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Self Challenge - Jud's 2016 Challenge
Keep working through old freebiesTo Read
1. Sons and Lovers
2. The Mill on the Floss
3. Lady Audley's Secret
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9. Jude the Obscure
10. Our Mutual Friend
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14. Luke Banderloft and the McFarven Pirates (Luke Banderloft Series)
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17. The Breadwinners
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19. Lair of the White Worm
20. No Thoroughfare
21. The Uncommercial Traveller
22. Adam Bede
23. Daniel Deronda
24. The Return of the Native
25. Barchester Towers
26. The Warden
27. The Coral Island A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
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30. A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London
31. Shattered: A Daughter's Regret with Bonus Content (Secrets)
32. The Charmer (Dark Lands)
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34. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers
35. You've Gone Too Far This Time, Sir!
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37. The Evil Genius
38. The Two Destinies
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40. England under the Tudors
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42. Paradise Lost by John Milton: Vook Classics
43. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: Vook Classics
44. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Vook Classics
45. Walking on Broken Glass
46. Conan: Red Nails
47. Conan: Queen of the Black Coast: Queen of the Black Coast
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49. The Black God's War [A Stand-Alone Novel] (Splendor and Ruin, Book I)
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52. Ghost of a Boy
53. Haunted (The Haunted LoveTrilogy)
54. Raising Abel
55. World War II London Blitz Diary, Volume 2, 1941 (A Woman's Revelations Enduring War and Marriage)
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57. Rattling Bones (a collection of short stories)
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60. Asylum (The Birch Harbor Series)
61. Precious Bones
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63. The Man Who Would Be King
64. The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights
65. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life
66. Origin Scroll (Targa Trilogy #1)
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68. On Dark Shores: The Lady
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70. Spalding's Scary Shorts (A collection of humorous horror tales)
71. Tyburn (The Highwaymen)
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Finish Reading 1. Harry Potter y La Piedra Filosofal
Read1. Villette
2. The Metamorphosis
3. One Man: No Plan, K'Barthan Series: Part 3
4. Wives and Daughters
5. Fellowship with Demons
6. Guardian of the Dawn
7. The Bride of Lammermoor
8. The Tender Herb
9. The Blessed and the Damned
10. Looking for Trouble
11. Death of an Officer's Lady
12. Unlucky Dip
13. Cthulhu in Wonderland
14. Silence of the Mimes
15. Babe on Board
16. The Two Little Ducks
17. Kindred
18. The wives of Henry VIII and the Parts they Played in History
19. Child of the Ghosts
20. What the Fox Learnt
21. Out of a Dark Reflection
22. Basil
23. Slow Death by Quicksilver
24. The Passage
25. The Shadow Within (Legends of the Guardian-King Book #2) (Legends Of The Guardian-King Series)
26. Autumn Rose (Dark Heroines Book 2)
27. The Beggar King: A Hangman's Daughter Tale 3
28. Sword of Damocles
29. Destroying Angel
30. The Gates of Babylon
Unfinished
1. Hostile Justice
2. Gemini Moon
3. Darcy's Voyage
4. Somebody Tell Aunt Tillie she's Dead
5. Dreaming Anastasia
6. The People of the Mist
7. Starfire Angels
8. The Case of the Missing Boyfriend
9. The Young Fur Traders
10. An Imperfect Christmas
11. My Formerly Dead Boyfriend
12. Tuesday's Child (The Autobiography of Heaven and Earth)
13. Hope Undaunted, A: A Novel: Winds of Change Series, Book 1
14. The Oak Leaves
15. My Sister's Voice
16. The Cellar Door
17. A Daughters Inheritance (Broadmoor Legacy, Book 1)
18. The Unsuspecting Mage (The Morcyth Saga)
19. Graveyard Games
20. The Apple and the Thorn (Tales of Avalon)
I've only read a couple of your paid for books Jud, good luck with your challenge. I'm mixing freebies and paid, but not including the classics in the freebies, 2 a year is enough!!
I'm so behind with my challenge and I keep adding more books onto the list to be read! Oh dear. I suppose each book I finish (or don't finish) is one more book towards my target.
I'm definitely reading in spurts this year. Recently been reading a lot more fanfiction.. pity that didn't count. I'd beat everyone in here with my word count :pReading is meant to be fun! As long as you are enjoying life dude!
I am enjoying life but I would enjoy it more with more time to read :o) Na, probably not, I'd rather be running around after a little rug rat than reading.
Just finished Fellowship with Demons, loved it! Don't know whether to read book 6 straight away or read something else first.
8 books down (okay, so one was a short story) not bad going :o)
woo, go Jud!i've hit a slump at the minute thanks to really heavy work for uni and by time i'm done my eyes need a break.
That's good, think you've read more than me
Well done Jud.That's a problem I sometimes find if I've enjoyed a book in a series - whether to get straight on to another one or give myself a 'rest' in between.
Oh it's actually only 7 books, I read Bambi a couple of years ago and just didn't mark it as read. I'm reading the Bride of Lammermoor now, decided to wait before starting the next Murray of Letho so as to get the most of the series, I'll wait till I have stopped thinking back to it.
I've just gone through my unread kindle books, I have 533 of them!! 322 of those are from 2011. I'm going to aim to get that down to 250 (I'm hoping I'll discard a lot of books after a couple of pages...) plus keep on top of the books I bought last year and this year so far.
Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "I've just gone through my unread kindle books, I have 533 of them!! 322 of those are from 2011. I'm going to aim to get that down to 250 (I'm hoping I'll discard a lot of books after a couple of pa..."I suspect I might have more than that!!
Good luck getting through all of yours then (if that is something you care to do)
Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Good luck getting through all of yours then (if that is something you care to do)"That's the aim, I clearly downloaded them cos they sounded interesting!
Looking back now, I wonder if I even did think they were interesting or just went mad for free books
I think people do go mad for free books. I suppose the feeling is that if you get one good one for every ten you download, you've still won
Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Looking back now, I wonder if I even did think they were interesting or just went mad for free books"I wondered that, although when I was looking for books to read this year, I kept finding ones that sounded interesting. Except for some of the classics I downloaded!!
I suppose the obvious question is how many of them would have been interesting at £1 each? Or at £3 each? Just think, even at a £1 each that's £533 sitting on your Kindle.
I suspect we're all equally guilty, it's free and looks vaguely interesting and we grab it
It's terrible really. I've curbed my book purchasing a lot in the last few years. The most recent ones are usually authors from this group and most of them paid, not free.59 in 2013
39 in 2014
11 in 2015
6 so far this year
Anyway, given your good news, you'll know just what sort of books you'll need over the next year and what time you'll have for reading :-)But certainly your purchasing has got awfully restrained. Dangerously sensible if you ask me ;-)
Are there books on how add extra hours into the day?
Try War and Peace, after twenty pages of that you'll be willing to swear blind that days have gone by :-)
I've read it already, I enjoyed the Peace bits but I didn't really follow the War bits so much
Jim wrote: "Try War and Peace, after twenty pages of that you'll be willing to swear blind that days have gone by :-)"There's a bit somewhere in the middle where he goes on about freemasonry or something like that, which lasts several decades. It's even more tedious than the pages after pages about peasant farming in Anna Karenina.
I'm afraid I tried twice years ago but it never really grabbed me. It's like Moby Dick, I've tried that twice as wellBut in the previous TV series the war bits were really good ;-)
Jim wrote: "I'm afraid I tried twice years ago but it never really grabbed me. It's like Moby Dick, I've tried that twice as well"I've read that one too.
I should get out more.
What did you do to deserve that??
Actually it's great fun. Part of Trimalchio's banquet
But his passion for dancing was interrupted at this stage by a stenographer who read aloud, as if he were reading the public records, "On the seventh of the Kalends of July, on Trimalchio's estates near Cumae, were born thirty boys and forty girls: five hundred pecks of wheat were taken from the threshing floors and stored in the granaries: five hundred oxen were put to yoke: the slave Mithridates was crucified on the same date for cursing the genius of our master, Gaius: on said date ten million sesterces were returned to the vaults as no sound investment could be found: on said date, a fire broke out in the gardens at Pompeii, said fire originating in the house of Nasta, the bailiff." "What's that?" demanded Trimalchio. "When were the gardens at Pompeii bought for me?" "Why, last year," answered the stenographer, "for that reason the item has not appeared in the accounts." Trimalchio flew into a rage at this. "If I'm not told within six months of any real estate that's bought for me," he shouted, "I forbid it's being carried to my account at all!" Next, the edicts of his aediles were read aloud, and the wills of some of his foresters in which Trimalchio was disinherited by a codicil, then the names of his bailiffs, and that of a freedwoman who had been repudiated by a night watchman, after she had been caught in bed with a bath attendant, that of a porter banished to Baioe, a steward who was standing trial, and lastly the report of a decision rendered in the matter of a lawsuit, between some valets. When this was over with, some rope dancers came in and a very boresome fool stood holding a ladder, ordering his boy to dance from rung to rung, and finally at the top, all this to the music of popular airs; then the boy was compelled to jump through blazing hoops while grasping a huge wine jar with his teeth. Trimalchio was the only one who was much impressed by these tricks, remarking that it was a thankless calling and adding that in all the world there were just two things which could give him acute pleasure, rope-dancers and horn blowers; all other entertainments were nothing but nonsense. "I bought a company of comedians," he went on, "but I preferred for them to put on Atellane farces, and I ordered my flute-player to play Latin airs only."
CHAPTER THE FIFTY-FOURTH.
While our noble Gaius was still talking away, the boy slipped and fell, alighting upon Trimalchio's arm. The whole household cried out, as did also the guests, not that they bore such a coarse fellow any good will, as they would gladly have seen his neck broken, but because such an unlucky ending to the dinner might make it necessary for them to go into mourning over a total stranger. As for Trimalchio, he groaned heavily and bent over his arm as though it had been injured: doctors flocked around him, and Fortunata was among the very first, her hair was streaming and she held a cup in her hand and screamed out her grief and unhappiness. As for the boy who had fallen, he was crawling at our feet, imploring pardon. I was uneasy for fear his prayers would lead up to some ridiculous theatrical climax, for I had not yet been able to forget that cook who had forgotten to bowel that hog, and so, for this reason, I began to scan the whole dining-room very closely, to see if an automaton would come out through the wall; and all the more so as a slave was beaten for having bound up his master's bruised arm in white wool instead of purple. Nor was my suspicion unjustified, for in place of punishment, Trimalchio ordered that the boy be freed, so that no one could say that so exalted a personage had been injured by a slave.
Have 260 unread bought books on my Kindle totally £498.16..... Oops.
In my defence a lot of that money has come from gift cards.. Ouch.
Good luck dwindling your numbers Jud.
I'm reasonably good at reading the books I pay money for but the numbers are creeping up again... I might need to do a "reading paid for books challenge" next year
I haven't purchased a book with my own money since 2014 so I am getting better. But I do get a lot of gift cards for birthdays/christmas etc hence why my total is so high.
Elle wrote: "I haven't purchased a book with my own money since 2014 so I am getting better. But I do get a lot of gift cards for birthdays/christmas etc hence why my total is so high."I think books bought with gift cards don't count :-)
Jim wrote: "Elle wrote: "I haven't purchased a book with my own money since 2014 so I am getting better. But I do get a lot of gift cards for birthdays/christmas etc hence why my total is so high."I think bo..."
I agree, they are presents
I do count books bought with gift cards, most of mine have been bought with vouchers.
Actually, when I think about it, probably disappointingly few books have been bought with vouchers.
Another book down! I'm really pleased at my progress, it's largely due to the late night feeds that are still happening :o)
Take advantage while you can.
I've stopped reading while feeding so my reading efforts have dropped massively. I said I stopped reading The People of the Mist but I haven't, I need to know what happens even though I think it will be pretty obvious.
Aha. I hate those 'car crash' books, as I like to refer to them. Like generally you think they are awful but you kinda just need to finish them. Outlander was that for me 100%. I never have any idea on how to rate books like that.
This one is written in the most boring way really. The characters are good but it's just so blah in between, I mean, they have just arrived at a secluded tribe land in Africa where they will supposedly all be killed (obviously they won't) they also have a man and a woman travelling with them who exactly resemble the gods these people worship so that should be pretty exciting (although it sounds ridiculous written down like that!) but instead I find myself ignoring it. Maybe I should give it up
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You've Gone Too Far This Time, Sir! (other topics)
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To Read
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The Man From U.N.D.E.A.D. - Silence of the Mimes2.
Sword of Damocles (Eddie Collins Book 3)3.
One Man: No Plan, K'Barthan Series: Part 3 (The K'Barthan Trilogy)4.
Out of a Dark Reflection (Murray of Letho Book 8)5.
The Shadow Within (Legends of the Guardian-King Book #2) (Legends Of The Guardian-King Series)6.
The Gates of Babylon (Righteous Series #6)7.
Destroying Angel (Righteous Series #5)8.
The Blessed and the Damned (Righteous Series #4)9. Twelve Years a Slave (With the Original Illustrations)
10. Imperfect Strangers
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Hostile Justice (Justice Series Book 8)12.
The Tender Herb: A Murder in Mughal India (Murray of Letho Book 6)13. Sharing A Fence With The Twilight Zone
14. The Poisoned Pilgrim: A Hangman's Daughter Tale 4 (UK Edition)
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The Beggar King: A Hangman's Daughter Tale 3 (UK Edition)16. The Dark
17. Winter of the World (Century Trilogy 2)
18. Ash
19. Night Over Water
20. No Country For Old Men
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Looking for Trouble: K'Barthan Series: Part 4 (The K'Barthan Trilogy)22.
Fellowship with Demons (Murray of Letho Book 5)23.
Death of an Officer's Lady (Murray of Letho Book 7)24.
Kindred25.
Slow Death by Quicksilver