Watson is going to read how many books?!?

Like most of us in this group, I have a thing for lists and books. However, unlike a lot of you, I have a L-O-N-G way to go until I hit 1001. I thought about waiting to create a thread until I have more books read, but then I figured what the hell? Maybe this will motivate me to read more from this list rather than just picking up books at random. I have also decided to follow the complete list. Looking forward to lots of (hopefully) good reads to come :)




HAPPY READING!

Pre - 1700 Books (0/27)

1700-1799 Books (0/47)

1800-1849 Books (2/55)
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - 5 stars
2. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - 4 stars

1850-1899 Books (1/134)
1. The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins - 4 stars
2. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne - 4 stars

1900-1949 Books (1/302)
1. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery - 4 stars

1950-1999 Books (8/620)
1. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote - 5 stars
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 3.5 stars
3. The Godfather by Mario Puzo - 5 stars
4. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - 4 stars
5. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides - 3.5 stars
6. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden - 3 stars
7. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway - 3 stars
8. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou - 3 stars

2000s and Beyond Books (2/120)
1. Atonement by Ian McEwan - 5 stars
2. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes - 2.5 stars

Planned Reads:

I am joining the Group Read for November of The Woman in White. I have also joined other group reads in 2014 for The Thousand and One Nights and Bleak House and I have Crime and Punishment, The Count of Monte Cristo, David Copperfield, War and Peace, Heart of Darkness, Gone With the Wind, Life of Pi, and Elegance of the Hedgehog sitting on my TBR shelf.

I also realized as I was going through the list that there are probably about 15 books on there that I read in high school but cannot remember so those will be re-reads.

Welcome watson!

A really interesting opening list you've got there! Looks like you enjoy your crime fiction. I read The Black Dahlia recently which might be up your street. Very noir!

That's also a cracker of a TBR list for next year...get all the chunksters done early!

As a double motivation can I interest you in being added the the progress index here?

Happy reading!

Thank you Jonny!

As I was writing my list of TBR for next year I realized the same thing and wondered what I got myself into. You can add me to the progress index - that should keep me in check for the year!

Welcome to the group and happy reading!

Just finished the The Woman In White and absolutely loved it. I downloaded the free version onto my Kindle but will probably invest in my own copy. I'm not going to lie - the fact that I finished this book before the end of the month makes me even happier. I'm a slow reader and this being a chunkster of a book had me nervous. I'm ready for the next group read for December!

In the spirit of Christmas I read A Christmas Carol. I have no idea as to why I've never read it before - maybe because I've seen the movie so many times. Anyways I loved the story and I really liked the way Dickens wrote the book, as though he were narrating personally to you and giving his own opinions on certain happenings. Very entertaining.

Now onto Roots of Heaven.

So after a 2 1/2 month hiatus, I am trying to get back on track. Life has been hectic lately which I will allow as an excuse this time. Right before Christmas my husband and I found out we were pregnant (yay!), but shortly after the Christmas holiday all those wonderful first trimester symptoms began. Primarily these included fatigue and morning and evening sickness. Fun times. I was so wiped out and felt so awful that I could not concentrate on a book at all. So I just gave up. In February I was unexpectedly laid off of work so job hunting took up most of my time. I am still not working which gives me plenty of time to read. Hopefully I can put a dent in the TBR pile.

I just finished Journey to the Center of the Earth. Again, this is one of those books that I have no idea why I never read at an earlier age. For the most part I absolutely loved it. I got a little bored in the middle when they were in the big water cave place but otherwise I found it very entertaining. Not sure what is next in my pile...

Yay, new baby! Boo, being laid off!

Hope you feel better soon!

Huzzah! Babies all round on this group! Contratulations watson.

When are you due? It sounds like you might be due around the same time that my wife is? We had our dating scan today (WOW, arms/legs/fingers moving around!) and our due date is now 24th September. My wife can fully sympathise with the symptoms you describe...pretty much constant nausea & fatigue which has only just started to wear off. She's also convinced that I have couvade syndrome!

man... this place is getting as bad as facebook...

Thank you paruline and Jonny! I am well into my second trimester so I am feeling pretty good. Jonny - we are due Sept. 2nd so a few weeks ahead of y'all.

Sorry arukiyomi - you can just ignore me. I wasn't trying to make a big deal about it. Believe it or not this isn't something I've advertised on Facebook. I like the idea of anonymity here. And I was just trying to make myself feel better for being such a slacker with my reading ;)

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It is a big deal and I'm glad that people are taking a bit about RL on their threads. I feel like it makes for tighter communities.

You don't have to apologize! This is your thread, talk about what you want!

Hope everything is going well with you!