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bluebuckeye

50 Book Challenge for 2010

Jan 01, 2010 19:56

This is my fourth year doing the 50 book challenge. I sadly did not reach 50 last year but I made a pretty good effort. If you feel like checking out all the books I've read since 2007 you can go hereMy focus this year is going to be on fiction because I spent so much of 2009 reading really bad non-fiction to the point that I didn't finish almost a ( Read more... )

50 book challenge

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kevinbelt January 2 2010, 00:55:29 UTC

Read plays. They're short in general, and because they're all dialogue they move even quicker. Think like "The Importance of Being Earnest".

ufos8mycat January 2 2010, 00:57:05 UTC

Its non-fiction, but have you read anything by Augusten Burroughs?

bluebuckeye January 2 2010, 00:58:46 UTC

I read Running with Scissors and I liked that ok. What else is good?

ufos8mycat January 2 2010, 01:11:55 UTC

Um, everything? Lol. Dry kinda picks up where RWS left off, covering his early adult life and his battle with alcoholism. One of his newer books, Wolf at the Table takes place before RWS and is mainly about his father. Its much darker than anything else he's written and he doesn't use much humor in it either. It took awhile for me to get into it but it was still a fantastic book. Magical Thinking and Possible Side Effects are both collections of short "memories" that didn't fit in any of his other memoirs, but he still wanted to share them. Sellevision was actually his first book, the only fiction he's written... And it's hilarious. And then his newest book, You Better Not Cry, is formatted like Possible Side Effects and Magical Thinking, but all the stories are about his twisted perceptions on Christmas and his childhood confusion between Santa and Jesus. Its warped for the most part but it ends on a sweet note.

bluebuckeye January 2 2010, 01:19:03 UTC

I just requested Possible Side Effects and Magical Thinking and Dry. They sound good. Thanks!

pretzelcoatl January 2 2010, 01:01:33 UTC

By brain-candy, do you mean something fluffy or something that's mind-bendy?

bluebuckeye January 2 2010, 01:06:53 UTC

Just something that is an easy read. I consider Janet Evanovich, Charlaine Harris, Laurell K. Hamilton, John Grisham, and those kinds of authors as "brain candy". It's something I enjoy but there isn't a ton of substance.

pretzelcoatl January 2 2010, 01:09:47 UTC

Ah, gotcha!

Well, first thing to come to mind is Christopher Moore. Lamb is his most well-known, but I've enjoyed all of his stuff to some extent. You can't go wrong with someone who gives his books titles like The Isle of the Sequined Love Nun.

bluebuckeye January 2 2010, 01:14:07 UTC

That sounds like exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for. Thanks!

merlyn4401 January 2 2010, 01:15:20 UTC

Requisite Outlander plug!

And if you like it, it's 7 books! :D

bluebuckeye January 2 2010, 01:53:34 UTC

I requested the first book. We'll see how it goes!

ufos8mycat January 2 2010, 01:22:25 UTC

Oh! Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. One of my favorite books. Odd Thomas ended up becoming a series, so if you like it, there's Brother Odd, Forever Odd, and Odd Hours.

kevinbelt January 2 2010, 01:29:06 UTC

I am almost certain Andrea has read them already. I'm remember hearing her talk about them.

bluebuckeye January 2 2010, 01:40:25 UTC

:) You have a good memory.

bluebuckeye January 2 2010, 01:37:33 UTC

Oh man that is one of my favorite series of all time. I also love the Christopher Snow books, like Seize the Night. I may have to reread them.