Challenge: 50 Books discussion
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Chris Craves Catalytic Compositions - 2010
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February 1, 2010 update:1.
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Feb 12th update: Nearing the end of Week 6 (and about half way through book #6)1.
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Now: to either continue with Jesus Land (Jesus Land: A Memoir) or to begin my first collection of Tolstoy (The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories).....1.
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Check out my review of TGG... I finally finished it (having skipped the last 2 chapters when having to read it in high school).
Still reading... I'm in debt 2 books as of today (for Feb 28th and March 7th), but I've got a few books in the works:Feb 28th book (that's causing all the problems) - Tolstoy short stories
March 7th book (TBD) - probably Into the Wild, since it's an easy read.
March 14th (week starts tomorrow) - either Other Voices, Other Rooms or Vonnegut's Breakfast Club.
Plan: Finish Tolstoy today, read two books next week.
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Now to catch up with 2 books by Sunday.
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I owe one book by tomorrow... so catching up!
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March 14 - book 10
March 21 - owe book 11
March 28 - owe book 12
April 4 - scheduled book 13...
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March 28 - owe book 12
April 4 - owe book 13
April 11 - owe book 14
April 18 (tomorrow) - owe book 15
Oops, so I lost some momentum. Time to wuss out, find some short books and rack 'em back up.
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April 4 - owe book 13
April 11 - owe book 14
April 18 - owe book 15
April 27 - owe book 16
May 2 - owe book 17
May 9 - book 18
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April 11 - owe book 14 (working on The Omnivore's Dilemma)
April 18 - owe book 15 (working on The Blind Assassin)
April 27 - owe book 16 (working on The Triathlete's Training Bible)
May 2 - owe book 17 (working on Jesus Land, sort of)
May 9 - owe book 18 (next Grad Women's Group book?)
May 16 - book 19 (etc.)
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April 11 - owe book 14 (working on The Omnivore's Dilemma)
April 18 - owe book 15 (working on The Blind Assassin)
April 27 - owe book 16 (working on The Triathlete's Training Bible)
May 2 - owe book 17 (working on Jesus Land, sort of)
May 9 - owe book 18 (next Grad Women's Group book?)
May 16 - book 19 (etc)
May 23 - book 20 (etc)
Dang! I'm struggling! :P
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April 18 - owe book 15 (working on The Blind Assassin)
April 27 - owe book 16 (working on The Triathlete's Training Bible)
May 2 - owe book 17 (working on Jesus Land, sort of)
May 9 - owe book 18 (next Grad Women's Group book?)
May 16 - book 19 (etc)
May 23 - book 20 (etc)
May 31 - Crap! The Lacuna?
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Way below the ambitious 50-book goal, but still more books read this year than in every year past (it must be true, surely!)
Books in the work (some "still", shown with progress and "probability of finishing before January 1" data):
a) The Lacuna ~80%; P(finish)=0.99
b) The Fever ~10%; P(finish)=0.80
c) La ciudad y los perros ~15%; P(finish)=0.48
d) The Blind Assasin ~20%; P(finish)=0.07
e) The Meaning of Wife ~0%; P(finish)=0.35
f) The Female Brain ~0%; P(finish)=0.15
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Final Count: 17 (to completion)1.
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Challenge: 50 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
A Thousand Splendid Suns (other topics)The Time Traveler's Wife (other topics)
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (other topics)
Into the Wild (other topics)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (other topics)
More...
I'm in a graduate women's book club that reads 1 book per month, so I've got to keep ahead of them. I'm also one of those people that reads 10 books at a time (thanks Kindle).
Here's the damage I've done so far:
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