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School for me starts on 3 september.
I should be able to squeeze at least one more in before then. And then maybe one big book, or 2 smaller books a month. We will see.
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Thanks Frankie.
Once school starts up again, the reading will slow, so I am glad I got to my goal early.
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On August 2nd I met my goal of 60 books. Of course I will read on...
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You're right of course. I do enjoy reading my non-fiction.
I suppose I just wanted to branch out and read more things that would allow me to use my imagination more. But, it doesn't seem so.
...I just put 2 more nf books in my library queue. I am hopeless!!
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I am failing miserably at my #2 goal.
I promised myself I would read much more fiction this year.
I think my ratio will be <=25% non-fiction and >=75% fiction.
I've read 17 fiction books and 24 non fiction books.
That is less than 50% fiction books read thus far.
Urgh. I've still got the rest of the year to try to bring this around.
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I did like the book. I would give it 4 out of 5 stars.
But maybe it is more interesting to me since I'm from the States. But still a good look at the era.
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Newly added goal
Looking at my list thus far, I see a lot of non-fiction there. I promised myself I would read much more fiction this year.
I think my ratio will be <=25% non-fiction and >=75% fiction.
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I have a Fire (1st gen) and I find that I read faster on it. But in my case it is because I can see the print better on an e reader. This doesn't stop me from reading paper books though. Also it is easier to read in places one would not necessarily read such as waiting in line etc. I don't need to pull out my glasses, or find proper light. Enjoy your Kindles.
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Currently reading "The Casual Vacancy". I just started so I won't be done by Tuesday (probably).
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Here are some books that are on my TBR list for 2013. I usually get to most of the TBR list in any given year.
Finished
Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story - Greg SmithWatership Down - Richard AdamsThe Darkest Child - Delores PhillipsThe Four Agreements - Don Miguel RuizThe Butterfly Experience - Karen Whitelaw SmithMrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker - Jennifer ChiaveriniThe Casual Vacancy - J.K. RowlingQuiet: The Power of Introverts... - Susan CainThe Twelve Tribes of Hattie - Ayana MathisProperty - Valerie MartinThe Black Count... - Tom ReissThe Gods of Gotham - Lyndsay FayeThe Seamstress - Sara Tuvel BernsteinA Step of Faith - Richard Paul EvansDoctor Sleep - Stephen KingAllegiant - Veronica Roth
These are all authors I've never read
Alice I Have Been - Melanie Benjamin
The Autobioraphy of Mrs. Tom Thumb - Melanie Benjamin
Brooklyn Story - Suzanne CorsoThe Cross Gardner - Jason Wright
Dybbuk and Other Talkes of the Supernatural - S. Ansky
The Eighties: A Bitchen Time To Be A Teenager! - Tom HarveyElsewhere, California - Dana Johnson
Faith - Jennifer Haigh
The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove - Susan Gregg Gilmore
Joseph Anton - Salman Rushdie
The Known World - Edward P. Jones
Lark Rise to Candleford: Trilogy - Flora Thompson
The Leftovers - Tom PerrottaLegand - Marie Lu
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCannNine Stories - J.D. Salinger
Our Nig - Harriet Wilson
Perfect Peace - Daniel Black
Redfield Farm: A Novel of the Undergound Railroad - Judith Redline CoopeyShe's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
Someone Knows My Name - Lawrence Hill
Star Trek: Children of the Storm - Kirsten BeyerThe Stranger - Albert Camus
Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton - Diane Wood Middlebrook
These are authors I've read before
And The Mountain's Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
Every Last One - Anna Quindlen
Howards End Is on the Landing - Susan HillOnce - Anna Carey
Rise - Anna Carey
Spring's Gental Promise - Janette OkeStory's End - Marissa Burt
The Time Keeper - Mitch Albom
Hollow City - Ransom Riggs
The View from Dellphi - Jonathan Odell
These are books that I've started or will be starting before year end (and will finish in 2013)
11/22/63 - Stephen King (actually 1/2 through this one, but need to pick it back up)
Hellucination - Stephen Biro (Started but never finished)*New Author
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OK school started, this means my reading will suffer.
July
52. We Are All Completley Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler *
53. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
54. Earl Nightingale's The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightengale *
55. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron *
55. Critically Reading and Writing well by Rise Axelrod *
57. The New Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz *
58. The Physics of Star Trek by Lawerence Krauss *
59. The Adventures of Funny, The Amazing Fish-Bunny by Patrick Connolly *
August
60. Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall *
GOAL MET
61. The Shining by Stephen King
62. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith/JK Rowling
63. The Son by Philipp Meyer *
September
64. City of Hope by Kate Kerrigan
65. Mile 81 by Stephen King
66. Horns by Joe Hill *67. Bartleby, the Scrivner by Herman Melvile *
68. The Gift by Shad Helmstetter *
October
69. Story Structure: The Key to Successful Fiction by William Bernhardt *
70. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
November
71. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
72. Allegiant by Veronica Roth
73. The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout *
74. Siddhartha by Herman Hessee*
75. The Four Doors by Richard Paul Evans
December76. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnugut (re-read)
77. The Christmas Wedding by James Patterson78. The Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens
81. The Best Christmas Pagent Ever by Barbara Robinson
80. On Christmas Eve by Ann Martin
81. Seven For A Secret by Lyndsay Faye
82. The Letter (Christmas Triology #3) by Richard Paul Evans
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I've only read one book from your list, although there are a few that I had wanted to read for many years now!
Good luck with your reading for 2013.
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My goal is undecided. I think I'll bring it down to 60, I'm returning to school in June. I'll have to read my text books and stuff.
As far as genres I will still read whatever catches my eye.
However, my goal for 2013 will be to read more new authors. I think a ratio of 2/3 new authors is a good start.
January
1. A Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling
2. Watership Down - Richard Adams *
3. Less Incomplete - Sandie Gustus *
4. Why I Left Goldman Sachs - Greg Smith *
5. Super Brain - Rudolph Tanzi/Deepak Chopra
6. The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz *
7. Clean - Alejandro Junger *
8. Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Jornal - Alexandra Johnson *
9. Darkest Child - Delores Philliips *
10. Selected Poems - Oscar Wilde *
11. The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
12. Classic Irish Short Stories - T.P. McKenna
13. Girl in Translation - Jean Kwok *
14. Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker - Jennifer Chiavirini *
15. Ellis Island - Kate Kerrigan *
February
16. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote17. The Butterfly Experience - Karen Whitelaw Smith *
18. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie - Ayana Mathis *
19. Quiet - Susan Cain*
20. Proof of Heaven - Eben Alexander*
21. The Black Count - Tim Reiss *22. Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: The Medical Lives of Famous Writers - John Ross *
23. Property - Valerie Martin *
24. Red Glass - Laura Resau *25. Iscariot - Tosca Lee *
26. Dissolving Barriers - Louise Hay
March
27. My Beloved World - Sonia Sotomayor *
28. Son of Oscar Wilde - Vyvyan Holland *29. Me Before You - Jojo Moyes *
30. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - James Turber *
31. Salt, Sugar, Fat - Michael Moss *
32. The Writers Notebook - Ralph Fletcher *
33. Meditations to Change Your Brain - Rick Hanson *
34. Infinite Quest: Develop Your Psychic... - John Edward
35. Kafka in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern *36. Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern
37. Shards and Ashes - Melissa Marr*
38. Wheat Free: The Dangers of Eating Wheat - Karen McKay *
April
39. Imperfect Harmony - Stacy Horn *
40. The Obesity Myth - Paul Campos *
41. Heft - Liz Moore *
42. All Woman and Springtime - Brandon Jones *
43. 12 Years a Slave - Solomon Northup *
44. The Seamstress - Sara Tuvel Bernstein *
45. The Demonologist - Andrew Pyper *
46. The Longevity Diet - Brian Delaney *
May
47. The Gods of Gotham - Lyndsay Faye *
48. The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson *
49. A Step of Faith - Richard Paul Evans
50. The Survivor - Gregg Hurwitz *
June
51. Judy Garland - Anne Edwards *
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Thanks Vodkafan.
I don't post much outside of this thread. I should get better about that!
Thanks Tassie,
Not sure of my 2013 numbers yet. I need to see if I want to shoot for the 100 again.
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Thanks Frankie, We still have 10 days left. I'm hoping to get a nice round 110!
But if not, I'm happy with being 100+.
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Julie, I didn't think I'd get this far. Last year my goal was 70 and I did 89. So I thought I'd do 89 again, but it seems no matter what number I chose, I surpass. I don't know how brave I'll be next year. I'm thinking I'll do between 85-90 books.
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I will get to 100, oh yes, I will get to 100!
I should be there by mid December.
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OMG I might ACTUALLY make it to 100!!
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84% done. I'm going to concentrate on Fiction for the rest of the year.
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I'm plodding along....over 1/2 way to my goal of 85.
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- Well I've read my first fiction book of the year!!
- Well I've read my first fiction book of the year!!
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Thanks.
Looking at my first few books, I really need to start reading some FICTION!
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I'm hoping you are right Ben.
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Let's see what this year brings. Going for the 100!!
January
1. The Inflammation Free Diet Plan - Monica Reinage
2. Change Your Brain, Change Your Body - Daniel Amen
3. The Inflammation Syndrome - Jack Challem
4. Confessions of a Reformed Dieter - A.J. Rochester
5. Divergent - Veronica Roth
February
6. Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose
7. Mr. g - Alan Lightman
8. Lady Susan - Jane Austen
9. The Sucessful Novelist - David Morrell
10. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
11. How I Write - Janet Evanovich
12. Your Best Life Now - Joel Osteen
13. Chekov: Eleven Stories - Anton Chekov
14. A Countess Below Stairs - Eva Ibbotson
15. Below Stairs - Margaret Powell
March
16. Lives of Musicians - Kathleen Krull
17. The Astonishing Power of Emotions - Esther & Jerry Hicks
18. Sister - Rosamund Lupton
19. Lives of Writers - Kathleen Krull
20. Lives of Artists - Kathleen Krull
21. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith
22. The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
23. Jesus: A Story of Enlightment - Deepak Chopra
April
24. My Reading Life - Pat Conroy
25. The Godfather - Mario Puzzo
26. Being in Balance - Wayne Dyer
27. New York: A Novel - Edward Rutherfurd
28. Why We Get Fat - Gary Taubes
29. You on a Diet: Waist Management - Mehmet Oz
30. The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
31. Drop Dead Healthy - A.J. Jacobs
May
32. Eat Right 4 Your Type - Peter J. D'Adamo
33. The Paleo Solution - Robb Wolff
34. Here is New York - E.B. White
35. The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson
36. The Road To Grace - Richard Paul Evans
37. Candide - Voltaire
June
38. Insurgent - Veronica Roth
39. The Pleiadian Agenda - Barbara Hand Clow
40. Storybound - Marissa Burt
41. Dear Cary - Dyan Cannon
42. Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin
43. The Family Corleone - Ed Falco
July
44. Sal Mineo: A Biography - Michael Gregg Michaud
45. The Kitchen House - Kathleen Grissom
46. Positive Principle Today - Norman Vincent Peale
47. Tell The Wolves I'm Home - Carol Rifka Brunt
48. The Pilgram's Progress - John Bunyan
49. The Dry Grass of August - Anna Jean Mayhew
50. Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting - Wayne Dyer
August
51. Dream Catchers - Sandy Lo
52. Mistletoe and Margaritas - Shanon Stacey
53. Antebellum - Kayeen Thomas
54. The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
55. The Biology of Belief - Bruce Lipton
56. Stillness Speaks - Eckhart Tolle
57. The Moses Code - James Twyman
58. The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire - Deepak Chopra
59. Practicing the Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
60. The Isaiah Effect - Gregg Braden
61. Learned Optimism - Martin Seligman
62, The Dark Side of Light Chasers - Debbie Ford
63. The Divine Matrix - Gregg Braden
September
64. Out of My Mind - Sharon Draper
65. I Am Number Four - Pitticus Lore
66. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
67. The Healing - Jonathan Odell
68. May the Road Rise Up to Meet You - Peter Troy
69. War of the Worldviews: Science vs. Spirituality - Deepak Chopra
70. Rise of the Elgen: Michael Vey #2: Richrd Paul Evans
71. Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self - Danielle Evans
72. Rose Madder - Stephen King
73. Zen in the Art of Writing - Ray Bradbury
October
74. The Sucess Principles - Jack Canfield
75. The Passage - Justin Cronin
76. Dracula - Bram Stoker
77. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
78. The Omen - David Seltzer
79. Psycho - Robert Bloch
80. Escape from Camp 14 - Blaine Harden
81. Total Law of Attraction - David Che
82. How to Write a Fiction Novel in 30 Days - Nicholas Black
83. Winter is Not Forever - Jeanette Oke
84. Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
November
85. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
86. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
87. The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
88. How to Be a Writer - Barbara Baig
89. Thanksgiving - Janet Evanovich
90. The Everafter - Amy Huntley
91. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
92. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick
93. A Winter Dream - Richard Paul Evans
94. Beginner's Guide to the Kabbalah - David A. Cooper
95. Star Bright: A Christmas Story - Andrew M. Greeley
December
96. Astray - Emma Donogue
97. Kabbalah Works - Rabbi David Aaron
98. Vlad - Carlos Fuentes
99. Anti Cancer: A New Way of Life - David Servan-Schrieber
100. Eve - Anna Carey
101. Self-Healting Strategies - Dr. Andrew Weil
102. Christmas After All - Kathryn Lasky
103. The Christmas Singing - Cindy Woodsmall
104. A Wreath of Snow - Liz Curtis Higgs
105. Christmas Stories - Max Lucado
106. Igniting Intuition - Christane Northrup
107. Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry
108. The Great Cholesterol Con - Malcome Kendrick
109. Breathing: The Master Key to Self Healing - Dr. Andrew Weil
110. Breaking the Moon - Sandy Lo
Busy's Reading for 2013
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I will probably top out around 85 books for this year. My goal was 60 so I am satisfied.
I will keep it at 60 for next year. I don't have much time to read when school is in session, but I will try to finish the challenge for 2014.