50 Book Challenge 2013 AKA Anna Will Kick Your Arse Again!

[Clinton Huxley]

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 Cooks 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.

[Bella Fortuna]

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

[Callan]

1. Kitchen Diaries 2 - Nigel Slater. (Annoying little turd.)
2. Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict - Laurie Viera Rigler. (Interesting premise but it was stretched out too long.)
3. The White Queen - Philippa Gregory. (Historical fiction about Elizabeth Woodville - undemanding.)
4. The Murders in the Rue Morgue and other stories - E. A. Poe. (Dupin is the forerunner of Holmes - but less exciting.)
5. Master and God - Lindsey Davis (Superior historical fiction set in the reign of Domitian)
6. Lemon Meringue Pie Murder - Joanne Fluke (Might have been more thrilling had the eponymous pie been the murder weapon)
7. Bess of Hardwick - Mary S. Lovell. (Lively and scholarly biography.)
8. The Mating Season - P.G. Wodehouse. (Jeeves and Wooster in full effect.)
9. The Anglo-Saxons - ed. James Campbell (dry, dry, dry )
10. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - trans. Simon Armitage (should have read it 25 years ago, better late than never)
11. The Hare with Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal (Potter chases netsuke - delightful)
12. Manon Lescault - Abbé Prévost (What a silly pair! Unpleasant, too)
13. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson (Surprisingly readable)
14. The Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics - Jessica Porter (A lot of very useful nutrition advice behind the hippy woo)
15. A Street Cat Named Bob - James Bowen (Cat redeems addict)
16. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles - trans. Anne Savage (Still bloody tedious - maybe I'm just not interested in Anglo-Saxon history?)
17. Whispers Underground - Ben Aaronovitch (Supernatural murders beneath modern London. Spiffing!)
18. Beowulf - trans. Seamus Heaney (Fantastic translation.)
19. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel (The rise of Thomas Cromwell. So wonderful you don't even notice how long it is.)
20. Treasures of Tutankhamun - Howard Carter (Abridged - NOT the 3-volume excavation report!)
21. Food and Healing - Annemarie Colbin (Food as medicine, medicine as food - illuminating)
22. A Feast of True Fandangles - Patrick Campbell (Still funny after all these years...)
23. Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss (The grammar Nazi's bible - delicious.)
24. Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock (Satire on Gothic novels and sensibility)
25. 666 Charing Cross Road - Paul Magrs (Jolly vampire romp - clever and funny)

26. The Secret History - Procopius (Acerbic observations live and direct from imperial Byzantium)
27. Very Good, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse (Delightful stuff)
28. The Girl who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson (Page-turningly gripping -up until 3am with it!)
29. Talk to the Hand - Lynne Truss (The sheer bloody rudeness of daily life. Funny 'cos it's true!)
30. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson (Disappointingly slow compared to the other two - livened up after about 600 pages!)
31. The Elizabethan World Picture - E.M.W. Tillyard (Just as good as I remember it, from some 30 years ago... )
32. The Conspiracy of Catiline - Sallust (I wrote an internet essay on this shit. I wonder where it is?)
33. The Court of Oliver Cromwell - Roy Sherwood (Interesting factually, but appallingly poorly written.)
34. First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women - John Knox (Fuckwit.)
35. The Vampyre - a tale - John Polidori. (Meh. Must re-read biography of Byron - much better.)

[klr]

1. Kitchen Diaries 2 - Nigel Slater. (Annoying little turd.)
2. Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict - Laurie Viera Rigler. (Interesting premise but it was stretched out too long.)
3. The White Queen - Philippa Gregory. (Historical fiction about Elizabeth Woodville - undemanding.)
4. The Murders in the Rue Morgue and other stories - E. A. Poe. (Dupin is the forerunner of Holmes - but less exciting.)
5. Master and God - Lindsey Davis (Superior historical fiction set in the reign of Domitian)
6. Lemon Meringue Pie Murder - Joanne Fluke (Might have been more thrilling had the eponymous pie been the murder weapon)
7. Bess of Hardwick - Mary S. Lovell. (Lively and scholarly biography.)
8. The Mating Season - P.G. Wodehouse. (Jeeves and Wooster in full effect.)
9. The Anglo-Saxons - ed. James Campbell (dry, dry, dry )
10. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - trans. Simon Armitage (should have read it 25 years ago, better late than never)
11. The Hare with Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal (Potter chases netsuke - delightful)
12. Manon Lescault - Abbé Prévost (What a silly pair! Unpleasant, too)
13. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson (Surprisingly readable)
14. The Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics - Jessica Porter (A lot of very useful nutrition advice behind the hippy woo)
15. A Street Cat Named Bob - James Bowen (Cat redeems addict)
16. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles - trans. Anne Savage (Still bloody tedious - maybe I'm just not interested in Anglo-Saxon history?)
17. Whispers Underground - Ben Aaronovitch (Supernatural murders beneath modern London. Spiffing!)
18. Beowulf - trans. Seamus Heaney (Fantastic translation.)
19. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel (The rise of Thomas Cromwell. So wonderful you don't even notice how long it is.)
20. Treasures of Tutankhamun - Howard Carter (Abridged - NOT the 3-volume excavation report!)
21. Food and Healing - Annemarie Colbin (Food as medicine, medicine as food - illuminating)
22. A Feast of True Fandangles - Patrick Campbell (Still funny after all these years...)
23. Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss (The grammar Nazi's bible - delicious.)
24. Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock (Satire on Gothic novels and sensibility)
25. 666 Charing Cross Road - Paul Magrs (Jolly vampire romp - clever and funny)

26. The Secret History - Procopius (Acerbic observations live and direct from imperial Byzantium)
27. Very Good, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse (Delightful stuff)
28. The Girl who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson (Page-turningly gripping -up until 3am with it!)
29. Talk to the Hand - Lynne Truss (The sheer bloody rudeness of daily life. Funny 'cos it's true!)
30. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson (Disappointingly slow compared to the other two - livened up after about 600 pages!)
31. The Elizabethan World Picture - E.M.W. Tillyard (Just as good as I remember it, from some 30 years ago... )
32. The Conspiracy of Catiline - Sallust (I wrote an internet essay on this shit. I wonder where it is?)
33. The Court of Oliver Cromwell - Roy Sherwood (Interesting factually, but appallingly poorly written.)
34. First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women - John Knox (Fuckwit.)
35. The Vampyre - a tale - John Polidori. (Meh. Must re-read biography of Byron - much better.)

The things you will stoop to in order to win this challenge.

[Callan]

Had to read it in order to look keen and intelligent for a lecture.

[macdoc]

1. Guinivere: Legend in Autumn Persia Woolley good trilogy well researched and lively
2. Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey - well done bit of Australian literature - a classic there
3. The Getting of Wisdom -Henry Handel Richardson -oh damn that was a chore....sigh - me and learning about Australia.
4. Nexus - Ramaz Naam waste of time tho some interesting bits
5 Quicker - Laurence Dahners more of a waste of time
6 The Human Divison 1 - The B Team Scalzi - return of the serial novel = Heinlein incarnate
7. Identity (Eyes Wide Open, Book 1) Dekker - can't resist a freebie fast read with decent reviews tho not my fav genre. - okay you get what you pay for,
8. The Secret River - brilliant - engaging bout time I got into a decent novel.
9. Toward Yesterday Paul Jones....I have not a CLUE where this is going...nowhere - yuck waste of time.
10. The Galactic Mage - Book One
11, The Galactic Mage Book Two - Rift
12. Darwin's Bastards - wild dystopian short stories
13. The Broken Shore - grim Aussie crime novel
14 Buried in the Sky - brilliant - grabs you immediately - fucking incredible - rivals Into Thin Air
15 A Primate's Memoir - funny heart wrenching.. - recommended if you are a geek

[Callan]

1. Kitchen Diaries 2 - Nigel Slater. (Annoying little turd.)
2. Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict - Laurie Viera Rigler. (Interesting premise but it was stretched out too long.)
3. The White Queen - Philippa Gregory. (Historical fiction about Elizabeth Woodville - undemanding.)
4. The Murders in the Rue Morgue and other stories - E. A. Poe. (Dupin is the forerunner of Holmes - but less exciting.)
5. Master and God - Lindsey Davis (Superior historical fiction set in the reign of Domitian)
6. Lemon Meringue Pie Murder - Joanne Fluke (Might have been more thrilling had the eponymous pie been the murder weapon)
7. Bess of Hardwick - Mary S. Lovell. (Lively and scholarly biography.)
8. The Mating Season - P.G. Wodehouse. (Jeeves and Wooster in full effect.)
9. The Anglo-Saxons - ed. James Campbell (dry, dry, dry )
10. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - trans. Simon Armitage (should have read it 25 years ago, better late than never)
11. The Hare with Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal (Potter chases netsuke - delightful)
12. Manon Lescault - Abbé Prévost (What a silly pair! Unpleasant, too)
13. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson (Surprisingly readable)
14. The Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics - Jessica Porter (A lot of very useful nutrition advice behind the hippy woo)
15. A Street Cat Named Bob - James Bowen (Cat redeems addict)
16. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles - trans. Anne Savage (Still bloody tedious - maybe I'm just not interested in Anglo-Saxon history?)
17. Whispers Underground - Ben Aaronovitch (Supernatural murders beneath modern London. Spiffing!)
18. Beowulf - trans. Seamus Heaney (Fantastic translation.)
19. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel (The rise of Thomas Cromwell. So wonderful you don't even notice how long it is.)
20. Treasures of Tutankhamun - Howard Carter (Abridged - NOT the 3-volume excavation report!)
21. Food and Healing - Annemarie Colbin (Food as medicine, medicine as food - illuminating)
22. A Feast of True Fandangles - Patrick Campbell (Still funny after all these years...)
23. Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss (The grammar Nazi's bible - delicious.)
24. Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock (Satire on Gothic novels and sensibility)
25. 666 Charing Cross Road - Paul Magrs (Jolly vampire romp - clever and funny)

26. The Secret History - Procopius (Acerbic observations live and direct from imperial Byzantium)
27. Very Good, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse (Delightful stuff)
28. The Girl who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson (Page-turningly gripping -up until 3am with it!)
29. Talk to the Hand - Lynne Truss (The sheer bloody rudeness of daily life. Funny 'cos it's true!)
30. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson (Disappointingly slow compared to the other two - livened up after about 600 pages!)
31. The Elizabethan World Picture - E.M.W. Tillyard (Just as good as I remember it, from some 30 years ago... )
32. The Conspiracy of Catiline - Sallust (I wrote an internet essay on this shit. I wonder where it is?)
33. The Court of Oliver Cromwell - Roy Sherwood (Interesting factually, but appallingly poorly written.)
34. First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women - John Knox (Fuckwit.)
35. The Vampyre - a tale - John Polidori. (Meh. Must re-read biography of Byron - much better.)
36. The True Darcy Spirit - Elizabeth Aston. (Anachronistic twaddle. Faintly amusing.)
37. Depression - Dorothy L. Rowe (Wise and moving)
38. Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders - Gyles Brandreth. (Great fun - a pleasant surprise!)

[Callan]

Bah, double post

[Callan]

Bah, TRIPLE post, wtf??

[Bella Fortuna]

AND you probably read three more books in the meantime!

[Callan]

AND you probably read three more books in the meantime!

I'm at work - reading is not an option.

Playing on teh intertubez, however....

[Clinton Huxley]

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 Cooks 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.

[macdoc]

1. Guinivere: Legend in Autumn Persia Woolley good trilogy well researched and lively
2. Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey - well done bit of Australian literature - a classic there
3. The Getting of Wisdom -Henry Handel Richardson -oh damn that was a chore....sigh - me and learning about Australia.
4. Nexus - Ramaz Naam waste of time tho some interesting bits
5 Quicker - Laurence Dahners more of a waste of time
6 The Human Divison 1 - The B Team Scalzi - return of the serial novel = Heinlein incarnate
7. Identity (Eyes Wide Open, Book 1) Dekker - can't resist a freebie fast read with decent reviews tho not my fav genre. - okay you get what you pay for,
8. The Secret River - brilliant - engaging bout time I got into a decent novel.
9. Toward Yesterday Paul Jones....I have not a CLUE where this is going...nowhere - yuck waste of time.
10. The Galactic Mage - Book One
11, The Galactic Mage Book Two - Rift
12. Darwin's Bastards - wild dystopian short stories
13. The Broken Shore - grim Aussie crime novel
14 Buried in the Sky - brilliant - grabs you immediately - fucking incredible - rivals Into Thin Air
15 A Primate's Memoir - funny heart wrenching.. - recommended if you are a geek
16 Breaking Seas - interesting personal journey - I can relate somewhat

[anna09]

1. The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin- Masha Gessen
2. Pnin- Vladimir Nabokov
3. Slaughterhouse-Five- Kurt Vonnegut
4. The Daydreamer- Ian McEwan
5. Free Will- Sam Harris
6. The Drinker- Hans Fallada
7. The Victim- Saul Bellow
8. Dubliners- James Joyce
9. Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro (Very good but so sad! )
10. The Moral Landscape- Sam Harris (I've been rereading some books to see what I can use for my senior thesis).
11. The Bell- Iris Murdoch
12. The Comfort of Strangers- Ian McEwan (re-read)
13. The Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood (So good! Definitely a new favourite.)
14. Clockwork Angels- Kevin J. Anderson
15. Everyman- Philip Roth
16. Selected Tales- Edgar Allen Poe
17. Marry Me- John Updike
18. Cyrano de Bergerac- Edmund Rostand
19. Mother Night- Kurt Vonnegut
20. The Sea, The Sea- Iris Murdoch
21. The Trial- Kafka
22. A Man Without a Country- Kurt Vonnegut
23. A Severed Head- Iris Murdoch
24. The Sense of an Ending- Julian Barnes
25. The Dogs and the Wolves- Irene Nemirovsky
26. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall- Kazuo Ishiguro
27. Breakfast of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut
28. While Mortals Sleep- Kurt Vonnegut
29. No One Left to Lie To- Christopher Hitchens
30. A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
31. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives- Leonard Mlodinow

[Callan]

1. Kitchen Diaries 2 - Nigel Slater. (Annoying little turd.)
2. Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict - Laurie Viera Rigler. (Interesting premise but it was stretched out too long.)
3. The White Queen - Philippa Gregory. (Historical fiction about Elizabeth Woodville - undemanding.)
4. The Murders in the Rue Morgue and other stories - E. A. Poe. (Dupin is the forerunner of Holmes - but less exciting.)
5. Master and God - Lindsey Davis (Superior historical fiction set in the reign of Domitian)
6. Lemon Meringue Pie Murder - Joanne Fluke (Might have been more thrilling had the eponymous pie been the murder weapon)
7. Bess of Hardwick - Mary S. Lovell. (Lively and scholarly biography.)
8. The Mating Season - P.G. Wodehouse. (Jeeves and Wooster in full effect.)
9. The Anglo-Saxons - ed. James Campbell (dry, dry, dry )
10. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - trans. Simon Armitage (should have read it 25 years ago, better late than never)
11. The Hare with Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal (Potter chases netsuke - delightful)
12. Manon Lescault - Abbé Prévost (What a silly pair! Unpleasant, too)
13. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson (Surprisingly readable)
14. The Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics - Jessica Porter (A lot of very useful nutrition advice behind the hippy woo)
15. A Street Cat Named Bob - James Bowen (Cat redeems addict)
16. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles - trans. Anne Savage (Still bloody tedious - maybe I'm just not interested in Anglo-Saxon history?)
17. Whispers Underground - Ben Aaronovitch (Supernatural murders beneath modern London. Spiffing!)
18. Beowulf - trans. Seamus Heaney (Fantastic translation.)
19. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel (The rise of Thomas Cromwell. So wonderful you don't even notice how long it is.)
20. Treasures of Tutankhamun - Howard Carter (Abridged - NOT the 3-volume excavation report!)
21. Food and Healing - Annemarie Colbin (Food as medicine, medicine as food - illuminating)
22. A Feast of True Fandangles - Patrick Campbell (Still funny after all these years...)
23. Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss (The grammar Nazi's bible - delicious.)
24. Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock (Satire on Gothic novels and sensibility)
25. 666 Charing Cross Road - Paul Magrs (Jolly vampire romp - clever and funny)

26. The Secret History - Procopius (Acerbic observations live and direct from imperial Byzantium)
27. Very Good, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse (Delightful stuff)
28. The Girl who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson (Page-turningly gripping -up until 3am with it!)
29. Talk to the Hand - Lynne Truss (The sheer bloody rudeness of daily life. Funny 'cos it's true!)
30. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson (Disappointingly slow compared to the other two - livened up after about 600 pages!)
31. The Elizabethan World Picture - E.M.W. Tillyard (Just as good as I remember it, from some 30 years ago... )
32. The Conspiracy of Catiline - Sallust (I wrote an internet essay on this shit. I wonder where it is?)
33. The Court of Oliver Cromwell - Roy Sherwood (Interesting factually, but appallingly poorly written.)
34. First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women - John Knox (Fuckwit.)
35. The Vampyre - a tale - John Polidori. (Meh. Must re-read biography of Byron - much better.)
36. The True Darcy Spirit - Elizabeth Aston. (Anachronistic twaddle. Faintly amusing.)
37. Depression - Dorothy L. Rowe (Wise and moving)
38. Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders - Gyles Brandreth. (Great fun - a pleasant surprise!)
39. Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe. (A cheery little romp... )