Someone had to make a new one

I got too distracted in 2010 and only got through ~10 on my list--idk if i'll keep the same list (minus the ones i did read) or make a new one




what you got??

12/29/2010 9:50:56 PM

books are stupid

12/29/2010 10:18:09 PM

365 books in 365 days could be interesting

12/29/2010 10:34:01 PM

Come on, I know some of you people can and do read.


Some from this year:
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
The Red Pony
100 Years of Solitude
Fear & Trembling
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
Of Mice and Men
The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism
This Side of Paradise
The Pearl
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories

Some for 2011:
Franny and Zooey
East of Eden
Inamorata
The Lovely Bones
Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation


Trying to keep my list short at the beginning--I kind of get distracted and try to read bits and pieces of too many books at once. Maybe I won't get thrown off this year.

12/30/2010 4:56:07 PM

OK, I can do this, as long as I can read books I've already read in the past. Is that allowed?

12/30/2010 4:56:57 PM

I don't remember what the original thread said, but I guess it's okay.

Quote :

"No rules - just do it! I can't believe so many of you guys are anti reading."

12/30/2010 4:58:14 PM

I will try to read all new books. Give me a day or two to compile a list.

12/30/2010 4:59:41 PM

I made fun of y'all last year.

But I got a Nook now...so prepare to get crushed in the 2011 challenge.

I will begin with Capote's In Cold Blood. Reading begins at the stroke of midnight.

HA

12/30/2010 5:13:25 PM

i averaged 4 per week according to my amazon account for my kindel. so i think i can get in on this and make it.

12/30/2010 5:32:08 PM

I bought all of John Irving's novels. Haven't made it passed the first one. Going to change that, maybe.

12/30/2010 5:49:24 PM

I'm going to try this again. While I didn't get anywhere close to 52 last year, I enjoyed the challenge.

Most of mine will end up being baby books for awhile

12/30/2010 6:09:37 PM

We had a whole class project about 'The Giving Tree' in 7th grade. I think if you tell people you're trying to decipher their complex allusions and metaphors, they count.

12/30/2010 6:45:30 PM

i'm joining - i just bought the complete works of jane austen, and charles dickens... not to mention the complete works of shakespeare and a few others =)

12/31/2010 10:44:46 AM

bttt

1/2/2011 8:33:43 PM

I am in

1/2/2011 9:58:33 PM

I do so much reading at work that it completely kills my desire to do any reading for pleasure in my off time. Having said that, I will not be participating in this thread.

However, mcfluffle, I wish you all of the luck and happiness in your thread.

1/2/2011 10:01:53 PM

How much do you read, EMCE?

1/2/2011 10:16:06 PM

Tons. It's hard to quantify...

Tons of books, standards, regulations, etc....

1/2/2011 10:24:34 PM

I'm going to try this.

1/2/2011 10:26:11 PM

I'm going to try to really get through it this year....

Starting with The Help and really enjoying it so far.

1/4/2011 11:03:52 AM

1) Worst Case by James Patterson

1/4/2011 11:06:39 AM

1. Douglas Adams - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

1/4/2011 11:38:43 AM

I'm in again. I still need to tally my books from last year though

1/4/2011 12:33:54 PM

Quote :

"I do so much reading at work that it completely kills my desire to do any reading for pleasure in my off time. Having said that, I will not be participating in this thread."

QFT; it doesn't kill my desire but it slows me down, that's for sure

1/4/2011 12:36:08 PM

I'm still only 1/3 of the way through a book I started in June. Granted it's 1600 pages long but still... And I've got 4 more sitting on my dresser waiting to be read after that one (all much shorter).

I'm not even going to pretend to join this challenge.

1/4/2011 12:41:32 PM

Haha yeah I just ordered the sequel to one of the only 2 books I finished last year. I just can't seem to make it through anything without getting bored

1/4/2011 12:44:06 PM

Going to try harder this year!

(1) The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World/Lawrence Osborne: http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Connoisseur-Irreverent-Journey-Through/dp/0865477124/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1294167745&sr=8-1

1/4/2011 2:03:25 PM

I'm going to be reading alot again this year so I'll keep track. This will be tough though because I typically read really long books. Like right now, I'm rereading the Song of Ice and Fire series. I just started A Storm of Swords. Tis long.

1/4/2011 2:50:35 PM

I read Delivering Happiness, and Time Travel in Einstein's Universe this past week.

1/4/2011 8:26:36 PM

^that makes me think about Einstein's Dreams

1/4/2011 9:56:19 PM

The Kent Family Chronicles - John Jakes
59. Volume I: The Bastard (finished in 2010)
1. Volume II: The Rebels

up next The Kent Family Chronicles - Volume III: The Seekers by John Jakes

This is a really good series so far

1/5/2011 9:18:03 AM

Quote :

"mcfluffle^that makes me think about Einstein's Dreams"

Einstein's Dreams was fascinating. Have you read Sum?

Quote :

"A clever little book by a neuroscientist translates lofty concepts of infinity and death into accessible human terms. What happens after we die? Eagleman wonders in each of these brief, evocative segments. Are we consigned to replay a lifetime's worth of accumulated acts, as he suggests in Sum, spending six days clipping your nails or six weeks waiting for a green light? Is heaven a bureaucracy, as in Reins, where God has lost control of the workload? Will we download our consciousnesses into a computer to live in a virtual world, as suggested in Great Expectations, where God exists after all and has gone through great trouble and expense to construct an afterlife for us? Or is God actually the size of a bacterium, battling good and evil on the battlefield of surface proteins, and thus unaware of humans, who are merely the nutritional substrate? Mostly, the author underscores in Will-'o-the-Wisp, humans desperately want to matter, and in afterlife search out the ripples left in our wake. Eagleman's turned out a well-executed and thought-provoking book."

http://www.amazon.com/Sum-Forty-Tales-Afterlives-Vintage/dp/0307389936/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294245956&sr=8-1

Oh, Also:

1) High Fidelity --- Nick Hornby
http://www.amazon.com/High-Fidelity-Novel-Nick-Hornby/dp/1594481784/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294246097&sr=1-1

I enjoyed perusing the list with Amazon links in the old thread; it was an easy way to follow up on intriguing titles. Also, I'm keeping track of page numbers this year because I'm curious to know (approximately) how many pages I read.

[Edited on January 5, 2011 at 11:49 AM. Reason : .]

1/5/2011 11:47:30 AM

no, i haven't

we shall see

1/5/2011 12:35:17 PM

oh good grief, my grandfather gave me The Secret and The Power and he's already emailing me to see if I read it yet.



[Edited on January 5, 2011 at 12:59 PM. Reason : high fidelity was disappoint, movie is infinitely more entertaining]

1/5/2011 12:58:07 PM

Sum is especially great when paired with the equally short book The First Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom.

ya, I wasn't impressed with High Fidelity. The protagonist is so bitter and unhappy; he reminds me of people that I hate to be around. A much better book with similar notes is This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper. Overall, it's funnier; its characters are more endearing, and it's language is much more interesting even though it's also written in the first person.

1/5/2011 1:04:00 PM

Yeah, at the time I read it I was thinking, I'm reading fiction to escape reality, not re-live it.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower felt the same to me but it was more entertaining. And there wasn't a popular movie starring actors that are actually funny to totally ruin that one.


I got an 800 page tome on mushroom cultivation I'm plowing through right now. fuck the secret!

1/5/2011 1:16:21 PM

1) High Fidelity --- Nick Hornby
http://www.amazon.com/High-Fidelity-Novel-Nick-Hornby/dp/1594481784/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294246097&sr=1-1
2) Long Story Short: Flash-Fiction by Sixty-Five of North Carolina's Finest Writers --- ed. Marianne Gingher
http://www.amazon.com/Long-Story-Short-Sixty-five-Carolina%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99s/dp/080785977X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1294322280&sr=8-2

1/6/2011 8:59:21 AM

Freedarko Presents: The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History

1/7/2011 9:43:56 PM

1) A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin

1/9/2011 11:11:10 AM

did 28 last year. 25 of those came in the first 6 months.

1. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
2. Currently Reading, Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby

1/9/2011 1:46:42 PM

i would love to be able to do this, but i read too slow and therefore don't have enough free time.

1/9/2011 2:26:32 PM

Freedarko Presents: The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

1/10/2011 9:19:09 PM

1) Worst Case by James Patterson
2) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (i read the other 2 books of the series last year)

next up: A Long Way Gone

1/13/2011 10:52:29 AM

i'm not doing so well so far

1/13/2011 11:55:58 AM

^Same here.

I got sidetracked reading romance novels that I am too ashamed to list here.

I also realized the two books I'm reading that I would put in this thread are very, very similar--In Cold Blood and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. I knew ICB was like one of the first true crime books, but I thought MGGE was fiction!


Turns out I'm a true crime/romance fiend.

1/14/2011 1:48:28 AM

1. Alex Cross's Trial - James Patterson
2. I, Alex Cross - James Patterson
3. Ask Arthur Frommer - Arthur Frommer

1/14/2011 10:13:55 AM

1) High Fidelity --- Nick Hornby
http://www.amazon.com/High-Fidelity-Novel-Nick-Hornby/dp/1594481784/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294246097&sr=1-1
2) Long Story Short: Flash-Fiction by Sixty-Five of North Carolina's Finest Writers --- ed. Marianne Gingher
http://www.amazon.com/Long-Story-Short-Sixty-five-Carolina%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99s/dp/080785977X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1294322280&sr=8-2
3) The Road by Cormac McCarthy
http://www.amazon.com/Road-Cormac-McCarthy/dp/0307265439
4) The Ask and the Answer [Chaos Walking book II] by Patrick Ness
http://www.amazon.com/Ask-Answer-Chaos-Walking-Book/dp/076364837X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1295027254&sr=1-1

currently reading: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach

1/14/2011 12:49:04 PM

1) A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin
2) A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin
3) Currently Reading - The World According to Clarkson - Jeremy Clarkson

1/15/2011 5:08:34 PM

The Kent Family Chronicles - John Jakes
59. Volume I: The Bastard (finished in 2010)
1. Volume II: The Rebels
2. Volume III: The Seekers

up next The Kent Family Chronicles - Volume IV: The Furies by John Jakes

This is a really good series so far

1/15/2011 7:06:12 PM

^ I need to read those, Ive read most of his other books.

1/15/2011 7:07:21 PM