More reading time required Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Past year totals (since records began!) 2005 - 33 2006 - 53 2007 - 65 2008 - 90 2009 - 95 2010 - 107 2011 - 120 2012 - 50 2013 - 24 2014 - 27 2015 - 26 2016 - 25 2017 - 23 (Can you tell when I became a parent? ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
More reading time required Posted January 2, 2018 Author Share Posted January 2, 2018 (edited) TBR list Austen, Jane - Pride & Prejudice Austen, Jane - Sense & Sensibility Austen, Jane - Mansfield Park Austen, Jane - Northanger Abbey Barker, Clive - Abarat Barton, Beverly - The Dying Games Batchelder, Dennis - Soul Identity Beever, Anthony - Stalingrad Bradshaw, John - Cat Sense Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre Bryson, Bill - At Home Burgess, Anthony - A Clockwork Orange Campbell, Ramsey - The House on Nazareth Hill Campbell, Ramsey - The Gruesome Book Campbell, Ramsey - The Height of the Scream Campbell, Ramsey - Alone with the Horrors Campbell, Ramsey - The Hungry Moon Campbell, Ramsey - Ancient Images Campbell, Ramsey - The Nameless Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales Child, Lee - Jack Reacher series Ciccone, Derek - Painless Collins, Wilkie - The Moonstone Coyne, Matt - Dummy Defoe, Daniel - Moll Flanders Dickens, Charles - Bleak House Dickens, Charles - David Copperfield Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities Dixon, E - Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights Donaldson, Stephen - The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Donaldson, Stephen - The 2nd Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Donaldson, Stephen - The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss Eliot, George - Middlemarch Erikson, Steven - Malazan collection 1 Flaubert, Gustav - Madame Bovary Follett, Ken - The Key to Rebecca Forster, E M - Howards End Gaskell, Elizabeth - Wives & Daughters Gaskell, Elizabeth - North & South Hardy, Thomas - Far From the Madding Crowd Herley, Richard - The Penal Colony Hill, Joe - The Fireman Hobb, Robin - The Rain Wild Chronicles Hobb, Robin - The Fitz and the Fool Trilogy Homer - The Odyssey Hoover, Thomas - Life Blood Hoover, Thomas - Syndrome Hugo, Victor - Les Miserables Hume, David - The History of England Vol 1 Izzard, Eddie - Believe Me Jacques, Brian - Redwall saga James, E L - Fifty shades of grey Jordan, Robert - Wheel of Time Joyce, James - Ulysses Kay, Guy Gavriel - Tigana King, Stephen - Dark Tower Knowles, James - The Legends of King Arthur Littell, Johnathan - The Kindly Ones Lovecraft, HP - Omnibus 1 Lumley, Brian - Vampire World Lumley, Brian - Lost Years Lumley, Brian - E-Branch Lumley, Brian - Harry Keogh & other Weird Heroes Lumley, Brian - The Touch Mariani, Scott - The Shadow Project McCammon, Robert - Blue World McCammon, Robert - Boy's Life McCammon, Robert - Mystery Walk McCammon, Robert - The Wolf's Hour Melville, Herman - Moby Dick Meyers, Stephanie - Twilight saga Milton, John - Paradise Lost Mitchell, Margaret - Gone with the Wind Mock, Elizabeth C - Shatter (The children of man) Montgomery, L M - Anne of Green Gables Morris, Stan - Surviving the Fog Newman, Kim - Bad Dreams Newman, Kim - Jago Newman, Kim - Unforgivable Stories Paoline, Christopher - Brinsingr Partridge, Alan - Nomad Pepys, Samuel - Diary of Samuel Pepys Pratchett, Terry - The Science of Discworld 1 & 2 Pratchett, Terry - The Long Earth series Pullman, Phillip - Once upon a Time in the North Richardson, Samuel - Clarissa Harlowe (9 vol) Rothfuss, Patrick - The Name of the Wind Shakespeare, William - Complete Works of Shakespeare Simmons, Dan - Hyperion Smith, Clark Ashton - The Emperor of Dreams Smith, Clark Ashton - Out of Space & Time vol 1 Steinbeck, John - East of Eden Stephenson, Neal - Reamde Tchaikovsky, Adrian - Empire in Black & Gold Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair Tolkien, J R R - The Silmarillion Tolkien, J R R - The Children of Hurin Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina Tzu, Sun - Art of War Verne, Jules - A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Verne, Jules - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Weeks, Brent - Shadow trilogy Weis/Hickman - The Second Generation Welsh, Irvine - Ecstasy Welsh, Irvine - Glue Welsh, Irvine - Porno Welsh, Irvine - The Secrets of the Master Chef Welsh, Irvine - Skagboys White, Neil - Fallen Idols Yekov, Kirill - The Last Ringbearer Edited June 25, 2018 by More reading time required Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
More reading time required Posted January 2, 2018 Author Share Posted January 2, 2018 I've also had this challenge ticking away over the past couple of years, but I've never thought to post it before. Many years ago, there was a BBC poll for the nation's top 100 books. I've combined that list with a few other Facebook "100 books you must read" for something I'm slowly chipping away at in an effort to become more "widely read". Some I have access to and some I don't, so the challenge will also be to track down those ones I haven't read - preferably without paying! AA Milne - Winnie the Pooh Aldous Huxley - Brave New WorldAlexandre Dumas - The Count Of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas - The Three MusketeersAlice Sebold - The Lovely Bones Alice Walker - The Color PurpleAnna Sewell - Black Beauty Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork OrangeAntoine De Saint - The Little PrinceAnya Seton - KatherineArthur Golden - Memoirs of a GeishaArthur Ransome - Swallows And AmazonsArundhati Roy - The God Of Small ThingsAS Byatt - PossessionAudrey Niffeneger The Time Traveler’s Wife Bill Bryson - Notes From A Small Island Bram Stoker - Dracula Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the WindCharles Dickens - A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens - A Tale Of Two CitiesCharles Dickens - Bleak HouseCharles Dickens - David CopperfieldCharles Dickens - Oliver Twist Charlotte Bronte - Jane EyreColleen McCollough- The Thorn BirdsCS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis - The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code Daphne du Maurier - RebeccaDavid Mitchell - Cloud Atlas Dodie Smith -I Capture The CastleDonna Tartt -The Secret HistoryDouglas Adams - The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy EB White - Charlotte’s WebEmile Zola -GerminalEmily Brontë -Wuthering Heights Enid Blyton - The Faraway Tree Collection Eoin Colfer -Artemis FowlEvelyn Waugh - Brideshead RevisitedF Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden Frank Herbert - Dune Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime And Punishment Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love In The Time Of CholeraGabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of SolitudeGeorge Eliot - MiddlemarchGeorge Orwell - Animal Farm George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty Four Gustave Flaubert - Madame BovaryHarper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary Herman Melville - Moby DickIain Banks - The Wasp Factory Ian McEwan - AtonementJack Kerouac - On The RoadJacqueline Wilson - Double ActJacqueline Wilson - Girls In LoveJacqueline Wilson - The Story Of Tracy BeakerJacqueline Wilson - Vicky AngelJames Joyce -UlyssesJane Austen - Emma Jane Austen - Persuasion Jane Austen - Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen - Sense and SensibilityJD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye Jean M Auel - The Clan Of The Cave BearJeffrey Archer - Kane And Abel JK Rowling - Harry Potter series John Fowles - The MagusJohn Irving - A Prayer for Owen MeaneyJohn Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of DuncesJohn Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck - The Grapes Of Wrath Joseph Conrad - Heart of DarknessJoseph Heller - Catch-22 JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit JRR Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the DayKen Follett - The Pillars Of The Earth Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows Khaled Hosseini - The Kite RunnerLeo Tolstoy - Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy - War and Peace Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland LM Montgomery - Anne Of Green GablesLouis de Bernieres - Captain Corelli's MandolinLouis Sachar - HolesLouisa May Alcott - Little WomenMalorie Blackman - Noughts And CrossesMargaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s TaleMargaret Mitchell - Gone With The WindMario Puzo - The GodfatherMark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Meg Cabot - The Princess DiariesMervyn Peake - Gormenghast Michelle Magorian - Goodnight Mister TomMitch Alborn - The Five People You Meet In HeavenNevil Shute - A Town Like AlicePatrick Süskind - PerfumePaulo Coelho - The AlchemistPhilip Pullman - His Dark Materials Raymond E Feist - Magician Richard Adams - Watership Down Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl - Matilda Roald Dahl - The BFG Roald Dahl - The Twits Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island Robert Tressell - The Ragged Trousered PhilanthropistsRohinton Mistry - A Fine BalanceRosamunde Pilcher - The Shell SeekersSalman Rushdie - Midnight's ChildrenSebastian Faulks - BirdsongSir Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort FarmStephen King - The Stand Sylvia Plath - The Bell JarTerry Pratchett - Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett - Mort Terry Pratchett - Night Watch Terry Pratchett - The Colour Of Magic Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens Thackeray - Vanity Fair Thomas Hardy - Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy - Jude the ObscureThomas Hardy - Tess Of The D'Urbervilles Various - The Bible Victor Hugo - Les Miserables Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy Vladimir Nabokov - LolitaWilkie Collins - The Woman in White William Golding - Lord Of The Flies William Shakespeare - Complete Works of ShakespeareYann Martel - Life of Pi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
More reading time required Posted January 2, 2018 Author Share Posted January 2, 2018 Discworld re-read Also, now I've read the last Discworld , I want to do a Discworld re-read from start to finish. The Colour of Magic The Light Fantastic Equal Rites Mort Sourcery Wyrd Sisters Pyramids Guards! Guards! Eric Moving Pictures Reaper Man Witches Abroad Small Gods Lords and Ladies Men at Arms Soul Music Interesting Times Maskerade Feet of Clay Hogfather Jingo The Last Continent Carpe Jugulum The Fifth Elephant The Truth Thief of Time The Last Hero The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents Night Watch The Wee Free Men Monstrous Regiment A Hat Full of Sky Going Postal Thud! Wintersmith Making Money Unseen Academicals I Shall Wear Midnight Snuff Raising Steam The Shepherd's Crown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Athena Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 I wish you a great reading year in 2018 ! It's amazing you've been tracking your reading since 2005 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 Happy Reading in 2018, Michelle ! Won't your Discworld reread take 2 years ?! , I still haven't read the last two books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Happy reading in 2018! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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More reading time required Posted July 16, 2018 Author Share Posted July 16, 2018 It's July, so I'm sure it's time for some quick fire reviews of the year's books so far. Fool's Quest by Robin HobbAssassin's Fate by Robin Hobb I've lumped these together as I can't now distinguish between the two of them. Suffice to say, I thoroughly loved this trilogy and it made me realise how much I had missed reading Robin Hobb. Years back I had skipped one of her series as I'd let myself get put off by reading a bad review of the first book (Dragon Keeper) whereas it was probably just saying it wasn't as good as her others, which would still be bloody good, I'm sure. Anyway, I now definitely need to go back and read those ones. Song of Susannah by Stephen King This made more sense this time around as I wasn't racing through it and although it was weird and perhaps slightly self indulgent (especially when Stephen King himself appeared in the story), it was a quick easy read. Pity I'm having more trouble with the final volume! The Daily Struggles of Archie Adams (aged 2 1/4) by Katie Kirby This is a funny little cartoony account of toddlerhood from the perspective of the toddler. It wouldn't surprise me if that was what they were thinking. A fun read. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott My first Round Robin challenge. When I first started reading this, I thought it rather twee. Then I had to remind myself that it was a kids book and I embraced the fact that I needed to get in the mindset of the age I was when I was reading things like Mallory Towers. After that point, although I think it was probably lacking a bit of excitement, I enjoyed it a lot more. I can't say I'm champing at the bit to read the sequel though. How Not to be a Boy by Robert Webb An interesting account of Robert Webb's upbringing and how he often struggles against the "rules" of what it is to be a man. Funny, yet thought provoking. The Unmumsy Mum Diary by Sarah Turner Another really fun account of some more kid based trials and tribulations. Enjoyed it. Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery Another Round Robin choice. Anne reminded me a bit of a Pollyanna character. I can imagine that some people might find her quite annoying, but I find her quite engaging. One odd thing I found about the book though, all the way through, right until the end, I thought the couple that took her on, were married, until right at the end when it intimated that they were brother and sister, which seemed a bit of an odd set-up! Into the Water by Paula Hawkins I really enjoyed Girl on a Train, so picked this up from the library when I saw it. It was a bit disappointed really. It kept me hooked as I went through it, but it didn't really have a stand out conclusion. It seemed like it couldn't work out if it was trying to be a supernatural story or a straight mystery. Dummy by Matt Coyne Even though it's parenting through a man's eyes, I could still relate to this account so much. Especially when it talked about basically living in a hovel as soon as kids arrive. It was hilarious - highly recommended. Believe Me by Eddie Izzard I've always loved Eddie Izzard as a comic and it was great to read more of his life and upbringing and how he manages to keep succeeding with all the crazy goals he sets himself. I think this mainly expands on the documentary of the same name, but I've not got round to watching that yet. F*** You Very Much by Danny Wallace This was a very interesting read based on how everyone is getting ruder (or apparently seemingly so). It's broken down into different section about things like road rage, teenagers, social media etc including this fab comment about road rage, which very much resonates with me: Quote How many times have you been in a car and waited for the other person to say thank you? It's all you can focus on. After five seconds with no response, you immediately dismiss that person as an absolute ninnyhammer. You hate them for their arrogance, for their rudeness. And in that sixth second, when they *do* press their hazards or raise their hand, literally everything is forgiven. You think they're great again.You'd invite them round to your house, such is your relief. You're just grateful they're grateful. It also talked about how when someone is rude to you, it stays with you all day and can affect your performance. So don't be rude to your doctor or else they might get something wrong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 It's nice you read some nice books , quite a bit of variety !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 On 7/16/2018 at 1:56 PM, More reading time required said: F*** You Very Much by Danny Wallace This was a very interesting read based on how everyone is getting ruder (or apparently seemingly so). It's broken down into different section about things like road rage, teenagers, social media etc including this fab comment about road rage, which very much resonates with me: It also talked about how when someone is rude to you, it stays with you all day and can affect your performance. So don't be rude to your doctor or else they might get something wrong! I read this recently, but under it's original title I Can't Believe You Just Said That! I thought it was a very good read, funny at times as well. I like how the 'hot-dog incident' followed him throughout the book, and he just couldn't let it go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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