Kristel's 75 Book Challenge 2014 edition, version 1

So reading 75 books in a year is doable, barely, but I will start this thread, lurk around and see what other trouble I can get into. Running total for 2014
283. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys, ★★★, 1/1/14
284. Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau, ★★★, 1/10/14
1. All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy 1/12/14 ★★★★
2. The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield (January BOTM for 1001 group) completed pdf ★★★★
3. The Golem and the Jinni by Wecker ★★★★
4. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by Mitchell ☊ 1/12/14 ★★★★★
5. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie ☊, completed 1/19/14, ★★★
6. Exercises in Style by Queneau 1/10/14 ★★★
7. The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis ★★★
8. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
9. The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro
10. By the Open Sea by August Strindberg
11. Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
12. Max Havelaar by Multatuli
13. Ignorance by Kundera
14. Timbuktu by Paul Auster
15. The Passage of Power by Robert Caro ☊
16. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
17. Still Life by Louise Penny
18. Genesis I (Thru the Bible) by J. Vernon McGee
19. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust ★ ★ ☆
20. Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor ★ ★ ★ ☆
21. The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien ★ ★ ★ ☆
22. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent ★ ★ ★ ☆
23. The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer ★★ ★ ★★
24. Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier ★★ ★ ★ ☆
25. Genesis 2 (Thru the Bible) by J. Vernon McGee ★★ ★ ★ ☆
26. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K.Rowling
28. Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust ★ ★ ★
29. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch COMPLETED 4/2/14, ★★ ★ ★☆March BOTM
30. The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna BOTM ★★★★
31. The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek Seasonal ★★ ★
32. Genesis 3 (Thru the Bible) by J. Vernon McGee ★★★★★
33. Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens Seasonal ★★★★
34. The Seventh Child by Erik Valeur Nordic mystery ★★★☆
35. The Last Days of California by Mary Miller f2f ★★☆
36. The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson Poetry
37. Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin ★★★★
38. The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust Yearly read 5/6/14, ★★★★
39. City of Women by David R. Gillham, 5/10/14 ★★★★
40. Thru the Bible Commentary, Volume 38, John, Chapters 1-10 by J. Vernon McGee
41. Snow by Orhan Pamuk 5/14/14 ★★★★
42. The Way to God by D.L.Moody 5/11/14 ★★★★
43. The Nine Taylors by Dorothy L. Sayers 5/22/14, ★★★★
44. Grimus by Salman Rushdie 5/26/14,★★★
45. Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust ★★☆ 5/30/14
46. The Shipyard by Juan Carlos Onetti, ★★★ 5/31/14
47. In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon 5/18/14 ★★★★
48. We Are Water by Wally Lamb 6/10/14 ★★★☆
49. The Safety Net by Heinrich Böll 6/10/14 ★★★★
50. The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez 6/16/14 ★★★★
51. The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy 6/17/14 ★★★★
52. Cain by José Saramago 6/18/14 ★★★☆
53. The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience 6/22/14 ★★★★
54. Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple 7/3/14 ★★★☆
55. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
56. To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia 7/7/14 ★★★☆
57. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 7/9/14 ★★★☆
58. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
59. John chapters 11-21 by J. Vernon McGee
60. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields ♥
61. Speeches of Ronald Reagan The Ultimate Collection by Ronald Reagan
62. Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by R. L. Stevenson
63. The Big Burn by Timothy Egan
64. What I Saw at the Revolution by Peggy Noonan
65. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
66. Cancer Ward by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
67. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
68. The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski
69. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
70. The Fugitive by Marcel Proust, part 6 of Remembrance of Things Past
71. The Captive by Marcel Proust, part 5 of
72. Waterland by Graham Swift
73. The Faith; What Christians Believe, Why They Believe It, and Why It Matters by Charles W. Colson
74. Time Regained by Marcel Proust
75. Kristin Lavransdatter by Unser Unset
76. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
77. The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
78. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
79. Memoirs of a Peasant Boy by Xose Neira Vilas
80. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
81. Deadline in Athens by Petros Markaris
82. Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
83. Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day by Winifred Watson, ★★★★
84. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
85. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
86. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
87. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
88. The Graduate by Charles Webb ★★
89. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson,
90. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling,
91. We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo 12/4/14, ★★★★
92. Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee 12/6/14, ★★★★
95. Chocky by John Wyndham, 12/9/14, ★★★☆
96. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan ★★★☆
97. Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion, 12/18/14, ★★★☆
98. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote, 12/19/14, ★★★★
99. The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson, 12/21/14, ★★★★
100. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson, 12/16/14, ★★★★

Janaury 2014
I've read----
All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy 1/12/14 ★★★★
The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield (January BOTM for 1001 group) completed pdf ★★★★
The Golem and the Jinni by Wecker ≡ ★★★★
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by Mitchell ☊ 1/12/14 ★★★★★
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie ☊, completed 1/19/14, ★★★
Exercises in Style by Queneau 1/10/14 ★★★
The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis ★★★

Currently reading
The Good Soldier Svejk
Swann's Way
Genesis, Bible and commentary
The Passage of Power by Robert Caro ☊

Hello and welcome to the 75 challenge group of chatty, well read and very friendly folk.

Welcome! Anybody who like McCarthy is ok in my book. There's an American Authors Challenge going on here this year, and I think McCarthy is March.

Hi, Kristel! Welcome to the group!

Total books from January: 7
Books read in February 11
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro
By the Open Sea by August Strindberg
Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
Max Havelaar by Multatuli
Ignorance by Kundera
Timbuktu by Paul Auster
The Passage of Power by Robert Caro ☊
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Still Life by Louise Penny
Genesis I (Thru the Bible) by J. Vernon McGee

Currently reading
The Good Soldier Svejk
Swann's Way

Total books 18
March 2014 Books Read
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust ★ ★ ☆
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor ★ ★ ★ ☆
The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien ★ ★ ★ ☆
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent ★ ★ ★ ☆
The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer ★★ ★ ★★
Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier ★★ ★ ★ ☆
Genesis 2 (Thru the Bible) by J. Vernon McGee ★★ ★ ★ ☆
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K.Rowling
Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust ★ ★ ★

Currently reading
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek
Genesis 3 (Thru the Bible by J. Vernon McGee
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch

March, read 9 books
Total books for the year 27

April reading plans and otherwise
Total books for 2014--27
Total books for April: 9

Read:
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch COMPLETED 4/2/14, ★★ ★ ★☆March BOTM
The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna BOTM ★★★★
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek Seasonal ★★ ★
Genesis 3 (Thru the Bible) by J. Vernon McGee ★★★★★
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens Seasonal ★★★★
The Seventh Child by Erik Valeur Nordic mystery ★★★☆
The Last Days of California by Mary Miller f2f ★★☆
The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson Poetry
Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin ★★★★

Currently Reading
the Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust Yearly read
Thru the Bible Commentary, Volume 38, John, Chapters 1-10 by J. Vernon McGee

On Deck
Snow by Orhan Pamuk BOTM
Grimus by Salman Rushdie Random
Elizabeth Costello by J.M.Coetzee Random

April completed, total books for the year 36

MAY reading summary
Total books for 2014--47
Total books for May: 9

COMPLETED
The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust Yearly read 5/6/14, ★★★★
City of Women by David R. Gillham, 5/10/14 ★★★★
Thru the Bible Commentary, Volume 38, John, Chapters 1-10 by J. Vernon McGee
Snow by Orhan Pamuk 5/14/14 ★★★★
The Way to God by D.L.Moody 5/11/14 ★★★★
The Nine Taylors by Dorothy L. Sayers 5/22/14, ★★★★
Grimus by Salman Rushdie 5/26/14,★★★
Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust ★★☆ 5/30/14
The Shipyard by Juan Carlos Onetti, ★★★ 5/31/14

READING
John, chapters 11- 21 by J. Vernon McGee

ON DECK
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

June Reading Plans:

Left Overs
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

On Deck
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan

Currently Reading
John, chapters 11- 21 by J. Vernon McGee
American Pastoral by Phillip Roth

Completed
The Safety Net by Heinrich Böll
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
We Are Water by Wally Lamb
The Autumn of The Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Cain by José Saramago
Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience
We Are Water by Wally Lamb

Completed 7 books but failed woefully on my CAT and TIOLI challenges and PBT and am behind on 1001 BOTM reads. Lots to catch up on.

July books
Left Overs
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan

On deck

Currently Reading
Kristin Levransdatter by Sigrid Unset

Completed
American Pastoral by Phillip Roth
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia 7/7/14 ★★★☆
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 7/9/14 ★★★☆
Speeches by Ronald Reagan The Ultimate Collection
by Ronald Reagan
A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute
The Captive by Marcel Proust
John, chapters 11- 21 by J. Vernon McGee
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

AUGUST Books
Plans,
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by R. L. Stevenson COMPLETED, 8-2-14
The Master of Ballantrae by R. L. Stevenson
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn COMPLETED 8/25/14
Kristin Levransdatter by Sigrid Unset
The Faith, What Christians Believe, Why They Believe It, Why It Matters by Charles Colson
The Invention of Wings by Susan Monk Kidd COMPLETED 8/23/14
What I Saw at the Revolution: a Political Life in the Reagan Era by Peggy Noonan COMPLETED 8/9/14

September books
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
The Fugitive by Marcel Proust, part 6 of Remembrance of Things Past
Waterland by Graham Swift
The Faith; What Christians Believe, Why They Believe It, and Why It Matters by Charles W. Colson

October Cap
75. Kristin Lavransdatter by Unser Unset
76. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
77. The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
78. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
79. Memoirs of a Peasant Boy by Xose Neira Vilas
80. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
81. Deadline in Athens by Petros Markaris
82. Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan

Congrats on 75!

November Books:
Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day by Winifred Watson, 11/4/14, 4 stars
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy, 11/15/14, 4 stars
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, 11/20/14, ★★★☆
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes, 11/22/14, ★★★★
The Graduate by Charles Webb 11/24/14, ★★☆
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, 11/29/14, ★★★★☆

Book: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Author: J. K. Rowling
Narrator: Jim Dale
Published: 2002

Review: The fourth of the series and reportedly the best. So much going on in this book. Harry is about 14 and finds himself participating in games meant for 17 y/o. Someone wants Harry dead. There is more magic and dangers. I enjoyed this but found myself struggling to pay attention. I think it was more a problem of life interfering than the book being dull. I think it also reflects the increase in activity in the book. The reader is still excellent.

First sentence: The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it 'the Riddle House', even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there.

Last words: As Hagrid had said, what would come, would come...and he would have to meet it when it did.

Rating: good (3.5) ★★★☆

December reads
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
Elizabeth Costello by J.M.Coetzee
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Chocky by John Wyndham
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion, 12/18/14, ★★★☆
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote, 12/19/14, ★★★★
The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson, 12/21/14, ★★★★
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson, 12/16/14, ★★★★