You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

Slick's Slugs (6 books)✔ (Putting this check mark here for later use)

1. Bleak House - 1012 pages
To be read

(Connection Charles Dickens)

2. Little Dorrit- 985 pages
To be read

(Contain a character named arthur - Arthur Clennam and Arthur Berg, respectively)

3 The Book Thief - 552 pages
To Be Read

(Nazi Germany)

4. Winter of the World - 940 pages
To Be Read

(WWII)

5. Sophie's Choice - 562 pages
Started Jan 01, 2014
Currently reading

Author's last name 6 letters in length.

6. The Luminaries - 848 pages
To Be Read

Short list for Governor General of Canada Award.

Mickey Mouse's Marauders (7-12 books)

7. The Lion Seeker - 576 pages

Title Contains the name of an African Animal

8. Water for Elephants - 335 pages
Camel Rider - 204 pages

Orphaned boys

9. Oliver Twist - 554 pages

Made into a movie

10. East of Eden - 601 pages

three word title - first and last word separated by "of"

11. Shadow of Night -584 pages

books containing time travel

12. 11/22/63 - 849 pages

Stephen King

RoadRunners Racers (13-18 books)

13. Doctor Sleep - 531 pages

Title starts with the word Doctor

14. Doctor Zhivago - 544 pages

Winner of the Premio Bancarella Award 1958 and 1994 respectively (I'm uber proud of this link...lol)

15. The Client - 566 pages

by John Grisham

16. The Chamber - 640 pages

Lawyers

17. Defending Jacob - 432 pages
The Marks Of Cain - 448 pages

Title Contains the name of a Biblical person

18. Kane and Abel - 592 pages

Last and First Letter of Title Are The Same

Tasmanian Devil Trouncer's (19-24 books)

19. Les Misérables - 1463 pages (this would be my largest read for the year if I get it)

Set in France

20. Courtesan - 576 pages

Set in the 16th Century

21. Don Quixote 1169 pages

Title Contains a male first and last name

22. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - 1024 pages

Books about Foundlings/orphans

23. Jane Eyre - 507 pages

Jane is the author and Jane is the title. Also Houses with great names - Thornfield and Mansfield Park.

24. Mansfield Park - 507 pages

Buzz LightYears Bombers (25 and beyond)

If I get here...I'm going to treat myself by picking something then and there. Whatever calls to me and connects to Mansfield Park. :)

I'm glad that you've decided to join the challenge and that you figured out how to add your thread.

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I had to come see what you were starting with... Yowsa!! Those are some Chunksters! I haven't read any Dickens and will look forward to your comments.

Hi Scott. *waves*. I had to come and see too. I have not read either of your Dickens books, but I watched the BBC mini-series of the 2nd one.
I am still working on my lists.

That's a lot of Dickens! Hopefully you have some great reads Scott.

Bleak House was wonderful. If you have a dry sense of humor, you may be laughing out loud. Enjoy it, Scott! :)

I'm nervous about two Dickens in a row, but each time I start to chose a book, they stare at me. I have book guilt which I'm hoping I will now resolve...lol

Haha, yeah, I'm not sure I'd read two of his in a row either, but I've heard Little Dorrit is also good. You can always change your picks though, if you're not feeling it when the time comes.

The good thing is that within a milestone, you can read the books in any order. So you can start the challenge with a Dickens, read the 4 other books, and then the second Dickens.

Good to see that you have The Book Thief in there too. We might be able to do another buddy read!

Scott wrote: "I'm nervous about two Dickens in a row, but each time I start to chose a book, they stare at me. I have book guilt which I'm hoping I will now resolve...lol"

Hopefully this challenge will rid you of that book guilt.

Woot!! Slick's Slugs completed!

Way to go, Scott! :D

WOOP WOOP!! Picked my Maurauders books. Selecting the books proves harder than I originally thought. Both because I want to choose those I really want to read next year, and choosing ones that somehow connect. Loving the challenge of it.

I'm loving your challenging picks! I love Dickens, but you are brave, guy. Hehe! I'm glad you're having fun with it. :)

Thanks Laura, I think I may have backed myself into a corner with the last two. LOL...I might need to rethink those.

Ok so stumbled out of the corner. Its going to be a big reading year I think.

Looking good, Scott! Looks like a year GREAT reading for all of us.

It will be! Love your Grisham, Scott.

We need to give Janice a big Woot Woot! It's so cool to have a list of books I'm chomping at the bit to read. Good, long books are one of the best things going. *sigh*

Think its going to be AWESOME! Can hardly wait to get started.

I'm enjoying all the excitement.... and joining in on it. I'll finally put a high priority on the Harry Hole series and get it finished.

I'm glad you're excited too!! :))))

It is very exciting. Wishing 2014 would come sooner so we can get started! The problem is, I keep seeing great ideas and thinking of adding them too. I too want to read the Harry Hole series but I don't own them (yet!) and trying desperately to keep the challenge limited to books I own.

I'm running into the same issue...that and...a lot of books that hit just below 500 and trying not to double too much. lol

I just don't know how everyone can keep writing Harry Hole with a straight face. I'm sorry it just cracks me up.

LOL!

*snicker*

Hehehehe!

WOOT!! Got it!! I am keeping my Buzz Light Year ones to fill in the books that I see over the year that I missed or did not put on the list. Going to be a lot of fun!! Come on January One!

Your list keeps getting better and better! It will be fun to follow your progress. I'm going to get Jane Eyre read this year too. I remember Cherie having a good time with it this year.

It is getting better. Scott!! You have one of my favorites just added....Tom Jones! And I haven't even finished it yet but dying to just reread from the beginning. That is the funniest book if you like dry, sarcastic humor. Do you audio? If so, I'll look up the narrator for mine. He is so excellent. Oh, I love that book. And it is SO hard to push on people. Nothing about it appeals to most people. If a good friend hadn't repeatedly tried to push it on me, I'd have never tried it. I love that it's on your list!! :)))

A lot of good reading here

I'm excited about these. Most are the books I've had on my to read list for a long time, this challenge might actually get me into them. I have a bad habit of winding off on other reads as they come along.

LOL! I thought Tom Jones was a singer.
I cannot stop adding doorstops to my TBR.
I just added The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

I almost picked up a copy of DQ at the book store and my daughter gave me "that look" and said - are you going to read it any time soon????

Haha Cherie! Tom Jones is great. :))

My daughter got Vanity Fair and Pickwick Papers for Xmas and now I'm wishing I had treated myself to them as well...but I'm going to be good this year...well I'm going to try..lol

How old is your daughter, Scott (if you don't mind me asking)? Pretty ambitious reading for a young person!

She's 18, and she's got the bug. Tho, Wuthering Heights is like a four letter word for her...In her words..."worst book ever!" lol. She's off to university this coming fall.

Heh well laid plans...

Hope your daughter enjoys them Scott. I read so many classics in my first year at University. I couldn't believe people had kept so many good books from me!! completely ignoring of course how there is a limit to what they could teach me in school. I did indignant 18 yr old so well...

Scott I found it very funny that you " thought" about swiping your daughter's book. I read this right after I was looking for my library book Storm Front which my visiting 22 year old son swiped from me to read!

Good for her, Scott. That's a good bug to have! :)

Well, I'm plowing through my first chunkster...Wowza, its a challenge! Hoping it improves.

Haha, plowing seems to be the right word! I'm glad we made it a buddy-read, it's easier if you can complain a bit along the way ;-)

Sophie's Choice? I was hoping that would be a fast read. Well, considering how long it is. You have an ambitious list, Scott!! It is nice you're joining Peggy, though. Long books are always better with a buddy. :)

Sophie's Choice is a different read for me...one minute I'm close to tossing it, and then the next chapter, I really enjoy. Hoping it all ties together as the story unfolds.

For all three of us, Scott!
Not to rush along, but have you decided what you are going to tackle next?

I'm thinking Bleak House its the largest of the reads in Slick's slugs, and I am anxious to knock one of Dickens off my shelf. Its one of those that I'm always going to read and just never get settled down to actually opening.