ONE HUNDRED BOOKS

I've been suffering from the after-effects of my August food poisoning, which really ate into my reading time. I have, however, made the magic hundred, although I'm not going to make my 150 target. I've revised that target to 125, which is still respectable.

99. Hotel Alpha by Mark Watson.

100. Summer Of Ghosts by P. D. Viner.

101. Vicious by V. E. Schwab.

102. City Of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare.

103. The Clown Service by Guy Adams.

104. Rooms by Lauren Oliver.

105. Ruin And Rising by Leigh Bardugo.

106. Seven Princes by John R. Fultz.

107. The Hunted by Charlie Higson.

108. The Necessary Death Of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay.

109. How A Gunman Says Goodbye by Malcolm Mackay.

110. Parasite by Mira Grant.

111. Good As Dead by Mark Billingham.

112. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.

113. The Rough Guide To Japan by Simon Richmond and Jan Dodd.

114. IBS Free At Last! by Patsy Catsos.

115. The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater.

116. Already Gone by John Rector.

117. The Sudden Arrival Of Violence by Malcolm Mackay.

As always reviews can be found on http://quippe.livejournal.com/ if anyone's interested.

MM

My next five, taking me to my target of fifty books for 2014, with six weeks to go...

46. The Blue Mask by Joel Lane (novel)
47. Troubles by J.G. Farrell (novel)
48. The Year of the Ladybird by Graham Joyce (novel)
49. The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell (novel)
50. The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury (novel)

By an odd coincidence, the four authors of the above five books are all now dead.

Still up for the rest of year are three novels with a total length of about three quarters of a million words (The Luminaries, The Singapore Grip and The Goldfinch). I'll have my work cut out to read all that by the end of the year. That's without the short fiction and non-fiction I'm reading piecemeal aroiund the novels.

I finished the year on 128, which was less than the 150 I'd been aiming for but still meant that I hit the 100 for the thread. The final books I read were:

118. One For The Money by Janet Evanovich.

119. Two For The Dough by Janet Evanovich.

120. Three To Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich.

121. Moxyland by Lauren Beukes.

122. Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch.

123. Lamentation by C. J. Sansom.

124. If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch.

125. Middle Eastern Mythology by S. H. Hooke.

126. Hidden by Benedict Jacka.

127. The Damned Busters by Matthew Hughes.

128. Changing Planes by Ursula Le Guin.

All reviews can be found on http://quippe.livejournal.com/ if anyone's interested.

I'm not sure if I will hit the 100 target in 2015 but I will give it a go.

MM

My target for 2014 was again fifty and as I'll still be reading Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch (200 pages to go) when the bells ring tonight, I finish the year with fifty-four.

51. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (novel)
52. The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell (novel)
53. The World is Ever Changing by Nicolas Roeg (non-fiction)
54. The Lost District by Joel Lane (collection)

And so, for this year, my usual round-up.

Books completed = 54, of which 21 were adult novels and 19 YA or MG novels. Also six anthologies, one novella, two collections and two non-fiction books. Twenty-seven each by women and men.

Authors read more than once: J.G. Farrell due to my reading project tops the list with six (all his published novels apart from the last one, the unfinished The Hill Station, which I have read before). John Marsden had four, due to my finishing his Tomorrow series. Alan Garner and Nina Allan had two each.

On to 2015, and another target of fifty with a stretch target of sixty. I'm aiming to read more short fiction (collections, anthologies, novellas) and I have William Golding as a reading project. Plus as usual the Carnegie Medal shortlist, and I will be on the British Fantasy Award jury again.

Happy New Year!

33. Unwholly by Neal Shusterman
34. The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
35. The Deerslayer by James Fennimore Cooper
36. Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
37. Beta read
38. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
39. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
40. Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld
41. In a Handful of Dust by Mindy McGinnis

So no where close to 100, and I didn't even make 50, but I'm not feeling too bad. I read books for research that I didn't include (because I didn't read the whole thing) and thousands of blog posts. Plus, real life tends to get in the way now and then. I'll definitely try for more books next year!

Seriously Sage? 5 books already? I've only had time for 1 and 1/2!

6. Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver (reread)
7. Panic - Lauren Oliver
8. Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
9. We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
10. Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher (reread)

My first five of 2015, in the first nineteen days of the year. Well, the first is a long book which I started on Christmas Eve and finished on 3 January, and a run of shorter books since. They include the start of my William Golding reading project.

1. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (novel)
2. A Sixpenny Song by Jennifer Johnston (novella - well it's called a novel but at 30k words is a novella really)
3. Untitled short novel by "crunchyblanket" (beta-read - called a novella but as it's 43k I call that a short novel)
4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (novel, reread - though these days it could be called a proto-YA, though published as an adult book)
5. Sexy by Joyce Carol Oates (YA novel)

I'm currently reading a rather longer YA, Kevin Brooks's Naked. The next Golding will be The Inheritors in February - he wrote twelve novels, so that fits neatly into a year, one a month in chronological order. I'll also be reading his collection of three novellas, The Scorpion God.

1. Burn Baby, Burn Baby by Kevin Craig
2. Entangled by Amy Rose Capetta
3. Too Far from Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space by Chris Jones
4. The 100 by Kass Morgan
5. Day 21 (The Hundred Series) by Kass Morgan
6. Mila 2.0: Origins: The Fire & Mila 2.0 by Debra Driza
7. The Young Elites by Marie Lu
8. Imitation by Heather Hildenbrand

Good going everyone. Very impressive !

9. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
10. Mixed: My Life in Black and White by Angela Nissel
11. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
12. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
13. Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

Ah, what the heck - I'll sign up this year!

1) Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld
2) The Killing of Kayla Sloane by Kim Harrington
3) Black Ice by Becca Fitzpatrick
4) The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson
5) Hollow Pike by James Dawson
6) Young, Gifted & Dead by Lucy Carver
7) Vengeance by Megan Miranda
8) Pawn by Aimee Carter
9) Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne
10) Sky on Fire by Emmy Laybourne
11) Savage Drift by Emmy Laybourne
12) Atlantia by Ally Condie
13) Panic by Lauren Oliver
14) The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
15) Infinite Sky by C. J. Flood

16) The Castle by Sophia Bennett
17) Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard
18) Little White Lies by Katie Dale
19) As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes (I was smiling my way through the whole of this book, lol. Must watch the film again soon)
20) Beta read

21) The 18th Emergency by Betsy Byers
22) A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
23) Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
24) Through to You by Emily Hainsworth
25) The Fault in our Stars by John Green

I'm having a very slow start to 2015 - only 4 books read so far and I have to say it's looking really unlikely that I'll hit 100.

1. A Conspiracy Of Alchemists by Liesel Schwarz.

2. Replica by Jack Heath.

3. Blue Fire by Janice Hardy.

4. Ibarajo Road by Harry Allen.

All reviews can be found on http://quippe.livejournal.com/.

MM

I'll never reach 100, Memento, so don't feel bad.