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Pam's 2019 Reading Challenge
Wow, sounds a great start to the year Pam, I've only read one!
Impressive! I think my tally at present is 2 1/4, but I did have a reading push at the end of last year.I caught up on my reviews last night. Always a last minute thing and I always think I've got fewer to post than I have!
Jacquelynn wrote: "Pam wrote: "For 2019 I decided to stick with last year's target of 100 books. Have been reading but didn't have time till today to catch up with all the reviews:"My goodness, Pam. That's quite an achievement.
Thanks Jackie! I have to clear out physical books ... especially as I can't resist buying the odd one or two in charity shops!
Well I've just been quite annoyed by a book which doesn't happen often - The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill - reviewed it - /review/show/2683554462.
Pam wrote: "Jacquelynn wrote: "Pam wrote: "For 2019 I decided to stick with last year's target of 100 books. Have been reading but didn't have time till today to catch up with all the reviews:"My goodness, P..."
Yes, that is part of my problem - my local one does 3 books for £1, and our Co-op have been selling them for 20p for charity, I have bought 11!
Oh dear! I succeeded in putting back four on the shelf today only to be caught by one on the way out which I have been after for ages so bought another one! And they aren't nearly as cheap as in yours.
At least you got one you have been after for ages!!
Trouble is it is book 3 of a trilogy and I'm not sure I've got either book 1 or 2 and where I've put it!
Read book 3 of Barbara Hambly's James Asher series - Blood Maidens and reviewed it - /review/show/2442822767. This wasn't as good IMO as the previous 2 volumes.
Read vol 5 of Barbara Hambly's vampire series The Kindred of Darkness and reviewed it - /review/show/2699419110.
Read book 6 of Barbara Hambly's vampire series, Darkness on his Bones and reviewed it, explaining why I won't be bothering with any more of these - /review/show/2699418073.
Had a break from fantasy and SF to read Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and reviewed it - /review/show/2707642291.
Also read a biography but didn't find it as interesting as I'd hoped - Bryan Magee's Growing Up in a War - and reviewed it -/review/show/2707641176.
A catchup of recent reads -Patricia Briggs' Raven's Strike - reviewed /review/show/2715528753
Clifford D Simak's City - reviewed - /review/show/2726428122
Clark Ashton Smith's short story collection - The Abominations of Yondo - reviewed - /review/show/2723480061
Read Diana Wynne Jones' last book, completed by one of her sisters - The Islands of Chaldea - and reviewed it - /review/show/2732386892.
Another catchup:Colin Dexter's The Daughters of Cain, fairly late in the Inspector Morse series - reviewed: /review/show/2733267886.
Clark Ashton's Smith's collection of short fiction, Genius Loci and Other Tales - reviewed: /review/show/2740851097.
Diana Wynne Jones' The Pinhoe Egg - reviewed: /review/show/2740855047.
Re-read the first of Lian Hearn's Otori novels, Across the Nightingale Floor and updated my previous review - /review/show/1404829504.
Finished Phil Rickman's first novel Crybbe (called Curfew in the States) and reviewed it - /review/show/2747889601.
Read book 1 in a cosy crime mystery series - The Herring Seller's Apprentice and reviewed it - /review/show/2760711382.
Forgot to post that I finished P T Barnum's autobiography recently, The Life of P.T. Barnum and reviewed it - /review/show/2760789909.
Read Clark Ashton Smith's collection Lost Worlds: Volume 1: Zothique, Averoigne and Others and reviewed it - /review/show/2764449018and
book 1 of Midori Snyder's Oran trilogy New Moon - reviewed - /review/show/2769771728.
Read book 2 in Lian Hearn's Otori trilogy - Grass for His Pillow - and reviewed it - /review/show/1404848121.
Read book 2 of the Queen's Quarter series - Sadar's Keep - by Midori Snyder and reviewed it - /review/show/2776880761.
Read a utopian/dystopian novel from the nineties with a difference - Starhawk's The Fifth Sacred Thing - and reviewed it - /review/show/2783199523.
How are you doing number wise?
Not bad thanks - officially 32 but I have another review to do so it should be 33. 2 ahead officially speaking.
Read The Cat in Magic, Mythology, and Religion by M Oldfield Howey and reviewed it - /review/show/2787372230.
Read Jim Butcher's Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files and reviewed it - /review/show/2794063801.
Interesting to read your review, I read it the other year and nearly gave up on it, only didn’t because I felt I should read it. Didn’t mind the TV adaptation though.
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Interesting to read your review, I read it the other year and nearly gave up on it, only didn’t because I felt I should read it. Didn’t mind the TV adaptation though."Which book are you talking about?
Ohh... I didn't know there was a TV adaptation of it.
Pam wrote: "I'm presuming The Woman in White?"Yep, that's the one. It was a BBC adaption maybe last year?
ETA - yes, it was last year, here's a link
I'm not sure if that's the one I recall as I did think it was longer ago than that.
Read the final volume in the Midori Snyder trilogy - Beldan's Fire - and reviewed it: /review/show/2809469878.Also re-read the first volume in the Isaac Asimov Foundation trilogy - Foundation - and reviewed it: /review/show/2810631818.
Just to record that I have now read 40 books towards my 100 book challenge and am 6 ahead of schedule. Probably helps that some of them have been quite short, though The Woman in White wasn't!
Pam wrote: "Just to record that I have now read 40 books towards my 100 book challenge and am 6 ahead of schedule. Probably helps that some of them have been quite short, though The Woman in White wasn't!"Excellent!
Thanks Desley! Typical that when I drop my target to 100 I seem to do OK but the one year I increased it to 150 I fell behind.
Re-read book 2 of Asimov's Foundation trilogy, Foundation and Empire and reviewed it - /review/show/2810634045.
Read a couple of much more recent books than my usual wont and wasn't that thrilled with either - Raising Fire by James Bennett and reviewed it - /review/show/2814190900.
Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and reviewed it - /review/show/2816412565.
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