100 Book Challenge 2011

[Natalie]

Here we go again.

Ladies and gentlemen, transgenders and androgynes, I present to you:

100 Book Challenge 2011

 

There are no real rules for the challenge, but I always have some rules for myself, so if you're looking for some structure, here they are:

No re-reads. I don't list the same book twice. If I've read it before, in a previous year, then that's ok. But I don't like seeing the same book more than once on one list.
No cheating.If I read a book halfway, or skip through spots, then it's not allowed to count. Because I haven't read an entire book.
No picture books. I never list picture books, even though I read several of them, usually to my sisters. I don't list them because they hardly contain more text than one of those phone company mailers that at&t sends out every other day.

Simple, really. And if you're thinking that 100 may be too difficult, then think of it this way:
That's three days per book, with 65 free days, for things like work and vacations (although if you're anything like me, you look at a vacation as an opportunity to read more than usual.), and sick days, and anything else that you can think of.
And even if you only have one hour to read every day, if you average, say, 90 pages an hour, then you can read roughly a 270 page book in three days. Which, admittedly, isn't huge, but that's still a fairly susbtantial book.

So go, get started! Post here everytime you've read a new book. Keep a list, and when you reach a milestone (25..50..100...1..) let us know! Tell us if you've read a great book that everyone should know about, or if you've read a terrible book that everyone should avoid eye-contact with.

Good Luck, and happy reading!

FYI:

-BOOKS MAY BE WRITTEN IN ANY LANGUAGE. A book is a book, no matter what country it comes from.

-PLAYS ARE ACCEPTABLE. Any play goes. Although obviously you can't just go see it. That's like watching the Harry Potter movies and then calling yourself a Potthead.

-GRAPHIC NOVELS COUNT. They're not picture books, because they have more than 5 words a page.
Some people are counting them as half of a book, so it's really up to you.

 

Hey you! (Yes. YOU.)

~> If you have a question, feel free to PM or comment me, and I'll put the answer up there ^^

[Barbara Fuernschuß]

I just finished The Book Thief. Still sobbing.

[Clover]

I'm really hoping to read The Book Thief this year. Have loved all the other books by Markus Zusak that I've read..

[Free Julian]

The Windup girl  by Paolo Bacigalupi. Distopian and dark.

[Clover]

A Beautiful Lie by Irfan Master - Absolutely beautiful book! About a boy and his father living at the time of Partition in India in 1947. The boy's father is dying and the boy feels like knowing how split and broken the village (and India) has become would break the father's heart, so he goes to great lengths to hide the truth from his father.  With lots of help from his friends and other members of the community, with great love for his father, the boy tries to bring peace to his father before he dies.  I stayed up too late reading this and wept.  Another book sent for review from the publisher, very happy that they did.

[Laura Fey]

Jan, 13

Anna and the French Kiss (I had it lying around for a bit but didn't bother to read it until John suggested it. It's so adorably cute and realistic. I am totally about to go to Paris :D)

Evermore 2, Blue Moon (I thought the first one was crap. The second doesn't do better but I am the girl who can not stop after reading the first book of a series. It is now my duty to continue.)

Matched (OMG How can one not love this book? It's so full of emotions and amazing characters that change so much and the story is pure genius. Can't wait to get the next one!)

Torment (#2 of the Fallen Series. Meh. I don't like Daniel, since we barely got to know him - REALLY know him. I have the feeling the guys are always some cliché while the girls are very cute but not realisitc. Like I said, I cannot stop after having read #1)

--- One day late on the fifth one but I'll get there. Just started Graceling (Book) and I am Number Four (Ebook) :)

[Clover]

Aww. I'm hoping to read Anna and the French Kiss next.  And YAY for Matched love. I really loved it too :)  In Torment, I much prefer Miles.  Daniel does nothing for me.)

 

You've got excellent taste in books! I loved Graceling!  But eh, to I Am Number Four (the whole controversy of how it was made has had an impact on the way I felt about the book. Will probably still go see the movie though)

[Laura Fey]

Miles was cool but I'm always rooting for the bad guys, so I was like "YES BABY!" when Cam hit the "other" Luce with a starshot hehe

 

Thanks. I'm always trying to make more people around me read but somehow they don't like the same books I like. Meh. Whatever.

Which controversy? I didn't hear anything about it. (Which might be linked to the fact that the alps are a lot like world's end...)

[Jessica Wd]

Looking for Alaska
If I told you I loved you
Winnie the Pooh

And I'm reading Sence and Sencability, and Harry Potter 4 at the moment.

[Andrea Joy]

Just finished my fifth book, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky. I didn't know anything about the book before I started reading but I really enjoyed it. I've also read "Catching Fire" (still waiting on Mockingjay!) "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card (it was.... different), "Thirteen Reasons Why," by Jay Asher and "The Dangerous Days of Daniel X" by James Patterson. It was a quick read, didn't like it much. 

I'm currently reading "Looking For Alaska" and "A study in Scarlet".  

[Kristina Ethelyn]

So far I've read HP PS, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay, The Iron Man (Giant), Boy Meets Boy, and Paper Towns.

I am currently reading An Abundance of Katherines and HP CoS.

Hopefully by Sunday I'll be able to begin The Ender's Game and Dune.

 

At least four of these books though are rereads from when I was much younger. I haven't decided if I want to count them yet.

[Keira H.]

Behind the ball, but my first will be Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

 

[Hollie Avery]

I've read The Bell Jar, Alice Through the Looking Glass and Where Rainbows End... I've read others but I can't remember them all D: