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wfsm's 2017 reading challenge, one book one week
Week 1: Jan 1st to Jan 7thPlanned Book Speaker for the Dead(Chinese Version) done
+1 Pacific Rim: The Official Movie Novelization
A series need to be finished Part 0
I read Ender's Game at Sep 2015 and searching for a good translation for Speaker for the Dead for a long time. I think I don't need to read Ender's Game again, because it's not a book easy to forget.
Week 2: Jan 8th to Jan 14thPlanned Book The Martian(Chinese Version) done
+1 An Eye for Murder
The movie is great, Matt is great(yes, he is one of my favorite actors) and this book's review is great too. This is book from my kindle unlimited subscription(Amazon.cn's Kindle Unlimited has a very little collection, but it grows over last year, so I bought a two-year subscription and have faith on it read more books like this one).
Week 3: Jan 15th to 21stPlanned Book Old Man's War(Chinese Version) done
+1 The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
New series begins No.1
The Chinese version has a weird book name - Enemies from 12 Planets. I bought this book serval months ago and bought the third book today(Dec 19th, 2016) so I want to finish reading this book.
Week 4: Jan 22nd to 28thPlanned Book The Ghost Brigades(Chinese Version) done
+1 The Leopard
I just have 1 & 3 book of this series, this second book is from kindle unlimited. That's very common amazon to make a second book of a series discount or something else. You need buy 1st book for full price and 2nd book for half price, or hold the 2nd book and wait the 1st book get discounted.
Week 5: Jan 29th to Feb 4thPlanned Book The Last Colony(Chinese Version) done
+1 Earthlight
From last Friday that will be Chinese New Year, usually I could get more time to read books, this year, might not can.
Week 6: Feb 5th to Feb 11thPlanned Book American Gods(Chinese Version) delayed
+1 Everything I Never Told You
I'm a little worried to plan a paper book, because I still haven't finished The Wise Man's Fear.
Week 7: Feb 12th to Feb 18thPlanned Book The Tombs of Atuan(Chinese Version) done
+1 虚无的十字架
+2 The Shortest History of Europe
+3 The 100 DNF
A series need to be finished Part 1
I started too many series in 2016, I want to finish them in 2017.
Week 8: Feb 19th to Feb 25thPlanned Book The Farthest Shore(Chinese Version) done
+1 A Man Called Ove
A series need to be finished Part 1
I want to start serval huge series, like Foundation and The Eye of the World. But I swear to finish unfinished ones first.
Week 9: Feb 26th to Mar 4thPlanned Book Tehanu(Chinese Version) done
+1 Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
A series need to be finished Part 1
Because all books in the series are not very long, I'll read some other books during these weeks.
Week 10: Mar 5th to Mar 11thPlanned Book Tales from Earthsea(Chinese Version) done
+1 Angels & Demons
A series need to be finished Part 1
I have nothing more to write about this series.
Week 11: Mar 12th to Mar 18thPlanned Book The Other Wind(Chinese Version) done
+1 Redshirts
+2 信
A series need to be finished Part 1
The last book of the series. I only have these 6 book of Le Guin, I'll find more books of her to read in 2017.
Week 12: Mar 19th to Mar 25thPlanned Book Leviathan Wakes(Chinese Version) done at 4.12
+1 我的职业是小说家
New series begins No.2
A new series to start. I bought this book after watching the TV series base on this book. But util now, it's the only book published in Chinese of this series, so it could be a new unfinished series after I finish the first one.
Week 13: Mar 26th to Apr 1stPlanned Book The Guns of Avalon(Chinese Version) done
+1 Pride and Prejudice
A series need to be finished Part 2
Nine Princes in Amber is almost the first book I read when I got my kindle. But I was failed to finish the 2nd book at middle of that book.
Week 14: Apr 2nd to Apr 8thPlanned Book Sign of the Unicorn(Chinese Version)done
+1 金色梦乡
A series need to be finished Part 2
Ok, I need say something. This series was looking weird to me at first, after about one week reading I found the first book was very unique, was very different to the fantasy books I read.
Week 15: Apr 9th to Apr 15thPlanned Book The Hand of Oberon(Chinese Version) done
+1 Japan Sinks: A Novel about Earthquakes
A series need to be finished Part 2
But the translation of this series is not very good. It feels very dry, hard to read and understand. That's why I dropped it before.
Week 16: Apr 16th to Apr 22ndPlanned Book The Courts of Chaos(Chinese Version) done
+1 Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
+2 百年守望
A series need to be finished Part 2
I only got the Corwin cycle, so I'll stop here and consider get Merlin cycle later.
Week 17: Apr 23rd to Apr 29thPlanned Book 1984(Chinese Version) done
+1 Arthas: Rise of the Lich King
I read Brave New World in 2016, love it. I heard 1984 was the most famous book of dystopian type.
Week 18: Apr 30th to May 6thPlanned Book The Mysterious Affair at Styles(Chinese Version) done
+1 The Island
+2 A Tale of Two Cities
Take a break on sci-fi and fantasy. edit: change it to the first Hercule Poirot book
Week 19: May 7th to 13thPlanned Book Endymion(Chinese Version) done
+1 寡人有疾
A series need to be finished Part 3
The book I planned to finish in 2016, but abandoned after my twins born.
Week 20: May 14th to May 20thPlanned Book The Rise of Endymion(Chinese Version)done
+1 The Story of Mankind DNF
+2 Orphans of the Helix
+3 海豚人
A series need to be finished Part 3
Week 21: May 21st to May 27thRe-planned Book Stories of Your Life and Others(Chinese Version)done
+1 考古手记 DNF
Week 22: May 28th to Jun 3rdPlanned Book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?(Chinese Version) done
I can't believe I skip this Dick's book last year(or this year, I makes myself confused).
Week 23: Jun 4th to Jun 10thPlanned Book Crooked House(Chinese Version)done
+1 陆犯焉识
+2 Margarettown
I remember I read this book at high school(maybe).
Week 24: Jun 11th to Jun 17thPlanned Book The Martian Chronicles(Chinese Version) delayed
+1面包会有的
+2 Prince Caspian
I read the first chapter of this book to my twins when my wife was pregnant.
Week 25: Jun 18th to Jun 24thPlanned Book Red Rising(Chinese Version)done
+1 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
New series begins No.3
I read the sample on my kindle when it released, found it was interesting. But next two books are still not published yet in Chinese. The same situation like Leviathan Wakes.
Week 26: Jun 25th Jul 1stPlanned Book Malice(Chinese Version)done
+1 彷徨之刃
+2 The Atlantis Gene
Keigo Higashino(东野圭吾) is very popular in China as well as in Japan. But only few books of him translated in English, this is one of them.
Week 27: Jul 2nd to Jul 8thPlanned Book River Town: Two Years on the Yangtzedone
It was more like a travel book at first. But it became a history book because China's high speed development.
Week 28: Jul 9th to Jul 15thPlanned Book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage(Chinese Version) delayed
+1 Golden Son
There had been many years to read a Haruki Murakami(村上春树)'s book, who is my favorite Japanese author.(I read a non-fiction by him last week(edited at Mar 30th))
Week 29: Jul 16th to Jul 22ndPlanned Book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies(Chinese Version)
+1 The Outcasts of Poker Flat
A book was recommended twice by a friend.
Week 30: Jul 23rd to Jul 29thPlanned Book The Player of Games(Chinese Version)
New series begins No.4
Honestly, I thought it was a book about gaming, ;-)
Week 31: Jul 30th to Aug 5thPlanned Book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe(Chinese Version)
A series need to be finished Part 4
Honestly(again), these books should be read in English, translation made these books less humor and can't be understood sometimes.
Week 32: Aug 6th to Aug 12thPlanned Book Life, the Universe and Everything(Chinese Version)
A series need to be finished Part 4
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Week 33: Aug 13th to Aug 19thPlanned Book So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish(Chinese Version)
A series need to be finished Part 4
Week 34: Aug 20th to Aug 26thPlanned Book Mostly Harmless(Chinese Version)
A series need to be finished Part 4
Week 35: Aug 27th to Sep 2ndPlanned Book The Hobbit(Chinese Version)
New series begins No.5
This series can be finished this year. Change the order.
Week 40: Oct 1st to Oct 7thPlanned Book Misery(Chinese Version)
Actually, I haven't finished reading any Stephen King's book, because I was not a boy who was fond of horror stories.
Week 46: Nov 12th to Nov 18thPlanned Book Assassin's Apprentice(Chinese Version)
New series begins No.5
2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
The Outcasts of Poker Flat and Other Stories (other topics)Golden Son (other topics)
The Atlantis Gene (other topics)
彷徨之刃 (other topics)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (other topics)
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I'll get a very busy year with my babies, but I won't drop reading more books. So I raise a little of my goal to read one book one week, there will be 52 books next year. (Fortunately, Jan 1st is a Sunday, I'll use Sunday as the first day of a week instead of Monday which is more normal in China)
I don't want to set more extra goals now, just want to read more books and enjoy them. And I wish everybody here has great reading experience in 2017.Extra challenge: Classics monthly(start from Mar)
Mar: Pride and Prejudice
Apr: 1984
May: A Tale of Two Cities
Jun: Sister Carrie(stop after Chapter 11)
Jul: The Gadfly
Aug: The Adventures of Tom SawyerSep: The Sun Also Rises
Oct:
Cause I got a lot TV shows to catch up, I'll stop this challenge now, but I'll keep finish my reading line and do as many as reading as I can.