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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2013 AKA Anna Will Kick Your Arse Agai

Post by SteveB » Sun Mar 10, 2013 9:22 am

SteveB wrote:1) Percy Gets Probed vol 1
2) Percy Gets Probed vol 1 (I read it twice, so I'm counting it twice!)
3) Percy Gets Probed vol 2
4) Percy Gets Probed vol 2
5) Doolie Gogh
6) Copyediting and Proofreading for Dummies
7) Redacted book due to NDA. :ninja:
8) The Writing Process A Concise Rhetoric
9) The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose
10) Style 10 Lessons in Clarity and Grace

Neat thing about my list is that half of them I actually read out loud in order to catch errors better. :leave:
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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2013 AKA Anna Will Kick Your Arse Agai

Post by Bella Fortuna » Sun Mar 10, 2013 9:39 pm

1. Snowball in Hell - Christopher Brookmyre
2. Do Not Pass Go - Tim Moore
3. Earth, Air, Fire, and Custard - Tom Holt
4. Back Story - David Mitchell
5. City of Falling Angels - John Berendt
6. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
7. High-Rise - JG Ballard
8. The Chaperone - Laura Moriarty
9. Percy Gets Probed - some bloke
10. Complete Stories of JG Ballard
11. The World Inside - Robert Silverberg
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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2013 AKA Anna Will Kick Your Arse Agai

Post by macdoc » Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:41 am

0 They Said I should write a Book - fluff ..but entertaining fluff.
21 kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson.....surprisingly entertaining despite the time frame...
22 Ep.#6 - "Head of the Dragon" (The Frontiers Saga)
23 An Account of the Mutiny on the Bounty - William Bligh
24 The Life of Buffalo Bill Cody - good read tho politically very incorrect for our times.
25 A voyage to the South Sea undertaken by Captain William Bligh - William Bligh > quite fascinating.
26 The Dingo Boys: The Squatters of Wallaby Range ....early Australia
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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2013 AKA Anna Will Kick Your Arse Agai

Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:40 pm

Trigger Warning!!!1! :
1) Earthworms And Their Allies by F.E. Beddard.
2) Otter Country by Miriam Darlington.
3) The Horses Of St. Marks by Charles Freeman.
4) Everest ed. Peter Gillman.
5) Five On A Treasure Island by Enid Blyton.
6) Map Addict by Mike Parker.
7) The Art Of Travel by Alain De Botton.
8) The Spiderwick Chronicles Book Two: The Seeing Stone by DiTerlizzi and Black.
9) First Life by David Attenborough and Matt Kaplan.
10) A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeves.
11) Mia The Bridesmaid Fairy by Daisy Meadows.
12) Ottoline And The Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell.
13) South: The Story Of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition by Ernest Shackleton.
14) Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy.
15) On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin.
16) Stargazing With Binoculars by Robin Scagell and David Frydman.
17) Survivors by Richard Fortey.
18) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
19) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.
20) Captain Cook's Journal During The First Voyage Around The World by Cpt. James Cook.
21) The Spiderwicke Chronincles book 3: Lucinda's Secret by DiTerlizzi and Black.
22) Coco's Story by Sarah Hawkins.
23) The A-Z of Whisky by Gavin D. Smith.
24) The Borgias by Christoper Hibbert.
25) The Darwinian Hypothesis by T.H. Huxley.
26) Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie.
27) Flatland by Edwin Abbott.
28) Wings: 100 Years Of British Aerial Warfare by Patrick Bishop.
29) The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton.
30) Pip of Pengersick: A Smuggler's Tale by Jac West.
31) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
32) The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of A Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson.
33) The Particle At The End Of The Universe by Sean Carroll.
34) Supercontinent by Ted Nield.
35) Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney.
36) The Pirates' Treasure by Emily Bearn.
37) The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
38) All The Countries We've Ever Invaded by Stuart Laycock.
39) Do You Think What You Think You Think? By Julian Baggini.
40) Cruel Britannia: A Secret History Of Torture by Ian Cobain.
41) A Rebours by J.K. Huysmans.
42) The Years Of Endurance 1793 - 1802 by Arthur Bryant.
43) Incoming! Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn To Love The Meteorite by Ted Nield.
44) The Collector by John Fowles.
45) Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
46) Confessions Of An English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey
47) Mr Stink by David Walliams
48) Byzantium by Giles Morgan
49) Everest 1953 by Mick Conefrey
50) Rulers Of India: Akbar by George Bruce Malleson
51) As Easy As Pi by Jamie Buchan.
52) Can Anyone Hear Me? Testing Times With Test Match Special On Tour by Peter Baxter
53) Scotch: The Whisky Of Scotland in Fact And Story by Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart.
54) The Secret Lives f Buildings by Edward Hollis
55) The Student's Guide To Writing by John Peck and Martin Coyle.
56) Quarantine by John Crace
57) The Eye Of The Lync: Galileo, His Friends, And The Beginnings Of Modern Natural History by David Freedberg
58) The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2013 AKA Anna Will Kick Your Arse Agai

Post by SteveB » Sat Mar 16, 2013 12:56 am

SteveB wrote:1) Percy Gets Probed vol 1
2) Percy Gets Probed vol 1 (I read it twice, so I'm counting it twice!)
3) Percy Gets Probed vol 2
4) Percy Gets Probed vol 2
5) Doolie Gogh
6) Copyediting and Proofreading for Dummies
7) Redacted book due to NDA. :ninja:

8) The Writing Process A Concise Rhetoric
9) The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose
10) Style 10 Lessons in Clarity and Grace
11) Redacted book due to NDA
12) Redacted book due to NDA
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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2013 AKA Anna Will Kick Your Arse Agai

Post by SteveB » Sun Mar 17, 2013 1:34 am

SteveB wrote:1) Percy Gets Probed vol 1
2) Percy Gets Probed vol 1 (I read it twice, so I'm counting it twice!)
3) Percy Gets Probed vol 2
4) Percy Gets Probed vol 2
5) Doolie Gogh
6) Copyediting and Proofreading for Dummies
7) Redacted book due to NDA. :ninja:
8) The Writing Process A Concise Rhetoric
9) The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose
10) Style 10 Lessons in Clarity and Grace
11) Redacted book due to NDA
12) Redacted book due to NDA
Finally finished 13) Hitler's Preemptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940 :bored:

Only have all of this left on my reading list with more on my tablet. :nervous:

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Post by Clinton Huxley » Sun Mar 17, 2013 8:18 pm

Trigger Warning!!!1! :
1) Earthworms And Their Allies by F.E. Beddard.
2) Otter Country by Miriam Darlington.
3) The Horses Of St. Marks by Charles Freeman.
4) Everest ed. Peter Gillman.
5) Five On A Treasure Island by Enid Blyton.
6) Map Addict by Mike Parker.
7) The Art Of Travel by Alain De Botton.
8) The Spiderwick Chronicles Book Two: The Seeing Stone by DiTerlizzi and Black.
9) First Life by David Attenborough and Matt Kaplan.
10) A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeves.
11) Mia The Bridesmaid Fairy by Daisy Meadows.
12) Ottoline And The Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell.
13) South: The Story Of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition by Ernest Shackleton.
14) Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy.
15) On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin.
16) Stargazing With Binoculars by Robin Scagell and David Frydman.
17) Survivors by Richard Fortey.
18) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
19) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.
20) Captain Cook's Journal During The First Voyage Around The World by Cpt. James Cook.
21) The Spiderwicke Chronincles book 3: Lucinda's Secret by DiTerlizzi and Black.
22) Coco's Story by Sarah Hawkins.
23) The A-Z of Whisky by Gavin D. Smith.
24) The Borgias by Christoper Hibbert.
25) The Darwinian Hypothesis by T.H. Huxley.
26) Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie.
27) Flatland by Edwin Abbott.
28) Wings: 100 Years Of British Aerial Warfare by Patrick Bishop.
29) The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton.
30) Pip of Pengersick: A Smuggler's Tale by Jac West.
31) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
32) The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of A Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson.
33) The Particle At The End Of The Universe by Sean Carroll.
34) Supercontinent by Ted Nield.
35) Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney.
36) The Pirates' Treasure by Emily Bearn.
37) The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
38) All The Countries We've Ever Invaded by Stuart Laycock.
39) Do You Think What You Think You Think? By Julian Baggini.
40) Cruel Britannia: A Secret History Of Torture by Ian Cobain.
41) A Rebours by J.K. Huysmans.
42) The Years Of Endurance 1793 - 1802 by Arthur Bryant.
43) Incoming! Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn To Love The Meteorite by Ted Nield.
44) The Collector by John Fowles.
45) Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
46) Confessions Of An English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey
47) Mr Stink by David Walliams
48) Byzantium by Giles Morgan
49) Everest 1953 by Mick Conefrey
50) Rulers Of India: Akbar by George Bruce Malleson
51) As Easy As Pi by Jamie Buchan.
52) Can Anyone Hear Me? Testing Times With Test Match Special On Tour by Peter Baxter
53) Scotch: The Whisky Of Scotland in Fact And Story by Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart.
54) The Secret Lives f Buildings by Edward Hollis
55) The Student's Guide To Writing by John Peck and Martin Coyle.
56) Quarantine by John Crace
57) The Eye Of The Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, And The Beginnings Of Modern Natural History by David Freedberg
58) The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
59) Finding George Orwell In Burma by Emma Larkin
60) The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
61) Francis Bacon from the estate of Francis Bacon.
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

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Re: 50 Book Challenge 2013 AKA Anna Will Kick Your Arse Agai

Post by macdoc » Mon Mar 18, 2013 8:09 am

20 They Said I should write a Book - fluff ..but entertaining fluff.
21 kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson.....surprisingly entertaining despite the time frame...
22 Ep.#6 - "Head of the Dragon" (The Frontiers Saga)
23 An Account of the Mutiny on the Bounty - William Bligh
24 The Life of Buffalo Bill Cody - good read tho politically very incorrect for our times.
25 A voyage to the South Sea undertaken by Captain William Bligh - William Bligh > quite fascinating.
26 The Dingo Boys: The Squatters of Wallaby Range ....early Australia
27 Sand and Spinifex - Carnegie....wonderful read...epic efforts to explore central Australia
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:41 am

1. Snowball in Hell - Christopher Brookmyre
2. Do Not Pass Go - Tim Moore
3. Earth, Air, Fire, and Custard - Tom Holt
4. Back Story - David Mitchell
5. City of Falling Angels - John Berendt
6. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
7. High-Rise - JG Ballard
8. The Chaperone - Laura Moriarty
9. Percy Gets Probed - some bloke
10. Complete Stories of JG Ballard
11. The World Inside - Robert Silverberg
12. Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner
13. Science Made Stupid - Tom Weller
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Post by Svartalf » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:08 pm

1)Shadowrun : Vice.
2) William Gibson : Pattern Recognition
3) Pierre Lévêque In the Tracks of the Greek Gods[/i
4-9) Way of the Tiger hexalogy by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson
10) Talisman of Death same authors
11-14) Harry Turtledove Legion of Videssos
15) Dominique Charpin Reading and Writing in Babylon
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Post by macdoc » Sat Mar 23, 2013 5:58 am

20 They Said I should write a Book - fluff ..but entertaining fluff.
21 kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson.....surprisingly entertaining despite the time frame...
22 Ep.#6 - "Head of the Dragon" (The Frontiers Saga)
23 An Account of the Mutiny on the Bounty - William Bligh
24 The Life of Buffalo Bill Cody - good read tho politically very incorrect for our times.
25 A voyage to the South Sea undertaken by Captain William Bligh - William Bligh > quite fascinating.
26 The Dingo Boys: The Squatters of Wallaby Range ....early Australia
27 Sand and Spinifex - Carnegie....wonderful read...epic efforts to explore central Australia
28The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia ..bit too American derringdo for my taste but informative
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:29 am

1. Snowball in Hell - Christopher Brookmyre
2. Do Not Pass Go - Tim Moore
3. Earth, Air, Fire, and Custard - Tom Holt
4. Back Story - David Mitchell
5. City of Falling Angels - John Berendt
6. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
7. High-Rise - JG Ballard
8. The Chaperone - Laura Moriarty
9. Percy Gets Probed - some bloke
10. Complete Stories of JG Ballard
11. The World Inside - Robert Silverberg
12. Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner
13. Science Made Stupid - Tom Weller
14. The Horologicon - Mark Forsyth
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Post by macdoc » Fri Mar 29, 2013 1:15 am

20 They Said I should write a Book - fluff ..but entertaining fluff.
21 kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson.....surprisingly entertaining despite the time frame...
22 Ep.#6 - "Head of the Dragon" (The Frontiers Saga)
23 An Account of the Mutiny on the Bounty - William Bligh
24 The Life of Buffalo Bill Cody - good read tho politically very incorrect for our times.
25 A voyage to the South Sea undertaken by Captain William Bligh - William Bligh > quite fascinating.
26 The Dingo Boys: The Squatters of Wallaby Range ....early Australia
27 Sand and Spinifex - Carnegie....wonderful read...epic efforts to explore central Australia
28 The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia ..bit too American derringdo for my taste but informative
29 Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields < long - decent and informative.
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Fri Mar 29, 2013 2:41 am

1. Snowball in Hell - Christopher Brookmyre
2. Do Not Pass Go - Tim Moore
3. Earth, Air, Fire, and Custard - Tom Holt
4. Back Story - David Mitchell
5. City of Falling Angels - John Berendt
6. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
7. High-Rise - JG Ballard
8. The Chaperone - Laura Moriarty
9. Percy Gets Probed - some bloke
10. Complete Stories of JG Ballard
11. The World Inside - Robert Silverberg
12. Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner
13. Science Made Stupid - Tom Weller
14. The Horologicon - Mark Forsyth
15. Homer and Langley - EL Doctorow
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Post by Svartalf » Fri Mar 29, 2013 12:12 pm

1)Shadowrun : Vice.
2) William Gibson : Pattern Recognition
3) Pierre Lévêque In the Tracks of the Greek Gods[/i
4-9) Way of the Tiger hexalogy by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson
10) Talisman of Death same authors
11-14) Harry Turtledove Legion of Videssos
15) Dominique Charpin Reading and Writing in Babylon
16) David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman
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