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On 14/11/2018 at 7:16 PM, Brian. said:
A good place to start if you are interesting in more literary books, both modern and classics is the ‘1001 books to read before you die’. There is thread in the reading challenges sub forum and the list is easily found with google if you don’t want to buy the book.
Thank you, Brian. I love a list and a pile, although this does tend to be a understating the case. Lists and piles everywhere is a more accurate description. I've got the book '1001 books to read before you die' but if the lists are different I'm a happy woman.
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Just now, claudibee said:
Teehee. I know, Willoyd, I'm just greedy. I suppose just the top 10 that people have loved would be a good starting place, but any random thoughts that come to mind help. I'll go and read your blog thread list and thank you very much for answering me.
9 hours ago, willoyd said:That's a huge range to cover! Maybe you could tell us the sorts of books you're interested in? In the meantime, if you want to see a list of books I love, then I keep a list of all-time favourites (earned 6 out of 6 stars), fiction and non-fiction, at the front of my book blog thread, here. But I'd be happy to be more specific with a few indicators.
Wow, Willoyd! I've just clicked on that and seen hundreds of titles so I don't think I'd ever need another list! I must see how many I've read from your huge range
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9 hours ago, willoyd said:
That's a huge range to cover! Maybe you could tell us the sorts of books you're interested in? In the meantime, if you want to see a list of books I love, then I keep a list of all-time favourites (earned 6 out of 6 stars), fiction and non-fiction, at the front of my book blog thread, here. But I'd be happy to be more specific with a few indicators.
Teehee. I know, Willoyd, I'm just greedy. I suppose just the top 10 that people have loved would be a good starting place, but any random thoughts that come to mind help. I'll go and read your blog thread list and thank you very much for answering me.
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Hello everybody. I hope you're all well. I was just wondering whether you could recommend some good books for me. They can be old or new, just books that you really love and would recommend to anybody who loves reading. Thank you
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I've got '1001 books...' and I tend to see what frame of mind I'm in and read accordingly. I order them from the library or buy them secondhand but I know for a fact that age will catch up with me. I've read a very small fraction of them which is a very small consolation but, as someone who lines the walls with books, I know I'll never read half of what I've already got let alone titles that I don't own. A glorious reading mess and I love it.
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5 hours ago, bobblybear said:
I just have one list, separated by the year my books were purchased. This is kept on my Kindle, and on the front of my Book Log (which shamefully I have yet to set up for 2018).
Again, I'm fascinated by how cleverly you all organize your books and reading. I'm chaotic in comparison.
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6 hours ago, chesilbeach said:
I have all the books I own on a single spreadsheet, but they're categorised by various subjects such as fiction, YA, nature and there are some authors I'd like to read all their books so they have their own categories too. I've translated this onto my reading blog on the forum here, as well as adding some additional categories for a couple of book awards where I'll be reading the full list of nominations - Wainwright Prize for nature and travel writing and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize.
For my wishlist of books, I keep that mostly on Amazon although I don't buy all of them there, but it's a useful reference when I'm in a bookshop too, although I tend to be an impulse buyer rather than planning too much.
Wow, you're organised, chesilbeach. I'm speechless at all that. Thank you.
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18 hours ago, Madeleine said:
Mine are on library thing too.
Thank you Madeleine. I'll have to find LibraryThing for myself.
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21 hours ago, willoyd said:
Any lists I keep of books that I want to read are at the front of my Book Blog thread - a few authors, a couple of different non-fiction series, and a couple of challenges. I aslo have my LibraryThing account where I have one collection devoted to my books that I've yet to read - rather a lot of them (!!), and including pretty much all the other lists.
Thank you, Willoyd. Glad there are so many of us addicted
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On 3/2/2018 at 8:24 PM, bobblybear said:
"...one of use will die..."
I wasn't a big fan of Empire of the Sun. I struggled to finish it (and I also had to read it when I was in school), but I hope you enjoy it more than I did.
I must say I'm not getting very far with it at the moment but I should try a bit harder. Reading a book in school tended to put me off because we had to pull it apart so much and that spoiled the flow of reading for me. Anyway, I'll carry on for a while or hurl it at the cat when she trips me up. Thank you for replying, bobblybear.
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Hello everybody. Do you have one reading list on which you keep anything at all that you want to read or do you keep several, with whichever types of book included on each one? Not a particularly elegant sentence but you know what I mean
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I've just tried to compile a proper reading list for myself from the stupidly large piles of reading lists I've managed to scribble out over the years so my first book to read is 'Empire of the Sun' by J G Ballard. I've only read a couple of chapters so I've no idea if I'll like it enough to stay the course but I'd like to try because I'm not getting any younger and the lists are getting longer, they have to be controlled or one of us will die.
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Hello Athena. I read almost anything. I love reading to the point of insanity and I always have about 20 books out of the library at one go, even though I've got hundreds at home. I just love having them around me.
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Hello! I don't know whether I've been on here before or not, so in case I haven't I thought I'd better introduce myself. I'm Claud and I'm really happy to be on here. Hope you're all well and deep in a good book
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Hello Claudibee, and welcome to the forum.
What have read and enjoyed or hated in the past few years? That will help with recommendations. It's such a tough one to help with otherwise.
Thank you Chrissy. I just enjoy finding out what other people have read or are reading. I've got a variety of book lists of my own but I like to see what other people are reading because I know that that will set me off in other directions. I'm open to all sorts of suggestions so the wider the range the merrier.
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I would be very grateful if other forum members could suggest some books for me to add to my new reading list. I read anything except chick lit and sci-fi. New and old, fiction and non-fiction, I would love to hear what you've all been reading.
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I do not know if there is a thread for this already.
I was just wondering how many books you read a week, it depends on the size of the book, if it has 400- 500 pages, then I read about 2 books a week. If they are small books, can read one in one day.
I'm pretty similar to you in that respect. It's all according how much I have to do during the day and how sleepless I am at night.
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I loved 'Shalimar the Clown'.
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I joined today so hello to eveybody. I'm a 48-year-old mother of two and I sell secondhand books when I get the chance. I like reading, music, cooking and antiques/junk. I live in Somerset and I love the countryside (we moved away from London).
Recommendations for me.
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More!! I don't think I'll be reading books, just lists of books. Marvellous, specially as it's cold outside.