MyopicBookworm's self-challenge: read more books
Talk 75 Books Challenge for 2012
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1MyopicBookworm
Mrs Bookworm keeps reading them, while I just add them to an imaginary TBR list. Maybe having myself a little thread here will help to focus the brain.
Currently 90 pages into The Music Makers (non-fiction) by Michael Trend. Hope to move on to a children's novel after that.
ETA: I don't know why Victor Stevenson shows up as an author touchstone: he wrote a different book with this title. I've just attempted to add a touchstone to Michael Trend, and fetched up with a link to Isabel Carter Heyward (who?)!
Currently 90 pages into The Music Makers (non-fiction) by Michael Trend. Hope to move on to a children's novel after that.
ETA: I don't know why Victor Stevenson shows up as an author touchstone: he wrote a different book with this title. I've just attempted to add a touchstone to Michael Trend, and fetched up with a link to Isabel Carter Heyward (who?)!
2alcottacre
Welcome to the group!
3drneutron
Welcome! Glad you decided to join us.
FYI, we've added a couple of wikis to the mix this year. The first is where we keep important threads. The second is the Threadbook where we have a directory to all the members' threads. Both help keep a handle on the chaos! :)
FYI, we've added a couple of wikis to the mix this year. The first is where we keep important threads. The second is the Threadbook where we have a directory to all the members' threads. Both help keep a handle on the chaos! :)
5MyopicBookworm
I hope this challenge focuses my mind a bit. At present I've got one book on the go in the kitchen, one in the bathroom, and two by the bed. None of them is the one I was planning to read next!
6alcottacre
#5: LOL at that! Happens to me all the time!
9MyopicBookworm
And A Stranger at Green Knowe by Lucy Boston. 5/75
14PersephonesLibrary
#12: I bought that one last year because a LibraryThinger recommended it. How did you like it?
15MyopicBookworm
I enjoyed it: gave it three stars (which in my system, means "glad I read this") and reviewed it (review should be near the top if you order them by date).
16PersephonesLibrary
#15: Thanks for the evaluation. I'm always careful with reading the reviews at book's page, because some people like to spoiler. But thanks for the hint, I'm going to look up your review!
18MyopicBookworm
Fevre Dream 11/75
22MyopicBookworm
Of course, I'm not counting here the numerous books I have had to read aloud, such as Noddy's Perfect Gift or Boba Fett: Jedi Hunter.
24MyopicBookworm
Ender's Game 16/75
25MyopicBookworm
Kleinzeit 17/75
27MyopicBookworm
I keep dipping into non-fiction books without actually reading them through. This may compromise my ability to complete 75 books...
28seajelly
I do the same thing. Story collections, too - I read about half of the stories and then can't count the book toward my 75.
29MyopicBookworm
The Cherry Blossom Festival 19/75
Glad it's not just me! I think I have about four or five non-fiction books on the go at the moment.
Glad it's not just me! I think I have about four or five non-fiction books on the go at the moment.
32MyopicBookworm
A Map of the Territory 22/75
Hard to say when I've "read" a book of poetry, but I've been dipping in and out of this one for weeks, and I'm pretty sure I've now scanned the whole thing.
Hard to say when I've "read" a book of poetry, but I've been dipping in and out of this one for weeks, and I'm pretty sure I've now scanned the whole thing.
33MyopicBookworm
Weather of Stars No 2 23/75
I transcribed this for someone who contacted me and was looking after the author in hospital. Haven't heard whether the message got through, or if Mr Spratling is still alive.
I transcribed this for someone who contacted me and was looking after the author in hospital. Haven't heard whether the message got through, or if Mr Spratling is still alive.
34MyopicBookworm
Bit of a hiatus there...
Now managed
A Time to Keep Silence 24/75
The Pursuit of Love 25/75
and
Monstrous Regiment 26/75
I'd better get cracking over the rest of the summer!
Now managed
A Time to Keep Silence 24/75
The Pursuit of Love 25/75
and
Monstrous Regiment 26/75
I'd better get cracking over the rest of the summer!
38MyopicBookworm
The Praxis 30/75
40MyopicBookworm
As usual, too many books on the go. While trying to read Strandloper, I was also making some headway in Evelyn Underhill's Mysticism, dipping into The Professor at the Breakfast Table, and occasionally fingering something by Thich Nhat Hanh and a couple of others...
51MyopicBookworm
The i Inside 43/75
52MyopicBookworm
Given the approach of Christmas, I suspect I am not going to make the target! Especially as the SF novel I just started is a serious doorstop.
60MyopicBookworm
Wolf Brother 51/75
61drneutron
Don't Pee on my Leg and Tell me it's Raining
Don't know how the book was, but that's become one of my favorite titles!
Don't know how the book was, but that's become one of my favorite titles!
62MyopicBookworm
It's fun isn't it. The book is not exactly a classic, I'd say: it's a rant about welfare cheats and other scum by a conservative New York judge.
63MyopicBookworm
Managed an intense and somewhat kaleidoscopic reading session over the festive period, thanks to the childcare efforts of Mrs Bookworm et al:
The Ballad of Peckham Rye 52/75
Deaf Sentence 53/75
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 54/75
The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts 55/75
As 2012 is only here for less than an hour and a half, I won't be polishing off any more: here's to the challenge for 2013!
The Ballad of Peckham Rye 52/75
Deaf Sentence 53/75
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 54/75
The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts 55/75
As 2012 is only here for less than an hour and a half, I won't be polishing off any more: here's to the challenge for 2013!
