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Good thing to start this in January. From my calculation of my own statistics of when I join the other challenges, I have never read 50 books in a year. Could be 35-40 books. But never reach 50. But this is a challenge. So let's give it a try. Also for my own annual reading record which I never keep. Hmm.

January:
1. Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Yunus, Muhammad
2. El Ultimo Elfo/the Last Elf by Silvana de Mari
3. The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro

Now reading
- Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
- How to Travel with a Salmon by Umberto Eco
- Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

Let's see if how many I will finish.

Almost ten days over. Three books finished.

4.All That Glitters by Linda Howard
5.Against the Rules by Linda Howard -reread
6.Seven Up (Stephanie Plum, #7) by Janet Evanovich

First two are Howard's work during her early career. They are ok but I like the later works better. All That Glitters are annoying. Not her writing. But the charecters. It's good that she doesn't write this kind of charecters so often.

Seven Up is good. Funny, exciting, page-turning. Everything you can expect from Stephanie Plum's stories and more. Torn between two lovers..

Now reading. Oh, yeah, I still read them. Little by little.
- Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
- How to Travel with a Salmon by Umberto Eco
- Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

7. Housekeeping vs. The Dirt (Paperback) by Nick Hornby
8. Wonderful Tonight: An Autobiography (Hardcover) by Pattie Boyd

Nick Hornby's book is fun. It encourages me to get two books from his list.
Wonderful Tonight is not so bad. But I expect something more from it. Feel rather disappointed.


I still read "How to travel with a salmon". Not that it is bad or impenetrable. But it is a collection of short stories. You don't need the continuous attention to get through the book. So I tend to read other books in between.

9. Sexiest Man Alive by Sandra Marton
10. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

11. Tipping the velvet by Sandra Waters

Now this book get me start picking other historical books in a bunch.

12. How to travel with a salmon by Umberto Eco
Too much mockery spoils the fun. It'll be better to read each article separately.

Currently reading Johnny Got His Gun by Trumbo. This is for the challenge I'm joining. I still want to dig in historical novels after I finished Tipping the Velvet. So at the same time I pick up a historical romance novel, To Wed a Scandalous Spy and the Winter Queen. The later is on currently reading list for quite a while.

13 The Devil's Whisper by Miyuki Miyabe
14 To wed a scandalous spy by Celest Bradley

16 Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Should not and must not read this book when you are in depression. Clear and loud. Shaking. Bond to protagonist. I'm glad I didn't read it when my dog just died.

17 Undead and Unwed (Undead, #1) by Mary Janice Davidson

Last book on Winter Challenge. I didn't get to finish the second book to that task, which I'm still reading, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

Undead series is over for me. Yes, it's funny and many people will like it. What I like most of the book is the protagonist's funny remarks, author's description, and definitely lots of shoes thing.

18 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

Funny, charming, sad and lovely book about an English writer and her friend Islanders after WWII time.

First book for new seasonal challenge 2010 Spring.

19 The curious case of Benjamin Button
20 Michael Phelps: The Untold Story of a Champion by Bob Schaller

21 The Education of Little Tree.
Moved. I love this book.

22 Hard Evidence (I-Team, #2)by Pamela Clare (老虎机稳赢方法 Author)
Well plot. Hot romance.

Now reading from the NEA Youth Leaders for Literacy Booklist

To kill a mocking bird
A wrinkle in time

23 His Dark Materials Omnibus (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass)
by Philip Pullman

24 A Wrinkle in Time (Time Series, #1) by Madeleine L'Engle

So I haven't started the now-reading in previous post. Now reading this time is Everyman by Philip Roth and Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

25 Shopgirl by Steve Martin

26 Everyman by Philip Roth

27 To kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee

I like this book pretty good. The characters jump out and walk around me. I feel as if Scout still right here with me now I've finished reading it.

28 Essays in Love by Alain de Botton

29 The Cat Who Could Read Backwards Cat Who... 1 by Lilian Jackson Braun
30 Tempting Fate MacGregors 5 by Nora Roberts

Starcatcher, have you read any other LJBraun books (Cat Who series)?

Carol wrote: "Starcatcher, have you read any other LJBraun books (Cat Who series)?"

喙峅nly the first one from this series. Cozy mystery with cat as Mr. Watson, sort-of. The story is enjoyable and if you like cats, you'll like it more.


31 All The Possibilities MacGregors 6 by Nora Roberts

32. The Masters by Colm T贸ib铆n
33. The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

I'd not come out of Gothic-Victorian world in a while.

34. Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders by Gyles Brandreth

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36. Caliph's House by Tahir Shah

37. Sex with Kings 500 Years of Adultery Power Rivalry and Revenge P.S. by Eleanor Herman

38. Surrender to a Wicked Spy Royal Four Series Book 2 by Celeste Bradley
I hate it.

39. letter to a young poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

40. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
He turned his experiences into writing and make good fame and fortune out of it. Yet the writing is not well crafted. Not that I hate it. I quite like it. It makes me want to dig more in other adventurous books the same era.

41. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Penguin Popular Classics By Oscar Wilde
It should be 3.5 starred. But since Mr. Wilde is one of my all-time favorites, 4 stars is not overrated. I especially like Canterville Ghost. I discovered that a collection of short stories is suitable to my short morning reads.

42. Blindness Jose Saramago

Superb. Exciting. To say it is a masterpeice is not enough for this book.

43. Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death Oscar Wilde Mysteries 2 by Gyles Brandreth

A Historical mystery with Oscar Wilde and few others same era authors. Enjoyable read.

44. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Too short the story!

"A Study in Scarlet" is a short story, not a novel: hence its realtive brevity.

Yes, it's a novella. And that's why I want to read more of Holmes.

Wow--didn't notice I mistyped "relative." Anyway, speaking of Sherlock: I LOVE HIM! I read "A Study in Scarlet" when I was in eighth grade and got hooked. I had to read everything else (and it did take a while). However, I don't think any other story was the length of "A Study in Scarlet." So I'm confused, Starcatcher, about your saying that's the reason you want to read more of Holmes.

Rose

Obsessedreader wrote: "Wow--didn't notice I mistyped "relative." Anyway, speaking of Sherlock: I LOVE HIM! I read "A Study in Scarlet" when I was in eighth grade and got hooked. I had to read everything else (and it did ..."

Don't be confused. I guess I wrote the sentence too short. I tend to do that often. The book is also too short to satisfy my crave of Holmes. I want much more of his story, with an exclamation. :)

I first read Holmes about your age too. Hooked. But it is different from this time I read. POssibly because I finished other historical novels, featured with Authur Conan Doyle.

I'm impressed that you've read historical works of Conan Doyle. (I believe I'll add that to my 2011 goals.) Getting back to Sherlock, do you believe any movie version has really captured the essence of the books?

Rose

Not too impressive. Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders and the later books from the same author are more a mystery than seriously long historical book. (Am I confusing you again?) I like that they have both Oscar Wilde, as a detective, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as his friend, in although Doyle showed up in only few scenes.

Holmes in the movie I saw was the latest version in 2009. Not Holmes and Watson in my imagination. But it can be a way of interpretation.

So you're suggesting Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders? (And what are you doing up at this hour?!)

Rose

It's 3.43pm here in Bangkok. Then I ask you the same question, what are you doing up at this hour? *grin

It's my favorite time to be awake. I treasure the middle of the night!

45. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
One book leads to another. I'm now reading Utopia by Sir Thomas More and plan to read 1984 next. Not surprising that Brave New World caused a controversy.

Starcatcher, you are certainly reading books with depth! (And I feel foolish forgetting that time zones vary around the world.)

Rose

Well they are books I should have read long time ago.

46. Utopia by Thomas More

I pick up 1984 and went through a few pages. But I don't think it will be as fun as when I finished Brave New World and read Utopia next.

47 Fingersmith (Paperback) by Sarah Waters

48 The Lightning Thief Percy Jackson and the Olympians 1 by Rick Riordan

49. Tongue In Chic Fortune Hunter 2 by Christina Dodd
50. The Black Echo Harry Bosch 1 byMichael Connelly

51. The Thief The Queen's Thief 1 by Megan Whalen Turner

52. The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
53. The Haunted Dolls' House by Montague Rhodes James

54. The Concrete Blonde Harry Bosch 3
by Michael Connelly

I want to give it higher than five stars.

55.Sugar queen by Sarah Allen Addison

56 Fear and Trembling Hardcover
by Am茅lie Nothomb