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Finally finished my first one - Pride and Prejudice! Still behind schedule, ah well.

Bea how are you getting on with Anna Karenina?

Blarneygod thanks for the suggestion! I'm trying (and doing terribly) not to buy any more books until I've gone through all the ones I own, so might have to wait a while before I do that!

Martha wrote: "Bea how are you getting on with Anna Karenina?"

I finished it, Martha. Not the best book I have read but I did not totally hate it. I gave it 2* because I did not like Anna, her character, her morals, or her story.

I've started to read my 6th LOST book this morning. I've put on my list 4 books of a series & have only managed to read 1 to date. I thought I could binge-read them but I'm dragging my heels! Not that it's a particularly bad series but I think I'm realising that I'm just not a series-binge-reader... I think I may replace 2 of the books (move them on to 2017) with something else :p

Tien wrote: "Not that it's a particularly bad series but I think I'm realising that I'm just not a series-binge-reader."

I know what you mean. I recently, though I do not know what possessed me, knocked off 3 library books of John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Easy, fun reads...but a bit too much at one time.

I have finished a few of these now - most recently the epic Executioners Song which has been on my list for at least 15 yrs - so... stoked with that :)

Earthly Powers - Anthony Burgess
� Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 1.5� (although couldn't finish)
� The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer 3.5�
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Eric Schlosser
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
� The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler 4�
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
White Noise - Don DeLillo

LOST 2016. ★✩★✩� Read: 20/20

� 1. The Universe Is a Very Big Place 31/10/16
� 2. Hit-Girl 3/11/16
� 3. Koyasan 3/11/16
� 4. Altered Allies: A Short Story 25/10/16
� 5. Oops! It's Christmas Box Set 8/12/16
� 6. Big Game 11/10/16
� 7. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 15/12/16
� 8. Timothy 9/12/16
� 9. A Begrudging Bride 14/12/16
� 10. Seducing Stag 13/12/16
� 11. Sci Spanks 2014: A Collection of Spanking Science Fiction Romance Stories 9/11/16
� 12. A Little Princess 12/10/16
� 13. Zom-B Fugitive
� 14. Devouring the Dead 5/11/16
� 15. The Book Of Riley A Zombie Tale Part 5: The Final Path Home 14/12/16
� 16. Joan of Arc 19/10/16
� 17. Toxic 27/10/16
� 18. The Cold King 5/10/16
� 19. Switched 10/11/16
� 20. The Perfect Marriage 10/11/16

Katherine wrote: " LOST 2016.
I'm deciding to read my oldest books on my TBR that are stand alone's.
Read: 0/20 "

20 books in 3 months? Ambitious! I like it :D

Btw, did you fit these with Trim too? You can crossover between the 2, if you like.

Nearly finished! At least I will finish today - only 36 pages left to read in my last LOST book for this year. I still have 2 books from LOST 2014 to read; otherwise, LOST is done!

Tien wrote: "Katherine wrote: " LOST 2016.
I'm deciding to read my oldest books on my TBR that are stand alone's.
Read: 0/20 "

20 books in 3 months? Ambitious! I like it :D

Btw, did you fit these with Trim ..."

Yeah I'm very ambitious lolz, I just want want to see how many I can get though in that time frame, besides I have put these book off for so long now (about 3 years) that I want to get thought them now. lolz

Some of these are on my trim list. XD

I just want to shout that I AM PROUD OF MYSELF for finishing that huge book (The Instructions)in less than a month. I am so intimidated by HUGE books. What an accomplishment that feels! And, what a good way to end my LOST 2016. YIPPEE!

Katherine, that is very ambitious! Good luck!

Bea wrote: "I just want to shout that I AM PROUD OF MYSELF for finishing that huge book (The Instructions)in less than a month. I am so intimidated by HUGE books. What an accomplishment that fee..."

That's awesome Bea! Great job!

Bea wrote: "I just want to shout that I AM PROUD OF MYSELF for finishing that huge book (The Instructions)in less than a month. I am so intimidated by HUGE books. What an accomplishment that fee..."

Woah, well done, Bea! I hope it was also enjoyable!
And congratulations on finishing LOST2016!!

Reminds me that I am officially behind & will have to rush through my last 4 books lol

I'm way behind on posting here, I think. But I finally finished the HUGE one on my list, The Collected Stories of Greg Bear , which puts me at 6/10 completed. Still behind schedule, but not quite as much.

Hmm, maybe next year we should encourage people to include at least 1 big book in their LOST list ;)

Well, I guess since I only joined this group in july, 5 this year is prorbably a realistic number to get through..

Have gotten through 4 and currently reading my 5th - I should get at least 1 more in this year though. I like this challenge! �

Earthly Powers - Anthony Burgess
� Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 1.5� (although couldn't finish)
� The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer 3.5�
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Eric Schlosser
Dracula - Bram Stoker
� The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien 4�
� The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler 4�
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - currently reading
White Noise - Don DeLillo

Well done, Dree!

I also had troubles with Heart of Darkness :/

Well done, Dee!

I'm behind on this, but I have read 1 this month. So I'm working on it. Still 4 to go.

Tien wrote: "Hmm, maybe next year we should encourage people to include at least 1 big book in their LOST list ;)"

You won't need to bother for me. My current oldest books are all whoppers (could be why they are languishing on my TBR shelf)!

Yay!!! I've read two book so far on this challenge! :D

Tien wrote: "Hmm, maybe next year we should encourage people to include at least 1 big book in their LOST list ;)"

I checked and one of the lost books I've already read was 994 pages. So I don't need encouraging to add thick books.

ah ok... I do see that most seems to have 1 or 2 big ones on their lists so that's okay. We'll have other challenges anyway to push the rest of us that way :)

Finished my 5th The Remains of the Day



Earthly Powers - Anthony Burgess
� Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 1.5� (although couldn't finish)
� The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer 3.5�
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Eric Schlosser
Dracula - Bram Stoker
� The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien 4�
� The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler 4�
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
� The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 3.5�
White Noise - Don DeLillo

Dree, you are halfway there! Great job!

Bea wrote: "Dree, you are halfway there! Great job!"

Thanks Bea - yay for me! Next up - Currently reading White Noise - which I'm not thinking much of at the moment :)

You are doing very well Dree! Great job

I started Metro 2033 , and decided I didn't like it enough to be worth the time it would take to read it. Marking it as off my list. That makes 7/10, so maybe I'm actually on track.

Susan wrote: "I started Metro 2033 , and decided I didn't like it enough to be worth the time it would take to read it. Marking it as off my list. That makes 7/10, so maybe I'm actually on track."

Way to go, Susan!

� Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 1.5� (although couldn't finish)
� The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer 3.5�
� The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien 4�
� The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler 4�
� The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 3.5�
� White Noise - Don DeLillo 1.5�

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Eric Schlosser
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Earthly Powers - Anthony Burgess
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen

Woohoo! I finished reading Great Expectations, finally! It is not looking like I am going to complete my list this year but I consider knocking that title of the list a big achievement;)

Blarneygod wrote: "Woohoo! I finished reading Great Expectations, finally! It is not looking like I am going to complete my list this year but I consider knocking that title of the list a big achievement;)"

Blarneygod, congratulations! I agree...big books are a considerable achievement in themselves!

Thanks Bea!

Congratulations Blarneygod! What did you think of it?

Definitely an Achivement with a capital 'A' :D

Good on you for finishing that book, Blarneygod! Am plowing through a Dickens myself so I know the feeling, well, I will when I'm done lol

With 2 months left, how is everyone else going with their LOST list?

I did very well in the first half of the year but am now behind with 4 books to go. I started 1 of them on Wed but am feeling burnt out from the Olympics challenge so haven't really been feeling like reading much of anything :/

I think I'm going to go on my reserve list and find some shorter reads to complete LOST and use the rest in 2017.

At the moment I've read six of my books on my Lost list. :D

I have 8/10 done! Yay, me! This is the best I've ever done on LOST, if I remember right. I plan to get the whole list done this time!!!!

good reading, Katherine & LynnB!

And yay, for being on track, only 2 more books to go, LynnB. You can finish 2016 with a bang ;)

Congrats Blarneygod!

Tien, I have got 2 books left.

I think I still have 5 left, but I have them all out right now so I think I'll be good :-)

Cecile wrote: "Congratulations Blarneygod! What did you think of it?"

I hated the first half of this book (Great Expectations). During the first half, I complained bitterly and wondered why I was reading such a dull, drawn out book, with characters that were so horrible to each other... But it did pick up a bit during the second half of the book, more seemed to happen. I read the second half of this book much faster than the first. I still only gave this book 2 stars because I was bored through most of it... But if I were to look at the book on a educational level instead of a entertainment level, I would say it makes interesting insights on human nature and the division and prejudices among social classes. I am not looking forward to my next Dickens novel, but am determined to read a few more anyway.

I've managed half of the list so far. I still hope to finish the challenge, but its not the end of the world if I don't. I did manage to remove some books that I had no intention of reading at all. Its interesting how my reading tastes change over time.

I just finished one more, Future Hope. Good riddance! I don't know why I wasn't able to stop in the middle, because I certainly did not enjoy it.

That leaves just one left, The End of Marking Time. I rarely manage to complete my LOST list, but this year might be the exception.

Way to go, Susan!

Finished City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan by Beverly Swerling today. That's 9 of 10!!!

Nice, LynnB! Go for it! You can do this.

That is great, LynnB!
I also have only 1 left to go

I'm halfway there! I only joined in July, so I'm pretty pleased with that. If I can get another couple done I'll be really happy!

LOST 2016, completed 22 Nov 2016
(limited to books I own or are at my library)
10/10

1. City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan by Beverly Swerling, Fiction, read 8 Nov 2016
2. Fire Watch by Connie Willis, Fiction, read 22 Nov 2016
3. A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm by Stanley Crawford, Non-Fiction, read 30 Jan 2016
4. A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly, Fiction, read 31 Jan 2016
5. Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America by Ivan Doig, Non-Fiction, read 25 July 2016
6. This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig, Non-Fiction
7. The Songcatcher by Sharyn McCrumb, Fiction, read 29 June 2016
8. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry, Non-Fiction, read 8 April 2016
9. Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by James D. Bradley, Non-Fiction, read 18 Oct 2016
10. Jerusalem Maiden by Talia Carner, Fiction, read 25 Oct 2016

Woohoo, congrats, LynnB, that's a great achievement!