November Book Read - Anyone Interested in Another Round?

[glinda]

Somewhat belated but in my defense I was moving house over the end of October/start of November so I do have a bit of an excuse...

For those new to the comm, for the last couple of Novembers, inspired by frantic scribblings of the Nanowrimo participants there's been an informal conterpart here where people sign up to read a certain number of books that they own but have never got round to reading. I make weekly check in posts so people can report their sucesses or confess to their failures. It's very informal and only as competitive as you want it to be (every year I dream of getting through a book a week, and every year I'm just happy if I've read two all month at the start of December...) Basically this can be as big or as little of a commitment as you feel up to. Dependant on your reading speed/available time you can sign up to read one book or ten books. Doesn't matter how big or small the book, only that its something that has been taking up space on your book shelf (or case/box/tottering pile beside your bed) for some time and you've never quite got round to it.

So my question is...anyone up for it this year? Or have I left it too late and you all have other challenges in hand?

eta. Ok, it looks like we are in fact, doing this thing. Therefore please feel free to use the comments of this post to sign up/stake your personal challenge and I'll post the first check in post on Sunday (seeing that the last day of the month will be one that should work out nicely).

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I'm up for it. I dunno how many books to sign up for, though.

[glinda]

Yay, as many as you like! Though from previous experience I would say pick something achievable (based on how many books you'd normally read in a month) but a little bit of a challenge to make it more interesting for you.

[peaceful_sands]

I'm sort of up for it - I'm also trying for Nano and have a bunch of work type things on so... how much time I'll have.

I'll say 8 books at this point and I already have at least some of the ones I'll read in mind, I think - do you want me to say here or will there be another post for that? I've read more than that for most months this year which has been a major achievement, but I still have lots to get through and although I'm facing such a busy time, I don't want to completely lose my momentum on the reading front.

[glinda]

A few folks seem interested so I think it'll happen, therefore feel free to use the comments on this post to stake your claim! 8 books a month sounds fairly impressive to me! :)

[peaceful_sands]

In which case I will aim to read 8 (some of these may be in audio form - depending on what's available at the library this month - but will also be on my own shelf in paperback - so it's still helping tackle my TBR pile).

The eight will include :

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix By J.K. Rowling
Dead or Alive by Tom Clancy
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

and may include any two (or more) of these :

Brilliance of the Moon by Lian Hearn
Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith
The Hundred Year Old Man who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Ranger's Apprentice : The Lost Stories by John Flanagan
Around the World in 80 Dates by Jennifer Cox
Sir Gawain, His Squire and His Lady by Gerald Morris
Midnight over Sanctaphrax by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Showboat World by Jack Vance


and two others which may or may not come from the above list.

[krait]

Definitely up for it! I have a decent to-be-read pile that is going to get bigger tonight, so why not? :D

[glinda]

Yay! :D

[bookblather]

Sure, why not?

[glinda]

Yay! :D

[glinda]

Having just moved house I actually have a 'to read pile' beside my bed to motivate me to read some of my unread collection. So I would like to read two books from that pile, said pile includes:

Ladies of the Grand Tour - Brian Dolan
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks
This is your Brain on Music - Daniel Levitin
Hindi Cinema - Anil Saari
Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
Dragonhaven - Robin McKinley

Also I have quite a pile of unlistened to audiobooks, so I shall be taking a leaf out of peaceful_sands' book and listening to a couple of those too. They are:

Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Indian Takeaway - Hardeep Singh Kohli
Middlemarch - George Elliot
Man & Boy - Tony Parsons
Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert
To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway

[shanaqui]

I'm in! Let's say twenty books, including only books I have already in my house at this instant. I don't think I could possibly come up with a list to draw from, given my backlog.

[glinda]

You do have the most epic of 'to read' lists, of anyone I know, but also you read books faster than anyone else I know so as daunting as that target sounds to me I'm sure you'll be fine! :)