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smiler07 · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject:

I have read a disappointing six now so far this year as I have just finished The Virgin Suicides . Not the most festive read but I enjoyed it nonetheless and it was quite short and easy to get through.

Daniela-26 · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:42 am Post subject:

Looking at how well you have all done really puts me to shame! I haven't really got going this year. When I get home I'm going to tot up the ones I've read (maybe 5 max!) and put the one's that I've got lurking on the bedside table to the top of the TBR pile!!
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Reading: The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
2009 '1001 Challenge':

eightlegs · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject:

My final one for this year brings my total up to 12 for the year (which was what I aimed for but did hope to manage a couple more!)

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley (1001)
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys (1001)
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (1001)
Persuasion – Jane Austen (1001)
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres (1001)
White Teeth – Zadie Smith (1001)
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks (1001)
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters (1001)
Emma – Jane Austen (1001)
The Diary of a Nobody – George and Weedon Grossmith (1001)
A Secret History – Donna Tartt (1001)
Regeneration – Pat Barker (1001) read in Dec, great book

wonderlake · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:31 am Post subject:

18. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
As per Group Read; I think this was the third time I'd read this, and found it a bit of a struggle really

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Current reading: Blind Man w/ a Pistol, Chester Himes ~ 39 @2009

1001 challenge 2009: 10

smiler07 · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:09 am Post subject:

eightlegs · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject:

Ooh, difficult. Probably Tipping The Velvet as I love Sarah Waters although I think The Fingersmith is better but I also loved Emma, Persuasion and Regeneration.

The worst was probably The Diary of a Nobody, not awful but not much happens and I didn't find it that funny.

nicnic · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject:

Well I did it, I made my 16 1001 books target

Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Glamorama by Brett Easton Ellis
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Timbuktu by Paul Auster
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Aesop's Fables
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Elizabeth Costello by JM Coetzee
Diary of a Nobody by George and Whedon Grossmith
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Currently reading: Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

heathera · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 11:05 am Post subject:

I managed to squeeze one more challenge book in - Silk by Alessandro Baricco. So unless I suddenly get lots of time to read in the next week or so I think that's me done for 2008 - 13 in total. Not too bad I think, I'd originally aimed for 12 but then was hoping to get closer to 20.

1. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
3. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
4. A Kestrel For A Knave - Barry Hines
5. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
6. Animal Farm - George Orwell
7. Dead Air - Iain Banks
8. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
9. Oranges are not the only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
10. Never Let me Go - Kazou Ishiguro
11. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
12. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
13. Silk - Alessandro Baricco

I enjoyed quite a few of these, but I think Nineteen Eighty-Four is probably my favourite from this list.
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Currently Reading:

The Moonlit Cage - Linda Holeman

1001 Book Challenge:
2009 - 4
2008 - 14
Books Available for Swapping on RISI

annecater · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 11:43 am Post subject:

I only read 8 in total this year - I seemed to start the year well and then got sidetracked, I read 13 last year, so I'm really down on my total.
I'll try harder next year - I'm going to aim for at least one per month!
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Currently reading: The Tent The Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy and Granny The Pag by Nina Bawden

1001 Challenge Books read in 2009 - 3
1001 Challenge Books read in 2008 - 8
1001 Challenge Books read in 2007 - 13

katey · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 2:20 pm Post subject:

I have only read 3!

My aim for next year is 12 ...but we will see hoe it goes!
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Books 01.09- 18 (5)
Books 02.09- 12 (4)
Books 03.09- 9 (1)
Books 04.09- 3 (0)
Books 05.09- 3(0)
Books 06.09- 8(1)
Books 07.09- 9(0)
Books 08.09- 10(1)
Books 09.09- 3(1)
Books 10.09- 9(1)

Target for 2009- 100 (15)- 16(2) to go!

heathera · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:10 pm Post subject:

Yippee... I did manage to squeeze in one more. Final total is 14 for the year. Hoping for more in 2009!

1. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
3. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
4. A Kestrel For A Knave - Barry Hines
5. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
6. Animal Farm - George Orwell
7. Dead Air - Iain Banks
8. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
9. Oranges are not the only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
10. Never Let me Go - Kazou Ishiguro
11. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
12. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
13. Silk - Alessandro Baricco
14. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
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Currently Reading:

The Moonlit Cage - Linda Holeman

1001 Book Challenge:
2009 - 4
2008 - 14
Books Available for Swapping on RISI

smiler07 · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:56 am Post subject:

I only managed 8 from the list in 2008 –

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
Oranges are not the only fruit – Jeanette Winterson
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul – Douglas Adams
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

I think my favourites were the Cider House Rules, Oliver Twist and Lord of the Flies. I am looking forward to reading another Irving and another Dickens this year actually and I am a little cross with myself for not reading Lord of the Flies sooner.
Everything else that I read from the list was ok apart from The Wasp Factory, which was just not my cup of tea at all, and I found it a real struggle to get through. I am glad that I read it though.

My new target for 2009 is 12 

eightlegs · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 1:42 pm Post subject:

I suppose I should set myself a target for this year. I'm actually finding it harder as time goes on, as I've read the ones I already own or really fancy so my target won't be high but to try to do better than last year I shall set it at 15!

blueflower · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:11 pm Post subject:

I did 3 and didn't realise until tonight!

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

eightlegs · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:23 pm Post subject:

Well done Gwen! How many for this year then???

blueflower · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:27 pm Post subject:

Two which is surprising but I suppose it should 2 and half last year and 2 half this year as Wild Swans took months!

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