Renald128's 40 book challenge for 2009

I was trying to start a new challenge for this year, so I'll start by saying that I'm reading Love In The Time Of Cholera and The Thirteenth Tale and I will update this thread as soon as I finish them...Let's just hope I can find the time to complete and exceed my 40 book challenge :D

Ok I finished my first 2009 book, which is Love In The Time Of Cholera, I only awarded 4.5 stars because from Gabriel García Marquez's books (like I have read many: only 2) I still prefer One Hundred Years Of Solitude but it still is a beautiful book and the bottom message of the book is that Love is and will always be timeless: what more beautiful message could you find in a love story? My mother tongue is spanish and this is one of the many books from this author that is considered classic latin-american literature and I recommend it to everyone who is a romantic at heart and loves romance novels (without them being cheesy), you will really enjoy it...

Finished The Thirteenth Tale

Books Read: 2

Finished The tales Of Beedle The Bard and loved it, the only sad thing is that it left me wanting more...

Books Read: 3

Finished Confessions Of A Shopaholic and really liked it, very light and fun to read

Books Read: 4

You are making great progress on your challenge. Everyone likes that Shopaholic book. I need to look into it. Happy Reading!
--BJ

If you liked Confessions of a Shopaholic, definitely check out the others in that series - the first one was my favorite, but the others are also plenty of fun!

#6: Thanks and I really liked it coz it was fast-paced and funny!

#7: Thanks el, I will try to get the other books but so far I haven't had much luck finding them...

I finished Inkspell and loved it, I think I like this one better than Inkheart even though the ending was bittersweet....

Books Read: 5

I just finished Marley and Me and loved it!

Books Read: 6

Finished The Book Thief and recommend it to everyone I know...

Books read: 7

# 9 Wasn't Marley and Me fun to read? The book was suggested to me by a LT member. It turned out I liked it more than I thought I did.

#10 I see that so many people have read The Book Thief in LT and now your are recommending it. Maybe I should think about putting it on my wish list.

Finished The Tale of Despereaux and it was a nice short story...

Books read: 8

Just reread Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone because I wanted some comfort reading and I always like to do a whole reread of the series before the movie comes out....and I loved it all over again and it reminded me of why I love reading and took me out of a little reading stump I was in.

Books read: 9

P.S. I know I shouldn't count rereads but to be fair I will try to read new books for the challenge and surpass the 40 book challenge

I count rereads. Sometimes you learn something new from a reread. :)
--BJ

Hi, Ron! Nice progress. I agree with billiejean. Rereads can always teach you something new from your previous reading, and sometimes we just need a comfort read. Hope you're feeling well!

I finished The Book of Lost Things and although it wasn't the story I imagined it is still very good....The story is darker than I thought it would be but it still was very surprising.

Books read: 10

Finished The Lightning Thief and I must say it was very entertaining and enjoyable.

Books read: 11

Finished the re-read of Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

Books read: 12

Finished The Angry Hills but I didn't like it but I read it as a recommedation...Oh well it still works for my challenge...

Books read:13

Hi, Ron!
Lucky #13! I hope that the next one is better. Have a great day!
--BJ

Finished My reread of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and I finished Breakfast At Tiffany's which was pretty short and I really enjoyed it.

Books read: 15

Finished my reread of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and remembered why it is my favorite one after Deathly Hallows in the series.

Books read:16

I think the new Harry Potter movie is coming out soon. Do you like the movies? I did everything backwards. I have seen the movies, but I have not read the books. My girls are working on me to read them, though. Have a great day!
--BJ

I haven't read or seen the movies of any of Harry Potter...now that is sad. Everyone has been telling me that they are good. Must you read them in order. I sometimes come across a used Happy Potter book and don't know where it is in the series and am reluctant to buy it.

I have only read a book twice once. I can't help but feel I am wasting my time. I can't get over it. There are about a million books I want to read before I die. Maybe after I have read the million I might go back and read one of those million again.

Keep up the good reading Renald128

#23: Yes! The new Harry Potter Movie is coming out on July 15th and I can't wait! and I love the movies my favorite ones are the third one (which is a great adaptation although not completely faithful to the book) and the fifth one (also a great adaptation and more faithful to the book than the third movie). I highly recommend that you read the books BJ. thanks for posting in the thread :D and you have a nice day too!

#24: Yes jacx the books are great and amazing, although the books (from 1 to 4 )can be understood alone it is better to follow the story in order. Here is the order just in case you should ever read them:

#1 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (you can also find it under the title of Philosopher's Stone)
#2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
#3 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
#4 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
#5 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
#6 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
#7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

And I understand what you mean about feeling you are wasting some of the time rereading a book, but my motto is that life is too short and if I really enjoyed the book once why not enjoy it more times :D. And actually before the reread of the series I was in a reading slump and reading the first book (which is the only reason I started reading in the first place) took me out of my slump and made me remember why I love reading so much. Thanks for posting and keep up the good reading, too! and as I said to Billiejean I highly recommend these books!

Just Finished The Uncommon Reader and it was really nice, it is a short book but very well written and interesting.

Books read:17

Thank you so so much. I think I will see if those books are available at our local library.

I finished yesterday my reread of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Books read: 18

Thought you may be interested in joining my new thread. Check it out.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/66785

Finished my reread of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with time to spare for the movie, and I have only two more weeks left of college so after that more time to read, hopefully

Books read: 19

Finished my reread of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and I must say I enjoyed it a lot more this time because I wasn't nervous about what was going to happen to my favorite characters and could just go with the flow :D.

Books read: 20

Finished reading Shibumi very enjoyable, very well written, hated some parts, loved others, all in all it's not a book I'll reread in the future....

Books read: 21

I have recently moved and unpacked most of my books. I see that I have Shibumi also. I just might pick that one up in the near future.

#32: It was very well written, hope you enjoy it, callmejacx!

I finished The Field Guide it's the first of the Spiderwick chronicles, it was really short and really enjoyable!

Books read: 22

Hi Ron! A co-worker told me about The Book of Lost Things I was thinking about picking it up.

I finished The Sea Of Monsters and it was awesome!! I enjoyed it more than The Lightning Thief

Books read:23

Finished The Titan's Curse and I am loving this series, the books get better and better!!

Books read: 24

Finished The Battle of the Labyrinth and it was awesome!! This series doesn't disappount!

Books read: 25

Finished The Demigod Files and it was really nice and short, it was an interesting side reading for the Percy Jackson series.

Books read: 26

Hey, Renald!
Those Percy Jackson books sound like good ones. I will have to check them out sometime. Have a great day!
--BJ

#39: You definitely should billiejean! I just finished the last one and it blew my mind! Thanks for stoping by and leaving a comment, have a great day yourself and happy reading!

Finished The Last Olympian and it was more than amazing, I couldn't put it down!

Books read: 27

Finished The Time Traveler's Wife and I must say it was very good, not my ultimate favorite, but pretty high on my list. I think Audrey Niffenegger did an awesome job planning this book with all the time traveling and stuff...

Books read: 28

Finished Artemis Fowl: The Artic Incident and it was entertaining and light. I must say that the character of Artemis changed a lot from book one to book two...I'm not sure I am happy with some of the changes...I would have to finish the whole series to see how the character evolves....

Books read:29

Just Finished Wicked Lovely and it was a very interesting book, I like how the characters evolve in the story and I enjoyed it a lot.

Books read: 30

I just finished Cortos (or Shorts by Alberto Fuguet) and it wasn't really my kind of book, reminded me a lot of a friend who wants to be a director but I have no idea why this was given as a present for me. Oh well I guess not all books can be mind blowing :P

Books read:31

Just finished reading Holes and I absolutely loved it! It was a very light but very well written book.

Books read: 32

You seem to be reading lots of good books these days. I think that most of them are floating around my house somewhere, so I ought to pick one of them up. Have a great day!
--BJ

#46: Yes, billiejean! I have read great books lately...not that I'm complaining :P

I finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and it was very good and a fast read...I already have the sequel so I am starting that one right now....

Books read: 33

I finished Sexo Sentido by Luis Fernández and it was ok...

Books read: 34

I finished The girl who played with fire it was very good but I could totally predict the ending...I have to wait a little bit before my friend lends me the third and last part of the Millenium trilogy so I am moving onto a different book....

Books read: 35

P.S. I am feeling the pressure to finish books faster so I can achieve the 40-book goal :P

You are almost there!
--BJ

I finished The 39 Clues Book One: The Maze of Bones and it was really good, short and fast paced I really liked it!

Books read: 36

#50: I know I am almost there but I have been so busy with college lately :P

I finished The 39 Clues Book Two: One False Note and it was good, entertaining and short.

Books read: 37

I finished Coraline and I loved every bit of it, it was creepy and dark and I think that the movie adaptation was a good one.

Books read: 38

I just finished The Road and it was a little bit depressing...

Books read: 39

I finished The 39 Clues: The sword Thief and it was very different from the previous two books in the series but it was ok...and with that I have already finished my 40 book challenge right on time!!!

Books read: 40!!