but it's definately 75-90% of them...

...in no particular order...

*all the Little House On The Prairie books (yes, I'm a geek.)
*The Six Wives of Henry VIII
*Whisper of Violets (see bekow)
*Scotsman's Lady
*Scotsman's Bride (all by Linda Madl)
*Man Of My Dreams (see below)
*Love Me Forever
*The Pursuit (Johanna Lindsey)
*Vows (Lavyrle Spencer)
*Queen In Waiting
*Caroline The Queen (Jean Plaidy)
*The Duchess (too lazy to see who it's by) this book gives historical romances a bad name!
*The Outlaw Hears (Rebecca Brandywine)
*Pride and Prejudice
*Cages Of Glass Flowers Of Time (Charlotte Culin) this book depresses the hell out of me
*The Lonely Empress: Elizabeth of Austria (Joan Haslip)
*The Empress Of Farewells: Charlotte of Mexico (Prince Micheal of Greece)
*Isabel The Queen (Peggy Liss)
*Outlander
*Dragonfly In Amber
*Voyager
*Drums Of Autumn
*The Fiery Cross
*A Breath Of Snow and Ashes (all by Diana Gabaldon) keeping in mind that these 6 books are over 1,000 pages each)
*Catherine de Medici (Leonie Frieda)
*a book about Mary Queen of Scots that's in the living room and I'm too lazy to check

and some more but I don't feel like looking right now.



I tend to go between history and romantic fiction. Each clears my head from the other.

[Cookiesaur]

A lot of these I've read before, but I re-read them because I'm lame. AND SO . . .

(CURRENTLY READING)
Charity Girl by Michael Lowenthal

(RE-READ)
Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susannah Clarke
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

(NEW READ - only these count)
The Nature of Monsters by Clare Clark
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (OH MY GOD SO FUCKING BORING.)
The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon
Duma Key by Stephen King
Just After Sunset by Stephen King (Man, remember when you used to write WEIRD stories?)
Dream House by Valerie Laken (Seriously? SERIOUSLY?)
Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisine by Anthony Bourdain
Sons by Pearl S Buck
Brother Odd by Dean Koontz (I think I hate you now.)
Roasting in Hell's Kitchen by Gordan Ramsay (Can we be BFFs?!)
Wastelands (anthology)
An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England by Brock Clarke (Don't.)
The Best of HP Lovecraft by HP Lovecraft
The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (What happened to you guys? You've changed. You're not the writers I fell in love with. This isn't working out. I'm just . . . I'm going to stay with Stephen King for a while, okay? Don't try to call me.)

(BONUS! BOOKS I GAVE OUT ON BECAUSE I HATED THEM)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Feeling for Bones by Bethany Pierce
Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (OH JESUS SO INSIPID IT'S LIKE IF NEIL GAIMAN HAD A VAGINA AND A HEAD WOUND)

[Buglady]

I tend to read 9 or 10 books a week. Thank God for libraries because otherwise this would cost more than a substantial drug habit.

(The college bookstore had a sign out for a sale on remaindered books. I commented that this was rather like my friendly neigbourhood dealer offering free samples... one of my instructors heard me and cracked up. When I appeared in class the next day with an armful of said books (I didn't have time to get to my locker) he started laughing again).

Let's see.. in no order whatsoever:

Still Alice - forget the author's name, and I've given it to a friend to read. Story about a cognitive psychologist who had early-onset Alzheimer's. Heartbreaking.
Should I Leave? by Peter Kramer (philosophical musings on the nature of advice - by a psychiatrist)
Four books about anger in relationships
Dared and Done:The marriage of Elizabeth Barret and Robert Browning by Julia Markus
Fasting Girls: The ermergence of anorexia as a modern disease
The Nineteenth-Century Sonnet by Joseph Phelan
Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout by Tomson Highway (short play about Native-White relations)
Listening to Prozac by Peter Kramer
The last half (2 books) of the Otherland series by Tad Williams (Read the first two books just before New Years - 1000 pages each, by the way)
Five or six fantasy novels that I've since given away
Five or six mystery novels
Shock: a history of electroconvulsive therapy

Can't remember the rest...

[Lace Neil Singer]

I read voraciously. I probably have already read 50 books this year; and it's only March! Right now, I'm rereading the LOTR trilogy; I'm on Fellowship, and chuckling to myself about the characters and happenings that were left out the movies.

[Bella_Vixen]

I bought 2 books today, and Becks bought 2 or 3.

One is Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier. I actually bought the DVD a few months ago, but never managed to get around to watching it yet.

The other is Nicholas and Alexandra, by Robert Massie. The Czarina allowed pictures be taken of herself where her ankles are showing!!

[Becks]

*Isabel The Queen (Peggy Liss)

Isn't that my book?

I bought 2 books today, and Becks bought 2 or 3.

I bought three.

One's a novel about Catherine Parr. I finished it less than half an hour ago.

The second one's yet another biography on Elizabeth I. I'll start that one later.

Third is a book on Marie Antoinette.

Then I'm going to borrow the books Bella bought.

[Bella_Vixen]

Isn't that my book?

Yes. Yes it is. If it's the one about Isabella of Castile.

I bought three.

One's a novel about Catherine Parr. I finished it less than half an hour ago.

The second one's yet another biography on Elizabeth I. I'll start that one later.

When do I get to borrow them? Is the Catherine Parr one any good?

[Tuxian]

Adding two more to the list.

20) Dhampir by Barb & J. C. Hendee
21) Watchmen graphic novel

Currently reading Thief of Lives by Barb & J. C. Hendee

[dalesys]

Another resource would be the bane of my existencebudget: Baen Publishing.

They have fantasy, science fiction, alternate history...
Downloadable versions of many of their books at significant savings over paperback ($5DL vs $8PB).
A large free library. (about 100-150 titles)

They have published CD's bound in books with many more novels and the CD's can be downloaded at baencd at the fifth imperium.

[Drakstern]

People stop at 50? O.o

Not counting comic books(TPB of course), manga, and textbooks, I probably go through at least ten books a month.

Off the top of my head, from last month...

For the Emperor
Caves of Ice
The Traitor's Hand
Execution Hour(Yes I went on a 40K kick)
Through the Looking Glass(John Ringo, not Alice Carroll)
Vorpal Blade
Manxome Foe
The Kingdom Keepers(Not a very good book, sadly :/)
Princeps Fury
Count Zero
Snow Crash

That's not including the popcorn reading(comic strip collections and the like, as well as online stuff).

Then again, I read so much that in order to save money I just re-read things I've already read... though I just ordered the last half of the Ciaphas Cain series, as well as picking up White Witch, Black Curse from the Hollows series.

Between video games and books, I honestly don't know how I ever get anything done.