I have now achieved a 100 book challenge in 11 months-happy dance time
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I intend to now choose a big, big book (novel or non fiction to be decided) to keep me occupied until next year. I have 623 with 50 more in the pipeline on my TBR read so only about 7 years behind in my reading!
This is so high because I joined two swap sites about a year ago. One was Bookmooch and the other was ReaditSwapit so managed to clear out about the same number of books no longer wanted. I also got over 30 boxes of books(over 1000 books) from my local freecycle site. I have used these to swap for books I want. And still have several boxes to put on my inventories! Because I have so many books, they have a chapter to convince me it worth my while...fail and its in the recycle box.
Currently reading Jesus Sound Explosion (Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction) by Mark Curtis Anderson
I have now achieved a 100 book challenge
The 101 books read so far since the 1st January 2007 are
12 Books That Changed the World by Melvyn Bragg
13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them
by Ronald B. Tobias
48 laws of power by Robert Green
99 ways to tell a story : exercises in styleby Matt Madden
253 by Geoff Ryman
A Hat full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright
A Walk In The Woods : Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
A universal History of Infamy by Jorge Luis Borgess
Are You Experienced? by William Sutcliffe
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast by Charlie Connelly
Beyond belief : the secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels
Beyond black by Hilary Mantel
Boy A By Jonathan Trigell
Calendar : Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year David Ewing Duncan
Castle of Wizardry by David Eddings
Dance dance dance by Haruki Murakami
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
Desperately Seeking Paradise by Ziauddin Sardar
Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen
Down Under by Bill Bryson
Enchanters' End Game by David Eddings
Even Monkeys Fall from Trees and Other Japanese Proverbs by David Galef
Everything is Illuminated : a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
Fireworks by Angela Carter
Fraud : essays by David Rakoff
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
Gladys reunited : a personal American journey by Sandi Toksvig
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Ground and Spring by Beth Allen
Guns, germs and steel by Jared Diamond
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J.K. Rowling
Holes by Louis Sachar
Hollywood Babylon: Kenneth Anger
An Introduction to Ethics (University Paperbacks)
by William Lillie
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Little Infamies : Stories by Panos Karnezis
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Magician's Gambit by David Eddings
Me talk pretty one day by David Sedaris
Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman
Mr Starlight by Laurie Graham
Most Embarrassing Moments... the Book of Cringe
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Notes from a small island by Bill Bryson
Pavane by Keith Roberts
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
Pelikan : Love, Redemption & Felony Theft : a novel of the French Quarter by David Lozell Martin
Queen of Sorcery by David Eddings
Read My Lips : A Treasury of the Things Politicians Wish They Hadn't Said by Matthew Parris
Red Dust : a Path Through China by Ma Jian
Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Time and Again by Jack Finney
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them) by Jack M. Bickham
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys
The Eyre affair by Jasper Fforde
The god of small things by Arundhati Roy
The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong
The historian : a novel by Elizabeth Kostova
The History of Danish Dreams by Peter Hoeg
The Illuminatus!: Trilogy by Robert Shea **
The Key : How to Write Damn Good Fiction Using the Power of Myth by James N. Frey
The Last Tsar : the Life and Death of Nicholas II
by Edvard Radzinsky
The Life and times of The Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The memory keeper's daughter by Kim Edwards
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
The Origins of the British by Stephen Oppenheimer
The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould
The Professor and the Madman : a Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis
The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction (Rough Guides Reference Titles) by Paul Simpson
The seven Cs of consulting : the definitive guide to the consulting process by Mick Cope
The Sot-weed Factor by John Barth
The year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Pleasantries of the incredible Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah
The Year of the French : a novel
by Thomas Flanagan
The undercover economist by Tim Harford
The Weight of Numbers by Simon Ings
Thursday Next in Lost in a Good Book : a novel by Jasper Fforde
What a Carve up! by Jonathan Coe
A Whack on the Side of the Head : How You Can Be More Creative by Roger Von Oech
What Ifs? of American History : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been by Robert Cowley
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions
Why People Hate America? by Ziauddin Sardar
Zarafa by Michael Allin
** counts as three books
This is so high because I joined two swap sites about a year ago. One was Bookmooch and the other was ReaditSwapit so managed to clear out about the same number of books no longer wanted. I also got over 30 boxes of books(over 1000 books) from my local freecycle site. I have used these to swap for books I want. And still have several boxes to put on my inventories! Because I have so many books, they have a chapter to convince me it worth my while...fail and its in the recycle box.
Currently reading Jesus Sound Explosion (Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction) by Mark Curtis Anderson
I have now achieved a 100 book challenge
The 101 books read so far since the 1st January 2007 are
12 Books That Changed the World by Melvyn Bragg
13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them
by Ronald B. Tobias
48 laws of power by Robert Green
99 ways to tell a story : exercises in styleby Matt Madden
253 by Geoff Ryman
A Hat full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright
A Walk In The Woods : Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
A universal History of Infamy by Jorge Luis Borgess
Are You Experienced? by William Sutcliffe
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast by Charlie Connelly
Beyond belief : the secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels
Beyond black by Hilary Mantel
Boy A By Jonathan Trigell
Calendar : Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year David Ewing Duncan
Castle of Wizardry by David Eddings
Dance dance dance by Haruki Murakami
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
Desperately Seeking Paradise by Ziauddin Sardar
Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen
Down Under by Bill Bryson
Enchanters' End Game by David Eddings
Even Monkeys Fall from Trees and Other Japanese Proverbs by David Galef
Everything is Illuminated : a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
Fireworks by Angela Carter
Fraud : essays by David Rakoff
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
Gladys reunited : a personal American journey by Sandi Toksvig
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Ground and Spring by Beth Allen
Guns, germs and steel by Jared Diamond
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J.K. Rowling
Holes by Louis Sachar
Hollywood Babylon: Kenneth Anger
An Introduction to Ethics (University Paperbacks)
by William Lillie
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Little Infamies : Stories by Panos Karnezis
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Magician's Gambit by David Eddings
Me talk pretty one day by David Sedaris
Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman
Mr Starlight by Laurie Graham
Most Embarrassing Moments... the Book of Cringe
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Notes from a small island by Bill Bryson
Pavane by Keith Roberts
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
Pelikan : Love, Redemption & Felony Theft : a novel of the French Quarter by David Lozell Martin
Queen of Sorcery by David Eddings
Read My Lips : A Treasury of the Things Politicians Wish They Hadn't Said by Matthew Parris
Red Dust : a Path Through China by Ma Jian
Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Time and Again by Jack Finney
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them) by Jack M. Bickham
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys
The Eyre affair by Jasper Fforde
The god of small things by Arundhati Roy
The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong
The historian : a novel by Elizabeth Kostova
The History of Danish Dreams by Peter Hoeg
The Illuminatus!: Trilogy by Robert Shea **
The Key : How to Write Damn Good Fiction Using the Power of Myth by James N. Frey
The Last Tsar : the Life and Death of Nicholas II
by Edvard Radzinsky
The Life and times of The Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The memory keeper's daughter by Kim Edwards
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
The Origins of the British by Stephen Oppenheimer
The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould
The Professor and the Madman : a Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis
The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction (Rough Guides Reference Titles) by Paul Simpson
The seven Cs of consulting : the definitive guide to the consulting process by Mick Cope
The Sot-weed Factor by John Barth
The year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Pleasantries of the incredible Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah
The Year of the French : a novel
by Thomas Flanagan
The undercover economist by Tim Harford
The Weight of Numbers by Simon Ings
Thursday Next in Lost in a Good Book : a novel by Jasper Fforde
What a Carve up! by Jonathan Coe
A Whack on the Side of the Head : How You Can Be More Creative by Roger Von Oech
What Ifs? of American History : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been by Robert Cowley
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions
Why People Hate America? by Ziauddin Sardar
Zarafa by Michael Allin
** counts as three books
2Adobe
Congratulations! If you're looking for fat books to fill the rest of the year, I suspect nineteenth-century novels would fit the bill. Middlemarch? Bleak House? War and Peace?
3wester
{moved from the other blueidol thread}
Hi,
Congrats!
I saw you on the BM forum but I'm reacting here because this is easier to find.
Nice to find someone who loves the 13 1/2 lives of Cap'tain Bluebear as well. So much fantasy and wackiness.
Could you go a bit deeper into the Memory Keeper's Daughter? If it's as wonderful as you say maybe I should mooch it too.
Hi,
Congrats!
I saw you on the BM forum but I'm reacting here because this is easier to find.
Nice to find someone who loves the 13 1/2 lives of Cap'tain Bluebear as well. So much fantasy and wackiness.
Could you go a bit deeper into the Memory Keeper's Daughter? If it's as wonderful as you say maybe I should mooch it too.
