Self challenge - Joo's going to read all her really old books

[Joo]

Patrice Fitzgerald Running READ 4*
Phil Edwards Cloud Crash: A Technothriller
Rebecca Forster Hostile Witness BIN


Ariel Allison Eye of the God READ 4*
David Grace A Death In Beverly Hills READ 4*
Dennis Batchelder Soul Identity READ 4*
J.N. Duncan Deadworld READ 4*
Jackie Rutledge Deadworld READ 4*
Jeffrey Archer Kane and Abel
Richard Mabry Code Blue READ 3*
Simon Royle Tag READ 4*
Stephen Leather Hard Landing HALF READ 2*
Timothy Frost The Abigail Affair READ 4*
Gordon Mackenzie The True Story of the First Bicycle in The Antarctic READ 4*
Donna Fasano The Merry-Go-Round READ 4*

A. Sparrow Peregrin BIN
A. Sparrow Xenolith BIN
Catherine Cooper The Golden Acorn BIN
Charlotte Brontë Villette BIN
Eric Meyer Killing Faith BIN
J.A. Konrath Jack Daniels Stories BIN
James LePore A World I Never Made BIN
Louise Voss Are You My Mother? BIN
Louise Voss To Be Someone BIN
Marilyn Brown Oden The Dead Saint BIN
Michael R. Hicks In Her Name: Redemption BIN
Michael Wallace The Kingdom of Bears BIN
Noel Hynd Hostage in Havana BIN
Olivia Cunning Backstage Pass BIN
R.G. Cordiner Treasure Lost BIN
Stephen Leather Inspector Zhang Gets His Wish BIN
Thomas Hoover Life Blood BIN
Thomas Hoover Syndrome BIN
Thomas Hoover The Samurai Strategy BIN
Thomas Hoover Caribbee BIN
Tim Sandlin Skipped Parts BIN
Sandra Hill A Dixie Christmas BIN
Ernest Shackleton South: The story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914 - 1917 BIN
Blake Crouch Desert Places BIN
Blake Crouch Thicker Than Blood - The Complete Andrew Z. Thomas Series BIN
Helen Smith The Miracle Inspector BIN
Jack Kilborn Flee BIN
Jan Hurst-Nicholson The Breadwinners BIN
Paul Levine Ballistic BIN
Renee Pawlish This Doesn't Happen In The Movies BIN
Saffina Desforges Saffina Desforges Presents.... BIN
Scott Nicholson The Dead Love Longer BIN
Stephanie Zia Babe On Board BIN

[Joo]

I reshuffled so my post is at the top of page 2 :)

I don't mind Blake Crouch or Konrath.
I'd mainly ignored the Hoovers and Leathers.

[Jud]

I'm glad to see I have no books by Thomas Hoover and only one by Stephen Leather and that I have read, it was a short story, I don't remember anything about it

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I binned all the Blake Crouches I had, too.

Ick."

I liked the one of his I read this year, and Konrath.

[Joo]

I'm now reading The True Story of the First Bicycle in The Antarctic by Gordon Mackenzie.
I thought it was a true story, but it seems it's not. It's very enjoyable even though it has a few typos. It's about a handy man at the McMurdo base and the descriptions of the base are quite bleak.

[Jud]

It's weird it's called a true story if it isn't a true story... bit misleading

[Kath]

It's what, in the Olden Days, we used to call A Lie.

[Jud]

Kath wrote: "It's what, in the Olden Days, we used to call A Lie."

*chuckles*

I'm going to use that from now on. "I didn't lie, I mislead you"

[Joo]

I enjoyed the "liar" book :)
I binned the Shackelton one and I'm sure I'd read the Dixie Christmas one, so I binned that too.

[Jud]

I binned Dixie Christmas just from reading the blurb earlier on! I got rid of about 30 books earlier just from blurbs and titles

[Joo]

I've binned a load more. I enjoyed the Donna Fasano romantic one.
I spotted my Complete Andrew Z collection has Desert Places in it, so that makes it just 4 books left

Perhaps I'll add January 2012 books to my old books challenge.

[Joo]

I binned the Blake Crouches, so jut 3 to go.
I have filled my collection with the first 3 months of 2012 already :)

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Joo wrote: "I binned the Blake Crouches, so jut 3 to go.
I have filled my collection with the first 3 months of 2012 already :)"

How come you binned the Blake Crouch?

[Joo]

I anticipated it was going to get nasty and I decided I didn't want nasty.
I've read Serial and those ones and I know BC likes to write nasty.

[Pam]

I read a James Patterson years ago that I thought was very nasty and I've avoided those since.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Joo wrote: "I anticipated it was going to get nasty and I decided I didn't want nasty.
I've read Serial and those ones and I know BC likes to write nasty."

Fair enough - think that's what appeals to me.

[Joo]

My thoughts on reading James Patterson is White.
As in all the short chapters and lots of half pages of text leaving a lot of whiteness.

[Joo]

And some people like nasty, and I do sometimes, but this time I didn't want if.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Joo wrote: "My thoughts on reading James Patterson is White.
As in all the short chapters and lots of half pages of text leaving a lot of whiteness."

Good point!

[Joo]

Ooo, with one read and one binned, there's just one left.

[Joo]

And even though the reviews aren't so good, it's readable. Probably a 3*

A summary of my 2011 book habits:

Downloaded 275
Paid £38.15 for 37
Read 194

1* 1
2* 8
3* 68
4* 84
5* 33
binned 81

[Jud]

Wow. I have 456 downloaded books in 2011. (Out of interest I have checked my own stats, hope you don't mind!)

Downloaded 456
Paid £63.50 for 32 - all read except for 1 at £0.70
Read 131
Discarded 51
Unread 274

Think I have a while to go before I clear out all my 2011 books but at least I am making some sort of headway.

[Jud]

Oh and well done for getting through all of yours!! Will you be moving on to 2012 books?

[Joo]

Yes.

I moved 4 months worth into my "2011" folder. I need to change that now :)
I'm not going to list them though

I downloaded 425 in 2012 and have read 251 of them, binning 89.
So I have about 84 left to go through.
I paid £40.23 for 37 of them

[Pam]

Phew! That's amazing Joo. I used to buy a lot of physical books in the pre Kindle days, and still acquire a few here and there, so my priority is to shift those out of the door, but I do want to get to the ones on my Kindle too. Well done for reading so many of those.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Pam wrote: "Phew! That's amazing Joo. I used to buy a lot of physical books in the pre Kindle days, and still acquire a few here and there, so my priority is to shift those out of the door, but I do want to ge..."

That's why I have one of each on the go, have over 100 unread books in the house! As soon as it gets to a reasonable amount someone donates more to the charity

[Joo]

I used to have 8-10 library books on the go. I'd get as many as possible and as soon as I was through, go back for more and if they were good, I'd renew all of them.
I'd be given a bag of books off the brother in law or father in law and the books would go around. So I'd rarely ever given the author/publisher any of my money.
Even though I pick up freebies, I've spent more on my kindle books than paperbacks.

In fact my tally is about 1594 books paying £288.91
And I have a 25-30% discard rate for the first 2 years

I love spreadsheets :)

[Pam]

That's really organised Joo. The only way I track them is by putting them on GR though I've only been doing that since last May. So I know I've read loads before that but can't remember anything about most of them!

I also have a lot of library books out and usually have to keep renewing them till I get round to it though I did read 2 in the last couple of weeks and took them back (and took out another one)!

Desley, I need to handle the trick of reading one of my Kindle novels too. So far, I only have multiple physical books on the go, some mine and some from the library.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

I miss going to the library and getting books, but I have so many to read, especially seeing as you can get up to 12 books out at a time, and only 3 weeks to read them. There are a couple of books by favourite authors I want to read that are quite expensive on kindle, I'm looking in charity shops for them, but might relent and go to the library.

Pam - I like quite thick books, so having a kindle in my handbag means I don't have to worry about a book being too big.

[Pam]

I've just made the mistake of starting to borrow ebooks from the library as if I haven't got enough of their physical ones out! Oh dear!

[Pam]

That's a good point about the doorstops not being a problem on Kindle. My problem is that I have quite a few in physical form, esp. a whole bunch by Robin Hobb. I have to get back to her Ship series soon as it's been ages since I read books 1 and 2, but the sheer slog to get through a large book is putting me off rather.

[Joo]

I must admit I prefer starting shorter books. Although if I'm really enjoying them I wish they were longer.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Pam wrote: "I've just made the mistake of starting to borrow ebooks from the library as if I haven't got enough of their physical ones out! Oh dear!"

Oops!!

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Joo wrote: "I must admit I prefer starting shorter books. Although if I'm really enjoying them I wish they were longer."

The other year I tried to read 100 books and found I kept choosing short books, but I like long books, so I reduced the number of books and deliberately choose a percentage of long books.

[Joo]

I posted somewhere that I was 16 books behind on my goodreads challenge of 150 books.
After being on hols for 10 days, I'm on track.

I binned all my Bob Mayers.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Joo wrote: "I posted somewhere that I was 16 books behind on my goodreads challenge of 150 books.
After being on hols for 10 days, I'm on track.

I binned all my Bob Mayers."

Wow! I'm 4 behind

[Joo]

Sounds like you need a lazy holiday :)

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Joo wrote: "Sounds like you need a lazy holiday :)"

Yep!

[Joo]

Well I know I did this challenge a long time back, but I've just about done my 150 books for 2016 challenge.
I seem to have 155 books logged on my spreadsheet but 150 on my GR, so I suppose there's a few that haven't been released yet.
I'll have to think of a 2017 challenge - th eongoing one is sort out all the old books, so I suppose it will be read all my 2012 books :) Perhaps next years challenge should be 2012 + 2013.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Fab. Good luck with the 2017 challenge, I'm keeping the same next year

[Pam]

Good luck with your next challenge Joo.

[Joo]

Thanks.
I've not done well so far as the first book I've started this year is not out yet :)

[Patti (baconater)]

Good luck, Joo!

You can edit your thread title to reflect your current challenge if you like.
You don't have to, of course. Just didn't know if you knew you could.

[Joo]

And the second book I've started isn't out yet, either.
Damn you super good indie authors.

[Joo]

Yay, I'm reading a 2012 book. And enjoying it too.
Heartbreaker by Julie Morrigan

[Joo]

I've enjoyed quite a few 2012 purchases recently.
Blood Money
Game Changer
Heartbreaker
Resurrection

I like Ken McClure's books, but he really lets himself down with the quality of his books with regards typos. I have a feeling they are older books that have been scanned.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Joo wrote: "I've enjoyed quite a few 2012 purchases recently.
Blood Money
Game Changer
Heartbreaker
Resurrection

I like [author:Ken McClure|3588..."

I have had to give up on some of his books, shame as he isn't a bad writer.