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Tigerlily · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:13 pm Post subject:

That's a shame Katey, although I've yet to hear a good thing said about On the Road. In fact it was a booby prize at one of our book group xmas parties!

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Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10

eightlegs · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 11:29 pm Post subject:

My second of the year done for Feb: Choke by Chuck Palahnuik. Very unusual and quite extreme but I actually really quite liked it.

Might try London Fields by Martin Amis for March, have had the book years!

Tigerlily · Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:07 am Post subject:

I read London Fields years ago Sarah and remember feeling strange reading it. Could do with reading it again now I'm older and wiser (I hope) as some of it went over my head!!
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Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10

Tigerlily · Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:46 pm Post subject:

Finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas this morning so that's 3 for me this year so far. Not sure whether I liked it or not. It took some getting into; I was halfway through before I started to enjoy it. I didn't find it funny (as the reviews suggest it is), just crazy and surreal and disorienting. I quite liked some of the mad drug-fuelled scrapes they got themselves into with hotel maids and the like, and how they scammed their way out of them. I read that the book is about the collapse of the American dream, which I definitely got the feel of whilst reading. So beyond the crazy drug-induced escapades, there is a deeper meaning to the story (as there often is, but much of the book at the beginning left me wondering what the point of the story was).

I give it 3.5 stars. Mostly for Ralph Steadman's illustrations.
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Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10

wonderlake · Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:00 am Post subject:

Tigerlily · Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:30 am Post subject:

You're so right! Definitely not big or clever! The characters were a real mess as you can imagine. Might watch the film tonight to see how it compares to the book.
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Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10

Tigerlily · Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:58 pm Post subject:

Finished Brideshead Revisited so that's 4 for me this year. Gave it 4.5/5.
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Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10

Tigerlily · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:31 pm Post subject:

Have read 5 1001 books this year so far:

1. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson

2. Vernon God Little - D. B. C. Pierre

3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

4. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

5. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
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Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10

nicnic · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:44 am Post subject:

I've only managed 1 this year so far. Most of my reading time has vanished

This year I have read:

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor (don't waste your time on it

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Currently reading: Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

wonderlake · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:58 am Post subject:

nicnic · Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:17 am Post subject:

Not really Wonderlake, what gave it away?

Another one off the list for me: The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd - definately recommended, plus its only 200 pages

That makes 2 for me this year.
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Currently reading: Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

eightlegs · Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 3:42 pm Post subject:

I'm still on 2 this year so far too, which is awful. But life has meant light reading only on the agenda. Still might do London Fields

next!

And I'm not sure about the Peter Ackroyd, I read The House of Dr Dee for the challenge last year and hated it, though I have a friend who loves his work too. Certainly don't think I'll be spending hard earned cash to obtain that one!!

wonderlake · Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:37 am Post subject:

No. 4 - The Story of Lucy Gault (William Trevor), which I really enjoyed as well- good old 1,001

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Current reading: The Last Temptation, Val McDermid ~ 40 @2009

1001 challenge 2009: 11

Tigerlily · Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 9:12 am Post subject:

OO I didn't know The Story of Lucy Gault was a 1001 read. It's on my wish list.

Have read 6 1001 books this year so far:

1. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson *****

2. Vernon God Little - D. B. C. Pierre *****

3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson ***

4. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh *****

5. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell *****

6. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut ****
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Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10

wonderlake · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 12:47 pm Post subject:

5. The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

courtesy of my new Best Friend- Dailylit.com

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Current reading: The Last Temptation, Val McDermid ~ 40 @2009

1001 challenge 2009: 11

Tigerlily · Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:34 am Post subject:

Have read 7 1001 books this year so far:

1. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson *****

2. Vernon God Little - D. B. C. Pierre *****

3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson ***

4. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh *****

5. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell *****

6. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut ****

7. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks *****
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Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10

katey · Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:30 am Post subject:

I am going to read Love's Work next, which I think is on the list!
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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: Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:08 pm Post subject:

As my reading has ground to a halt atm, I've not been doing very well with the 1001 reading challenge either. I read 14 last year and was hoping to get closer to 20 this year. Now we're at the end of July I really need to get my skates on if that's going to be achievable. However having recently finished Gone with the Wind I can take my current total for 2009 up to 4....

1. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
3. The Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
4. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
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Currently Reading:

The Moonlit Cage - Linda Holeman

1001 Book Challenge:
2009 - 4
2008 - 14
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katey · Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 8:28 am Post subject:

My next book needs to be a 1001 book, I have let it slip very badly and if I am going to reach my target I need to get a wriggle on!
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Katey
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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!

katey · Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 1:29 pm Post subject:

10. Love's Work by Gillian Rose
11. The Old man and the Sea- Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes I wonder about this list as I haven't enjoyed many that I have read this year.....

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Katey
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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!

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