new beginnings
Does anyone even remember a looong time ago when I was doing this 50 book challenge? I think I stopped counting at about 10 or something. So I figured, why not, it's a new year so let's start again. Only this time I'm going to include my PhD books, since some times they're all I read! Some of them are pretty good as well *dodges rotten veg*. OK, I said good, not overly interesting and exciting... lol.
My list is pathetically short so far, but hey, it's only 7 days into the new year and i'm a relatively slow reader. And this time, I have to remember not to stop the challenge half way. There's a nice New Year resolution :)
1. The favoured child by Philippa Gregory.
Ok, so I needed some light reading! And it provided exactly that. It wasn't worth of a Nobel prize or anything but it was well written, the story was decent and it provided good entertainment. I might even read the sequel. It's supposed to be part of a trilogy, apparently.
2. My name is Red by Orhan Pamouk.
Well, I'm kind of cheating with this one because I only just started reading it. It's good so far though.
3. Constantinople and the Latins by Aggeliki Laiou.
One of my PhD books, on the foreign policy of the Byzantine Emperor, Andronikos II (14th century). Interesting, but a bit outdated.
In the 50bookchallenge community, I also found two links for 2 sites, where you can swap books by post. I haven't checked them out yet but it's an interesting concept! I'm already compiling a mental list of all the books I could give up. I'm not very good at this though cause I'm pretty attached to my books. Even the ones I didn't like... Oh well, we'll see.
Here are the links:
www.paperbackswap.com
bookmooch.com
My list is pathetically short so far, but hey, it's only 7 days into the new year and i'm a relatively slow reader. And this time, I have to remember not to stop the challenge half way. There's a nice New Year resolution :)
1. The favoured child by Philippa Gregory.
Ok, so I needed some light reading! And it provided exactly that. It wasn't worth of a Nobel prize or anything but it was well written, the story was decent and it provided good entertainment. I might even read the sequel. It's supposed to be part of a trilogy, apparently.
2. My name is Red by Orhan Pamouk.
Well, I'm kind of cheating with this one because I only just started reading it. It's good so far though.
3. Constantinople and the Latins by Aggeliki Laiou.
One of my PhD books, on the foreign policy of the Byzantine Emperor, Andronikos II (14th century). Interesting, but a bit outdated.
In the 50bookchallenge community, I also found two links for 2 sites, where you can swap books by post. I haven't checked them out yet but it's an interesting concept! I'm already compiling a mental list of all the books I could give up. I'm not very good at this though cause I'm pretty attached to my books. Even the ones I didn't like... Oh well, we'll see.
Here are the links:
www.paperbackswap.com
bookmooch.com