pontalba Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Cryptonomicon is also on my TBR list, but I find some of the comments about it a bit daunting. As soon as I finished Reamde I decided to start the series with Cryptonomicon, but I agree, now that I pull it from the shelf, it does seem daunting. I hope it's as good as I think it'll be! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ooshie Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Ooshie How are you liking Lonesome Dove ? I am absolutely loving it, Julie! I am about 700 pages into it, and can honestly say I have enjoyed every single page. have you read it yourself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julie Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Hi Oooshie Yes, I have. It's one of the few books I have read twice. A wonderful story . I'm glad you like it . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodkafan Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 (edited) I have decided that starting next year I am going to attempt the Reading Around the World Challenge. I have doing it kind of unofficially for a few months now anyway, so I am now making it official. I know it's a big one which will probably take a few years, but I have made a good start with the books I have read already this year. My first read of 2012 overlaps with this year, as I started it yesterday and don't expect to complete it for a few days yet - it's a book about the Kmere Rouge regime in Cambodia entitled When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him. I like the idea of having a guided intelligent reading plan like that Talisman that would increase my knowledge of the world. Sadly I just can't be disciplined when it comes to choosing future books. I don't even really like having a declared TBR pile. Oh my first read will be Big Planet by Jack Vance. I started it already. Edited December 31, 2011 by vodkafan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catwoman Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I haven't managed to finish Next by Micheal Crichton or American Conspiracies yet and doubt I will before the nights end, so these will be my first books of 2012. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karen.d Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I've haven't managed to finish 'The Long Song' by Andrea Levy, so that is going to be my first read of 2012. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I'm going with The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt, because I already started it and haven't finished Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 I'm actually going to start my fIrst read of 2012 a couple of hours early, my kids and their friends have commandeered the TV so I'm going to start Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber as I'd forgotten the discussion will start in January, tomorrow!!! Whether I'll have anything interesting to say I don't know but it will be nice to read what others think of it. :-)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopeanha Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 My first read this year is The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleW Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 I'm reading four books at once at the moment and I don't know yet, which one will be the first to be finished. My bet goes for Moby Dick, I'm the furthest through this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 My first read was The Girl Who Couldnt Say No by Tracy Engelbrecht, read all of it on New Years Day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickle Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 My first read was The Hidden World (The Remarkable adventures of Tom Scatterhorn 2) - Henry Chancellor not sure whats going to be next will have a look at all the ones I have downloaded recently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiara Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 I've already finished The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and I've also already started another book, The Hunger Games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glittergloss67 Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella Started it on the train back from New York after the New Years Ball Drop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emelee Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 It will be Candide by Voltaire. I have some hopes about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruth Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 My first read of the year is A Beautiful Blue Death, by Charles Finch, picked at random from my tbr shelf. (It's not a shelf really, it's an entire room!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinay87 Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 My first book was The Death and Life of Superman by Roger Stern, it's a novelization of the Death of Superman and Return of Superman comic series which ran in the early nineties. Amazing book and it should be the definitive Superman novel. I read it in about a day even bought it unexpectedly at a bookstore (it's pretty rare here). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 My first read was Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum by Mark Stevens. It was also my first Kindle read. I downloaded it because a) it was free, b) I love social commentary books and c) I love the Victorians! It was great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 My first read was Ratking by Michael Dibdin, the first in the Aurelio Zen series. I'm a bit of a fan of Eurocrime, but this was my first experience of this series, and of Dibdin. I'm definitely going to read more - well up in the stakes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Mine was a book called Populaarimusiikkia Vittulajänkältä by Mikael Niemi (in English it's apparently called Popular music from Vittula). I had a pretty busy Christmas time, so I wanted to end the year and start the new one with a book that wasn't a heavy read. This one was a good choice, easy but interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiara Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 My first read of the year is A Beautiful Blue Death, by Charles Finch, picked at random from my tbr shelf. (It's not a shelf really, it's an entire room!) How I would love having an entire room full of books! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottaleger Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 I have started "Clockwork Prince" by Cassandra Clare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmo Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 My first read was 'A Study in Scarlet' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Influenced into reading by the new series of Sherlock starting and watching the new film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueK Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 My first read of 2012 was The Red Dancer a novel about Mata Hari who was an exotic dancer who was eventually executed as a spy in Word War 1. It was fascinating read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sofia Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Sing You Home-Jodi Picoult Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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