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Mar 15, 2009 11:20AM
Hymmm... you tend to read totally different things than I do. From all that I only read Jeremy Clarkson, he looks at things from a perspective of a really young boy. Love the guy. Big fan of Top Gear here, LOL.
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I have very eclectic reading tastes Kasia. There's a bit of all sorts of books in there and in my to-read pile. Clarkson's interesting. My fiance is reading it (and he doesn't read much) so I got myself a copy to read. My fiance is British and loves Top Gear but I can't get it here so have never seen it. So it's a bit different probably for me reading his books never having seen him on the show. I've got 5 of Clarkson's books. I've read 2 and just started a third. My fiance will loan me his latest book (World According to Clarkson v3) after he's done with it as it's not widely available here yet as it's a very expensive import at the moment.
You can watch it online - Hulu.com is one place, I know iTunes has it too.That is if you don't mind watching it on the computer.
Thank you. I'll check it out, if for no other reason than to find out what my fiance is talking about. lol
I read a novella by Stephen King today, "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption." I never realized the movie was based on a book he'd written. (I only knew him to write horror, which I'm not a fan of.) This novella was very good. I finished it in a couple hours this afternoon, sitting on my porch swing on a warm spring day.
The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile are two of my all-time favorite movies. Both are based on Stephen King's novellas, which unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to reading yet...But, I love both movies.
Reading Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption was worth it. As good as the movie. Although warning, you'll hear Morgan Freeman's voice in your head the whole time you read the book from his perspective. lol I havn't seen or read The Green Mile yet.I'm just moving copies of my lists here so they are easier to find and update.
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A-Z Author Challenge List26/26 DONE!!
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What's in a Name (Feb 1 - Apr 30, 2009)6/10
1.) A book with a color in the title:
2.) A book with an animal in its title:
3.) A book with a first name in its title:
4.) A book with a place (city/town/state/country) in its title:
5.) A book with a “building� in its title:
Back Home Again by Melody Carlson Finished late on 5/2/09
6.) A book with a plant/flower in its title:
Coffee, Tea or Me? The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses by Trudy Baker currently reading
7.) A book with a “profession� in its title:
8.) A book with a “time of day� or "number" in its title:
9.) A book with a “relative� in its title:
Grandma's Wartime Kitchen World War II and the Way We Cooked by Joanne Lamb Hayes currently reading
10.) A book with a “body part� in its title:
The Family Bones By Kimberly Raiser
March Monthly Challenge5/10
1. Read a book whose author's first or last name starts with "M":
2. Read a book which cover is predominantly color "green" or reminds you of spring:
3. Read an anthology:
That Summer Place: Old Things\Private Paradise\Island Time by Debbie Macomber, Susan Wiggs, & Jill Barnett
4. Read a book whose author, setting or a character is from Texas:
5. Read a book that is set in Scotland or has a Highlander as a character:
The Widow's Bargain by Juliet Landon
6. Read a book that has a "military" theme in it (cover, character or title):
Grandma's Wartime Kitchen World War II and the Way We Cooked by Joanne Lamb Hayes
7. Read a book that you have previously started and meant to continue, but keep failing to do so:
The Education of a Poker Player by Herbert Yardley
8 - 10 Read a trilogy or three books that are consecutive in a series:
Promise, Texas (Heart of Texas #7)
by Debbie Macomber 4/5/09
Read the Month - March5/5! YEAH!!
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Damn, I think I'm going to steal this idea from you. Having all my lists in one thread - that's convenient.
I was thinking the same thing...Great idea, Briansgirl.
I'll still post updates in the appropriate thread but I wanted them all where I could find them easily.
Read the Month - April5/5 YEAH!!
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April Monthly Challenge10/10 YEAH!!
1. Read a book whose author's first or last name starts with "A".
2. Read a book picked from an April B-Day celebrant GR shelf. Be sure to specify whose shelf you pick it from.
3. Read a book whose author, setting or character is from California.
4. Read the oldest book added to your Good Reads TBR shelf.
5. Read a book that has "one word" for its title.
6. Read a book that you heard or think would be "funny".
7. Read a book that has some kind of WAR as a backdrop.
8. Read a book that has a "male profile" on the cover.
9. Read a book that is part of a series.
10. Reader's Choice.
Series Madness ChallengeStart new series:
- Cedar Cove series by Debbie Macomber
- Booktown Mysteries by Lorna Barrett
- Star Trek - Vulcan Soul's
- Mitford Series by Jan Karon
- Poison/Magic/Fire Study by Maria V. Snyder
Might start new series if I have time: lol
- Monica Ferris mysteries There are 12. (I own the first 10, with the author having signed the first 6.)
- Ian Fleming James Bond novels There are 12 novels and 2 books of short stories (9 stories).
- Navy series by Debbie Macomber
- Kinsey Millhone (Alphabet) Mysteries by Sue Grafton
- Myth Adventures by Robert Lynn Asprin (rereading)
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- Janet Dailey's Americana Series
- Pennsylvania Dutch Mysteries by Tamar Myers (Read 12, have 4 to go)
- Postcards from Europe (a really old Harlequin Presents series from 1993. I have 11 of the 15 books by different authors)
- Tales from Grace Chapel Inn by various authors (Series has 32 books in it. Library has 18 books of the series, listing the others as OOP)
- S.A.S.S. - Students Across the Seven Seas
- Star Trek - The Captain's Table
Current or Finished Series in 2009:
- Airhead/Being Nikki by Meg Cabot (current)
- Aunt Dimity by Nancy Atherton (current)
- Blossom Street series by Debbie Macomber (current)
- Heart of Texas series by Debbie Macomber
- Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
- James Potter by G. Norman Lippert (current)
imma do the one thread this to. i was keeping notes on notepad. but this will be much easier!
I have all of mine saved on my computer and printed out where I can edit them when necessary or cross them off. But I wanted a place where I could edit the official version without always having to scroll through several pages of posts looking for mine to edit and post an update.
April (14)33. Resurrecting the 3-D Club. Set of short stories: Daring to Dance, Ready to Reel, and Waiting to Waltz by Lainey Bancroft. 4/2/09 - ebook novellas
34. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Red-Headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 4/5/09 audiobook
35. Promise Texas by Debbie Macomber 4/5/09
36. William Shakespeare's King Lear a graphic novel by Gareth Hinds 4/7/09
37. Mary Ann's Gilligan's Island Cookbook by Dawn Wells 4/9/09
38. Fire and Ice (Americana series: California)by Janet Daily 4/11/09
39. Lavender Morning A Novel by Jude Deveraux 4/14/09
40. If The Slipper Fits by Elizabeth Harbison 4/14/09
41. Murder, She Wrote: Murder on the QE2 by Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain 4/20/09
42. Princess Mia by Meg Cabot 4/20/09
43. Forever Princess by Meg Cabot 4/22/09
44. Star Trek: The Ashes of Eden by William Shatner a graphic novel 4/21/09
45. Airhead by Meg Cabot 4/25/09
46. Baby Bonanza by Maureen Child 4/26/09
Read the Month - May - YEAH!!3/3
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I'm only looking ahead because both U's and the Y are hard letters to fill.
True, I'm ashamed to admit I have mine planned out as well...
I only did it ahead because I thought some letters were difficult. I thought J would be terrible for book titles until I realized it was the first letter of an author whose got a series I'm trying to finish. U isn't easy, nor Y. Figured I'd plan ahead since I'm reading a U title now and it won't count! lol I'm dreading fall when we get all those long named months. lol The V particularly in November won't be fun. lol
September? October? November? December? Yeah, I'm not deluding myself, some challenges will be left unfinished in those months.
Oh no...and I was trying to stop myself at June. I shoulda known that would never happen. :O)
Are you going to plan ahead for the rest of the year Melody? I'm only planning ahead for the summer. I got thinking about it because the U book I'm reading now won't count, lol, and it isn't a letter easy to find a title to fit. But now that I've started it, I hate to return it to the library and wait two months to finish it. lol Then again..... August has two U's in it. Argh!!! lol hhhmmm, might just take it back to the library to read later. lol
Kasia wrote: "September? October? November? December? Yeah, I'm not deluding myself, some challenges will be left unfinished in those months."
Definetly going to need to overlap books between challenges!!
I'm not having any trouble with the Us (weird, right?), but the Js are bugging me. And I need a G. Oh, and an A. That'll put me through August. Assuming these titles will mix with other challenges...I really don't want to "have" to read 40 books a month... :O)
I'm trying to cross over between lists as much as I can. "A"'s been a problem for me some, as is "I". Just for April alone between the read the month, monthly challenge and quarterly challenge that ends this month... I've got 9 or 10 books left to read to finish all the challenges. (I've already read 6 this month). I doubt I'll make it. lol Trouble is that I find books I want to read that just won't fit any category for anything, lol, or its a thick book so if I read that, I won't get others finished. I also have a few thick books that I read a chapter or two every few days if I can. Sometimes only once a week or two, if that. These are non-fiction as I need a break between fiction books. But they take me longer than month to read so I'm not suppose to put them on a monthly list, but they'd work for a quarterly list.
I hear that. This month my challenge list was 19 titles. I've made it through 11, plus one that wasn't on any challenge (and eliminated one I'd already read). I have something like 6 more from the library that aren't challenge titles. And then I get stuck on the BOM titles. Some flaw in my character makes me rebel... :O)I've been trying to integrate the Men We Love challenge with ANYTHING else. I think I matched 2 titles. I'm hoping the June 10 book challenge helps (also the challenge on PNR). I've got almost nothing from my A-Z lists plugged into the months (they're further along than I expected and not offering up much).
*whinewhinewhine* :O)
I've done pretty good on the A-Z list if you're a bit flexible. I use authors first or last name. If possible, I use last names but willing to use a first name if it's all I can find. lol For A-Z book list remember A, An, And, and The don't count unless you want them to. lol I'm hoping to work some Men We Love books into other challenges later as well. It's one reason my hardcopy printout has books scratched out and different titles written in all the time. lol
Last year I read 83 books in all. Right now I've read almost half that, 40 books. I might yet reach my goal of a 100 books this year at this rate.
Wow! If you keep that pace, you'll surpass that goal! :O)
I don't know if I can keep this pace up or not. My cross stitching is suffering as I spend all my free time reading. lol
Briansgirl wrote: "I read a novella by Stephen King today, "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption." I never realized the movie was based on a book he'd written. (I only knew him to write horror, which I'm not a fan ..."If you get a chance read his novella "the body". It became the movie Stand by me, it's in the anthology Different seasons which also has the Shawshank short in it.
Most of your books I have never heard of, what category would you say they fall into? What are your favourite reads?
Hi Michelle. I read all sorts of categories. lol It might be easier if you checked out my bookshelves on goodreads. The category I read the most is romance, but I also like other fiction and non-fiction books. I started getting into mysteries alot last year. Many new books I'm classifying as other fiction since I'm not sure where else to put them. I like alot of biographies. Breaks up the fiction books by reading a non-fiction now and then. Looking back at what I've read this year... P.G. Wodehouse books are humourous fiction. I'm reading stories about the famed butler (actually a valet) Jeeves. The Jeremy Clarkson books are non-fiction books written by a newspaper columnists (these are his columns in book form) who is a cohost of the BBC TV series Top Gear. Aunt Dimity is a mystery series. Spencer's Mountain was made into a movie with Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara and the TV series The Waltons was based off of it. Otherwise, a Stephen King, quite a few romance novels, a couple cookbooks. I read my first graphic novel, in this case Shakespeare's King Lear. A couple other classics were in there with Rip Van Winkle and the Canterville Ghost (made into a lovely short made-for-tv movie with Patrick Stewart as the ghost). Roadside America was a book about the odd and familiar sites that grew up on the fabled US Route 66.
As you can see... I read not quite, but almost a bit of everything now and then. lol If you check out my bookshelves you'll see I've acquired tons of books 2500+ (mostly used and dirt cheap) and I still need to read 4/5ths of them. lol
Ah, Jeremy Clarkson, big boy, my secret love! He makes cars seem fun, unbelievable!
I've got 5 of his books. Finished 2 so far this year and ever so slowly, working on #3. I'm enjoying the books but I've only seen a few clips of Top Gear (after you gave me the link).
Yes, I remember ;) I've read only one of his books, but I'm planning on reading something of his again. It's at the back of my mind...
Briansgirl wrote: "I've got 5 of his books. Finished 2 so far this year and ever so slowly, working on #3. I'm enjoying the books but I've only seen a few clips of Top Gear (after you gave me the link)."We do make a point never to miss Top Gear, I like Richard Hammond myself though. It's a shame you don't get to see it. I usually need to keep tissues handy, I laugh that hard. Never thought of reading any books though.
I tend to buy a lot of second hand books too, saves some pennies!
I buy most books used. Cheaper that way. I'd watch Top Gear if it was available here, but it's not. It's my fiance's favorite program on tv, but he lives in England. I caught him reading one of Clarkson's books last time he visited, so ordered a couple (used from online, imported) to read so I could share that with him.
So I'm NOT the only one with abundance of box sets! Good.
the only one or not the only one? lolI only made this many as there is no time limit. lol I could have added more books to each and every set too. and could have come up with even more sets. Maybe this will be some motivation to, eventually, get these read.
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