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Just finished book 56! Have my "on deck" & "to be read" lists updated now too :)I can definitely meet this goal :)
Lisa wrote: "Just finished book 56! Have my "on deck" & "to be read" lists updated now too :)I can definitely meet this goal :)"
I do see the light at the end of tunnel here!!! You're doing great!!!! And like andrea said- that is one ambitious list!!! Are you working on Dr. boxall's 1001 books you must read before you die"? because I see alot of titles here that are on it!
Hi Joy, Yep, I'm in the 1001 group here too, so I'm working my way through the list, LOL! I'm also working my way through the various Banned/Challenged lists.
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Just finished & reviewed The Genesis Secret, so I'm at 63! Returned both Dirk Gently & Of Love & Shadows to the library, my time was up on them & I'd already renewed them once so I couldn't keep them out any longer, I'll recheck them out again when I finish up some of the others.
Finished Mice & Men a couple of days ago & In Cold Blood last night :) Both very good reads!
Lisa wrote: "Hi Joy, Yep, I'm in the 1001 group here too, so I'm working my way through the list, LOL! I'm also working my way through the various Banned/Challenged lists."I am also in that group! I like lists! lol...I enjoy trying to get through them! I would be further along on the list, but for some reason I keep buying books that are not on the list...dumb me! lol
Started Fanny Hill last night, got 75 pages into it & didn't want to put it down! Even though it is definitely erotica, it's really cute, the descriptions of "the act" are pretty funny, but I can see why it was so shocking back in 1749 when it was written, LOL. This will be a fast, fun, light read even though it's on the 1001 list. It's a refreshing break from some of the heavier lit that's on that list.Started The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test yesterday too. This is my first Tom Wolfe book, so I was glad it started off with a really good hook about hippies in the back of a pickup truck & the girl picking off people in the crowd with a marshmallow gun while they were on their way for the journalist in the truck to get into the jail to get an interview with Ken Kesey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest while he was there on drug charges. If the rest of the book is this good, this one should be a fun read too.
Fanny Hill was a HOOT!!!!! Don't be intimidated by the fact that it's erotica! The story starts out sad, but her down to earth tales of her lovers, her friends, etc are SO refreshing! And it has a happy ending too :)
Lisa wrote: "Fanny Hill was a HOOT!!!!! Don't be intimidated by the fact that it's erotica! The story starts out sad, but her down to earth tales of her lovers, her friends, etc are SO refreshing! And it has..."Wow! I will have to put Fanny Hill on my "list from THE LIST" to get to! I am going to try to read 10 or so a year from that list...so I will probably not finish the list before i die, but I will have made a good dent in it! Which list are you working from? I'm reading through the 2006 version...the list changes so much, with each new edition I thought I'd just stick with the original one. Boxall needs to change the name of his book to "The new list of 1001 books you must read before you die"...It is changing so much! =)
Joy,I'm working from all 3 actually. The 1001 Goodreads group here has them all on their bookshelves, & as the lists are updated, they just add the new books that appear on the updates. Makes it a TON easier to have the whole kit & caboodle in one place. Are you in that group too?
Lisa
I am at 70!!!!! Woo Hoo! I'll finish Dirk Gently, even though I don't like it, I'll finish it if it KILLS me, I'm enjoying The Blind Assassin, am breezing through the cartoon book as a switch from the heavy reading, & have a bag of new ones to try to get through. So I WILL make my goal :)
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Lisa, good for you - yep, you are closing in on that goal!
Andrea-that was BENNY Hill :) And I adored that little fat British man, LOL.
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Nope, not laughing at you, it happens to all of us :) You should hear some of the stuff my 18 year old daughter comes up with... :)
2. In the Name of the Rose-Umberto Eco
3. The War of the Worlds-Wells
4. The Invisible Man-Wells
5. The Poisonwood Bible-Barbara Kingsolver
6. The Handmaid's Tale-Margaret Atwood
7. The Color Purple-Alice Walker
8. Slaughter House Five-Kurt Vonnegut
9. Fifteen Florida Cemeteries-Lola Haskins
10. The Book of Love-Kathleen McGowan
11. A Discovery of Witches-Deborah Harkness
12. The Lady In Blue-Javier Sierra
13. The Vanished Child-Sarah Smith
14. Sweetsmoke-David Fuller
15. Pale Demon-Kim Harrison
16. Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All-Allan Garganus
17. Emmanuel's Veins-Ted Dekker
18. Church of Dead Girls-Stephen Dobyns
19. Elixer-Gary Braver
20. Feeding the Ghosts-Fred D'Aguiar
21. Doc Holliday's Woman-Jane Candia Coleman
22. The Silent Angel-Heinrich Boll
23. City of Glass-Cassandra Clare
24. Ghosts of the Titanic-Charles Pellegrino
25. Weird Hauntings-Joanne Austin
26. The Secret Supper-Javier Sierra
27. Treasures of the British Museum-Marjorie Caygill
28. My Name is Mary Sutter-Robin Oliviera
29. The Book of Merlyn-TH White
30. Rose In A Storm-Jon Katz
31. The Child of the Holy Grail-Rosalind Miles
32. Counterfeit Magic-Kelley Armstrong
33. The Lord of the Vampires-Jeanne Kalogridis
34. The Devil's Arithmetic-Jane Yolen
35. Fae Fever-Moning
36. Dream Fever-Moning
37. Shadow Fever-Moning
38. Life of Pi-Yann Martel
39. The Satanic Verses-Rushdie
40. Lady Chatterley's Lover-DH Lawrence
41. Bridges of Madison County-Robert James Waller
42. Cat's Eye-Atwood
43. Island of Dr. Moreau-Wells
44. Rabbit, Run-Updike
45. Naked Lunch-Burroughs
46. A Confederacy of Dunces-John Kennedy Toole
47. The House of the Spirits-Isabel Allende
48. Breakfast At Tiffany's-Capote
49. Song of Solomon-Toni Morrison
50.Birds of America-John J. Audobon
51. The Devil & Miss Prym-Paulo Coelho
52. Rabbit Redux
53. Tropic of Cancer
54. The Secret History
55. Fear of Flying
56. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
57. Animal Farm
58. The Pit & The Pendulum
59. Lord of the Flies
60. The Book of Illusions
61. Alias, Grace
62. The Girls of Slender Means
63. The Genesis Secret
64. Of Mice & Men
65. In Cold Blood
66. Northanger Abbey
67. Of Love And Shadows
68. Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
69. The Black Dahlia
70. The House of the Seven Gables
71. The Blind Assasin
72. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
73. Walden
74. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
75. Cannery Row!!!!
76. The Age of Innocence
77. Jazz
78. The Cartoon History of the United States
79. Matanzas Bay
80. The Pirate's Daughter
81. Cracking DaVinci's Code
82. Sexing the Cherry
83. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
84. The Robber Bride
85. The Driver's Seat
86. The Little Prince
87. The Temple of My Familiar
Currently Reading:
88. The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
89. Ethan Frome
90. Summer