Claire ’s Comments (group member since Dec 07, 2016)

Claire ’s comments from the Around the Year in 52 Books group.

Some are excellent! I enjoyed a catcher in the rye and the kiterunner. Thought the Rosie project was a nice read. The same for Stieg Larssons book I was not especially fond of the life of Pi, but that is probably due to the kind of novel. Hope you'll enjoy!

great list! I love the name of the wind and Terry Goodkind /Robert Jordan of course:-) I hope you'll enjoy them. Misery and lord of the flies are good choices too.
We share some author names with different books and a few books. Looking forward to hear your opinion on them.

Such a wonderful list! I added a few on my TBR list:-) I think you'll have an amazing year reading so many great books.

The name of the wind and the great Gatsby both are wonderful books. Same for 100 years of solitude and love in times of cholera. We share only a few, but I'm interested in quite a few of your choices

I wished I could have this list:-) this would mean I could enjoy these great novels again. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a joy to read. Le petit prince and l'etranger are great books. And what to say of Gone with the wind and Anne of Green Gables? Delicious!
I also noticed we have a few in common. So nice to know:-)

Interesting list! I enjoyed going through it. We have a few in common, but you gave me ideas for other things to read.

Impressive!

Are you going to read all the books? Impressive list.

Nice list! Atonement is a wonderful book. I notice we are both reading Hans Fallada. I'm looking out for the one...

Great list you have and a quite few of my favourite books! Patrick Rothfuss book is awesome and so is the Curious incident...
We share some planned books too:-)
Good luck with the double challenge!

Read:
10/52
1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 The Widow
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view)
3. A book you meant to read in 2016 We Need to Talk About Kevin
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E" Wolf Hall
5. A historical fiction The Book Thief
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 The Glass Castle
7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title The Master and Margarita
8. A book written by a person of color
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list: Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
10. A dual-timeline novel Life After Life
11. A category from another challenge
12. A book based on a myth The Lightning Thief read: 4/10/2017
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors To the End of the Land or Collected Poems
14. A book with a strong female character My Brilliant Friend
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland) A Man Called Ove
16. A mystery The Girl on the Train
17. A book with illustrations jon I Want My Hat Back
18. A really long book (600+ pages) The Pillars of the Earth
19. A New York Times best-seller The Wrong Side of Goodbye
20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read A Storm of Swords
22. A book by an author you haven't read before: Middlesex
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link) Vanity Fair
24. A book written by at least twoauto's Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
25. A book about a famous historical figure?
26. An adventure book The Three Musketeers
27. A book by one of your favorite authors
_28. A non-fiction Mythologies
29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions Tre volte all'alba
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link) The Fault in Our Stars
31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre The Night Circus
32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle) Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada; Cien sonetos de amor
33. A magical realism novel 1Q84
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere In ongenade South Africa

35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty the romanov sistersThe Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link) The Graveyard Book
37. A book you choose randomly
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature Lavinia
39. An epistolary fiction The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
40. A book published in 2017: House of Names
41. A book with an unreliable narrator The Sense of an Ending
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far) A Visit from the Goon Squad
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold) The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link) The Color of Magic
45. A book with a one-word title Middlemarch
46. A time travel novel Time and Again
47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
48. A banned book The Color Purple
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf The Storyteller
50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition Alone in Berlin
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) Breakfast at Tiffany's
52. A book set in a fictional location Water en vuur

I have a few open spots and some overlapping with the popsugar reading challenge.
I hope to be able to do it as reading that many books in my non-native language ( lots haven't been translated or are out of print) might be the biggest challenge

Hi,

I'm claire, living in Belgium.
This group looks great and I am looking forward to next years book. Sometimes I will have to speed up, I fear as so many books aren't translated and I love to read originals, but that is much slower.
When can we start to read for this challenge?