Lindsay's 2016 reading challenge - 80

[Lindsay]

I'm aiming to read 46 books this year. It's not an entirely random number. I reckon I can manage a book a week with 6 weeks spare in case I get bogged down. I get through books quickly when I'm enjoying them but if I'm not it takes me an age to finish. I can't bear to give up though, so I will generally finish even if I don't enjoy a book. I need to get through some of the e-books I've bought and not read...

[Lindsay]

#1) When the Lion Feeds - Wilbur Smith ***** finished 6th Jan

#2) Sound of Thunder - Wilbur Smith **** finished 13th Jan

#3) My Cleaner - Maggie Gee **** finished 21st Jan

[Lindsay]

#4) Damocles -S G Redling ***** finished 25th Jan

[Winter, Group Reads]

Good luck with your goal Lindsay :) You are off to a great start already:) I like Wilbus Smith too. Especially his Egypt books.

[Lindsay]

Winter wrote: "Good luck with your goal Lindsay :) You are off to a great start already:) I like Wilbus Smith too. Especially his Egypt books."

Thank you. Slowed down a bit but still on track!

[Lindsay]

#5) Tam O'Shanter -Robert Burns ***
#6) Death of a Gossip - MC Beaton ****
#7) The Martian - Andy Weir *****
#8) The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson ***

[Lindsay]

#9) Divergent - Veronica Roth **** finished 15th Feb

[Lindsay]

#10) The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon - Alexander McCall Smith *** finished 19th Feb
#11) Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn ** finished 23rd Feb
#12) A Dog's Purpose - W Bruce Cameron *** finished 28th Feb

[Lindsay]

#13) The Girl in Room Fourteen - Carol Drinkwater *** started and finished 29th February
#14) We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson *** finished 4th March
#15) The Girl In Between - Laekan Zea Kemp*** finished 8th March
#16) The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy - Rachel Joyce *** finished 12th March
#17) The Boy In Her Dreams - Laekan Zea Kemp *** finished 17th March
#18) Trading Futures - Jim Powell ** finished 18th March

[Cassandra]

Awesome job, Lindsay!

[Lindsay]

#19) Crazy Little Thing - Tracy Brogan *** finished 23rd March

Thank you Cassandra. Getting through the books better than the chores!

[Lindsay]

#20) Wife 22 - Melanie Gideon *** finished 31st March

[Lindsay]

#21) Hot Milk - Deborah Levy ** finished 1st April

[Lindsay]

#22) Hollow Earth - John and Carole Barrowman **** finished 3rd April
#23) The Book Thief - Markus Zusak **** finished 11th April

Half way to target.

[Cassandra]

Congratulations on hitting the halfway mark!

[Lindsay]

Thank you so much. It's amazing how much this group has focussed me.

[Cassandra]

We like to hear that! It does for me too - it puts reading in the forefront of my brain and I get so many good recommendations that I read extra to try to get to them. :)

[Lindsay]

That is my biggest problem! I keep seeing things that look interesting and collecting them like a magpie.

#24) Stones for My Father - Trilby Kent *** finished 12th April

[Lindsay]

#25) Cinder - Marissa Meyer **** finished 14th April

[Lindsay]

#26) Yellow Star - Jennifer Roy **** finished 20th April

[Lindsay]

#27) The Still Point - Amy Sackville * finished 21st April

This is beautifully written but I didn't really engage with it.

[Lindsay]

#28) 1980: You Shook Me All Night Long, A New Adult Mix - Casey L Bond ** finished 22nd April

[Lindsay]

#29) Nagasaki - Eric Faye **** finished 23rd April

[Lindsay]

#30) A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare ** finished 26th April

[Winter, Group Reads]

You are crushing your goal Lindsay! :)

[Lindsay]

Winter wrote: "You are crushing your goal Lindsay! :)"

Thank you! Think I will need to up it soon!

31) Ten Days - Gillian Slovo *** finished 29th April

[Lindsay]

#32) Life of Pi *** finished 30th April

[Winter, Group Reads]

Lindsay wrote: "Winter wrote: "You are crushing your goal Lindsay! :)"

Thank you! Think I will need to up it soon!

31) Ten Days - Gillian Slovo *** finished 29th April"

You can do that, no problem! I had to do that last year too ^^

[Lindsay]

#33) London Calling - James Craig *** finished 3rd May

[Lindsay]

#34) Stardust - Neil Gaiman **** finished 5th May

[Lindsay]

#35) Want to Know a Secret? - Sue Moorcroft *** finished 8th May

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#36) Every Time We Say Goodbye - Kristina McMorris *** finished 11th May

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#37) In Too Deep - Bea Davenport **** finished 14th May

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#38) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens **** finished 15th May

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#39) Chasing Rainbows- Kathleen Long ***** finished 15th May

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#40) The Typewriter's Tale - Michiel Heyns **** finished 21st May

[Lindsay]

#41) You will be Alright - E L Todd **** finished 28th May

[Lindsay]

#42) War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman- Leo Tolstoy **** finished 30th May
A lifetime goal achieved!

[Lindsay]

#43) Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine **** finished 11th June

[Lindsay]

#44) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ***** finished 15th June

[Lindsay]

#45) Ready for Love - EL Todd *** finished 16th June

[Lindsay]

#46) Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley **** finished 17th June

[Lindsay]

# 47) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ***** finished 19th June

Have updated my yearly goal to 80 books too.

[Winter, Group Reads]

Your challenge still says 46 books, do you want me to move it to the correct folder? Just change the name to say 80 books :) Congrats with the increase!

[Lindsay]

Winter wrote: "Your challenge still says 46 books, do you want me to move it to the correct folder? Just change the name to say 80 books :) Congrats with the increase!"

That would be great Winter. Thank you!

[Winter, Group Reads]

You're very welcome :)

[Lindsay]

#48) Grace Grows - Shelle Sumners *** finished 24th June

[Lindsay]

#49) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith ** finished 26th June

[Lindsay]

#50) Return to the Olive Farm. Carol Drinkwater - Carol Drinkwater **** finished 26th June

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#51) And Still I Rise - Doreen Lawrence **** finished 6th July