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?

Ack, sorry I missed your post!

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:

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1. Turned (#1) Morgan Rice
   
   
2. Loved (#2) Morgan Rice
3. Betrayed (#3) Morgan Rice
4. Destined (#4) Morgan Rice
5. Desired (#5) Morgan Rice
6. Evernight (#1) Claudia Gray
7. Stargazer (#2) Claudia Gray
8. Hourglass (#3) Claudia Gray
9. Afterlife (#4) Claudia Gray
10. Fateful - Claudia Gray
11. The Summoning (#1) Kelly Armstrong
12. The Awakening (#2) Kelly Armstrong
13. Wicked Lovely (#1) Melissa Marr
14. Ink Exchange (#2) Melissa Marr
15. Fragile Eternity (#3) Melissa Marr
16. Radiant Shadows (#4) Melissa Marr
17. Darkest Mercy (#5) Melissa Marr
18. Graveminder - Melissa Marr
19. Love is Hell - Melissa Marr
20. Unbound - Melissa Marr
21. Teeth (Vampire Tales) - Melissa Marr
22. Love Struck - Melissa Marr
23. Faery Tales and Nightmares - Melissa Marr
24. Dark Lover (#1) J.R. Ward
25. Lover Eternal (#2) J.R. Ward
26. Lover Awakened (#3) J.R. Ward
27. Lover Revealed (#4) J.R. Ward
28. Lover Unbound (#5) J.R. Ward
29. Lover Enshrined (#6) J.R. Ward
30. Lover Avenged (#7) J.R. Ward
31. Covet (The Fallen Angels, #1) J.R. Ward
32. Crave (The Fallen Angels, #2) J.R. Ward
33. Envy (The Fallen Angels, #3) J.R. Ward
34. Beautiful Creatures (#1) Kami Garcia
35. Beautiful Darkness (#2) Kami Garcia
36. Beautiful Chaos (#3) Kami Garcia
37. Dream Dark - Kami Garcia
38. Sixteen Moons (Fyi its in German) - Kami Garcia
39. Boys that Bite (#1) Mari Mancusi
40. Stake that! (#2) Mari Mancusi
41. Girls that Growl (#3) Mari Mancusi
42. Gamer Girl - Mari Mancusi
43. Sk8ter Boy - Mari Mancusi
44. Night School - Mari Mancusi
45. Fragile (#1) Shiloh Walker
46. Broken (#2) Shiloh Walker
47. Hunters Need - Shiloh Walker
48. Declan and Tori (Hunters, 1) Shiloh Walker
49. Hot Spell - Shiloh Walker
50. No Longer Mine - Shiloh Walker
51. A Forever Kind Of Love - Shiloh Walker
52. One Of The Guys - Shiloh Walker
53. Coming in Last - Shiloh Walker
54. Good Girls Don't - Shiloh Walker
55. Whispered Secrets - Shiloh Walker
56. Myth & Magick (Mythe, #1) Shiloh Walker
57. Tempt Me - Shiloh Walker
58. Playing for Keeps - Shiloh Walker
59. Always Yours - Shiloh Walker
60. Back From Hell - Shiloh Walker
61. More Than Magick - Shiloh Walker
62. Vampire - Shiloh Walker
63. Hunter's Rise - Shiloh Walker
64. Eigth Grade Bites (Vladimir Tod #1) Heather Brewer
65. Ninth Grade Slays (Vladimir Tod #2) Heather Brewer
66. Tenth Grade Bleeds (Vladimir Tod #3) Heather Brewer
67. Eleventh Grade Burns (Vladimir Tod #4) Heather Brewer
68. Twilight (#1) Stephanie Meyer
69. New Moon (#2) Stephanie Meyer
70. Eclipse (#3) Stephanie Meyer
71. Breaking Dawn (#4) Stephanie Meyer
72. Immortal - P.C. Cast
73. Sorcerer's Stone (H.P. #1) J.K. Rowling
74. Chamber of Secrets (H.P. #2) J.K. Rowling
75. Prisoner of Askaban (H.P. #3) J.K. Rowling
76. Goblet Of Fire (H.P. #4) J.K. Rowling
77. Order Of The Phoenix (H.P. #5) J.K. Rowling
78. Half Blood Prince (H.P. #6) J.K. Rowling
79. Deathly Hallows (H.P. #7) J.K. Rowling
80. Hearts at Stake (Drake Chronicles, #1) Alyxandra Harvey
81. Blood Fued (Drake Chronicles, #2) Alyxandra Harvey
82. Out For Blood (Drake Chronicles, #3) Alyxandra Harvey
83. The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1) Michael Scott
84. The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #2) Michael Scott
85. The Sorceress (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #3) Michael Scott
86. The Necromancer (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #4) Michael Scott
87. Dead Until Dark (True Blood, #1) Charlaine Harris
88. Living Dead In Dallas (True Blood, #2) Charlaine Harris
89. Club Dead (True Blood, #3) Charlaine Harris
90. Dead To The World (True Blood, #4) Charlaine Harris
91. Dead as a Doornail (True Blood, #5) Charlaine Harris
92. Defiantely Dead (True Blood, #6) Charlaine Harris
93. All Together Dead (True Blood, #7) Charlaine Harris
94. Monster High - Lisa Harrison
95. Alphas (Alphas, #1) Lisa Harrison
96. Movers and Fakers (Alphas, #2)
97. The Clique (The Clique, #1) Lisa Harrison
98. Best Friends For Never(The Clique, #2) Lisa Harrison
99. Revenge Of The Wannabes(The Clique, #3) Lisa Harrison
100. Invasion of the boy snatchers (The Clique, #4) Lisa Harrison
101. Its not easy being Mean (The Clique, #7) Lisa Harrison
102. The Clique Summer Collection (The Clique, #10) Lisa Harrison
103. Boys R Us (The Clique, #12) Lisa Harrison
104. Charmed and Dangerous: Rise of the Pretty Committee (The Clique, #13) Lisa Harrison
105. These Boots Are Made For Stalking(The Clique, #15) Lisa Harrison
106. Blood Magic - Tessa Gratton
107. Fallen Angel - Heather Terrell
108. Spellbound - Cara Lynn Shultz
109. Circles in the Stream (Avalon: Web Of Magic, #1) Rachel Roberts
110. 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...

*Wonders in after long, unexplained absence*


@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:

Added you to the front page! :)

Thanks, Knerd. :drool:

I am restarting Notting Hill for like the 3rd time. xD
My cousins recommended it, he said it's his favorite book.

Can't say that I've ever read that book or even seen the movie. :sweat:

But if it's good enough to read that many times, then God speed! We all have our favorites. :lol:

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.

I am in the middle of Vladimir Tod, I'm not reading as fast as usual but I will be going to the library again :) tomorrow hopefully.

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

Ha, going to the library tonight, just read four books, finished the fifth book today, wonder how many I will finish in two weeks this time. :S

Originally Posted by Knerd

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.

O_O

I had no idea that even existed. :O
Have actually read several, even. -bookmarks-

OMG! The library got the fifth book of the immortal book series and funny thing is, after waiting all summer, I have no interest to read it lol.