Comments | sinnatious: Halfway through the 50 book challenge!

sinnatious

Halfway through the 50 book challenge!

Jul 29, 2011 20:55

At agentlerain 's prompting, I took up the 'read 50 books in a year' challenge in January. Recently passed the halfway mark, so am nicely on schedule! Here's the first 25 in a nutshell:

( 25 books )

meme, showing off, too much spare time, recs, irl

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tenshinoakuma July 29 2011, 11:31:25 UTC

/BOOKMARKING LIKE WHOA

Also isn't 20. Thief of Time?

tenshinoakuma July 29 2011, 11:32:38 UTC

Also I think you mean time kompression.

sinnatious July 29 2011, 11:38:58 UTC

LOL.

Also, yes, you are right about the title of 20, I caught that right after I hit post but LJ isn't letting me go back to edit right now. -___-

tenshinoakuma July 29 2011, 11:41:45 UTC

Yeah, if you're not already aware, this is supposedly the reason behind LJ's outages and finnickiness.

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swyrel July 29 2011, 12:30:43 UTC

Grats on reading all those books! <3 You like David Sedaris? I absolutely adore his books, but I haven't read that one yet.

I've never even heard of any of the others....lol

sinnatious July 29 2011, 13:07:56 UTC

Awesome! I'd not read any of his books before, but this one certainly has made me a fan. (Picked it up on sale at one of the Borders that were shutting down).

There are so many books in the world that even if we both read 100 books a year, any overlap would be an awesome coincidence.

akinofujiko July 29 2011, 14:34:46 UTC

I haven't read any of the books you mentioned except 1984 but this sounds like such a good idea.
Congrats on getting through 25 so far!

sinnatious July 30 2011, 12:23:18 UTC

Heh, thanks.

Imagine if everybody took the challenge! It would be great for the publishing industry, never mind what it might do for the English language!

thesundaywriter July 29 2011, 18:46:16 UTC

I'm at the halfway mark too, although I'm not sure if I want to just try and hit 40 instead of 50 this year as I want to catch up on my to-watch list, plus I've been doing the challenge for a couple of years already.

sinnatious July 30 2011, 12:25:31 UTC

Awesome, hi-fives all around. Yes, I remember you doing it last year, haha, at this point it's less of a challenge for you than a habit, right? :) You could always try and catch up on your to-watch list first, and if you still have time... (Or you could pick ten really short books for the last few. ;))

thesundaywriter July 30 2011, 18:43:50 UTC

Yup, also next year I'm thinking of doing a combination of reading challenges, one of which is the Chunkster Challenge, they've got different levels of challenge, the hardest of which is 8 books of 450 or more pages and at least 3 750 page ones... and I do have stuff I've been putting off reading because of the length, such as Memoirs of the Geisha and the complete Lord of the Rings. So I thought it'd be a good motivation =3

ixtey July 30 2011, 00:39:15 UTC

ANIMAL FARM :(((((

I remember reading that book as a kid. I thought it was some kind of fairytale thing, like a longer version of Three Little Pigs or whatever. Needless to say, the ending left me really depressed. D:

I read a ton of angst fics after that, to justify that the book wasn't bad (I had a bad ending=bad book mentality those days). And it made me like angst. A lot.

sinnatious July 30 2011, 12:26:58 UTC

...That sounds traumatic. o__o

Although it DID kind of start out like a fairytale, so I can definitely see where you're coming from. But by the ending... maybe more of a Brothers Grimm variety. XD

That's kind of awesome, though, that it had such a massive long-term impact on your fiction tastes!