Wednesday 22 July 2009

Raved about reads challenge

I've just found out about this on someone else's blog and have had a look at the hosting page but it appears to have been a challenge for 2008, i dont know whether it has been repeated for 2009 or not, but it says it is an ongoing one and theres no end-time, so i figured..may as well.

Raved about reads requires you to create a list containing at least 3 books that you have heard other people going on about, and then try and read them, hosted by MizB.

Okay, so heres my list, i'll probably add to it as i go along, but am going to put the names of people who have recomended them to me next to it. here goes...

  • Breaking Dawn - Stephene Meyer (Too many people have raved for me to count, unfortunately they keep on giving parts of the ending away, so ahve to read soon!)
  • The Host - Stephene Meyer (Abi, Emma etc)
  • Darren Shann (demon series) (Abi,Ema etc)
  • The Colour of Magic (1st discworld) - Terry Pratchett (Abi + others)
  • The Other Bolyn Girl - Phillipa Greggory (Abi)
  • Scarlett - Alexander Ripley (Abi again, sequel to gone with the wind, which i enjoyed, however, am unsure if its right to read the sequel when written by someone else, have also read bad reviews, shall see how things go)
  • War & Peace - Tolstoy (mum, apparently i'll 'love it'...)
  • North & South - Elizabeth Gaskell (mum + i love the bbc adaption)
  • Bisringr - Christopher Paolini (pippa (i've read most but the writing style is so up itself i keep stopping))
  • A clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgees (James - probably recomended knowing id never manage it)
  • One flew over the cuckoo's nest - ? (James)
  • Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (James)
  • Animal Farm - George Orwell (James)
  • 1984 - George Orwell (James)
  • The Island - Victoria Hislop (Freya)
  • And then there were none - Agatha Chrsitie (Freya)
  • Atonement - Ian McEwan (Lydia)
  • To Kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee (Just about everyone i talk to!)
16 to go... i hope to get at least 5 done this holiday
Links to reviews of ones i've read (am editing as i finish them)
Purple = Rread

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