50 book challenge

crotalus667

I am starting one on monday , if you want to join in post what you read here :cool:

líreacán

What is a 50 book challenge? DO you have to read the 50 in a certain amount of time?

BossArky

I do the self imposed 52 book challenge - 1 a week each year.

Give us some details on what you are doing. Maybe start a reading log to track them in the sub forum.

crotalus667

líreacán wrote: »

What is a 50 book challenge? DO you have to read the 50 in a certain amount of time?

It’s 50 books in a year , it’s a pretty common challenge and the parameters can be moved to suite your goals so if you want to read more or less you can set your self a different goal the only rule is that you enjoy your self

ntlbell

I really need to make more time for reading I'll give it a go..

crotalus667

BossArky wrote: »

I do the self imposed 52 book challenge - 1 a week each year.

Give us some details on what you are doing. Maybe start a reading log to track them in the sub forum.

That sounds like a good idea


It’s simple starting Monday I (and any one who would like to join in) intend to go threw 50 books or more in under 12 months , generally the way these things work is once you have finished a book you post it with your opinion of it ,how you rate it or the text from the cover (the only rule is no spoilers)

It’s kind of like a buddy system for reaching your reading goal's

Caros

Cool! did something like this on live journal yonks ago so I'd love to give it a go here!

líreacán

Ok, cool, I'll give it a try, not been reading as much as I should lately!! Now just have to pick a book for Monday and then fish out that old library card!

ronano

i also do a self imposed book a week for year dealo though if i finish a book in 2 days i add the 5 days on to next week

Ulysses Gaze

Sounds like a great idea. I will definitely give it a try. Need to start reading more.

starn

Yeah I like the sound this any rcomandations. Being a bloke I dont really read fiction. But would appriciate some suggestions

crotalus667

Ok people this is the official 50 book challenge reading log

The challenge officially starts on this date ==> 17: November 2008 (although you can join in any time you like)

Rules

1. Read 50 books in one year (or you can pick a number of books that suit’s your self just declare the number of books on this thread )


That’s really the only rule

Once you read a book post it and it’s number (ie , book 12 catcher in the rye) in this thread with a brief description (ie what’s written on the cover ) and let us know what you thought of it ( please no spoilers)


You can read any book you want although I would encourage you to try and include some books that challenge you,



Start reading and have fun

crotalus667

Ok people here is the link to the reading log for this challenge I look forward to seeing you there

The 50 book Challenge Log

BossArky

Actually I mean everyone participating should create their own personal log in the reading logs forum.

It kinda defeats the purpose of the reading logs forum if you have heaps of people posting in just one log, instead of individual ones.

Do you want me to drag the main one back in here? You could use that as a focal point for the challenge in general once people start creating their own logs.

crotalus667

BossArky wrote: »

Do you want me to drag the main one back in here? You could use that as a focal point for the challenge in general once people start creating their own logs.

If you think that will work better go for it As long as there is some sort of communal thread for people to gather in it’s all good:D

Right I am off to start my first book (I Don’t want to fall behind on the first day )

BossArky

The two threads are now merged (into this one). Hope that is ok.

líreacán

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=57932983#post57932983

I have started my Reading Log here! Good luck to all!

Delirium

Great idea, have a large pile to get through and this would give me motivation to do it.:)
In the middle of a book currently, once I finish that, I'll start the challenge.

crotalus667

BossArky wrote: »

The two threads are now merged (into this one). Hope that is ok.

Yep that's cool :cool:

Caros

One book down and started my reading log here

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=57963379#post57963379

líreacán

Caros wrote: »

One book down and started my reading log here

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=57963379#post57963379

Hey Caro, have started my second book which is "The Kite Runner" by the same author. I have read "A Thousand Splendid Suns" - What a book!!!! Really looking forward to finishing this one now!!!

Caros

Definitely going to read The Kite Runner soon too!
Started Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" today as it's thnext month's read for the book club I go to.

líreacán

How is everyone getting on? I've been bad the past week, haven't started my thrid book yet as I had exams, but gonna head to the library tomorrow and pick up a few to keep me going for the next couple of weeks!

Delirium

líreacán wrote: »

How is everyone getting on? I've been bad the past week, haven't started my thrid book yet as I had exams, but gonna head to the library tomorrow and pick up a few to keep me going for the next couple of weeks!

Just started the first book last night, but it did motivate me to finish a book that had been sitting around for a while.:)

crotalus667

Hi people just a little up date , sorry I have not been around I have had exams to deal with , long story short I’m a few books behind actually I’m still on my first one the plan was to uses my recreational reading as a break from studding but that didn’t work out , any way exams are over so I will be clocking them up as of tomorrow , how is everyone else doing ??

Caros

3 books down and started on no 4 last night - The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing.

Hope the exams went well Crotalus.

crotalus667

Caros wrote: »

Hope the exams went well Crotalus.

Thanks Caros, I will reserve judgment until I get the results (I wont get them until after Christmas )

crotalus667

Finally I finished my first book:rolleyes: “longest 261 pages ever”

It was the Gathering by Anne Enright id give it 5/10 (a very over rated book:()

Ooooo the relief now I can get started on my next book “The Virgin Suicides” :DI will start my reading log tomorrow I have a lot of catching up to do


How is everyone else getting on ???

líreacán

I'm on book 4 at the moment and hope to finish it tonight. Started a new job so am not going at the pace I expected (seeing as I expected to be unemployed), but chugging along nicely!!!

Bought the new JK Rowling there the other day, dunno if I'll count it towards my challenge, it looks quite short!!! I'll see how I'm doing :P

Good luck with the exam results Crotalus! I got mine the other day and was pleasantly surprosed, hope you will be too!

Tristram

lol must join in on this

does His Dark Materials count as one or three?

crotalus667

Tristram wrote: »

lol must join in on this

does His Dark Materials count as one or three?

I do believe it’s original format was 3 and it is called a trilogy so Id say it counts as 3 (3 of the best books I have ever read:p)

Sweeno

1 down 49 to go, mario puzo godfather

(i started it before christmas shhhh)

lemon_sherbert

Count me in on this one too, I'll post a Reading Log when I finish my first book. It's a New Year's Resolution I can keep, and might actually enjoy!

rosboy

I'm in. For reasons beyond my control I haven't really read in the past two years. I'm hoping to get back into reading now, so this is a good way to track my reading! I've started my log here.

líreacán

Wow, lots of people getting involved!! Great!!

I wonder how many will be left at the end... I'm finding it harder now to get time to read now I'm back to work, so will have to really make an effort in the evenings to close the laptop and get reading!

Sweeno

No. 2 Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov

really good book, love russian writers for some reason

rainbowtrout

Decided to give it a go so I'm one book down 49 to go, put a list together tonight of unread books that are knocking about the house.
I usually have a couple of books on the go depending on what mood I'm in, it's nice to be able to read something that doesn't require huge concentration if you're really tired.


http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055467450

Delirium

On books 5+6 now, one for work at lunchtime and one for at home;)

Blush_01

I'm attempting to read 40 books in 2009, which I think is a very manageable goal. Hoping to exceed it by about 25%, but who knows what the year will throw at me!

monellia

Sure, why not I'm not an uber-fast reader, but I've got 2 full books down so far.

I guess it doesn't count if you started it in 2008 but finished it in 2009?

Currently reading Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" FINALLY. It's been on my list literally for years. So that will be #3

líreacán

So how is everyone getting along?? I'm 14 weeks in to my challenge and only 8 books down Currently reading Midniight's Children by Rushdie, which is taking longer than I would like, but will read a few shorter, easier, more lighthearted ones after to make up for it, hopefully I can get back on track...

lemon_sherbert

I'm reading book 14 at the moment, but I know how you're feeling, I'm reading Clarissa, by Samuel Richardson, at the moment and it's a looong book!
I read Midnights Children just before Christmas, really liked it, but found it was definitely tough going at times.

Fad

GRARGH I had all these dramatic plans to read this year (Even had a list of books to read) but this damn leaving cert is in the way.

Not fair.

Still have read some good stuff this year, just not nearly as much as I had intended.

Delirium

Should be finished book 7 in the next day or so. Will have to try and pick up the pace:)

Tawfee

couple of years ago, i read 50 books in the year, not by plan, just had plenty of time on my hands. Tried to do the same the following year and got to 48 or so, but I found that i wasn't enjoying too many of the books i'd read. Instead of savouring the story or the writing, ended up constantly checking how many pages left to read. Stopped doing it last year, and started really enjoying my reading again. It's an interesting challenge for a year i suppose, but don't forget to enjoy the books at teh same time.

lemon_sherbert

Funny, I don;t find that I'm enjoying the books any less than usual, but I do find that I'm sticking with the books I start, and I'm picking up another book, as soon as I finish one. I like this challenge so far, I did one a couple years ago where I read 100 in a year, but I was in 4th year at the time, and the teen novels were much quicker reads!:P

finalfantasist

My Reading Log

Currently on book 8 (Beyond the Shadows) at the moment, and have already picked what my ninth (Heart-Shaped Box) is.

Chowburger

I started doing this in January — studying English in college is a big help!

So far I've read:

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. (A+++)
She - H. Rider Haggard.
Howards End - E.M. Forster.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.
The End of Mr. Y - Scarlett Thomas. (A waste of three days.)
Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen.

And I'm working on:

Bleak House - Charles Dickens. (Had to put it on hold when I went back to college, which was really annoyinh.)
Dubliners - James Joyce.
Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence. (Ugh.)

I spent a few years not reading much at all, so this feels really, really good!

turgon

Havent posted here before but said it take part for the motivation. I thought I had much more read so far, so it looks like Ive a bit of catching up to do

So far this year:
1 Hard Times - Charles Dickens
2 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
3 The Adventures of Huck Finn - Mark Twain
4 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
5 Last of the Mohican's - James Fenimore Cooper
6 Coming up for Air - George Orwell

Currently on
7 Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell

Next to Read (on the shelf)
8 Burmese Days - George Orwell
9 A Clergymans Daughter - George Orwell
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Dracula - Bram Stoker
12 The Last Man - Mary Shelly
13 Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
14 The Leavetaking - John McGahern

líreacán

Finally finished my 9th book, it was a tough oul slog, but killed two birds with one stone, got another book read for the challenge AND read another of the Guardian top 1000. Hopefully I'll get my groove back with the next few books, will have to choose wisely!!

Lemon Sherbet: Have to say, reading your log, you are on FIRE! You could change your goal to 100 books in a year!!!!

PS Other people feel free to take part!!! its always good to have a read of other's logs!!!! It doesn't have to be the calendar year, you can start NOW!

Blue-Eyed

I'm not exactly doing this, but I'm aiming to read a looot more this year, so I might as well try to get to 50!

So far I've read 27 books from the 20th of December. :pac: Even though most of them are probably a little too thin. I should've started my reading log a bit earlier, because I read a 13 book series, and re-read the Harry Potter books right before I started.