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HomeInMyShoes 2013 Challenge - A Year in the Life
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Mar 05, 2013 12:38PM
It's just a lot of ciphering that is problematic to me for PCML. I'm actually pulling for Free For All and Short Stories, but Free for All isn't fairing well, despite having the best round of nominations I can remember from last year. There were six books I would have gladly read, a couple of which I've already read now and a few still on my potential read list.
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Christa wrote: "I would think that, if PCML is the winner, the people nominating the specific books should be responsible for the math to determine if it fits under Life+70 or Life+50, or placed in PD / CC by the ..."There's always FA's BotM: The Key of the Keplian
:-D
Finished book number 19. Spies by Michael Frayn. Really enjoyable. 19 years down, 25 to go. Yikes. I still have to read one book every two weeks to finish by the end of the year. I know that's a pretty slow pace, but it really doesn't leave a lot of space for reading other things.New Year's Resolution in March: no more than twenty books on my challenge lists from now on.
Homeinmyshoes wrote: "New Year's Resolution in March: no more than twenty books on my challenge lists from now on."
:-D
I have a goal of 170 books this year.
I've read...one.
Only 169 to go.I'd still bet you'll read more books than me this year.
Homeinmyshoes wrote: "Only 169 to go.I'd still bet you'll read more books than me this year."
Ditto!
I'm not going to take that bet this year.But, I'll keep my hopes up! :-D
If you start reading, you can catch up to my total in three weeks.
Homeinmyshoes wrote: "If you start reading, you can catch up to my total in three weeks."We'll see. I have to start really reading, first. I'm working on book 2: The Key of the Keplian.
20!!! In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin. Not quite what I was expecting, but I think a lot of the places I went when I was there make a little more sense now. Glad I read it.
I finally updated the list read. Looks like I've almost survived the 70s, but the 80s appear to be giving me the heebie jeebies.
Homeinmyshoes wrote: "I finally updated the list read. Looks like I've almost survived the 70s, but the 80s appear to be giving me the heebie jeebies."As they should!
I think there's some Mercedes Lackey in the 80's.
What's so scary about Mercedes Lackey?I think the ones that are worrying me in the 1980s are: William Gibson, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Upamanyu Chatterjee.
Homeinmyshoes wrote: "What's so scary about Mercedes Lackey?."Nothing, that's why I rec'd her. :)
Okay, so that's a safe option.I saw Life of Pi on the weekend. Very good.
Homeinmyshoes wrote: "Okay, so that's a safe option.I saw Life of Pi on the weekend. Very good."
:-)
The commercials do look good.
I had read the book so long ago (12 years I think), but I remembered most of it. I am tempted to read Martel's other book. I had read What Stehphen Harper is Reading and liked it a lot, but it's not really a story.
Finished book number 22. Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys. Enjoyable.
I am completely forgetting that book number 22 marks the halfway mark for years completed. Woohoo!
Hubby just read Anansi Boys, (last week, I believe) and enjoyed it as well. Congrats on hitting your half-way mark! :)
Thanks. The scary thing is I still have 22 books to go. I'm hoping to be finished with the 1970s by the end of the month which would get me to 24/44 complete. I looked back and it took me until September 5th to finish off my required list of 26 books last year. Of course I was at 55 books read then so I'm doing better than last year on keeping to the list.
Homeinmyshoes wrote: "I am completely forgetting that book number 22 marks the halfway mark for years completed. Woohoo!"Congrats!!!!
Thanks. Reading Deliverance right now and it is spectacular. Creepy good and the pacing just sucked me in to almost two hundred pages in a single day.
I enjoyed it when I read it last year. Okay, "enjoy" perhaps isn't the right word for Deliverance, but you know what I mean. :D I felt that the book had an intimacy and immediacy that the film didn't capture.
Just so much better than the film which isn't bad. A great read. 23 books down, 21books to complete the challenge.
While I like that the MobileRead book club has gone the democratic route with monthly categories, I am disappointed that it's led us to a point where there a great many books that can't be nominated or read by the club. Free for All should never have been eliminated given the diverse interests of the members.Anyway, the death of Chinua Achebe has made me put Things Fall Apart on my to read list and there is no place to nominate the book in the book club anymore. Sadness.
He died recently?
Homeinmyshoes wrote: "Yep.Nigerian author Chinua Achebe dies at 82"
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Only twenty more years to go now. I finished Paul Theroux's The Great Railway Bazaar. If I had reviewed this book after the first half I would have said it was lousy. I didn't like Mr. Theroux, I didn't like the writing. The brief moments that were good were too brief and overwhelmed by a seeming a all-too typical self-privilege. But it got better. After Vietnam the last third of the book was very enjoyable. Worth the price of admission, although steep.
25 years down. Book number 26 for this year was Nick Hornby's High Fidelity. Good fun and it definitely reminds me of how much I am made of the 1990s.
Well, as Caleb pointed out we are a quarter into 2013. I'm at 25 of 44 years complete and 26 books overall. Ahead of last year's pace, but I think the books are averaging about 10 pages less so far so it's a wash on that front. I've done well keeping to the list. Hopefully I stay on track.
Footnotes in fiction should be illegal. Especially when the footnote contains what could have been done in the plot. Frankly a shiny sticker on the front of a book tends to mean "WARNING: probably contains pretentious meta-fiction qualities that would have been clever forty years ago."
Homeinmyshoes wrote: "Footnotes in fiction should be illegal. Especially when the footnote contains what could have been done in the plot. Frankly a shiny sticker on the front of a book tends to mean "WARNING: probably ..."lol!
Homeinmyshoes wrote: "Finished book number 21. Mark Haddon's A Spot of Bother. Good fun."Really enjoyed this book. One of the few books that I've read in one sitting.
Homeinmyshoes wrote: "Anyone else think the bookclub is making a mockery of Travel and Adventure by allowing [i]Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea[/i] win?Ugh is all I can say to the bookclub. So many fine titles t..."
Meanie! :P
I swore off Jules Verne after Around the World in 80 Days. There was one point where the math was just so off it left me stupefied. I had really enjoyed Journey to the Center of the Earth previously.
Caleb wrote: "Really enjoyed this book. One of the few books that I've read in one sitting."It was fun. Sort of a less crazy All Families are Psychotic by Coupland.
I was thinking of reading American Gods because some people were suggesting I do. It used to be available on amazon.ca for Kindle, but today it is not. Until publishers figure out distribution and pricing of ebooks, ebooks will continue to be a 2nd-tier choice for me.
Looks like all of the Gaiman books are unavailble in Canada on Kindle now. Woohoo! Glad I already bought and read Anansi Boys.
One more book down, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. I wanted to love this book, but it was just a like. I got the point of most of the backfill that I found tedious. I just thought it could have been so much better delivered, especially for such a dramatic and tragic story.
Homeinmyshoes wrote: "One more book down, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. I wanted to love this book, but it was just a like. I got the point of most of the backfill that I found tedious. I just thou..."Noted.
"Sigh". It still sitting on my shelf, as is American Gods; while Sherlock waits impatiently on my Kindle. I did not have a good reading week at all.
Well, I've still got An Artist of the Floating World and Neuromancer before American Gods.In better news Gaiman's titles became available again on Amazon.ca so I now have AG ready to read at some point.
Nyssa wrote: ""Sigh". It still sitting on my shelf, as is American Gods; while Sherlock waits impatiently on my Kindle. I did not have a good reading week at all."
Me, too.
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I'm having a usual week for this year. I think I had hit a lull by now last year, but with more cold and snow in the forecast the fireplace is still going and it is perfect reading conditions here.
Book number 29 and year number 28. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper. Very much recommended.
I've mostly been re-cataloging my book collection.>.>
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