The Next Best Book Club discussion

Oh, I've read "Water For Elephants". That brings me up to a whopping 20 points.

I'm currently reading "Rebecca" so soon I will be at 30! Woo! Watch out everyone! :)

Just read "Like Water for Chocolate," I also have a lot of these on my Spring Challenge list so I've been knocking them off.

Total 110 points

#66 - A Great and Terrible Beauty (10 points)

40 points to date

Hi! Where is the growing list?

Well, I've only read one from the list so far:

#47 Pillars of the Earth (10 pts)

5. The Kite Runner
17. The Shadow of the Wind
122. Slaughterhouse Five

Which brings me to 70 pts

1. I Capture the Castle (10 pts)
9. The Bell Jar (10 pts)
98. 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (10 pts)
117. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (10 pts)

Total: 40 points

The Kite Runner - 10
Water for Elephants - 10
Rebecca - 10
The Princess Bride - 10

40 points!! *sings* Mooovin' on uuuppp!

(sorry. I don't know what happened there.)

4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 3.25.09
63. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 3.15.09
98. 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff 3.23.09
117. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows 1.3.09
130. The Princess Bride by William Goldman 3.19.09

Total: 50pts

Becky wrote: *sings* Mooovin' on uuuppp!

(sorry. I don't know what happened there.)"

Haha, Becky - I liked it! Very spirited. :)

Just finished A Great and Terrible Beauty for 10!

4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 3.25.09
63. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 3.15.09
98. 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff 3.23.09
117. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows 1.3.09
130. The Princess Bride by William Goldman 3.19.09
66. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray 4.9.09

Total: 60pts

Update:

Hayes (it's a Roman broccoli, actually)
31. Time Traveller's Wife
77. Hitch Hiker's Guide
103. Jane Eyre

Total: 30 points

will finish 35. little Women, and 26. Handmaid's tale this weekend for additional 20 points

Another 10pts to bring me to 70!

117. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows 1.3.09
63. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 3.15.09
98. 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff 3.23.09
130. The Princess Bride by William Goldman 3.19.09
4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 3.25.09
66. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray 4.9.09
1. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith 4.12.09

Latest one in bold:
#23 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
#4 The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
#117 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Shaffer/Barrows
#53 The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd

Total: 40 Points

So far I have...
3. Persuasion
10. Corelli's Mandolin
51. Water for Elephants
77. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
117. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society

and added
17. The Shadow of the Wind
63. Rebecca

70 pts

#47 Pillars of the Earth (10 pts)
#40 A Thousand Splendid Suns (10 pts)

Total: 20 points

4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
34. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
79. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer

Total: 30 points

Though I have alot on my TBR pile! Can't wait to get to those!

Update: 50 pts.

Hayes (it's a Roman broccoli, actually)

26. The Handmaid's Tale
31. Time Traveller's Wife
35. Little Women
77. Hitch Hiker's Guide
103. Jane Eyre

63. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (10 pts.)
135. A Prayer for Owen Meany (10 pts.)

50 points total :)

9. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (10 pts.)

60 points ytd

4. The Book Thief
21. Blindness
31. The Time Traveler's Wife
79. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
5. The Kite Runner
17. The Shadow of the Wind
122. Slaughterhouse Five

and most recently read 51. Water for Elephants

Total: 80

117. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows 1.3.09
63. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 3.15.09
98. 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff 3.23.09
130. The Princess Bride by William Goldman 3.19.09
4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 3.25.09
66. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray 4.9.09
1. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith 4.12.09
23. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 4.22.09

80pts

#6 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
#17 The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#22 The Giver - Lois Lowry
#56 Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
#61 The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
#63 Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
#74 The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
#77 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
#81 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
#93 The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo
#112 Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
#115 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass -Lewis Carroll
#116 Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
#117 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows


I'm up to 140 pt.

Anyone have a best/worst of what they've read so far? I loved Shadow of the Wind and laughed through Lamb, but REALLY wasn't fond of The Road.

4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
35. Little Women-Louisa May Alcott
123. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

30pts.. I need to get reading. That being said I have at least 3 more of those in the TBR pile on my desk so I'll be adding to it soon.

So far I've really loved all the books I've read!

46. Book of Lost Things by (John)Connolly
40 pts now, working on 50 with The Thirteenth Tale

61. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
50 pts :)

I have read:
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Little Women
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Catcher in the Rye (5)
Book Thief
Kite Runner
To Kill a Mocking Bird (5)
Total Points:70

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The 13th Tale - Diane Setterfield

#47 Pillars of the Earth (10 pts)
#40 A Thousand Splendid Suns (10 pts)
#80 Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (10 pts)
Total: 30 points

93. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (10 pts)

70 points ytd

I think the one I liked best was Dissolution, which was a re-read, though I also enjoyed The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society very much.

OOPS: 45 pts. (didn't mean to cheat, honest!!)


26. The Handmaid's Tale
31. Time Traveller's Wife
35. Little Women
77. Hitch Hiker's Guide
103. Jane Eyre (re-read 5 pts)

So far this year I have read:

35. Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (a re-read)
40. A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini (first read)

Which I make a grand total of 15 points. Loads more on my TBR though!

19. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - 10

Only one this year :(

The Kite Runner - 10
Water for Elephants - 10
Rebecca - 10
The Princess Bride - 10

New Reads:
23. Anne of Green Gables 10
40. A Thousand Splendid Suns 10
71. Middlesex 10
130. The Princess Bride 10
148. The Lightning Thief 10

Up to 90 points!

Total for the year so far:

1. I Capture the Castle (10 pts)
4. The Book Thief (10 pts)
9. The Bell Jar (10 pts)
22. The Giver (10 pts)
61. The Thirteenth Tale (10 pts)
63. Rebecca (10 pts)
66. A Great and Terrible Beauty (10 pts)
93. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (10 pts)
117. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (10 pts)
135. A Prayer for Owen Meany (10 pts)
138. The Little Prince (10 pts)
139. Twilight (10 pts)
145. 1984 (10 pts)
153. The Virgin Suicides (10 pts)

140 points to date for the year :)

I forgot about ICTC!!

The Kite Runner - 10
Water for Elephants - 10
Rebecca - 10
The Princess Bride - 10

New Reads:
1. I Capture The Castle 10
23. Anne of Green Gables 10
40. A Thousand Splendid Suns 10
71. Middlesex 10
130. The Princess Bride 10
148. The Lightning Thief 10

Up to 100 points!

This year I've read:

31. The Time Traveler's Wife
109. The Eight
117. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society


and reread:

16. Dissolution
98. 84 Charing Cross Road

So I make my tally 40 points.

Wow--I come in at just 10 points (Water for Elephants), though I have read 36 of them. And I have Away in my pile right now....

Saw this and went SQUEE! I'll participate.

First-Reads (10 points):
3. Persuasion by Jane Austen
51. Water For Elephants by Saru Gruen
62. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
93. The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo
112. Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

Re-Reads (5 points):
n/a

Total: 50 points

Latest one in bold:
#148 The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
#23 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
#4 The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
#117 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Shaffer/Barrows
#53 The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd

Total: 50 Points

Total Points = 110

Read: #9, 19, 31, 33, 53, 83, 115, 117, 127, 133, 140

Total Points = 130

Read: #9, 19, 31, 33, 53, 69, 78, 83, 115, 117, 127, 133, 140

(new book in bold)

So far this year I have read:

1. I Capture the Castle 10 points
23. Anne of Green Gables 10 points
51. Water for Elephants 10 points
77. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 10 points

That would equal 40 points thus far

I posted a way long time ago, and didn't even know I posted anything yet. I posted Water for Elephants in the previous post as well as 6. The Road 10 points

That gives me 50 points altogether.

Below is the most up-to-date list:

1. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
2. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
3. Persuasion by Jane Austen
4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
5. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
6. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
7. Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
8. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
9. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
10. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
11. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
12. The Gawgon and the Boy by Lloyd Alexander
13. Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
14. The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
15. A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East, by Tiziano Terzani
16. Dissolution, by C.J. Sansom
17. The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
18 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
19. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
20. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
21. Blindness - Jose Saramago
22. The Giver - Lois Lowry
23. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
24. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
25. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
26. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
27. Suite Francaise- Irene Nemirovski
28. The Fountainhead- Ayn Rand
29. The Horse Whisperer - Nicholas Evans
30. The Things They Carried-Tim O'Brien
31. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
32. The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
33. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
34. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
35. Little Women-Louisa May Alcott
36. The Island - Victoria Hislop
37. The Crown Conspiracy - Michael J. Sullivan
38. House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
39. Time and Again - Jack Finney
40. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hossieni
41. Watership Down by Richard Adams
42. Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
43. Mistress of the Art of Death - Arianna Franklin
44. Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
45. Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
46. Book of Lost Things by Connolly
47. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
48. Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Carrell
49. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
50. Just One Look by Harlan Coben
51. Water For Elephants by Saru Gruen
52. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
53. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
54. Mahabharata by R. Rajagopalachari
55. Straight Man by Richard Russo
56. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
57. The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
58. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
59. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
60. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
61. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
62. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
63. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
64. Icy Sparks - Gwyn Rubio
65. The Stolen Child - Keith Donohue
66. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
67. These Is My Words - Nancy Turner
68. Daughter of the Forest - Juliet Marillier
69. What is the What - Dave Eggers
70. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
71. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
72. I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb
73. Written On The Body - Jeanette Winterson
74. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
75. Howards End - E.M. Forster
76. Endurance- Alfred Lansing
77. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
78. Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
79. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
80. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
81. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
82. Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank
83. The Scarlet Letter -Nathaniel Hawthorn
84. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
85. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
86. Witch Fire by James Clemens
87. The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy
88. Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
89. Molvania, A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry by Cilauro, Gleisner, Sitch
90. The Stand by Stephen King
91. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
92. Atonement by Ian McEwan
93. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
94. How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne
95. Away by Amy Bloom
96. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
97. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
98. 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
99. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
100. The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
101. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
102. Little, Big by John Crowley
103. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
104. Lightning by Dean Koontz
105. Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
106. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
107. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
108. My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
109. The Eight by Katherine Neville
110. Evasion - Anonymous. Published by Crimethinc
111. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
112. Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
113. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
114. Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
115. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass -Lewis Carroll
116.Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
117. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
118. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
119. The Plague by Albert Camus
120. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
121. Before I Wake by Robert J. Wiersema
122. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
123. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
124. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
125. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
126. Chasing the Devil's Tail by David Fulmer
127. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
128. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
129. The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mullisch
130. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
131. Looking for Alibrandi - Melina Marchetta
132. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
133. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
134. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
135. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
136. Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov
137. House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
138. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
139. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
140. Bright Shiny Morning - James Frey
141. Chocolat- Joanne Harris
142. White Fang - Jack London
143. Sophie's Choice - William Styron
144. Cold Comfort Farm - by Stella Gibbons
145. 1984 - by George Orwell
146. Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
147. Of Human Bondage - by W. Somerset Maugham
148. The Lightning Theif - by Rick Riordan
149. Angels and Demons - by Dan Brown
150. The Brothers K - David James Duncan
151. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
152.Interview with The Vampire-Anne Rice
153. The Virgin Suicides- Jeffrey Eugenides
154. Un Lun Dun - China Mieville
155. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
156. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - by Stephen Chbosky
157. The Help by Stockett

47. Pillars of the Earth (10 pts)
40. A Thousand Splendid Suns (10 pts)
80. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (10 pts)
103. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronteal (10 pts)*
116.Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (10 pts)*

Total: 50 pts
(* = updates to my list)

This year I've read:

31. The Time Traveler's Wife
93. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
109. The Eight
117. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society


and reread:

16. Dissolution
98. 84 Charing Cross Road

So I make my tally 50 points.

Recently read in bold:

1. I Capture the Castle (10 pts)
4. The Book Thief (10 pts)
5. The Kite Runner (10 pts)
9. The Bell Jar (10 pts)
22. The Giver (10 pts)
31. The Time Traveler's Wife (10 pts)
35. Little Women (10 pts)
61. The Thirteenth Tale (10 pts)
63. Rebecca (10 pts)
66. A Great and Terrible Beauty (10 pts)
93. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (10 pts)
117. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (10 pts)
135. A Prayer for Owen Meany (10 pts)
138. The Little Prince (10 pts)
139. Twilight (10 pts)
145. 1984 (10 pts)
153. The Virgin Suicides (10 pts)

170 points to date for the year