Heh, I was in the library today and noticed 1984 in the 'Young Scot' section (yes, libraries in Glasgow discriminate, it's the Teen/Young Adult books) and my first thought was "Er, no" but then I got to thinking the sort of books I read when I was younger.
Library in question is a bit haphazard in the most charming way possible so it may have just been an accident. :lol:
@Skrae: How many puppy dog eyes would convince you to move it further up the list? The first two chapters made me gigglesomely happy. The rest does have that episodic, Victorian, Bronte air about it. Invariably, Victorian literature seems to find its subject in traveling governesses/impoverished women swept up by fate or, alternately, downtrodden socialites swept up by fate. Yet I still love it. Deeply. :heart:
I've applied for an inter-library transfer with my school in order to score a tangible, hard-bound copy of the book. Let me know if you decide to read it, too! I love reading buddies. :glomp:
@Kat:
Those crop up, don't they? :P
Some of the books I read at a young age, I could handle. Wouldn't second-guess them now. I got through Schindler's List and Les Miserables during middle school with a fair amount of comprehension. I also read a lot of historical background for both-- having been oddly interested in the Halocaust and French Revolution. Looking back, that worked well. I wouldn't change either reading experience or miss what those books gave me.
However, Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil? Uh-uh. Read that when I was eleven, enjoyed it vaguely at the time, but it was wwaaaaayyy over my head and I knew it then. Now, having gone back and re-read... Oh, sweet lord, why did no one ever take that book out of my hands?:o
Knerd: Don't kill me for pinging you but I have a question as I am already started on my post. Uh, if we do something like Twilight with four books or True Blood which has more than seven (the last time I counted) how do we do that, just say Twilight Series or True Blood Series? Or do we list each title?
Do whatever you like. This challenge is about pushing yourself to read, so no one can tell you how to do it. If you feel that you deserve to list every volume, then go right ahead. If you feel that you can do better or that it's cheating, then list it only as one. There's no wrong way to go about this. :yes:
Okay Thank you. I will see what I can do. And those out there reading this, please do not be mean to be or this thread post thingy I put up, It took me a couple hours to type this up as well as try to read my otherbooks I have to finish. I can't wait to go to the library for more even though I have four books now XD
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50 Books? Wow, small level for me haha.
Uh I will post and let's see here...I keep all my books written down, in the order they come (not the order I read them in, sometime I read book 3 before 1 or bok 7 before 5 & 6-I was so lost during the last books of harry potter haha)
-Goal:300 :insane: Yes I seem to be insane.
-Already Read: 110 :squee:
SPOILERX
Turned (#1) Morgan Rice
Loved (#2) Morgan Rice
Betrayed (#3) Morgan Rice
Destined (#4) Morgan Rice
Desired (#5) Morgan Rice
Evernight (#1) Claudia Gray
Stargazer (#2) Claudia Gray
Hourglass (#3) Claudia Gray
Afterlife (#4) Claudia Gray
Fateful - Claudia Gray
The Summoning (#1) Kelly Armstrong
The Awakening (#2) Kelly Armstrong
Wicked Lovely (#1) Melissa Marr
Ink Exchange (#2) Melissa Marr
Fragile Eternity (#3) Melissa Marr
Radiant Shadows (#4) Melissa Marr
Darkest Mercy (#5) Melissa Marr
Graveminder - Melissa Marr
Love is Hell - Melissa Marr
Unbound - Melissa Marr
Teeth (Vampire Tales) - Melissa Marr
Love Struck - Melissa Marr
Faery Tales and Nightmares - Melissa Marr
Dark Lover (#1) J.R. Ward
Lover Eternal (#2) J.R. Ward
Lover Awakened (#3) J.R. Ward
Lover Revealed (#4) J.R. Ward
Lover Unbound (#5) J.R. Ward
Lover Enshrined (#6) J.R. Ward
Lover Avenged (#7) J.R. Ward
Covet (The Fallen Angels, #1) J.R. Ward
Crave (The Fallen Angels, #2) J.R. Ward
Envy (The Fallen Angels, #3) J.R. Ward
Beautiful Creatures (#1) Kami Garcia
Beautiful Darkness (#2) Kami Garcia
Beautiful Chaos (#3) Kami Garcia
Dream Dark - Kami Garcia
Sixteen Moons (Fyi its in German) - Kami Garcia
Boys that Bite (#1) Mari Mancusi
Stake that! (#2) Mari Mancusi
Girls that Growl (#3) Mari Mancusi
Gamer Girl - Mari Mancusi
Sk8ter Boy - Mari Mancusi
Night School - Mari Mancusi
Fragile (#1) Shiloh Walker
Broken (#2) Shiloh Walker
Hunters Need - Shiloh Walker
Declan and Tori (Hunters, 1) Shiloh Walker
Hot Spell - Shiloh Walker
No Longer Mine - Shiloh Walker
A Forever Kind Of Love - Shiloh Walker
One Of The Guys - Shiloh Walker
Coming in Last - Shiloh Walker
Good Girls Don't - Shiloh Walker
Whispered Secrets - Shiloh Walker
Myth & Magick (Mythe, #1) Shiloh Walker
Tempt Me - Shiloh Walker
Playing for Keeps - Shiloh Walker
Always Yours - Shiloh Walker
Back From Hell - Shiloh Walker
More Than Magick - Shiloh Walker
Vampire - Shiloh Walker
Hunter's Rise - Shiloh Walker
Eigth Grade Bites (Vladimir Tod #1) Heather Brewer
Ninth Grade Slays (Vladimir Tod #2) Heather Brewer
Tenth Grade Bleeds (Vladimir Tod #3) Heather Brewer
Eleventh Grade Burns (Vladimir Tod #4) Heather Brewer
Twilight (#1) Stephanie Meyer
New Moon (#2) Stephanie Meyer
Eclipse (#3) Stephanie Meyer
Breaking Dawn (#4) Stephanie Meyer
Immortal - P.C. Cast
Sorcerer's Stone (H.P. #1) J.K. Rowling
Chamber of Secrets (H.P. #2) J.K. Rowling
Prisoner of Askaban (H.P. #3) J.K. Rowling
Goblet Of Fire (H.P. #4) J.K. Rowling
Order Of The Phoenix (H.P. #5) J.K. Rowling
Half Blood Prince (H.P. #6) J.K. Rowling
Deathly Hallows (H.P. #7) J.K. Rowling
Hearts at Stake (Drake Chronicles, #1) Alyxandra Harvey
Out For Blood (Drake Chronicles, #3) Alyxandra Harvey
The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1) Michael Scott
The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #2) Michael Scott
The Sorceress (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #3) Michael Scott
The Necromancer (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #4) Michael Scott
Dead Until Dark (True Blood, #1) Charlaine Harris
Living Dead In Dallas (True Blood, #2) Charlaine Harris
Club Dead (True Blood, #3) Charlaine Harris
Dead To The World (True Blood, #4) Charlaine Harris
Dead as a Doornail (True Blood, #5) Charlaine Harris
Defiantely Dead (True Blood, #6) Charlaine Harris
All Together Dead (True Blood, #7) Charlaine Harris
Monster High - Lisa Harrison
Alphas (Alphas, #1) Lisa Harrison
Movers and Fakers (Alphas, #2)
The Clique (The Clique, #1) Lisa Harrison
Best Friends For Never(The Clique, #2) Lisa Harrison
Revenge Of The Wannabes(The Clique, #3) Lisa Harrison
Invasion of the boy snatchers (The Clique, #4) Lisa Harrison
Its not easy being Mean (The Clique, #7) Lisa Harrison
The Clique Summer Collection (The Clique, #10) Lisa Harrison
Boys R Us (The Clique, #12) Lisa Harrison
Charmed and Dangerous: Rise of the Pretty Committee (The Clique, #13) Lisa Harrison
These Boots Are Made For Stalking(The Clique, #15) Lisa Harrison
Blood Magic - Tessa Gratton
Fallen Angel - Heather Terrell
Spellbound - Cara Lynn Shultz
Circles in the Stream (Avalon: Web Of Magic, #1) Rachel Roberts
All that Glitters (Avalon: Web of Magic, #2)
Those are all the ones I have read since January after my school came back from winter break. Um...Long list so I hid it. If you can't see it, just tell me.:cry: I am sooooo :sleep: (I didn't make it until i could finish that sentence) :rofl: And now this is how I feel :headdesk:
Hey y'all~
I'm almost to the halfway point on my goal!
And I'm heading to the library tomorrow. <3
Though, I think I have enough books for now that I should limit myself on grabbing new books...
I have two 2-feet tall stacks of library books and one that's about a foot.
>_>;;
I'm not a book-hoarding dragon. Not at alllllllll~ XD
Skrae! Your list is so colorful, and organized, and pretty... and you have a table! With a lot of books oh sweet merciful heavens. :O
Hello! :)
Based on Charlaine Harris, you might like the Mercy Thompson or Kitty Norville series. Have you read either? I think they'll help-- both are really good series, fast-paced, engaging and they go by like a breeze.
So, I read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass over the weekend (and yesterday) and I loved them.
I don't know why I never read them when I was a kid. :XD
You know, I don't think that I read any of the Wonderland books as a kid either. I saw the Disney movie and I believe that there was a television show of Through the looking Glass, but I didn't even own a copy of the boos. I wonder why!
There are alice in wonderland 'books'? O_o? Wow never knew that. Lol. I didn't start liking alice in wonderland until I started searching all the different ones. Like American McGee Alice in Wonderland (well it wasn't wonderland so to speak) Lol. And as far as my book list goes, I ready five books today and am wiped out XD
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn is, in almost its entirety, the telepathic dialogue between a man and a gorilla. A really, really philosophical gorilla. 263 pages of philosophical man-ape (so, technically, ape-ape?) discourse. :stare:
What's the language like in Alice's Adventures; would it be prohibitive for a kid linguistically, or do-able? For some reason, I never read it as a Little, either. No one ever recommended it to me as a kids' book...
@Colorsbold: It is considered a children's book, but the language is older British, so depending on the child, there may be some difficulties. I read it when I was fairly young though, probably about 7 or 8 with my mom.
Okay, it's about time I make a list. I have a lot of books on my Kindle that aren't being read. And a few on my bookcase. Maybe this list will help motivate me!
Start Date: October 31st, 2011
In Progress-Reread-Finished
THE LIST:
1. Napoleon of Notting Hill - G.K. Chesterton
2. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
3. The Brothers K - David James Duncan
4. Heidegger's Glasses - Thaisa Frank
5. Whatever You Like - Maureen Smith
6. Love and Friendship - Jane Austen
7. Cinderella - Henry W. Hewitt
8. Aesop's Fables - a new translation
9. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
10. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
11. The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams Bianco
12. Love on a Dime - Cara Lynn James
13. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
14. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
15. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle
16. White Fang - Jack London
17. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
18. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
19. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
20. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
21. Persuasion - Jane Austen
22. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
23. Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
24. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Bite of Silence - Mary Hughes
26. 1984 - George Orwell
27. Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
28. The Iliad - Homer
29. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
30. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
31. Common Sense - Thomas Paine
32. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
33. The Odyssey - Homer
34. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
35. The Blood that Bonds - Christopher Buecheler
36. Beauty and the Beast - Marie Le Prince de Beaumont
37. Emma - Jane Austen
38. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
39. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
40. Grimm's Fairy Stories - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
41. The Legends of King Arthur and his Knights - Sir James Knowles
42. The Art of War - Sunzi
43. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas pere
44. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
45. Invisible (Ivy Malone Mystery Series #1) - Lorena McCourtney
46. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
47. Edgar Allen Poe's Complete Poetical Works
48. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
49. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
50. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
51. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
52-54. Ice Cold Grave, Grave Surprise and Grave Sight - Charlaine Harris (If I can find them at the library at some point)
55. Mother of Pearl - Melinda Haynes
56. Dead Reckoning - Charlaine Harris
57-62. The Codex Alera - Jim Butcher
63-74. Sookie Stackhouse Series - Charlaine Harris
75. Fluke - Christopher Moore
76. Why Me? The Courage to Live - Deborah Kent
I put extra because I might skip The Scarlet Letter. I read that in HS and I remember it being the ONLY book assigned to us that I actually skipped some of my reading assignments on. :ninja:
Oh, I didn't read it through yet. I've just started it two times before and then put it down to read something else. xD
I'm going to try and finish it this time.
I think it's because I'm trying to read the introduction atm and I hate reading those.
But I also feel like I have to read every part of a book. :lol:
Though, Mother of Pearl I've read four or five times already.
I just really freaking love that book.
Hey guys! It's been a while since I popped in this thread... and longer since I've updated my list for this year. Yikes!
How's everyone been?
In book related news, after falling in love with the Game of Thrones series on HBO I've been flying through the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin. That man knows how to tell a story.
And if you're into non-fiction at all my favorite singer-songwriter/producer/etc - Butch Walker - recently put out a book! It's called Drinking With Strangers
You know, I don't think that I read any of the Wonderland books as a kid either. I saw the Disney movie and I believe that there was a television show of Through the looking Glass, but I didn't even own a copy of the boos. I wonder why!
I never had them, or never thought about buying them.
I saw the cartoon Disney movie, and I love the one with Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, but the only reason I read the books was because my boyfriend had them, and I saw them on his bookshelf and was bored so I thought, "What the hey?" Lol.
Colors: eeep! I'm sorry I missed your posts! I will let you know if I can pick it up soon. I'm adding the Lincoln Lawyer to my to-read list, after watching it for my legal ethics class tonight. It's excellent!
Also, yeah....there kind of are a lot of books on there, I suppose...
^___^
I try to make it organized, because otherwise I'll get confused.
Aaand, I do read kinda fast.
Need to update it with books on my Kindle soon. Haven't gotten to read much this week though, with NaNo. My poor, neglected books...
I'd seen a few of the books that were on the list (Good Omens, squee!) but I just got around to looking at the full list for World Book Night 2012 and it's looking good.