Book Challenge

[annuin]

So, I'm attempting the 50bookchallenge this year. I found out about this mid-way last year, and didn't get as far as I would have liked, even if I had pro-rated the amount of books.

Mostly I'm just wanting to increase the amount of books I read this year. Lord knows the stacks of To Read books are getting to be bigger than I'd like.

And so maybe 50bookchallenge will be to bookreading what embodiment might be to paper journalling. Incentive. Kinda.

Anyway, 2 4 down, 48 46 to go.

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[passercul.livejournal.com]

Oh my. That sounds like it would be something good for my book pile. But... I don't think I'd read well if I had a quota to fill, though I actually made a reading list some time ago. Here it is:

Books to read that I have, in rough order (for the first half of the list anyway):
Calenture, by Storm Contantine
The Court of the Midnight King, by Freda Warrington
The Fionavar Tapestry, Guy Gavriel Kay
The Lions of Al-rassan, Guy Gavriel Kay
The Sarantine Mosaic, Guy Gavriel Kay
The Birth Of Tragedy and The Case Of Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche
The Man Who Fought Alone series, Stephen Donaldson
Mordant's Need, Stephen Donaldson
Reave the Just, Stephen Donaldson
Daughter of Regals, Stephen Donaldson
The Swan's War, Sean Russell
The Mists Of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Firebrand, Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Illuminatus!, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lost Souls, Poppy Z Brite
Exquisite Corpses, Poppy Z Brite
Winds of the Forelands, David B Coe
The Knight, Gene Wolfe
Eleanor, Pamela Kaufman
The Druid King, Norman Spinrad
Dune series, Frank Herbert
Otherland, Tad Williams
The Doors Of His Face, The Lamps Of His Mouth, Roger Zelazny
Donnerjack, Roger Zelazny
and many Bernard Cornwell and various China Mieville books.

Books to read that I don't have:
Many, many Freda Warrington books.
All the Storm Constantine I don't have.
Anything by Mary Gentle.
Everything but The Knight by Gene Wolfe.
Dancers At The End Of Time by Michael Moorcock

Books to reread in any order:
Thomas Covenant series, Stephen Donaldson
The Gap Quintet, Stephen Donaldson
LonTobyn Chronicle, David B. Coe
Magravandias Chronicle, Storm Constantine
Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
The Warlord Chronicle, Bernard Cornwell

[passercul.livejournal.com]

Oh, and a lot of those books are sets.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

In my case I think the quota might help me to read more (and so far I've read 4, and am about a quarter into the fifth). Last year the amount I read was abysmal, I think maybe 10-12 books or so. Okay, so that's still more than many people, but as a self-proclaimed lover of books and avid reader, it was less than avid. (Granted, with a small child, I have an excuse, but still).

As I keep acquiring books, the To Read pile just keeps growing, and I felt it was time to take steps to reduce that pile, and to make the reading keep up with the incoming books.

Have you read any other Poppy Z. Brite books other than the ones you own but haven't read yet?