Dusty Shelf Challenge

[Paul]

Launch Date 20th December

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excited!!

[Jo]

Ooo.....

[Sarah]

Drum roll please!!

[Jason]

Oooh. Sausage Roll please.

[Gail]

Looking forward to discovering what the challenges for 2015 are. Thanks to the mods for organising!

[Pat]

Sad peeps all of us. Yep. I'm excited too.

[Cathy]

Me too!!

[Paul]

Not long now...

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Tesse

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tease even

[Gail]

Tomorrow.....

[Jason]

Anybody else staying up until midnight to see what Paul's challenge is? I assume he will be posting it then... when it is officially the 20th December 2014.

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You may have to wait a little longer Jason...

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Yay! I'm starting with a conservative number on this one. I think I could use a number of dusty shelf books for the full deck challenge and don't want to run out!

[Paul]

Use them on both, and it runs for 18 months too

[Seraphina]

Can I ask what dusty shelf challenge is?

[Paul]

Did you not see the link in the message Seraphina?

[Seraphina]

I didn't get any message

[Paul]

It may well be your privacy settings then. Here is the link:
https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

and they can be found on the Book Vipers home page when you are on the web (not the app)

[Pamela]

I have tons of dusty shelf (and dusty table, dusty floor, dusty windowsill...) books so am aiming for one a month.

[Seraphina]

Thanks Paul

[Paul]

No problem

[Pink]

Great challenge, I already have a GR bookshelve for all the books I currently own but haven't read (150 of them) so I've added them all to this challenge shelf as well. My aim is to read 50.

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Ooh, can you use books for more than one challenge at a time

[Paul]

Of course!

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My list will be HUGE then. Hurray!!

[Cathy]

I'm going to aim for one a month but try and fill as many on the other challenge from my shelves, so hopefully it will end up being more by this time next year.

[Paul]

It does run until June 2016 Cathy!

[Jason]

I don't think I have anything really old on my shelf, I have done a good job this year getting through my back log.

[Pink]

Paul wrote: "It does run until June 2016 Cathy!"

I never noticed you were running this challenge into mid 2016! You'd think that's enough time for me to get through the backlog, but we'll see.

[Cathy]

That's good news! I have things on my shelves that are 10 or even 20 years old. I should count them up but I'm too scared to...

[Paul]

Cathy wrote: "That's good news! I have things on my shelves that are 10 or even 20 years old. I should count them up but I'm too scared to..."

Me too Cathy! And I have never walked passed an open bookshop either.

[Gisela]

Thanks Paul and thanks from the long-neglected but probably great books lying on the shelf.

[Seraphina]

I have just started my challenge with Dissident Gardens
Will be nice to finish what's on the shelves but I know what'll happen, more will get added inevitably

[Gisela]

I have just brought back "The year of reading dangerously" and read the A Word of Explanation and have finally started Red Sorghum which I wanted to read for ages as well as The Scarlet Letter. I am really interested in both of these and read the first pages a couple of times, but then the next Scandinavian crime or a new book by one of my favourite authors has come in between. But, read they will be now.

[Gisela]

Finished Red Sorghum - Absolutely amazing epic novel. Now totally ashamed that I let it sit on my shelf for 3 years. Thanks Paul, something tells me without this challenge it might still lie. Can't say the same for The Scarlet Letter - the introduction is HEAVY, but I shall persevere. Onwards also with the Year of reading dangerously.

[Gail]

I have just collectedHowards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home from the library and read the first few pages. Has anyone else started yet?

[Paul]

I finished it yesterday Gail.

[Pat]

May have to read it last. Not available in our library in Cornwall and expensive online. Will need the year to hunt it down in bookshops.

[Jason]

Same here Pat, tried that overdrive too.

[Gisela]

Gail wrote: "I have just collectedHowards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home from the library and read the first few pages. Has anyone else started yet?"

I've also started and read the introduction and the first chapter. I think it is one of these, where you can read other books on the side. I have my copy also from our local library. I was surprised that they had it. Well done East Sussex Library Service.

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I've ordered it from the library but haven't been able to collect it yet. Hoping to pick it up on Monday.

How was it Paul?

[Paul]

Wasn't bad at all Charlotte

[Pamela]

Just finished Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home too, quite an easy read with short snappy chapters, and some interesting opinions

[Gisela]

I'm up to Book Ten. I find it comforting that even a man who has not only studied English literature, worked for years in a great bookshop, is and editor if I am not mistaken get's derailed by life into not having enough time to read. Can't say I have quite ever fibbed as much as he has about what I've read, but of course have not pointed out that I haven't read something which everybody else in a conversation seem to have read.... The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch is one of the books on my shelf too and before this, I only ever heard people raving about it. His description hasn't hightened the attraction. Generally I don't think Andy Miller and I would agree much on books, but let's wait and see.

I have finished another one on my shelf Ostfriesen Killer by Klaus-Peter Wolf and am half way through the Scarlet Letter, which I still do not care much for. So think I am doing well, and will be reading "Natchez Burning" by Greg Iles, for which I had lots of Goodreads friends recommendation and sounds just what is needed for the last day before going back to work. A treat.

[Aisling]

I've heard a lot of unfavourable reviews of Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home. Apparently it's too focused on name-dropping and not focused enough on her exploration of the books, which has put me off a bit.

[Pat]

Love Iris Murdoch. Was put off for years by The Sea the sea. Never liked it. One of my sis in laws favourites though. We are all different I guess.

[Debbie]

Just finished my first book for the dusty shelf Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home. I can't say anyhting other than I was very disappointed and wish I'd read Howards End instead!!!
Here's my review www.goodreads.com/review/show/836322165

[Sha'ron]

I have only finished two books so far on my bookshelf but I am comfortable with my pace after reading Howard's Landing. I am just enjoying picking up books I have always intended to read.