So here I start, for the first time entering the challenge, and hoping I will manage to get throught 50 books....
Here is the first one I read (I'm almost finish 15 pages and counting)

The book of lost things - John Connolly

I really enjoyed it, a beautiful story, I got sucked right into it!!

I have been reading some good remarks about The Book of Lost Things. I will have to check it out. Good luck with your challenge!
--BJ

So I finished my second book (don't know if I'll read 50 at this speed, but I'll try to get as close as possible)

The grand complication - Allen Kurzweil

Let's just say that I rarely finish a book that I don't like, but I kept expecting something with this one, I couldn't actually believe it was this dull.

I didn't like the charactersL: the main protagonist was the representation of the stereotype of librarians, obsessive,dull and stuck up ( I work in a library and very few of the librarian actually fits that description).

The patron who hired him was far from being an excentric, but was clearly disturbed.

Overall.... not a book I would suggest to anyone.

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Book # 3 the judas strain - James Rollins

Good adventure book. I really enjoyed it, I will probably read other books from the same author

Book # 4 old flames - Jack Ketchum (I realized I hadn't put the good title.... oups)

Bof...

Book #5 - The shack - William P. Young

A very good book, I wouldn't go has far as saying it changed my life, but it did help me refine (or pinpoint) exactly what I was feeling regarding God.

Book #6 The gun seller - Hugh Laurie
So far so good, I'm about halfway through...

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The Shack looks interesting. The comments on it are really mixed, which makes me want to read it. Is it heartbreaking? I really don't know that much about it, but I find it hard to read books that are heartbreaking these days. Is the Hugh Laurie book funny? I had not heard of that one before. Have a great weekend!
--BJ

I wouldn't go as far as saying that the Shack is Heartbreaking... But there is sadness in it ( I didn't cry or felt like I would) But there is so much more to be learned from the book.

It is a good book, I enjoyed it. But I also think it is the kinda book that only the person reading it can form a opinion on it.

If you are curious about it, I would say go for it. If you don't like it from the start... you probably won't like it at all....

The Hugh Laurie Book is funny!! it is quite a lite read after the shack... I'm still only about half way through, but I will defenitely want to read is next nove due to come out in september.

Thanks for the info. I am going to add both books to my wishlist. :)
--BJ

Hi Cath! Just wondering how James Rollins compares to the Dan Brown books? I enjoyed Brown's DaVinci Code and Angels & Demons so I'd be interested in similar stories but preferrably with better writing. Rollins has been recommended by several sources, but I've never read anything by him yet.

I haven't read Brown, but Rollins is pretty decent; I heard his last few books weren't as good as the earlier ones though, and I haven't had time to get to them as of yet. Hugh Laurie is towards the top of my tbr pile though :)

I only read one of Rollins book so far, and I really enjoyed it. I tought it was a good mix between Clive Cussler and Dan Brown, but I would lean more on Clive Cussler than Brown.

Hugh Laurie's is not bad of a book, but for some reason I couldn't finish it.... It half way done... I'll probably get back to it soon...

I'm now reading ritual by Mo Hayder... second book I read from this author... So far, so good....

#8 -Emergency by Neil Strauss a suprisingly a good book. I'm not an american, so I didn't relate completely with the distressed felt by the Author. BUt overall, I though it was a very good book.

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#9 - Reliable wife by Robert Goolrick

A book about a man finding a wife through an ad he placed in the paper, About is desire to find his long lost son, to have a family.
Also a story about a wife trying to kill her husband
A story about a son hating his father.
Very good, I really like the juxtaposition of the husband and wife's point of view in the book.

I just realized that at the speed I'm reading now, I'll probably never reach my 50 book this year, but If I could reach half I would be happy anyway!!

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#10 - the lace reader - by Brunonia Barry.
I was really surprised about the book, I just picked it up on the shelf of the library because I had nothing to read at the moment.
I was really caught up in the story, always expecting a little more information about the main character (Towner/Sophya) youth where a dramatic event happen.
The other manage to give us a little bit of information here and there just not to much, but just enough to keep us guessing.
As I neared the end, I started to expect a turn of event the finally was really well played out, I knew something was gonna happen but I didn't know what.

I really like the book, a light read, but a good one nonetheless.

#11 - The angel's game - by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I was swepped away by the magic in this book. The prose is beautiful, the mystery is deep, the characters are true and you get really attached to them.
The story is about a writer David Martin, you follow him from the beginning of his youth (about the time whe he falls in love with books), to is first job in a news paper, to is beginning as a writer. To when a mysterious publisher commissions him a book that would make him the greatest writer there is.

This book is truly a masterpiece, I would recommend it to anyone!!

I'm adding A Reliable Wife to the TBR, though it's hard to resist adding so many more of your titles to it, they all sound so good!

A belated thanks, by the way, for the info on James Rollins. I haven't gotten to him yet but am still planning to...one of these days :)

#12 - the watchmen - by Alan Moore.
After seeing the movie at the beginning of the year. I was curious about reading the graphic novel. So I reserved it at my library (it took 7 months to arrive but I finally got it).
It was a nice reminder of the movie, I was happy for the little details that is always left out of a movie.

Also the end is very different from the movie, (as a friend told me when the movie came out). I obviously liked the original, but I tought that the end of the movie still got to the point. And we didn't loose so much of the story line...

Overall, I really enjoyed that book!

#13 - cemetary dance - by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child.

I'm a big fan of the works of these two authors. I've read nearly everything they wrote together. I'm a even bigger fan of Special agent Aloysius Pendergast.
This book, like all the other suck you right up. I devoured it. In every chapter, there is a new twist, a new information, a new mystery... It keeps you guessing till the end!!

I LOVED IT

ct. bergeron, I too love Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast. So much, that I went ahead and ordered all the other books featuring him from Bookins. Well said about the books!

#14 - The strain- Guillermo del Toro.
This book just move to the top of my favorite books list. Creepy enough, full of mysteries, it keeps you on the edge of your chair all the way through.
I even started to get jumpy if I read it for too long, which is not something that happens often. I recommend it to everybody who loves horror!!

The only downside, I have to wait another year for the second installment of this trilogy.

#15 - I hope they serve beer in hell- by Tucker Max.
Very funny. But Tucker Max is an asshole... really.
The stories are just too funny to be true, but then again, no one can invent something like that.
There are some weird people in this world....

#16 - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - By Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith....
This is probably as close as I was gonna get from Jane Austen. I like the book very much, I couldn't even figure out wich part were Jane's and wich were Graham-Smith's...
I actually wondered a few time what the orignal might be like without the zombies.....

#17 - hell.com - Patrick Senecal
French book. I use to love Patrick's book, but for the last 2 book, I was really disappointed........ Yes the story is creepy, but it isn't as it used too be...
The story is about a millionnaire who discover the power he really has, but then realize how it could destroy him...
the title as a lot to play in the book, hell, the devils, the demons, god.....
it is a good book, but can't compete with Senecal's older worker...

#18 - 206 bones - by Kathy Reichs.
True to herself, Kathy Reichs gives us another good book with her star anthropologist, Tempe Brennan. Every year, I wait for Kathy's new book, every year, I like what I read. This year is still good, as we see how Tempe and Ryan's relationship (or lack of) develops. Also, a foe goes after Tempe, the flashback and the present tense puts a little suspense in the book, you actually want to know how she got where she is....
A good book, light mystery good once a year!!

#19 - Search angel - Mark Nykanen
I love horror book. And Mark Nykanen always gives something very creepy. After reading Bone Parade, I wanted more of the same type...
Search Angel also follows a Psychopath, but in the worse kinda way. This book revolves a lot around adoptees, and birth mothers. Suzanne Trayles is a seach angel who reunites adoptees and their birth mother. She gets tangle up with a psychopath who is looking for the exact same thing....

#20 - The lost symbol - Dan Brown.
I wasn't expecting much of this book, since I didn't like most of Dan Brown's other book (except Da Vinci Code). But I was happily surprise by how it turned out.

The story is fast paced, a bit like is other book, but I felt it more in this one, the entire story happens in something like 4 or 5 hour. The history and the works of art are really well tied in the story.

#21- level 26 - Anthony E. Zuiker.
I really liked the book. I thought that the introduction of little movie sequence was awesome. It help tie in the storyline, because what happen in those section is not mentionned in the book.
Squeegel is creepy, very creepy. The story line is good.
I can't wait for another one of this type!!