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Books Read in 2016 - 52
A Game for All The Family Sophie Hannah
A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson
A Start In Life Anita Brookner
Beyond Black Hilary Mantel
Breakfast at Tiffany’s Truman Capote
Career of Evil Robert Galbraith
Cold Kill P J Tracy
Dead Simple Peter James
Doctor Fischer of Geneva Graham Greene
Family and Friends Anita Brookner
Finders Keepers Stephen King
Friday on my Mind Nicci French
Gray Mountain John Grisham
High-Rise J G Ballard
Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner
I Am Pilgrim Terry Hayes
I Let You Go Clare Mackintosh
Lewis Percy Anita Brookner
Liar’s Chair Rebecca Whitney
Life after Life Kate Atkinson
Little Boy Blue M J Aldridge
Look at Me Anita Brookner
Looking Good Dead Peter James
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
Only We Know Karen Perry
Providence Anita Brookner
Second Life S J Watson
Speaking in Bones Kathy Reichs
Still Alice Lisa Genova
Stoner John Williams
Suite Francaise Irene Nemirovsky
The Call of the Wild Jack London
The Chosen Dead M R Hall
The Cozy Life Pia Edberg
The Darkest Day Tom Wood
The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins
The Hit David Baldacci
The Ice Twins S K Tremayne
The Little Book of Hygge Meik Wiking
The Loney Andrew Michael Hurley
The Perfume Collector Katherine Tessaro
The Revenant Michael Punke
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Edward FitzGerald
The Slaughter Man Tony Parsons
The Spell Alan Hollinghurst
The Swedish Girl Alex Gray
The Weight of Silence Heather Gudenkauf
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Joan Aiken
The Yellow Admiral Patrick O’Brian
Waiting for Wednesday Nicci French
Whatever You Love Louise Doughty
X Sue Grafton
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I didn't get quite as much reading done as I had hoped, but I did read the whole of The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst (257 pages).
I always love reading everyone else's statistics, even though they do make my attempts look very paltry! :-)
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I disappeared in the middle of the last read-a-thon, not on purpose but because I had somehow managed to lock myself out of my account and then couldn't set myself a new password! I haven't been having a good month, technology-wise
Anyway, this weekend suits me very as well as I have a day off on Monday so that gives me a bit extra reading time.
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I don't usually manage to start on a Friday, but made a wee beginning with The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - just 70 pages including introduction but a lovely illustrated edition which meant I spent as much time looking at the pictures as reading!
Good reading, everyone :-)
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I think I will start read-a-thon-ing one day early, because I've finished my book and I'm eager to get started tomorrow, rather than reading something short for a day and a half
Good idea! It would be a shame to waste good reading time when you are in the mood to get started on your read-a-thon. I will definitely be joining in, but haven't chosen any books yet; I prefer just choosing what I am in the mood for rather than too much planning ahead :-)
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Hello David, welcome to the forum; I hope you enjoy looking around. :-)
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What a great list - I look forward to learning what you think of your choices.
I didn't think I would have read many of them but have actually read 14 out the 51 so not too bad. Of those you haven't already read, I loved Lonesome Dove and The Secret History, and from what I remember very much liked Snow Falling on Cedars.
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I only read about ten more pages of Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, but then read the whole of Dr Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party by Graham Greene (140 pages). I think I do better in the read-a-thons when I read several short books rather than trying to read a longer book so I will go back to that next time I think!
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Today I have read 200 pages of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown; it's a very interesting (although slightly depressing) read, but it's a big hardback book so I might choose a paperback to read in bed :-)
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I started yesterday, but did very little reading because I wasn't feeling like it. I picked up I'm With the Band - Confessions of a Groupie by Pamela des Barres when I went to bed, and managed to read 18 pages before falling asleep
You did better than I did, I only managed 7 pages of The Revenant by Michael :Punke before nodding off last night!
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I'm at work tomorrow and meeting a friend in the evening so don't think I will get too much reading done on Friday, but I hope to join in properly on Saturday and Sunday! :-)
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I loved the original series and was pleased to see it coming back, although a bit wary of just how bad it might be! I thought episode 1 was ok - not great, but better than I had feared. Definitely good enough to keep me watching, especially if future episodes are getting better responses :-)
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I'm glad you liked Breakfast at Tiffany's. I did too when I read it. Much different than In Cold Blood
Looking forward to seeing you in March 
I sort of "dropped out" of the read a thon on Saturday morning. But I did start and complete one book, Philip K. Dick's Eye in the Sky (244 pages in 2.5 days, as I started on Thursday).
I have In Cold Blood on my TBR pile, it will certainly be very, very different! I enjoyed Breakfast at Tiffany's even more than I expected; although the Holly Golightly character has some differences in the book, it was still Audrey Hepburn's voice I kept hearing in my head. In the introduction it mentioned that Marilyn Monroe was originally considered for the part but turned it down, it's hard to imagine her in it now.
It's quite satisfying completing a book even if you don't manage as much reading time as you intended, isn't it? I haven't read any Philip K Dick for a while, although I am watching The Man in the High Castle on Amazon Prime just now. Did you enjoy Eye in the Sky?
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Just finished The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, so my totals are:
The Call of the Wild - 91 pages
Breakfast at Tiffany's - 107 pages
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - 185 pages
making a grand total of 383 pages. Not a huge amount, but very satisfying having finished three short books, none of which I had read before. And, most important of all, I really enjoyed them!
Hope everybody else enjoyed their reading too; I'm looking forward to next month's already!
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I didn't read as long as I thought I did. I could have read more time-wise, but I was too tired
. Still, I got through most of the books I had planned for today (there is one leftover, I will read it today instead, though it probably does mean I won't be able to read all the books I planned to read today). I did enjoy myself though, while I was feeling okay enough to read.Aw, that's a shame Athena; hope you feel a bit better today
I'm glad you enjoyed your reading when you were feeling up to it though.I decided on The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken as my third book, reading something with a wintery theme at this time of year appealed to me. The Call of the Wild was a bit wintery too, but not all the way through.
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I was working yesterday, and out for quite a lot of today but am enjoying packing in all the reading I can! I collect Folio Society books but recently have been buying way more than I have been reading, so I decided to focus on some of my unread purchases this weekend. So far I have read The Call of the Wild by Jack London, and most of Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote; I should finish it tonight. I haven't decided which book to choose for tomorrow, I might go for another short one try for three in three days :-)
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I've heard a couple of people I know say the third one wasn't as good as the first. I've only read Cuckoo Calling and I enjoyed it so not sure whether to continue or not.
I enjoyed all three books, and will read the next one too when it comes out, so from my point of view it would be worth you continuing. Hope you enjoy the others too if you decide to give them a try :-)
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Hey, thought I'd give an update, still reading The 5th Wave, it amazing so far! Picking it up whenever I can
The trailer for the film has just started being shown on TV so I'm frantically looking for the remote whenever it comes on so I don't get any spoilers lol
Oh, wow, I didn't even realise a film was in the pipeline so thanks for the warning! I really need to get started on it; it's a hardback though, and although I love my hardbacks, paperbacks are just so much more convenient and end up getting read first.
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Hello Sylvia, I hope you enjoy the forum - you certainly wouldn't have had much time for reading with four boys to look after! What sort of books do you like?
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Hello Kelly, nice to hear from you, I have The 5th Wave on my pile of books waiting to be read, so I look forward to hearing what you think of it.
Enjoy yourself on the forum!
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If you would like another series, I wondered whether you might like the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian (the film Master and Commander was based on three books from the series). To check my idea, I entered 'Bernard Cornwell' into Literature-Map, and Patrick O'Brian is one of the four authors who come closest to him; the idea is that the closer two authors are, the more likely it is that a reader will like both of them, so they might be worth you looking at.
Good luck with your hunting!
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One question: Here in Spain we celebrate the Epiphany with gifts, especially children received a lot of gifts but in some families adults too. Have you got this celebration in your country?
I had heard of Epiphany but didn't know what it was - the wee bit of googling I did seems to show that it is on the 12th day of Christmas and that is when the visit of the three kings to the baby Jesus took place (the word Epiphany meaning 'to show', and this being Jesus shown to the world). I had never thought much about the 12th day itself, although where I live it is still a tradition that the Christmas decorations should be taken down by 12th night. Apparently in mediaeval times Christmas was celebrated from Christmas Eve to Epiphany; I actually really like that idea and it's what I tend to do although just as a matter of preference rather than because I realised there was a tradition behind it.
I hope you had an enjoyable Epiphany celebration, Sabry, I'm sure you will let me know if I have got its origin totally wrong! Do you get more gifts at on Christmas Day itself and just a few on Epiphany, or is it equal between the two?
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Having finished, and so enjoyed this novel, I am seriously considering giving War and Peace a go - something that I never dared touch for fear of it going over my head. It would be great to hear if someone has read both novels, and what their opinion has been of each.
I have read both, although about 30 years ago - I read Anna Karenina in my teens, and War and Peace in my late twenties. It's so long ago that I can't remember details, but I did enjoy both, and have new editions of both on my TBR list.
If you enjoyed Anna Karenina, I don't see any reason at all that War and Peace would be over your head. The length of the book could certainly be a bit daunting, but I read it in my lunch hours at work so never stressed about how much time I had to read or how long it was going to take me, I just read it for an hour, five days a week, until it was finished (I don't remember now how many weeks it took to finish, but it wasn't a terribly long time at all).
The one thing I seem to remember about War and Peace is that the chapters (or sections? I can't quite remember) are often being about 'society' or about 'war'. I often found that when I had been very involved in the writing about one aspect, it sometimes took me a page or two to get into the other when they changed.
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My last book of 2015 was The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian - number seventeen in the Aubrey-Maturin series. As you will guess, for me to have got to number seventeen in a series they are pretty consistently enjoyable, and this one was no disappointment. I will be really sad to get to the end of the series, which will probably be this year.
Ooshie's Book List 2016
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Pretty much just a list this year, with these few comments:
Most disturbing read - Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Most moving read - Stoner by John Williams
Most surprisingly enjoyable read - I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
Most surprisingly disappointing read - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
Oh, and apologies for not taking the time to alphabetize my list properly - I know it will have irritated some of you intensely!