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[Kirbypowered]

I sort of wish I'd joined in on this earlier in the year. I've got...four or five books partially read right now, a testament to how terrible I am at getting myself to start reading. I enjoy reading, but, you know, the internet is quick to steal all my time.

Besides the books I'm reading right now, I've got a large number more I've been meaning to read, so maybe it'd be worth joining in?

[Dutchling]

You're ahead of me and I started at Jan 1 Dx

[Flying Dice]

You're ahead of me and I started at Jan 1 Dx

Don't worry, there are plenty more babies for you to snatch.

[varnish]

Finished Little Women. My theme now is "books I always though I read when I was a kid, but it turns out that I didn't". I did watch the movie a lot when I was little, and by movie, I mean the 1980 anime adaptation. It's on youtube, and I'm afraid to look at it.

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1. Froissart's Chronicles
2. Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
3. Patricia McKillip - In the Forests of Serre
4. The Song of Roland
5. Andrea Moore Kerr - Lucy Stone: Speaking out for Equality
6. Ursula Le Guin - The Eye of the Heron
7. Tove Jansson - The Summer Book
8. Patricia McKillip - Od Magic
9. Mary Antin - The Promised Land
10. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

[i2amroy]

And book 18 goes down. Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett, comes in at 357 pages. I must say that I've heard rather good things about this author, and he certainly came through. I look forwards to reading more of his books.

Spoiler: Books Finished 18/52 (click to show/hide)

Valentine's Exile - E.E. Knight
Valentine's Resolve - E.E. Knight
Fall With Honor - E.E. Knight
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
When Darkness Falls - Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
Lear's Daughters - Marjorie Kellogg with William Rossow
Rhapsody: Child of Blood - Elizabeth Haydon
An Artificial Night - Seanan McGuire
Late Eclipses - Seanan McGuire
The Redemption of Althalus - David and Leigh Eddings
Ghost Story - Jim Butcher
Cold Days - Jim Butcher
Prophecy: Child of Earth - Elizabeth Haydon
Destiny: Child of Sky - Elizabeth Hadon
Into the Storm - Taylor Anderson
Crusade - Taylor Anderson
Maelstrom - Taylor Anderson
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett

Total Pages: 9099

[varnish]

Small Gods is probably my favorite discworld book, and it's not even part of any of the main series.

Read Gifts, by Ursula LeGuin. I liked it, for what it was, and what it wasn't. I don't think I'll ever read "epic" fantasy again. I want stories with no battles or heroes or destiny, as much as that's possible.

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1. Froissart's Chronicles
2. Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
3. Patricia McKillip - In the Forests of Serre
4. The Song of Roland
5. Andrea Moore Kerr - Lucy Stone: Speaking out for Equality
6. Ursula Le Guin - The Eye of the Heron
7. Tove Jansson - The Summer Book
8. Patricia McKillip - Od Magic
9. Mary Antin - The Promised Land
10. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
11. Gifts - Ursula Le Guin

[Flying Dice]

I've been reading The Once and Future King off and on. That scene where Merlyn has turned Wart into a merlin and he is among the hunting birds in their meeting is strangely beautiful, though I can't put my finger on why.

[Kirbypowered]

Okay, after some thought I've decided to join in on this challenge. It ought to be good for me.

Anyhow, after some highly advanced numerative calculations, called "counting" by some, I'm currently about halfway through three books, not five. I'm not sure what my chances are at reaching 52 books, but they probably aren't exactly high. I might state some personal goal after I've figured out the general speed which I get through a book.

[i2amroy]

Okay, after some thought I've decided to join in on this challenge. It ought to be good for me.

Anyhow, after some highly advanced numerative calculations, called "counting" by some, I'm currently about halfway through three books, not five. I'm not sure what my chances are at reaching 52 books, but they probably aren't exactly high. I might state some personal goal after I've figured out the general speed which I get through a book.

If you want an appropriate handicap to account for your late joining I would suggest reducing your goal to either 40 or 41 books to account for the weeks you missed.

[Lectorog]

I have been reading.

Battle Royale is amazing. One of the best books I've ever read; top ten for sure, maybe top five. Not amazing in the "literary art" sense like a lot of classics, but every single bit was good.

Fablehaven was given to me by a friend to read. She has the first five books in the series, so she wanted me to read them to see if they're worth making time for. The books are printed for ages 9-12. I don't want to read the others in the series. The first wasn't very good.

I enjoyed the perks of being a wallflower. There was emotion. It makes me yearn. I read the whole thing in one day - a process I can only remember doing with one other book. I was told it is a "chick book", but I still don't understand.

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Twilight
Grotesque
Crime and Punishment
The Hunger Games
Battle Royale
Fablehaven
the perks of being a wallflower

Ongoing/other:
  Anthem
  Lovecraft (1)

I have to read Dubliners for tuesday (AP Lit), so I'll be adding that somewhere to my list. Probably not as a full book.

[Caz]

Jeez, I forgot all about this for some months. To my further embarrassment I haven't been doing much reading at all. Gonna need to pick up the pace.

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* The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins  (387 pages)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins (391 pages)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins (390 pages)
The Four Agreements - Miguel Ruiz (144 pages)
Grotesque - Natsuo Kirino (480 pages)
Mammoth - Stephen Baxter (277 pages)
Theodore Boone - John Grisham (272 pages)
A Prison Diary - Jeffrey Archer (272 pages)
The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M Auel (512 pages)
* The Valley of Horses – Jean M Auel (560 pages)
The Mammoth Hunters - Jean M Auel (784 pages)
Very Nice Ways to Say Very Bad Things – Linda Berdoll (143 pages)
The Book of Lies - Aleister Crowley (212 pages)
Le Couperet et Le Collet (Hunger Games fanfic, pretty damn good) - silvercistern (62,719 words)
Theodicy (EVE Online Novella) - (169 pages)
The Terrible Truth – EM (90k words)
In Defence of Dogs – John Bradshaw (308 pages)

[Vector]

Spoiler: 15/52 (click to show/hide)

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
What Maisie Knew - Henry James
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - JK Rowling
Night Watch - Pratchett
Daemon - Daniel Suarez
Freedom TM - Daniel Suarez
Longitude - Dava Sobel
Songs of Innocence and Experience - William Blake
The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa - Robert Hass
Joan of Arc - Mark Twain
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights - John Steinbeck
Awake - Sufi Master Hazrat Salaheddin Ali Nader Angha
Sufism: A bridge between religions
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Harry Potter and the Natural 20 (156,141 words)

Bweh, I'm falling behind.  Got to refocus my time a little.

[Kirbypowered]

Completion of the first book is...complete?

The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip, by Keith Devlin was an interesting book, despite the fact it wasn't what I was exactly looking for. Explains how the author believes mathematics and language evolved from the same point and various ways in which this could have come about.

I believe I'll go with i2amroy's suggestion and stick with 40 books. Next up I'll finish Titus Groan. I technically started it sometime last year, so I'm not totally sure I can add it to this list.

Spoiler: 1/40 (click to show/hide)

The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip

[Vector]

You might want to try Lakoff's "Where Mathematics Comes From."  I, as a mathematician-in-training, endorse it most heartily.  It's a linguistics/cognitive science perspective on math written with the utmost clarity.

[Kirbypowered]

I'll definitely remember to look it up. I actually got Paul Lockharts Measurement in the mail yesterday. After reading his essay that showed up in the mathematics thread awhile back, I ended up looking for more by him as well as grabbing Devlin's book from the library. I've always known that mathematics was important to me and that I'd use it in whatever I did, but now I'm actually thinking about doing math for the sake of doing math. It is certainly a tempting thought.

So yes, thanks for the recommendation. =)