More of what I've been reading

[gnomi]

More 50bookchallenge books:

#43 Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella: The adventures (and misadventures) of a mid-twenties shopaholic in Britain who can't keep her spending under control. It's the first in a series, and it was quite entertaining. I've just started the second in the series, hoping the romp-feeling of the first one continues.

#44 Challenge for a Throne: The Wars of the Roses by Franklin Hamilton: A comprehensive history of the British monarchy from Richard II through Henry VI. Well researched, very well written, but accessible to those who are not students of history. I was sufficiently impressed by this book that I plan to read Hamilton's The Crusades, as well.

#45 Rules of the Game by Nora Roberts
#46 The Name of the Game by Nora Roberts: Two more early Roberts books, from 1984 and 1988, respectively. Not particularly intellectually challenging, but a good break from heavier reading.

#47 Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
#48 The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde: The second and third books in his series featuring Thursday Next. Lost in a Good Book picks up almost immediately where The Eyre Affair the first in the series leaves off. And The Well of Lost Plots continues the adventures started in Lost in a Good Book. These books are a lot of fun and very well written. They should be read in order, however, as there's an assumption that you know what's happened in previous books.

Comments

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

The Shopaholic books are very silly but very fun. Which reminds me that I need to get the new one at some point.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I've got the next one out of the library, and it's on the "to read" pile. I like silly-but-fun (which is why I got the first one out of the library on the recommendation of another friend).

[csbermack.livejournal.com]

you're so close! should be no problem making 50!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

And I'm about 1/2 way through #49, so I think I can make it. Which is kind of cool, honestly.

[doeeyedbunny.livejournal.com]

What are 50bookchallenge books?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

50bookchallenge was set up as a challenge for people to read and complete 50 books in a calendar year. For me, it's not the starting 50 books that was the challenge, but actually finishing 50 books (at the moment, I'm variously in the middle of about 6 different books, a very common pattern for me). So I took it as a challenge to see if I could complete reading 50 different books (both fiction and non) over the course of 2004. I don't know if I'll do it again for 2005, but I'm thinking about it.

[doeeyedbunny.livejournal.com]

That's so cool! Did you get to choose the books?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Yup. It's totally up to the individual reader how they want to do it. Some people are only counting books that are new-to-them, some are counting re-reads, some are counting graphic novels, etc. It's also a great place to get book recommendations. :-)