The Reading Challenge Group discussion

on track for this year

1. innocent traitor alison weir
2. captive queen alison weir
3. shiver maggie stiefvater
4. clocwork princess cassandra clare
5. tripwire lee child
6. abraham lincoln vampire hunter seth grahame-green
7. mad about the boy helen fielding
8. ship of magic robin hobb
9. moon called patricia briggs
10. beautiful darkness kami garcia
11. d is for deadbeat sue grafton
12. etiquette and espionage gail carriger

13. harry potter and the deathly hallows j k rowling
14. the remains of the day kazuo ishiguro

15. Insurgent
16. The Tournament

17.Kiss of a Demon King

18. The Redbreast

19.Postmortem
20.Body of Evidence
21.All That Remains
22.Cruel and unusual

Im working my way through the patricia cornwells that i have already read to get to the new ones but its been over 5 years since ive read them i dont feel guilty about adding them to the list.
23. the body farm
24. from potters field
25. cause of death
26. unnatural exposure
27. point of origin

28. black notice
29. the last precinct
30. blow fly
31. trace

32. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

33. The Walking Dead, Book Two
34. Bitten

Liz, Patricia Cornwell is one of my favourite authors! I'm happy to see someone else working their way through her collected works.

I read hem ages ago but I haven't read port mortuary or red mist and it had been do long I thought it safer to re-read than start and run the risk of not having a clue what's happening

I liked Red Mist. The only book that I haven't like of hers was At Risk. I found that to be very dull, and not just because Scarpetta was absent.

Yeah I started it but didn't finish it. The other series was good but I haven't kept it. Scarpetta is too good

35. Predator

Scarpetta is fantastic!

36.The Ascent of Man
37.The Dawn of Man
38. Book of the Dead
39. Under the Tuscan Sun
40.Bleak House
41. The Face of Fear

42. Scarpetta

Hi Liz, well done on your challenge. Can I ask you how did you find Bleak house? and, if you read any other of Dickens's works, how does it compare?

Kiwi wrote: "Hi Liz, well done on your challenge. Can I ask you how did you find Bleak house? and, if you read any other of Dickens's works, how does it compare?"

i found bleak house hard work. Even david copperfield was easier than that. enjoyed a tale of two cities and great expectations. if i hadnt seen the mini series of bleak house i would have struggled more

43 The Scarpetta Factor
44. Ender's Game

Thanks Liz, I liked tale of two cities too, looks like I will pass Dickens' other novels for the moment.
Loved Ender's game BTW, but even more Speaker for the dead, the following novels were not at the same level imo. I hope you liked it

I adored both Enders Game and Speaker of the Dead. I haven't managed to finish the series though...

Enders game was brilliant. Not what I expected. Loved it. Will eventually check out the others in the series

Speaker for the Dead was an interesting yarn. It took the character in a completely unexpected direction. Completely unexpected and I loved the outcome. I've got to say though that Xenocide (No. 3 in the Ender Quartet) was a slog. It had some interesting revelations at the end, but getting there meant reading a whole story about an Asian girl with a cleanliness complex and debasing herself a lot. It never ended....

Hmmm!! There's always one isn't there lol

It was like Groundhog's Day - The Book!

45. Days of Blood & Starlight

46. The Help

What did you think to The Help? I've just finished that one :)

I thought it was fantastic. A different insight into that time period in that particularly volatile place. I loved the characters especially the psychotic ms hessy

I loved Aibeleen!

47. The Color of Magic

48. The Snow Child

49. Sophie's World

Liz, what did you think of Sophie's World?

I liked it a lot. I had no idea what to expect but the overview on the history of philosophy and how it fits into society was fascinating to the point of studying it in depth.

Sophie and the professor were interesting characters and Sophie's relationship with her mother was very surreal. I guess that's why the ending made sense. The relationships between the characters were odd. Still didn't expect that ending though

What did u think?

by reading all the laurell k hamilton anita blake series up to number 14 i got to 60 books. so i have extended it to 80.

this series i have read before and when i get time i might get around to listing them all

Well done, you're doing well!

Trying to read paradise lost by Milton. Doing my head in. That's how I managed to read the series of laurell k Hamilton books. Trying to avoid reading this lol

Paradise Lost

I admire your perseverance with Paradise Lost, how do you rate it in the end, was it worth it?

I'm not sure. It was ok. Very visual but slow gling

A Clash of Kings

The Secret
Anne of Green Gables

Citizen In Space
In Cold Blood

What did you think of Anne of Green Gables, Liz?

I loved it. I read it and the others in the series when I was a kid and just loved the whole lot

I loved it. I read it and the others in the series when I was a kid and just loved the whole lot

Finished the red pony john steinbeck

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Always wanted to read these and they have been referenced so much in tv and film i thought it was about time.

enjoyed quite a lot and easy to read, although tom sayer was easier than huck only because the writer wrote in the drawling lang of the time in huck and i had to concentrate more